166 MONOGRAPHIA CHALCIDITUM. 



nitidus : squamulae rufo-fuscae : mesothoracis scutellum tuber- 

 culatum : abdomen glabrum, nitidissimum : pedes nigro-virides ; 

 trochanteres fusci ; tibiae apice et subtus rufo-fuscse ; tarsi rufi : 

 alee hyalinee : nervi fusci : stigma parvum. (Corp. long. 1| — If. 

 lin. ; alar. 2 — 2g lin.) 



Taken near Paris, by M. F. de Laporte. 



Family Miscogasteridte/ 

 Genus Dipara, Walker. 



Nervus solitus costam per omnem per ejus longitudinem percurrens 

 non ut Chalciditum plerisque basi subcostalis. 



Sp. 2. Dip. cinetoides. Mas. Atra, antennis nigro-fuscis, 

 petiolo pedibusque jlavis, alls pallide fulcis. 



D. pctiolato nimis affinis ; statura multo majore, abdomine longiore 

 differt : ater, parum nitens, subtiliter punctatus : oculi ocellique 

 obscure rufi : antennae nigro-fuscee ; articulus l us . omnind, 2 US . 

 apice, 3 US . que basi subtus flavi : mesothoracis paraptera magna : 

 metathorax scaber, non canaliculars : petiolus flavus, apice 

 crassior, abdominis dimidio paullo longior : abdomen ovatum, 

 nitidum, glabrum ; segmentum basale maximum, ejus dimidium 

 occupans ; sequentia parva, subetqualia : pedes omnino flavee ; 

 metacoxae elongates : alee pallide fulvae, ciliatae ; nervi fulvi ; 

 stigma parvum. (Corp. long. 1 lin.; alar. Lf- lin.) 



Taken near Darlington, in Durham, by the Rev. G. T. Rudd, 

 who observed to me that the abdomen was formed as in Cinetus, 

 which it also resembles in some other characters, but has most 

 affinity to the Chalcidites. 



Genus Merisus,s Walker. 



Fern. — Caput magnum, thorace latius : oculi mediocres : antenna? 

 12-articulatae, subfusiformes, thorace breviores ; articulus l us . 

 gracilis ; 2 US . brevi-cyathiformis ; 3 US . et sequentes ad 9 um . paul- 

 latim graciliores ; clava acuminata, articulis 2 preecedentibus 

 paullo longior : thorax elongatus : prothoracis scutellum magnum, 

 subquadratum : mesothoracis scutum magnum ; parapsidum 

 suturee vix conspicuas ; scutellum convexum, ovatum : meta- 



l The name Miscogaster (Ent. Mag. Vol. I. p. 45S.) must fall; the genus had 

 already been described by Mr. Westwood (Magazine of Nat. Hist. No. XXXII. 

 p. 121.) under the name of Lamprolalus. 



* /xiQos pars, «ros aequalis. 



