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admitting this, even in the face of our foot notes ; yet still is it 

 dignified ? Will it benefit the Society ? The first number of 

 the Transactions comes to us, not as a simple collection of 

 memoirs, but as a review. Of the justice or injustice of the 

 review let our readers judge ; that is not a point on which an 

 interested party like ourselves ought to decide. 



Two words on the Colloquia Entomologica : first, a maga- 

 zine is only responsible for opinions conveyed in articles 

 avowedly editorial ; second, the Colloquia Entomologica are 

 neither really nor avowedly editorial, on the contrary, editorial 

 remarks on them have frequently occurred. 



Art. XLV. — Monographia Chalciditum. By Francis 

 Walker. 



(Continued from p. 369. ) 



the green myriads in the peopled grass." 



§§ Clava elongata, acuminata. 



j. i -gracilia Pteromalus. 



Femora \ -valida Cheircpachus. 



Genus XIII. — Pteromalus/ Swederus. 



Corpus pilis sparsis hirtum : thorax postice utrinque pilis albis 

 hirtus : abdomen apice dense hirtum ; segmenta fere recta, l u 

 magnum, sequentia minora : oviductus rufus, abdomine occultum 

 aut ejus apicem vix transiens ; vaginae nigrse, pubescentes 

 femora gracilia, non dilatata ; fern, mesofemora subtus apices 

 versus setigera. b 



The species are very numerous, and the forms of the antennae 

 and abdomens of the females are almost as various as the species, 

 but correspondent variations are not so apparent in the males. 



Sectio I. — Mas et Fem. 



Corpus angustum, sublineare, quasi squameum : caput mediocre, 

 mari thorace paullo latius, fem. thoracis latitudine : mandibulse 



a tlrepov ala, juaAos tener. 



b The other characters of the genus are detailed under the sections. 



