442 MONOGRAPHIA CHALCIDITUM. 



Var. 6. — Far. e similis : caput nigro-cyaneuni, antennae nigro-fuscas, 

 articulus l"^ fulvus : thorax cyaneo-viridis : scutum cyaneum : 

 pedes fulvi ; tarsi apice obscuriores ; metafemora fusca, apice 

 fulva. 



Far. I. — Viridi-cyaneus : antennis articulus l"^ nigro-fuscus, basi 

 flavus : abdomen cupreum, basi viride : pedes flavi; femora basi 

 fusca ; tibiae fusco-cinctse ; tarsi apice fusci : protarsi fulvi ; 

 metapedum femora et tibiae fusca : alae fulvo-limpidse. 



June to October ; on grass in fields ; Windsor Forest, 

 Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Cumberland, North Wales. Found 

 by Mr. Haliday, near Belfast. 



" Bred from a bundle of cocoons attached to a leaf, and 

 covered with cottony yellow wool, like that which envelopes 

 some spiders' eggs." — Curtis s British Entomology, 395. 



Mas.- — Corpus breve, crassum, convexum, punctatum, nitens, parce 

 pubescens : caput transversum, thorace paullo latius ; vertex 

 latus; frons abrupte declivis : oculi majusculi: antennae filiformes 

 pubescentes, corpore paullo longiores ; articulus 1"'. fusiformis ; 

 2°^ cyatbiformis, parvus ; .3"\ et sequentes longi, lineares, usque 

 ad 8","°. paullulum curtantes ; clava fusiformis, articulo 8°. fere 

 duplo longior : thorax ovatus : mesothoracis scutum transversum ; 

 paraptera non convenientia ; scutellum brevi-obconicum : abdo- 

 men brevi-ovatum, planum, thorace brevius non augustius : alas 

 am pise. 



Sp. 3. En. Batillus. Mas. Viridis, abdomen cupreum, 

 antenncB fulvce, pedes flavi, metapedes fusci, alee sub- 

 limpid(e. 



Viridis : capitis vertex cupreo varius : frons laete viridis : oculi et 

 ocelli obscure rufi : antennae pallide fulvae, corporis longitudine ; 

 articulus 1°\ laete flavus ; 2"\ supra basi fuscus : scutellum cupreo 

 varium : abdomen nigro-cupreum ; pedes flavi ; coxee virides ; 

 tarsi fulvi ; metapedum femora et tibiae fusca: alae sublimpidae, 

 latae, corpore longiores ; squamulse et nervi fulva. (Corp. long, 

 lin. I — f ; alar. lin. f — 1.) 



Far. ft. — Tibiae fulvo-cinctae. 



Far. y. — Metafemora et metatibias nigro-fusca. 



Far. L — Mesotarsi flavi apice fusci. 



June, September; on grass in fields; near Loudon, Berk- 

 shire, Wales, Devonshire. 



