﻿Manchester 
  Memoirs, 
  To/, 
  xli. 
  (1897), 
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  CHALCIDID^. 
  

  

  Chalcis 
  bengalensis, 
  sp. 
  nov. 
  (PI. 
  3, 
  f. 
  g). 
  

  

  Nigra, 
  pcdibus 
  anterioribiis 
  albis, 
  hasi 
  late 
  nigro; 
  coxis 
  

   trocliantcribus 
  femoribusque 
  posticis, 
  rnfis; 
  tibiis 
  posticis 
  albis 
  ^ 
  

   anticis 
  nigris: 
  tarsis 
  posticis 
  albis; 
  alis 
  hyalinis, 
  ncrvis 
  nigris; 
  

   tcgtilis 
  albis. 
  2 
  . 
  Lon^. 
  2 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Barrackpore 
  (Rotlmcy). 
  

  

  Antennas 
  11 
  -jointed, 
  placed 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  face; 
  

   black; 
  the 
  scape 
  bare, 
  shining; 
  the 
  flagellum 
  with 
  a 
  pale 
  

   microscopic 
  pile 
  ; 
  the 
  scape 
  not 
  reaching 
  to 
  the 
  hinder 
  

   ocelli 
  ; 
  the 
  antennal 
  depression 
  deep, 
  sharply 
  bordered 
  ; 
  

   at 
  the 
  apex 
  produced 
  roundly 
  in 
  the 
  middle; 
  the 
  vertex 
  

   rough 
  ; 
  the 
  cheeks 
  and 
  clypeus 
  covered 
  thickly 
  with 
  long 
  

   glistening 
  white 
  hair 
  ; 
  the 
  apex 
  rounded 
  at 
  the 
  top, 
  

   smooth, 
  and 
  shining; 
  the 
  mandibles 
  with 
  the 
  three 
  teeth 
  

   piceous. 
  Thorax 
  above 
  coarsely 
  punctured 
  ; 
  covered 
  

   sparsely 
  with 
  white 
  hair; 
  the 
  sides 
  and 
  apex 
  of 
  the 
  

   scutellum 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  long 
  silvery 
  hair 
  ; 
  the 
  apex 
  

   of 
  the 
  scutellum 
  rounded 
  ; 
  the 
  median 
  segment 
  with 
  an 
  

   abruptly 
  oblique 
  slope; 
  strongly 
  reticulated. 
  The 
  lower 
  

   part 
  of 
  the 
  propleuras 
  coarsely, 
  the 
  upper 
  part 
  finely 
  punc- 
  

   tured 
  ; 
  mesopleuras 
  coarsely 
  punctured 
  ; 
  the 
  depression 
  at 
  

   its 
  base 
  wide, 
  deep, 
  strongly 
  longitudinally 
  striolated 
  ; 
  the 
  

   metapleura; 
  strongly 
  irregularly 
  reticulated, 
  the 
  reticula- 
  

   tions 
  much 
  closer 
  at 
  the 
  base. 
  The 
  four 
  anterior 
  coxae 
  and 
  

   trochanters 
  entirely 
  black 
  ; 
  the 
  front 
  femora 
  black 
  at 
  the 
  

   base 
  ; 
  the 
  middle 
  black 
  with 
  the 
  apex 
  white 
  ; 
  the 
  hind 
  

   coxae 
  (except 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  where 
  they 
  are 
  black) 
  trochanters 
  

   and 
  femora 
  red 
  ; 
  the 
  tibiae 
  white, 
  black 
  in 
  front 
  ; 
  the 
  tarsi 
  

   white 
  except 
  at 
  the 
  apex; 
  the 
  femoral 
  teeth, 
  black, 
  short, 
  

   stout, 
  closely 
  pressed 
  together 
  at 
  the 
  apex, 
  over 
  a 
  dozen 
  

   in 
  number. 
  

  

  Chalcis 
  eccentrica, 
  sp. 
  nov. 
  

  

  Long. 
  5 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Bombay 
  {Rothncy). 
  

  

  Very 
  similar 
  in 
  coloration 
  to 
  C. 
  bengalensis 
  ; 
  but 
  has 
  

  

  