EGYPTIAN AND 



Fam. CYNIPID^. 



Geuus FIGITES, Latr. 



y2. Ftgites iNAPERTus. Male. — Black, smooth, shining. Antennae 

 submouiliform, a Uttle longer than the body. Abdomen compressed, 

 subsessile. Legs red ; femora black, red at the tips. Wings pellucid ; 

 veins pale testaceous. Length of the body f line. 



Cairo. 



Fam. CHALCIDID^. 



Genus CHALCIS, Fabr. 



23. Chalcis insolita. 3Iale and female. — Red. Head and 

 thorax roughly punctured. Head black, with silvery cinereous hairs 

 about the eyes. Antennae black, stout, red at the base. Thorax 

 thinly covered with hoary hairs. Abdomen black, smooth, shining, 

 elliptical in the male, elongate-oval and acute in the female. Hind 

 legs black, excepting the coxse. Wings cinereous. Foi'e wings 

 tinged with brown near the stigma, which is black. Length of the 

 body 2J — 3 lines. 



Smaller than C. rubens [King, Symh. Phys. pi. 37, f. 7); dis- 

 tinguished also from that species by the black head and black abdomen 

 and the more slender antennae. 



Tajura. 



Fam. CHRYSID^. 

 Genus PARNOPES, Latr. 



94. Parnopes AprcALis. Golden green. Head and thorax 

 scabrous, with whitish pubescence. Front slightly excavated ; mouth 

 black, rostriform. Antennae black ; first joint green. Hind part of 

 the thorax with a purple tinge. Abdomen purple towards the tip ; 

 apical segment with white pubescence, and with a dentate and slightly 

 retuse border ; under side black. Legs green ; knees, tarsi and tips 

 of tibiae tawny. Wings cinereous ; veins black. Fore wings brownish 

 on more than one- third of the apical part. Length of the body 

 4i lines. 

 Tajura. 



Genus EUCHR^US, Latr. 



25. EucHR^us PALLispiNosus. Goldeu green, with short whitish 

 pubescence. Head -purple on each side between the eyes and the 

 hind border. Antennae black ; first joint purple. Thorax purple, 

 with a broad goldeu green stripe, of which the fore part has a cupreous 

 disk. Abdomen bluish green, with a broad transverse subapical 



