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CHALCIDID^E. 



The concluding notice of the family of Chalcidida? may be brief, as 

 the European species are comparatively few and scarce and have not 

 a prominent part in the control of other manifestations of the insect- 

 race. It is probable that the number of those ascertained to inhabit 

 other regions will be largely increased, but as yet there are many 

 instances in which only one sex of a species is known. With the 

 exception of the following family they excel all the other Chalcidiae, 

 and almost all of them have no trace of the metallic hue which is so 

 prevalent in the tribe. The list of the genera commences with the 

 extreme limits of the family or those which deviate most widely from 

 the common and peculiar characters of the family. It is doubtful 

 whether the following genus should be considered as of the 

 Chalcididae. 



Genus HYBOTHORAX. 



Ratzeburg Ichneumonen, dc, i. 209. 



Ratzeburg says that it has affinities with Chalcis, Perilampus, 

 Eurytoma and Bothriothorax. The only known species, H. Graffii, 

 has been reared from the larvae of Myrmeleon. 



Genus NOTASPIS, Wlk. 



N. FOEMICIFOEMIS, Wlk. 



Isle St. Vincent. 



This genus differs most widely from the family likeness of the 

 Chalcididge, both in its structure and in its metallic purple colour. 



Genus CHALCITELLA, Westw. 



C. EVANIOIDES, WestW. 



Unknown to me. 



Genus DIRHINUS, Balm. 



D. hesperidum, Rossi. — Europe, imperialis, Giraud. — Europe, 

 excavatus, Dalm. — Egypt and West Africa. Mauritianus, Westw.— 

 Mauritius. Himalayanus, Westw. — Himalaya. Anthracia, Wlk. — 

 Philippine Isles. 



Near allied to Halticella. 



Genus HALTICELLA. 



With this genus I have combined Hockeria, De Lap., Phasgono- 

 phora, Westiv.. Euchalcis, Leon Dttfour (a synonym of the typical 

 Halticella?), Allocera, Sichel, and Trigonura, Sich. The species are 



