THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



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Ecoiwiin/ of CIndcidue. By FfiANCis Walker, P'sq., F.L.S. 



(Continued iVom p. Oi.) 



The accompanying three figures represent Ericydnns 

 strigosus, Cerchysiiis Urocerus, and Cercobelus Jugtens. 

 The first seems more allied to the Encyrtidie than to any 

 other Chalcidiaj, but is distinguished from all otlier spet-ies of 



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ERICYDNUS STEIGOSUS. 



CEECHYSIUS UEOCEEUS. 



that family by its long ulna, the extreme shortness of that 

 part of the wing-A-ein being one of the chief distinctive 

 characters of the Encyrtidae. In the Chalcididae the genus 

 Halticella has some resen)blance to the Encyrtidae in the 

 shortness of the ulna and in the low insertion of the antennae. 

 The second and third figures belong to the Encyrlidai, and 



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