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Curtis, 1829. It includes several generic names which have 

 not been mentioned since, as in most instances, before an 

 opportunity occurred of making their characters known, they 

 were published elsewhere under other names, and in some 

 instances they were afterwards considered as useless sub- 

 divisions. 1 will recall them from oblivion for a little while, 

 and perhaps they will not be again disturbed in the graves 

 to which they will shortly return. The seventeen following 

 were formed by me : — Maretus, Leptomeres, Entranus, 

 Microma, Menalus, Eucercus, Slerinus, Hedenus, Tromenus, 

 Brenerus, Ceranisus, Tranus, Tranosoma, Tranocera, Cemo- 

 lus, Euderus, Erythrus. Thysamus in this list is a misprint 

 for Thysanus ; and Menalus, of which the type is Encyrtus 

 Pini, is more entitled than some of the rest to be considered 

 as a genus, but the subdivisions of Encyrlus are already too 

 many. Stenoderus constitutes the first division of Pleromalus 

 in my descriptions of the species of that genus. Entelus is a 

 misprint for Eutelus, and, like Serauomus, Isomus, and 

 Eusela, is a section of Pteromalus, 



A. H. Haliday is the author of the following names: — 

 Cyllomus, Omphale, Diozus, Plerocelis, Platypelmus (attri- 

 buted by mistake to me), and Phagonia. Pterocelis and 

 Platypelmus are divisions of Pteromalus, and may be reunited 

 to that genus. The species arranged in this Catalogue under 

 Halticoyjlera, Spinola, were afterwards described as species 

 of Lamprotatus or oi" Miscogaster. Hallicoptera, as it was 

 originally constituted, includes other genera, such as Ptero- 

 malus, but a definite outline was given to it by A. H. Haliday. 

 Colax, Curtis (afterwards Gnatho, Curtis), should be con- 

 sidered as a synonym of Pteromalus. 



The second Catalogue of British Chalcidiae appeared in 

 1853, and is one of the publications of the British Museum. 

 It is transcribed from a general list of Chalcidige in the 

 British Museum, that was prepared in 1846 — 1848. A few 

 words in it are mis-spelt, but there is no occasion here to 

 notice these mistakes. 



The third Catalogue of British Chalcidiae is included in a 

 Catalogue of British Insects, by the Kev. F. O. Morris, 1865. 

 It is nearly all a reprint of the second Catalogue, and there 

 are the following typographical errors in it: — Smiera, instead 

 of Smiera; Halticilla, instead of Haltichella; cornutum, 



