224 Mr. J. O. Westwood on Caprificcition. 
I take this opportunity of introducing the following notes rela- 
tive to the Chalets pyramided, Fabr., referred to in the Journal of 
Proceedings, Vol. ii. p. xxx. (5th December, U S 36.) 
From a sketch made of the specimen of this insect contained in 
the Fabrician Collection at Kiel, in 1835, as well as from the 
identity of its habits with that figured in pi. 20, fig. 6, which was 
procured by Mr. Sells from the nest of Cliartergus nidulans (of 
which it was regarded by Reaumur as the female), I have not the 
least doubt that the two are specifically identical, although upon a 
minute comparison of Mr. Sells’s specimens with the Fabrician 
description, several minute discrepancies are discoverable, as may 
be observed from the following description of the former. 
Chalcis pyramidea. Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 163, No. 15. 
( Chalcis conica. Fabr. Ent. Syst. Suppl. p. 242.) 
Var. j : facie omnino nigra, tegulis albidis macula basali nigra; 
femoribus 4 anticis nigris, apice albidis ; tibiis anticis albis, 
subtus linea nigra ; tibiis intermediis fascia media nigra ; 
femoribus posticis nigris, externe linea dorsali albida, denti- 
culisque 12; tibiis posticis nigris, supra linea albida, tarsis 
omnibus albidis, unguibus pulvillisque nigris ; capite thorace- 
que punctato, scutello areolato apice obtuse bispinoso ; abdo- 
minis segmentis duobus apicalibus utrinque puncto spiraculi- 
formi ut in generibus Ibalia et Lcucospide. 
Long. corp. lin. 5. 
Obs. — Specimina quatuor e nido Charlergi nidulantis exclusa 
omnino conveniunt. 
Ad subgenus nostrum Brachymeriam pertinet. 
