of the Famih/ Chalcidss. 177 



femora much incrassated, with large teeth, with two bhxck spots on 

 the outer side, the second apical. Wings cinereous ; veins black ; 

 ulna a little more than half the length of the humerus ; radius a little 

 shorter than the ulna ; cubitus very short. Length of the body 2^ 

 lines ; of the wings 4^ lines. 



St. Paulo. Discovered by Mr. Bates. In the British Museum. 



Smiera sordida. Foem, Lutea, glabra, nitens ; caput et thorax sub- 

 punctata ; antennfe nigrte, filiformes, breviusculse, scapo luteo ; scutum 

 nigi-o quadristrigatum et postice marginatum ; scutellum inernie, macula 

 nigra elougata trigona ; petiolus brevis ; abdomen fusiforme, acumina- 

 timi, basi fasciisque pallidioribus ; coxfB posticie apice nigi'o strigatas ; 

 femora postica subdentata, intus nigTo bimaculata, apice piceo macu- 

 lata ; alse ciuereae, amplae, apud costam lutescentes. 



Female. Luteous, smooth, shining. Head and thorax minutely 

 pimctvu*ed, the former with a black transverse line behind. Antennae 

 black, filiform, rather short ; scape luteous. Scutum with two black 

 streaks, which are connected hindward and join in a slender line the 

 black hind border ; a black streak on each of the parapsides ; scutellum 

 unarmed, with an elongated triangular black spot. Abdomen fusiform, 

 acuminated, slightly compressed, paler at the base and on the hind 

 border of each segment, much nan'ower but hardly longer than the 

 thorax ; petiole short. Hind coxae very long, -wath a black streak above 

 towards the tips ; hind femora very minutely dentate, with two black 

 spots on the inner side and with a piceous apical spot. Wings cinei'eous, 

 ample, with a luteous tinge along the costa except towards the tips ; 

 veins black ; ulna about half the length of the humerus ; radius nearly 

 as long as the ulna ; cubitus veiy short. Length of the body 4 lines ; 

 of the wings 8 lines. 



Villa Nova. Discovered by Mr. Bates. In the British Musevmi. 



Smtera abdominalis. Mas. Lutea, glabra, nitens; caput et thorax 

 subpunctata ; antenna3 nigrse, breves, robustaj, filiformes, apice scapoque 

 luteis; scutum et parapsides discis nigris; scutellum inerme, nigro 

 marginatum ; metathorax niger, scaber ; petiolus longus, niger ; abdo- 

 men ovatum, gibbum, supra piceum flavo fasciatum; coxae postica 

 supra nigrae ; femora postica subdentata, macula discali apicibusque 

 nigris ; alae fuscescentes, apice cinereae. 



Male. Luteous, smooth, shining. Head and thorax minutely pimc- 

 tured. Head black behind. Antennae black, short, stout, filiform ; 

 tips and scape luteous. Prothorax black along the .fore border ; disks 

 of the scutum and of the parapsides black ; scutellum unarmed, black 

 along the fore and hind border ; paraptera and metathorax black, the 

 latter scabrous. Petiole, long, black. Abdomen oval, gibbous, very 

 much shorter and narrower than the thorax, piceous above, with a 

 yellow middle band. Hind coxae black above ; hind femora much 

 incrassated, minutely dentate, with a black spot on each disk and with 



