32 Mr. F. Smith on some new species of Exotic Hymenoptera. 



Genus Chlorion, Latr. 



Chlorion splendidum, Fab. Syst. Piez. 218. .5. 



Pronceus Campbellii, Saund. Trans. Ent. Soc. vol. iii. 58. pi. 5. f. 1. 



C. splendidum. 



Male (length 8 lines) : head ferruginous, the tips of the man- 

 dibles, the four apical joints of the antennae, and a patch above 

 their insertion enclosing the stemmata, black ; thorax black ; 

 the collar, mesothorax, scutellum, tegulre, a spot under the wings, 

 the breast and legs ferruginous ; a longitudinal patch, and small 

 spot beyond, situated outside the enclosed portion of the meta- 

 thorax, ferruginous; the metathorax transversely striated, the 

 wings yellow, the nervm*es pale ferruginous, their apex having 

 a dark cloud; abdomen dark purple-violet. 



Hab. India. 



This sex was not previously known ; it is from the collection 

 of Capt. Boys. In the cabinet of W. W. Saunders, Esq., and 

 my own. 



Genus GoRYTES, Latr. 



G. scutellaris, n. sp. 



Female (length 4^ lines) black ; covered with a fine golden 

 changeable pile, in some lights having a silvery hue ; it clothes 

 the whole insect except the disc of the thorax and abdomen ; the 

 head smooth and shining ; the prothorax has two approximating 

 parallel lines running from the centre of the collar to the disc ; 

 the scutellum and a patch before, blood- red; the metathorax 

 has a triangular enclosed space at its base which has eight lon- 

 gitudinal carinse ; the base is coarsely rugose and clothed with a 

 dense silvery pile ; the wings hyaline, dark fuscous at their base, 

 and crossed by a fascia of the same colour as broad as the fii-st 

 and second submarginal cells ; the basal, fourth and fifth 

 segments of the abdomen are covered with a fine silvery pile ; 

 the second segment has an ovate cream-colom-ed macula situated 

 laterally at its apical margin ; the mai'gins of the third, fourth 

 and fifth segments have a narrow cream-coloured fascia. 



The male is rather smaller and has no red patch before the 

 scutellum ; in other respects it exactly corresponds with the 

 female. 



Hab. Brazil. 



This very beautiful species was captured by Messrs. Wallace 

 and Bates, and is I believe unique in my collection. 



Genus Sericophorus, Shuck. 

 S. chalybeus, n. sp. 

 Female (length 5 lines) : head of a bluish green ; the clypeus 



