216 Mv. F. Walker on some new species of Chalcidites. 



apsides ; axillae just meeting on the back ; scutcheon large, obconical, 

 green at the tip : hind-chest and petiole very short : abdomen 

 obconical, smooth, shining, flat, coppery green, brighter at the base, 

 hardly more than half the length of the chest ; metapodeon longer 

 than the following segments : legs piceous ; knees and feet yellow ; 

 tips of the latter piceous ; hind-knees tawny ; hind-feet brown : 

 wings colourless; veins brown; ulna rather thick, not one-eighth of 

 the length of the humerus ; radius full twice the length of the ulna ; 

 cubitus shorter than the radius ; brand extremely small. 



Fern. Feelers clavate, tawny, shorter than the chest ; first joint 

 spindle-shaped, green ; second cup-shaped, piceous ; the following 

 joints from the third to the eighth successively increasing in breadth ; 

 club piceous, short, flat, much broader than the eighth joint and 

 more than twice its length: abdomen flat, nearly round, purple, 

 bright coppery green at the base and at the tip, very much shorter 

 and somewhat broader than the chest. Length of the body 1 line ; 

 of the wings 2 lines. 



England. In the collection of Mr. Dale. 



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Entedon Philiscus, fem . Cyaneo-viridis, ahdomine cupreo-purpureo, 

 basi apiceque viridi, antennis nigris, pedibus viridibus, genubus 

 tarsisquefulvis, proalce cuique macula magna fusca. 



Head and chest convex, thickly and finely shagreened, dark 

 greenish blue : head hardly broader than the chest : eyes and eyelets 

 dark red : feelers black, clavate, much shorter than the chest ; first 

 joint long, slender, green ; second cup-shaped ; the following joints 

 successively decreasing in length ; club conical, much longer than 

 the preceding joint : chest elliptical, rather short : fore-chest very 

 short, but distinct; its length about one- sixth of its breadth : shield 

 of the mid- chest short and broad ; its length about half its breadth ; 

 sutures of the parapsides indistinct ; axillae parted by full one-third 

 of the breadth of the chest ; scutcheon large, nearly short, oval : hind- 

 chest declining, transverse, rather short, almost smooth, with a ridge 

 along the middle and a rim on each side : petiole very short : abdo- 

 men short-elliptical, smooth, shining and dark bronze-purple, green 

 at the tip, bright green at the base, scarcely keeled beneath, hardly 

 narrower but much shorter than the chest; metapodeon occupying 

 rather less than one-third of the back ; octoon and all the following 

 segments of moderate and nearly equal size : legs green ; knees and 

 feet tawny ; tips of the latter and the whole of the fore-feet piceous : 

 wings colourless, broad; a very large pale brown spot occupying 

 nearly the whole of the disc of each fore-wing ; veins brown ; ulna 

 longer than the humerus ; radius very short, not more than one-tenth 

 of the length of the ulna ; cubitus also very short, but a little longer 

 than the radius ; brand very small. Length of the body 1 line ; of 

 the wings 2 lines. 



Var. /3. Chest coppery : hind- chest varied with green : abdomen 

 bronze at the tip, varied with copper-colour at the base. 



England. In the collection of Mr. Dale. 



