Famity—CHALCIDID. Susp-Famity—EUCHARIDES. 151 
Sus-Famity—EUCHARIDES. 
The twenty-eighth Plate of this work is devoted to a series of remarkable insects belonging to the family 
Chalcididw, closely allied to the Eurytomides, but in general distinguished by the great, and often abnormal 
development of the hinder parts of the thorax, and often also by the strongly pectinated antenne of the males. 
The typical genus is Eucharis of Fabricius, but several others have been separated, including Thoracantha Latr., 
Stilbula Spinola, Schizaspidia Westw., and Gallaria Brullé; (Psilogaster Blanchard is identical with Stilbula). 
The generic distribution of the group is, however, at present unsettled, and can only be established upon 
a more careful investigation of the characters of the species than has hitherto been given to them; thus, in 
the typical species Zucharis adscendens, a native of Europe, and also introduced into the British list, I have been 
unable, after repeated dissections, to discover any normally formed maxillz or labium, the mouth bemg apparently 
closed by membrane ; the mandibles of this species are represented in pl. XXVIII, figs. 15¢2, 1563. Inthe 
insect figured under the name of Schizaspidia rudis (fig. 5), the mandibles are armed with strong teeth (fig. 5 4), 
and the maxill and labium, with their palpi (figs. 5c, 5), are well developed. The antenne vary in nearly 
every species, as may be observed on inspecting the twenty-eighth plate, in which I have added figures of the 
antenne of several species not represented; thus, fig. 15 ¢ represents the antenne of the male, and 15d, that of 
the female, of the type, Hucharis adscendens. Fig. 18 represents the 12-jointed antenna of the male of Hucharis 
Volusus (Entomologist, pl. P, fig. 1c); the intermediate joints being bifurcate, with the inner branch shorter 
than the outer. Fig. 14a represents the antenna, apparently 9-joimted, of the male, and 14c, that of the 
female, apparently 11-joited, of Hucharis Zalates (ibid. fig. 4.a, and fig. 44), in both of which the last apparent 
joint (or more probably only that of the male) is made up of the three ordinary terminal joints closely soldered 
together. 
Grnus—SCHIZASPIDIA. 
(Westw. Proc. Zool. Soc. 26 May, 1835, p. 69.) 
Corpus breve crassum; antenne breves crassie, 13-articulate, articulis secundo et tertio fere «qualibus, 
quarto ad decimum interne serratis, reliquis 3 in unum coalitis ; scutellum magnum, postice supra abdomen pro- 
ductum et ejus dimidium basale superans, ad apicem furcatum; abdomen thorace paullo majus, supra planum, 
peduneulo (fere tertiam partem abdominis longitudine «quante) ad thoracis angulo apicale declive affixum. 
Oxss.—Perilampum (habitu) cum Eucharide (scutello armato) conjungens. 
Species 1—SCHIZASPIDIA FURCIFERA. (Westw. 1. c.) 
Pirate XXVIII, Fic. 2. 
Capite et thorace wneis; facie canali profundo pro receptione antennarum, his fulvo-albidis (fig. 2«) 
articulo secundo et tertio parvis fere e«qualibus, quarto ad decimum intus acute producto-serratis, undecimo, ut 
videtur, 8-annulato ; mesothoracis scuto et parapsidibus semicirculariter striatis; scutello et postscutello longi- 
tudinaliter suleatis; hoe in cornu retro producto dimidium abdominis «equante, apice bifurcato ; abdomine 
brevi cyaneo, apice fulcescente; pedibus fulvo-albidis; alis hyalinis, anticis nubila transversa pone medium 
brunnescente. (I*cemina ?). 
Long. corp. lin. 23; expans. alar. antic. lin. 5. 
Habitat; India Orientalis, Bengalia, In Mus. Britann. 
Variat (sexus alter ?) magnitudine minori; antennis magis serratis; thorace profundius sulcato ; abdomine 
toto fulvo. 
