with descriptions of new species. 561 
men being almost sessile, not pedunculated, and in the 
number of segments of the abdomen. It comes into 
(through having only two cubital cellules) Forster’s 
“family”? Hecabolide, and in the table which he gives 
(Verh. v. Rhein. xix., 237) it might belong to Monolezis ; 
but as Forster only describes the neuration of the wings 
(and that but very slightly), and as the type-species has 
never been described, I am not at all sure that the 
present species has any connection with Forster’s genus. 
It will in all probability form the type of a new genus. 
The maxillary palpi are 6-jointed, the labial 4-jointed ; 
but I should add that the labial palpi were accidentally 
destroyed before I could examine them properly. 
Mr. Blackburn takes this ichneumon rarely near 
Honolulu. (No. 68). 
CHALCIDIDA. 
Chaleis polynesialis, n. s. 
Black, covered sparsely with a longish silvery pube- 
scence. Base of scape, a line on the pronotum behind, 
and the scutellum more or less ferruginous. Anterior 
legs with the trochanters, femora, and tibize reddish 
yellow, paler at the apex, and more or less fuscous in 
the middle; hinder ‘legs with the coxe reddish black 
behind ; trochanters and base of femora reddish, the 
rest black, save a yellow spot above at the apex, which 
is reddish beneath; tibiew black at the extreme base; 
next to this is a clear yellow ring, the centre is black, 
more or less reddish on lower side, the apex clear yellow 
on outer side, the sides and lower parts reddish-yellow ; 
tarsi yellowish-testaceous, the extreme apex fuscous. 
Head and thorax covered with shallow punctures; those 
on the head and prothorax are smaller than those on the 
middle of the mesonotum, which are again slightly 
smaller than those on the scutellum; lateral lobes of 
mesonotum with finer punctures than on the head. 
Metanotum with larger punctures than on the scutellum. 
Scutellum rounded behind, and with a transverse in- 
distinct ridge on the apex. Abdomen not much longer 
than the thorax, ovate, pointed at the apex, smooth, 
shining, impunctate, almost glabrous at the base, the 
four apical segments clothed at the sides and beneath 
with a longish white pubescence. Wings hyaline; 
TRANS. ENT. Soc. 1881.—psrT iv. (DEC.) 4D 
