undescribed Species of Smiera (Chalcidites). 199 
(the Ist and 2nd spots connected at the base, the 3rd apical), and 
with about sixteen very minute black teeth ; hind-tibiz black, with 
a broad yellow band near the base; middle femora and fore-tibize 
with a piceous streak. Wings cinereous; veins black; ulna fully 
half the length of the humerus; radius as long as the ulna; 
cubitus short. 
Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 7 lines. 
This species has a close resemblance to S. blanda. 
30. Smiera blanda. 
Nigra; caput anticé flavum, oculis flavo-cinctis; antennz scapo 
subtus flavo; prothorax flavus, nigro-bistrigatus ; meso- 
thoracis segmenta flavo-marginata; metathorax flavus, nigro- 
bifasciatus ; petiolus flavus; abdomen basi fasciisque flavis ; 
pedes flavi, nigro-varii ; alee cinerez. 
Male—Female.—Black. Head yellow about the eyes and in 
front. Antenne filiform; scape yellow beneath. Prothorax 
yellow, with a transverse black streak on each side. Scutum and 
parapsides of the mesothorax yellow along the outer side, the 
former with a small yellow dot in the middle; paraptera with a 
yellow spot towards the wings; scutellum yellow with a black disk 
and with two minute teeth. Metathorax yellow, black along the 
fore-border and in the middle. Petiole yellow, as long as the 
'metathorax. Abdomen elongate-oval, much shorter and narrower 
than the thorax, yellow towards the base, and with a yellow band 
on the hind-border of each segment. Legs yellow; hind-coxz 
with black tips, and with an elongate black spot onthe outer side; 
hind-femora with a black spot on the outer side above and with 
two black spots on each side by the lower edge, which is armed 
with one large and with about nine minute black teeth; hind-tibize 
black towards the base. Wings cinereous; veins black; ulna less 
than half the length of the humerus ; radius longer than the ulna ; 
cubitus short. 
Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 7 lines. 
31. Smiera vacillans. 
Feem.—Nigra; caput antice flavum; antenne robusta, scapo 
subtus flavo ; prothorax et mesothoracis segmenta flavo- 
marginata ; petiolus flavus, brevissimus; abdomen dimidio 
antico flavo; pedes femoribus posticis flavo-trimaculatis, 
tibiis tarsisque anterioribus tarsisque posticis flavis; ale 
cinerez, 
Female.—Black. Head yellow about the eyes and in front. 
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