undescribed Species of Chalcidites. 207 
thorax guttis duabus vittaque, strigis duabus guttisque duabus 
posterioribus, vittaque scutelli nigris; pedes postici coxis 
nigro-guttatis, femoribus apice nigris; ale limpide. 
Female.—Yellow. Head black behind. Antenne black, red- 
dish beneath, slightly increasing in thickness to the tips; scape 
yellow. Prothorax with a black dot in front. Scutum of the 
mesothorax with a black dot on each side in front and with a 
black stripe; a black streak on each of the parapsides and a black 
dot on each of the paraptera; scutellum with an abbreviated black 
stripe. Metathorax with a black stripe. Petiole as long as the 
metathorax. Abdomen lanceolate, pale reddish, much narrower 
but hardly Jonger than the thorax ; hind-borders of the segments 
paler. Hind-coxze with a black spot on the outer side; hind- 
femora with black tips, armed with many very minute teeth. 
Wings limpid ; veins black ; ulna little more than one-third of the 
length of the humerus; radius a little longer than the ulna; 
cubitus very short. 
Length of the body 3 lines; of the wings 4 lines. 
Genus Cuatcis. 
Chalcis eurytomoides. 
Fom.—Nigra; antennze robuste, scapo flavo; thorax callis 
duobus flavis, scutello inermi; abdomen subsessile, sublanceo- 
latum; pedes flavi, coxis posticis supra nigris, femoribus 
posticis nigro-fasciatis, femoribus anterioribus basi nigris, 
tibiis anterioribus nigro-strigatis ; alee cinerez. 
Female.— Black. Antennz stout, filiform; scape yellow. 
Thorax with a yellow callus at the base of each fore-wing ; 
scutellum unarmed. Abdomen subsessile, slightly lanceolate, 
longer and a little narrower than the thorax. Legs yellow ; hind- 
coxe black above; hind-femora armed with about six very 
minute teeth, adorned with a broad black band which extends 
above to the base and on the lower side to the tip; anterior 
femora black towards the base on the outer side; anterior tibize 
with a black streak on the outer side. Wings cinereous; veins 
black; ulna more than half the length of the humerus; radius 
less than one-third of the length of the ulna; cubitus very short. 
Length of the body 43 lines ; of the wings 7 lines. 
Note.—I am indebted to Mr. Dunning for observing that I have applied the 
name Sosrelra to two genera of insects. See Trans. Ent. Soc., Third Series, 
Vol. I. pp. 84, 370. The name Eudoainna may be substituted for Soszetra, 
