of certain Hymenopterous Insects. 413 
published in the Annales of the Entomological Society of 
France.* 
The Pison Jurinei of Southern Europe also provides 
for its progeny in briar-stems, where I have found them 
in the pseudo-pupa state, as follows : — 
Pison Jurinei, Spin. 
All/son ater, Spin. Ins. Ligur. torn. ii. fasc. 4, p. 253. 
Pison Jurinei, ibid., p. 256. 
Pupa-cases griseous, rugose, ovate, somewhat brittle, in 
serial sequence without intermediate divisions, but partially 
connected together and with the excavated gallery by a 
scarcely perceptible web corresponding with the puparia 
themselves. 
On opening one of these cases I found a broad pale- 
stramineous curved pseudo-pupa, having the segments 
strongly incised, with the head closely bent down to the 
centre of the body, where firmly retained and motionless. 
The briar in which these puparia were found was com- 
pletely excavated to the depth of nine or ten inches, pre- 
senting six of the aforesaid dusky cinereous cases smaller 
than the gallery itself, but adhering thereto ; one close to 
the bottom ; two contiguous to each other after the interval 
of an inch ; two more also close together an inch above 
these ; and the sixth half an inch higher. Above these 
cells was a thin transverse mud partition, but not at the 
extreme top. The puparia, Avliich were similar at each 
end, measured about 8 mill, in length by 3 mill, in 
diameter. 
From the shores of the Ambracian Gulf, near Prevesa 
The perfect insects appear towards the end of June or in 
July. 
Fam. CHALCIDID.^. 
Genus Halticella, Wlk. 
Walker, Notes on Chalcid: Part 3, p. 39, 1871 ; Sichel, 
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4e serie, tome 5, p. 347, 1866. 
{Hockeria, De Lap.) 
Caput inerme, muticum. 
Abdominis petiolus subnullus. 
* Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1"= serie, tome ix. p. 28, 12, tab. 3, fig. 37—41. 1840. 
