206 Mr. F. Walker on some new species of Chalcidites. 



and following segments of moderate and nearly equal size : legs yel- 

 low ; hips brassy green ; hind-thighs and tips of feet dull tawny : 

 wings colourless, rather broad ; a large brown spot occupying most 

 of the disc of each fore-wing ; veins tawny ; ulna rather more than 

 half the length of the humerus ; radius a little longer than the ulna ; 

 cubitus much shorter than the ulna ; brand large, piceous. Length 

 of the body |- line ; of the wings 1^ line. 



Pteromalus Anaxis, mas. Viridis, abdomine purpurea bast viridi- 

 cupreo, antennis nigris, pedibus flavis, femoribus piceo-viridibus, 

 alls limpidis. 



Head and chest convex, very finely shagreened, bright green : head 

 large, broader than the chest, with a broad shallow furrow extending 

 from the eyelets to the base of the feelers : eyes and eyelets piceous : 

 jaws ferruginous : feelers black, filiform, as long as the head and 

 the chest ; first joint long, slender, very slightly curved, tawny from 

 the base to the middle and piceous thence to the tip ; second also 

 piceous and shining ; third and fourth extremely minute ; the follow- 

 ing from the fifth to the tenth successively decreasing in length ; 

 club linear, pointed at the tip, a little more than twice the length of 

 the tenth joint : chest nearly elliptical : fore-chest very short, its 

 length hardly one-sixth of its breadth : shield of the mid-chest of 

 moderate size, its disc rather flat ; sutures of the parapsides indi- 

 stinct ; axillae parted by one-fourth of the breadth of the chest ; scut- 

 cheon truncate-conical, more convex than the shield : hind-chest 

 well developed, obconical, declining, with a ridge along the middle : 

 petiole very short, coppery : abdomen long- elliptical, greenish cop- 

 pery, smooth, shining, nearly flat, dark purple on the disc, very little 

 shorter but much narrower than the chest ; metapodeon occupying 

 nearly half of the back, bright green towards the base, where it is 

 concave ; octoon not half the length of the metapodeon ; ennaton 

 shorter than the octoon ; decaton as long as the octoon ; the fol- 

 lowing segments very short : sexual parts long, pale tawny : legs very 

 bright yellow ; hips green ; thighs piceous tinged with green, which 

 dark colour as usual prevails most in the hind-legs and least in the 

 fore-legs ; fore-feet tawny ; four hinder feet brown, first joint yellow : 

 wings colourless ; veins piceous ; humerus twice the length of the 

 ulna ; radius as long as the ulna ; cubitus very nearly as long as the 

 radius ; brand of moderate size. Length of the body 1 line ; of the 

 wings 2 lines. 



Pteromalus Scopas, mas. JEneo -viridis, abdominis disco purpurea, 



antennis fuscis, pedibus fulvis, femoribus viridibus, tibiis fusco 



fasciatis, alis limpidis. — Fem. Abdominis disco cupreo, antennis 



piceis, tibiis piceis, tarsis flavis. 



Head and chest convex, finely shagreened : head green, a little 



broader than the chest : eyes and eyelets red : feelers brown, filiform, 



rather stout, a little shorter than the head and the chest ; first joint 



piceous, linear, very slightly curved, tawny at the base ; second also 



piceous and shining ; third and fourth extremely minute ; the follow- 



