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teeth ; propodeon mgulose, slightly spined on each side : abdomen 

 shining, finely punctured, pubescent towards the tip : legs black ; 

 hind thighs red ; hind tibiae dark piceous, varied with red : wings 

 slightly fuscous ; squamulae black ; nervures dark piceous. 

 Length of the body 2J lines ; expansion of the wings 5 lines. 

 a. Italy. From Mr. Birch's collection. 



CHALCIS Almon. Nigra, trochanteribus, genubus, tibiis apice 

 tarsisqueflavis, alls limpidis. 



Body convex, black : head and thorax dull, punctured, pubes- 

 cent : antennae black : scutellum with a rim along its hind bor- 

 der : abdomen oval, smooth, shining, pubescent towards the tip, 

 shorter and narrower than the thorax : legs black ; trochanters, 

 knees, tips of the tibiae and tarsi yellow : wings limpid ; squamu- 

 lae yellow; nervures fuscous. Length of the body Inline; expan- 

 sion of the wings 2 lines. 



a. Isle of France. 



CHALCIS Amenocles, Walker, MSS. Nigra, pedibus rufis, 

 coxis nigris, femoribus apice tibiisque albis, his rufo cinctis, 

 alls limpidis. 



Black, dull, punctured : hind border of the scutellum armed 

 with two very short teeth : abdomen smooth, shining, rather lon- 

 ger than the thorax : legs red ; coxae black ; tips of thighs white ; 

 tibiae white, each traversed by a broad red band : wings limpid ; 

 squamulae white ; nervures black. Length of the body 3 lines ; 

 expansion of the wings 4 lines. 



a. Sierra Leone. 



CHALCIS Ucalegon, Walker, MSS. Nigra, antennis pedibus- 

 que rufis, profemoribus et mesofemoribus nigris apice albis, 

 metafemoribus apice albis, subtus dentibus nigris armatis, alis 

 limpidis. 



Body convex : head and thorax black, roughly punctured : 

 antennae bright pale red ; first and second joints black : tip of the 

 scutellum bituberculate : propodeon roughly excavated . abdomen 

 wanting : legs red ; fore-thighs and middle thighs black, their tips 

 white, as are also those of the hind-thighs, which are armed 

 beneath with many little black teeth : wings limpid ; nervures 

 piceous ; humerus more than twice the length of the ulna ; radius 

 and cubitus very short ; stigma very small. Length of the body 

 2^ lines ; expansion of the wings 8-5- lines. 



a. Adelaide, Australia. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



Page 7. HALTICHELLA Mitys, Walker, MSS. Nigra abdo- 

 mine apice rufo, antennis pedibusque ferrugineis, femoribus 

 ciSyalis limpidis fusco maculatis. 



