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



pying nearly one-fourth of the back ; octoon and all the following 

 segments of moderate size ; the keel beneath forms an angle beyond 

 one-half of its length, and thence rises abruptly to the tip, and emits 

 the oviduct at about half its length between the angle and the tip ; 

 legs slender: Mdngs of moderate size ; ulna shorter than the hume- 

 rus ; radius full as long as the ulna ; cubitus moderately long, full 

 one-fourth of the length of the radius ; brand small, round. — This 

 genus is allied to Trigonoderus, Hetroxys and Notanisus. 



Caudonia Agylla, fem. JSneo-viridis, ahdomine rufo basi cupreo 

 apice viridi, antennis nigris, pedibus rufis, alls subfulvis. 



Head coppery ; eyes and eyelets dark red : feelers black, shorter 

 than the chest ; first joint tawny, piceous at the tip : chest coppery 

 green : front of the fore-chest almost black : hind-chest brassy : ab- 

 domen pale red, dark bronze-colour at the base above, green at the 

 tip : oviduct tawny : legs pale red ; four hinder feet tawny with 

 piceous tips : wings pale tawny ; veins darker tawny ; brand pale 

 brown. Length of the body \\ line ; of the wdngs 2\ lines. 



England. In the collection of iVIr. Dale. 



Encyrtus Statius, fem. Cyaneus, capite cupreo, abdomine nigra, 

 antennis piceis albo-cinctis apice nigris, pedibus nigris, tarsis/ul- 

 vis, alis nigro-fuscis. 



Head and chest convex ; head coppery, large, most roughly punc- 

 tured, hardly broader than the chest ; crown and front very broad ; 

 eyes dark red ; feelers subclavate, more than half the length of the 

 chest ; joints from the first to the sixth piceous ; first joint long, 

 slender, broader towards the tip ; second cup-shaped ; the following 

 joints to the eighth slightly and successively decreasing in length ; 

 seventh and eighth joints white ; club black, long-conical, broader 

 than the eighth joint and more than twice its length : chest very 

 short, a little longer than broad, dark blue, very finely punctured : 

 fore-chest very short, but visible above : shield of the mid-chest short 

 and broad ; no traces of the sutures of the parapsides ; axilla? long 

 and narrow, just meeting on the back ; scutcheon large, obconical, 

 rather flat above, with a very slight furrow from the fore-border to 

 the disc : hind-chest and petiole extremely short : abdomen trian- 

 gular, flat, smooth, shining, black, shorter than the chest, but ex- 

 ceeding it in breadth near the base : legs stout, black ; feet tawny 

 with piceous tips ; fore-feet darker than the rest ; middle legs having 

 the feet dilated as usual, and the tips of the shanks armed with 

 two black spines : wings dark brown, somewhat dilated above the 

 humerus ; veins piceous ; ulna not half the length of the humerus ; 

 radius and cubitus shorter than the ulna; brand extremely small.. 

 Length of the body i line ; of the wings l^ line. 



England. In the collection of Mr. Dale. 



Callimome eurynotus (F«erster MSS.), mas. Viridis, abdomine 

 purpurea basi cyaneo, antennis nigris, pedibus flavis, femoribus et 

 metatibiis viridibus, alis limpidis. 



Head and chest convex, green, finely shagreened, rather thickly 



