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 14 line. 
Pteromalus Anaxis, mas. Viridis, abdomine purpureo basi viridi- 
cupreo, antennis nigris, pedibus flavis, femoribus piceo-viridibus, 
alis 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 ; axille parted by one-fourth of the breadth of the chest ; seut- 
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. Aineo-viridis, abdominis disco purpureo, 
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- 
