208 Mr. F. Walker on some new species of Chaleidites. 
the following joints from the fifth to the tenth nearly equal in length 
but slightly increasing in breadth ; club long-conical, hardly broader 
than the tenth joint, but more than twice its length: chest nearly 
elliptical, brassy green: fore-chest rather short, its length about one- 
fourth’ of its breadth : shield of the mid-chest rather short ; sutures of 
the parapsides very indistinct; axille large, parted by about one- 
sixth of the breadth of the chest ; scutcheon conical, coppery, rather 
prominent; hind-scutcheon very short, but visible: hind-chest well 
developed, obconical, declining, with a ridge along the middle and 
a rim on each side: petiole very short: abdomen nearly round, 
smooth, shining, purple, about half the length of the chest; meta- 
podeon blue with a copper tinge at the base; octoon and ennaton 
of moderate size; the following segments extremely short, hardly 
visible: sexual parts long, pale: legs tawny ; hips green; thighs 
piceous ; knees yellow; four hinder feet pale tawny with piceous tips : 
wings colourless; veins pale brown; ulna much shorter than the 
humerus, but more than half its length ; radius much shorter than 
the ulna; cubitus a little shorter than the radius, and rather more 
than half the length of the ulna; brand very small. 
Fem. Head and chest dull green: head very little broader than the 
chest : feelers subclavate, shorter than the head and chest ; first joint 
tawny ; second piceous ; third and fourth tawny ; the following joints 
from the fifth to the tenth successively decreasing in length and 
increasing in breadth; club elliptical, broader than the tenth joint and 
nearly thrice its length: scutcheon dull coppery ; abdomen long ob- 
conical, smooth, shining, dull purple, as long and rather broader 
than the chest, keeled beneath, and having there an angle whose 
hinder line rises abruptly from the middle to the tip; metapodeon 
bright green, concave at the base, nearly one-fourth of the length 
of the abdomen; the following segments successively and slightly 
decreasing in length: legs tawny; hips green; thighs dark tawny ; 
four hinder feet pale tawny with piceous tips. Length of the body 2-1 
line ; of the wings 14-14 line. 
Allied to Pt. hemipterus, apicalis, and conifer. 
Cerchysius Euphranor, fem. 4neo-viridis, abdomine cupreo apice 
purpureo, antennis nigris, pedibus fulvis, metapedum tibiis apice 
Semoribusque piceis, alis limpidis. 
Head nearly semicircular, convex in front, slightly concave behind, 
green, coarsely shagreened, hardly as broad as the chest: eyes and 
eyelets dark red: feelers subclavate, black, a little shorter than the 
body ; first joint long, subclavate ; second cup-shaped ; the following 
joints successively increasing in breadth ; club long-conical, broader 
than the eighth joint and much more than twice its length: chest 
short, elliptical, convex, finely shagreened: fore-chest extremely 
short, hardly visible above: shield of the mid-chest short and broad ; 
axille meeting on the back; no traces of the sutures of the parap- 
sides ; scutcheon obconical, brassy, flat, more roughly shagreened 
than the shield ; its fore-border forming an obtuse angle : hind-chest 
very short, smooth, shining, purplish black: abdomen oblanceolate, 
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