184 Mr. F. Walker on some British Chalcidites. 



EncjTtus Epona, Mas. Piceus, suhtus flavus, pedihus fiilvis, anten- 

 nis tca-sisqne piceis, sciUdlofiavo, alls limpidis. (Corp. long. lin. 

 f ; alar. lin. If.) 

 Body rather long and narrow, nearly Hat, finely squameous, thinly 

 clothed with short white hairs, piceous above, yellow beneath : head 

 transverse, short, as broad as the thorax : eyes oval, of moderate 

 size, encircled with yellow : ocelli near together on the vertex : 

 antennae piceous, filiform, slender, hairy, much longer than the 

 body; first joint fusiform, long, slender, yellow beneath; second 

 cyathiform ; third and following joints to the ninth long, linear, 

 successively decreasing in length; club fusiform, not longer than 

 the ninth joint : thorax elliptical : pro thorax transverse, narrower in 

 front, larger than is usual in this genus : scutum of the mesothorax 

 broad, forming one segment witli the parapsides, yellow on either 

 side ; axillae triangular, very large, almost meeting each other on 

 the dorsum ; scutellum yellow, obconical : metathorax with the pro- 

 podeon and podeon very short : abdomen long-obconical, concave, 

 narrower and a little shorter than the thorax ; two or three seg- 

 ments visible on the dorsum : legs fulvous, long, slender, hairy ; 

 tarsi piceous ; middle legs dilated, and their tibise armed with long 

 spines as usual : wings limpid, narrow ; nervures piceous ; humerus 

 much less than half the length of the wing ; ulna about one-fourth 

 of the length of the humerus ; radius shorter than the ulna ; cubitus 

 shorter than the radius ; stigma extremely small. 

 From the collection of the Rev. G. T. Rudd. 

 Encyrtus Euryclea, Fem. Ater, capite cyaneo, antennis piceis 

 flavo cinctis, pedibus flavis nigra cinctis, alis limjndis. (Corp. 

 long. lin. ^ ; alar, lin, |.) 

 Body black, flat, slightly shining : head blue, transverse, nearly 

 as broad as the thorax : antennre clavate, a little longer than the 

 thorax ; first joint long, piceous, rather stout, yellow at the tip ; 

 second joint fuscous, cyathiform; third and following joints to the 

 ninth very small, successively increasing in breadth ; third, fourth, 

 fifth and sixth fuscous ; seventh, eighth and ninth yellow ; club 

 piceous, fusiform, as long as all the joints from the third to the 

 ninth : thorax oval : prothorax transverse, extremely short : scutum 

 of the mesothorax broad, longitudinally rugulose ; scutellum some- 

 what obconical : metathorax with the propodeon and podeon very 

 short : abdomen long-obconical, depressed, narrower but not longer 

 than the thorax : oviduct piceous : legs pale yellow, stout ; a broad 

 black band across each thigh and tibia ; fore-tarsi fulvous ; middle 

 legs dilated and their tibiae armed with long spines as usual : wings 

 ■white ; nervures yellow ; humerus less than half the length of the 

 wing ; ulna thick, fulvous, not more than one-fourth of the length 

 of the humerus ; radius shorter than the ulna ; cubitus as long as 

 the ulna ; stigma extremely small. 



Found by Mr. Haliday at Holywood, near Belfast in Ireland. 

 Encyrtus Pyttalus, Fem. Ater, jjedibus piceis, antennis tarsisque 



fulvis, alisfuscis. (Corp. long. lin. ^ ; alar. lin. f .) 

 Body black, convex, short, thick, broad, punctured : head trans- 



