408 Mr. F. Walker on the species of Chalcidites 



ing a triangle on the vertex : antennfe yellow, very slender, slightly 

 increasing in breadth towards their tips, as long as the thorax ; first 

 joint very long and slender ; second cyathiform ; third very minute, 

 hardly visible ; fourth joint narrower than the second ; fifth and fol- 

 lowing joints to the ninth successively increasing in breadth ; club 

 fusiform, fulvous, a little broader than the ninth joint, and more than 

 twice its lenjrth : thorax oval : prothorax transverse, extremely short, 

 hardly visible above : scutum of the mesothorax large, broader than 

 lono- ;' parapsides forming one segment with the scutum, their sutures 

 not visible ; paraptera large, white ; axilla? triangular, narrow, almost 

 meeting each other on the dorsum ; scutellum somewhat rhomboidal, 

 cupreous, more shining than the scutum, narrower and abruptly de- 

 cumbent behind where it forms a right angle : metathorax with the 

 propodeon and podeon transverse, very short : abdomen bluish green, 

 nearly round, much shorter and a little broader than the thorax ; 

 metapodeon large ; octoon and following segments short : legs long, 

 slender, pale yellow ; tips of the tarsi fulvous ; mesopedes dilated as 

 usual : wings long, white ; nervures fulvous ; humerus shorter than 

 half the length of the wing ; ulna none ; radius very short ; cubitus 

 much longer than the radius; stigma small, emitting no branch. 



Found in the summer at Alten in Finmark. 



Entedon Epigonus, Monog. Chalcicliturn, i. 112. Alten, Finmark. 



Amyite, Monog. Chul. i. 65. Alten, Finmark. 



Altadas, Monog. Chal. i. 70. Alten, Finmark. 



Horisraenus Clinus, mas. Cupreus viricU varins, antennis nigris, 

 pedibus viridibus, tarsis flavis, alis fvscis. (Corp. long. lin. I ; 

 alar. lin. 1|.) 



Body slender, convex, cupreous, tinged with green, shining : head 

 and thorax finely punctured : head transverse, as broad as the tho- 

 rax ; vertex rather broad ; front slightly impressed : eyes of mode- 

 rate size, not prominent : antennfe 7-jointed, black, slightly seta- 

 ceous, as long as the thorax ; first joint long, stout, increasing in 

 breadth from the base to the tip ; second cyathiform, rather small ; 

 third and following joints broader than the 2nd ; ninth joint longer 

 and narrov/er than the sixth, acuminate at the tip : thorax oval : pro- 

 thorax transverse, very short : scutum of the mesothorax rather 

 large ; sutures of the parapsides very distinct, approaching each other 

 behind ; axillee small, not conniving; scutellum obconical : metatho- 

 rax transverse, very short : propodeon large, obconical, declining : 

 podeon short, stout : abdomen conical, depressed, smooth, not more 

 than half the length of the thorax ; metapodeon occupying rather 

 less than half the dorsum ; octoon and following segments to the 

 telum very short : legs slender, green ; trochanters, knees and pro- 

 tarsi fuscous ; mesotarsi and metatarsi yellow, their tips fuscous : 

 wings slightly fuscous, dark beneath the ulna ; nervures piceous ; 

 humerus not more than one-third of the length of the wing ; ulna 

 longer than the humerus ; radius very short ; cubitus a little shorter 

 than the radius ; stigma small. 

 Alten, Finmark. 



