Mr. F. Walker on some new species of Chalcidites. 43 



green tinge : petiole short : abdomen compressed, smooth, shining, 

 blue, brassy -with a tawny tinge beneath, a little shorter than the 

 chest : oviduct yellow, its' sheaths black, nearly twice the length of 

 the body: legs "green; trochanters, four front shanks and fore-feet 

 tawny ; hind-hips and hind-thighs very large ; the latter elliptical, 

 armed beneath with six stout teeth; hind-shanks much curved, 

 pitchv, tawny at the base, applied to the thighs; four hind-feet 

 pale yellow with tawny tips : wings colourless ; veins pitchy ; ulna 

 much shorter than the humerus ; radius not more than one-sixth of 

 the length of the ulna ; cubitus very short, hardly half the length of 

 the radius ; brand very small. Length of the body If line ; of the 

 wings 3 lines. 



Hong-Kong, China. In the British Museum. 



Monodontomerus Anthophorse, Newport, mas et fem. Viridis, 

 ca^ite antico cyaneo, vertice macidis duabus cupreis ornato, ab- 

 dominis fascia purpxireo-cuprea, anteanis nigris, pedibus viridi- 

 bus, tarsis fulvis, tarsis anticis tibiisque ferrugineis, alis sub- 

 cinereis. 



Male. Head and chest convex, finely shagreened : head green, full 

 as broad as the chest, blue and nearly smooth in front, and having a 

 large bright copper spot on each side of the crown between the eyes : 

 eves and evelets red : feelers black, stout, compact, nearly filiform, 

 much shorter than the chest ; first joint long, slender, green ; second 

 cup-shaped ; third and fourth extremely minute ; the following joints 

 from the fifth to the tenth successively but slightly decreasing in 

 length ; club conical, nearly thrice the length of the tenth joint : 

 chest green, nearly spindle-shaped : fore-chest rather large, angular, 

 but slightly narrower and rounded in front ; its length a little more 

 than half its breadth : shield of the mid-chest rather long ; sutures 

 of the parapsides strongly marked ; axillae coppery, parted by about 

 one-fourth of the breadth of the chest : scutcheon conical, rather 

 long, purplish coppery towards the tip ; hind-scutcheon rather large : 

 hind-chest transverse, short, declining : petiole very short : abdomen 

 convex, slightly compressed, nearly spindle-shaped, shorter and 

 rather narrower than the chest, purplish bronze, clothed with a few 

 white hairs especially towards the tip ; metapodeon bright green, 

 coppen' along the hind-border, about one-fifth of the length of the 

 abdomen ; octoon purplish bronze, not half the length of the meta- 

 podeon ; ennaton longer than the octoon ; decaton a little longer 

 than the ennaton ; protelum almost as long as the ennaton ; para- 

 telum shorter ; telum very short : legs green ; trochanters pitchy ; 

 knees tawny ; shanks dark ferruginous with tawny tips ; feet tawny ; 

 fore-feet and tips of four hinder feet ferruginous : wings slightly grey, 

 pubescent, rather short ; veins pitchy ; ulna hardly half the length 

 of the humerus ; radius much less than half the length of the ulna ; 

 cubitus very short, about half the length of the radius ; brand small, 

 forked. Length of the body 2 lines ; of the wings 3 lines. 

 England. 



