Mr. F. Walker on some neiv species of Chalcidites. 45 



VII. — Notes on Chalcidites, and Descriptions of various new 

 species. By Francis Walker, F.L.S. 



[Continued from vol. ix. p. 43.] 



Perilampus maurus, mas. Ater, antennis apice ferrugineis, tarsis 

 falvis, alis limpidis. 



Body black : head as broad as the chest, nearly smooth, slightly 

 shining ; hind part slightly striated across ; front shining, very deeply 

 excavated, extending on each side of the face and of the epistoma 

 which are small and rhomboidal ; epistoma larger than the face : 

 mouth pitchy : feelers nearly filiform, black, ferruginous towards 

 their tips which are conical : chest coarsely and deeply punctured, 

 dull, hairy : abdomen smooth, shining ; ventral plate dull, slightly 

 striated : legs black, clothed with short tawny hairs ; feet tawny : 

 wings colourless, very pubescent ; veins pitchy ; humerus at some 

 distance from the fore-border, less than half the length of the wing ; 

 ulna about one-third of the length of the humerus ; radius rather 

 more than half the length of the ulna ; cubitus full one-third of the 

 length of the radius ; brand small, not furcate. Length of the body 

 2A lines ; of the wings 5 lines. 



Port Natal. In the British Museum. 



Eupelmus basicupreus, fern. Viy-idis, axillis et scutello nigris, 

 metathoracis laterihns auratis, abdomine cupreo basi micante, 

 antennis nigris, pedibus fiilvis, femoribus viridibvs, alis sub- 

 fulvis. 



Body green : head very little narrower than the chest, coarsely 

 punctured ; crown black ; channel for the reception of the first joint 

 of the antennae very deep, finely squamous, bright green vdth a blue 

 disc : eyes large : feelers black, slender, filiform, more than half 

 the length of the body ; first joint green, veiy long, slightly curved ; 

 second bright green : axillaj and scutellum black ; axillae very large, 

 nearly contiguous ; scutellum obcordate, with a very slight longitu- 

 dinal suture : sides of the hind-chest golden green : abdomen cu- 

 preous black, nearly spindle-shaped, depressed above, keeled beneath, 

 bright cupreous at the base, rather less than twice the length of the 

 chest ; sheaths of the oviduct black, ferruginous towards the tips, 

 extending beyond the abdomen to one-fourth of its length : legs 

 tawny ; thighs bluish green ; fore-shanks black at the base ; a ferru- 

 ginous band near the base of each hind-shank : wings slightly tinged 

 with tawny ; veins tawny ; humerus rather more than one-third of 

 the length of the wing, sUghtly widened towards its tip ; ulna a little 

 shorter than the humerus ; radius much shorter than the ulna ; cubitus 

 about one-fourth of the length of the ulna, slightly curved ; brand 

 very small. Length of the body 2} lines ; of the wings 4-i- lines. 



Para. In the British Museum. 



