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of the radius ; brand very small. Length of the body 4^ hnes ; of 

 the wings 8 lines. 



Para. In the British Museum. 



Smiera nigro-rufa, mas. Ru/a, nigra varia, petiole nigro, abdomine 

 rufo, antennis nigris, alis limpidis. 



Body red, roughly punctured : head black ; sides of the front 

 tawny : mouth tawny : feelers black : breast, hind-chest, paraptera, 

 axillee and sides of the middle chest black : three black stripes on 

 the shield ; the side pair broad and oblique ; a three-lobed black mark 

 on the scutcheon : petiole black, slender, cylindrical, smooth, shining : 

 abdomen smooth, shining, short, globose, less than twice the length 

 of the chest : legs red ; hips black ; anterior thighs black at the base ; 

 middle shanks striped with brown towards the base ; hind-shanks at 

 the base and at the tips and hind-feet black : wings colourless ; veins 

 brown ; humerus near half the length of the wing ; ulna not one-third 

 of the length of the humerus ; radius much longer than the ulna ; 

 cubitus about one-fourth of the ulna; brand rather large, slightly 

 forked. Length of the body 2\ lines ; of the wings 5 lines. 



East Indies. In the British Museum. 



Callimome cyaneus, Kollar, fern. Purpureus cyaneo viridique 

 variiis, antennis nigris, pedibus fulvis, femoribus purpureis, 

 metatibiis piceis, alis limpidis. 



Fern. Body purple, pubescent, varied vrith green and blue : feelers 

 black, subclavate, a little shorter than the thorax ; first joint fulvous : 

 head and thorax punctured, in structure like the other species of Cal- 

 limome : podeon very short : abdomen purple, smooth, shining, nearly 

 as long as the thorax ; metapodeon blue, green at the base : legs 

 fulvous ; coxEe and thighs purple ; metatibise piceous ; tips of the 

 tarsi piceous : wings limpid, rather short ; nervures fuscous ; ulna 

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

 shorter than the radius ; stigma very small ; oviduct fulvous, much 

 longer than the abdomen ; its sheaths black. 



Inhabits Germany. 



Chalcedectus, n. g. 

 Eupelmo affinis, at quoad pedes posticos Chalcidi similis. 



Chalcedectus maculicornis, fern. Viridis, cupreo cyaneo et pur- 

 purea varius, antennis nigris, articula 5" supra alba, tarsis 

 piceis, tarsis intermediis nigris basi Jlavis, alis fusca subnebu- 

 losis. 



Body brilliant green, narrow : head a little narrower than the 

 chest : crown narrow ; front largely and deeply punctured, with a 

 very deep almost smooth bluish green channel for the reception of the 

 first joint of the feelers ; face broad : mouth pitchy : eyes rather large : 

 feelers black, filiform, slender, as long as the chest ; first joint very 

 long ; second linear, long, nearly half the length of the first ; third 



