136 MONOGRAPIIIA CHALCIDUM. 



Mesothorax slightly tinged with aeneous : abdomen cupreous 

 beneath : antennae long : trochanters and knees red : tips of 

 the tarsi slightly fuscous. 



May; Southampton. August; on grass in woods; near 

 London. Scotland. 



Sp. 50. Callim. Ia2tus. Mas. JEneo-viridis ,' nitens, ahdo- 

 mine cupreo, pedibus rujis, femoribus externe viridihus, 

 alts hyaUnis. 



Abdominis segmentum primum viride : tarsi flavi, apice fusci, antici 

 rufi : alae superiores marginem versus anticum flavescentes : 

 nervus subcostalis nigro-fuscus : stigma concolor. (Alarum longi- 

 tude, 3— 3| lin.) 



Var. ft. — Alae subfuscse : tarsi omnes rufi. 

 July ; near London. 



Sp. 51. Callim. versicolor. Mas. Viridis, nitens, abdomine 



cupreo, pe<:^i6w5 fuscis, femoribus viridibus, alis subhy- 



alinis. 

 Oculi ocellique rufi : abdomen basi viride : scapus viridis : tibiis 



posticae nigra^, anticse rufae : tarsi basi flavi : nervus subcostalis 



fuscus : stigma minimum, concolor. (Alarum longitude, 1| — 



2 lin.) 

 Var. ft. — Thorax postice abdominisque segmentum primum aeneo- 



virides, hujus apex cupreus : tibas posticae nigro-fuscag. 

 Var. y. — Scapus aeneus : femora 4 postica concolores : tarsi omnino 



fusci : alae subfuscae, anticae fusco prope stigma maculatae. 



Stouter than C. antennatus : antennae thicker: wings 

 broader: the superior wings have a large fuscous spot, occu- 

 pying more than half their breadth, and extending along the 

 nervure from whence it becomes costal, as far as the stigmal 

 branch : sometimes this spot is indistinct, and the wings are 

 nearly hyaline. Another and a very elegant variety has the 

 head and thorax eeneous green ; the raesoscutum green ; the 

 first abdominal segment bright aeneous green, cupreous toward 

 the base ; the apex and the second segment dark aeneous, the 

 others bright cupreous tinged with aeneous ; the coxae and 

 posterior thighs bluish green ; the tibise and four anterior thighs 

 aeneous green ; the anterior tarsi pale fuscous ; the four pos- 

 terior yellow, with the fourth and fifth joints fuscous. 



September ; near London. Isle of Wight. North of 

 England. July; near Clermont, Auvergne. 



