34 MONOGRAPHIA CHALCIDITUM. 



Nigra, punctata, pilis canis vestita : oculi fusci : ocelli rufo-fusci : 

 mesothoracis scutellum inerme ; squamulae flavse : abdomen 

 iiitidum, glabrum, basi nudum : pedes nigri ; pro- et mesofemora 

 apice fulva ; metafemora apice flava ; pro- et mesotibise fuscae, basi, 

 apice et subtus fulvse ; metatibise apice et macula basim versus ful- 

 vae ; tarsi fiilvi ; ungues et pulvilli fusci : alas subfuscae, medio ob- 

 scuriores : nervi fusci. (Corp. long. 1| — Iflin.; alar. 2J — 2| lin.) 



Taken near Paris by M. F. de Laporte. 



Genus V. Hockeria,^ De Laporte^ 



Chalcis . . Fabricius, Gmelin, Olivier, Latreille. 

 Halticella. Spinola, Olivier, ^c. 

 Hockeria . De Laporte. 



Caput Halticellce : antennae IS-articulatse, prope os insertae ; maris 

 subfusiformes, corporis dimidio longiores ; fern, subclavatse, paull6 

 breviores ; articulus 1^^. flagelli dimidii longitudinem ; 2"^ cya- 

 thiformis; 3"^ et 8-sequentes subaequales ; 12^^ et IS'i^ minimi, 

 vix conspicui : os Halticella; : thorax ovatus : pectus parvum : 

 prothoracis scutellum magnum, quadratum : mesothoracis scutum 

 magnum ; parapsides bene determinatae ; scutellum magnum, 

 subrotundum ; paraptera et epimera mediocria : metathoracis 

 scutellum maximum, medio canaliculatum : maris abdomen 

 sessile, ovatum, convexum ; segmentum P™. magnum; sequentia 

 parva, apicem versus longitudine decrescentia ; subtus abdomen 

 segmenta 7 ventralia conspicua, basalia apicalibus longiora : fern. 

 abdomen elongato-ovatum, subtus carinatum ; segmentum 1""*. 

 maximum, abdominis dimidio paulld brevius ; 2"™. mediocre ; 

 3um_ 4um, et 5um_ parva ; G""". latius ; segmenta ventralia vix 

 conspicua : propedes mediocres ; tibiae apice spina armatae ; 

 tarsi breves ; ungues et pulvilli minuti : mesopedes paullo tenui- 

 ores : metapedes elongati ; coxae maximae, trigonae ; femora 

 magna, ovata, subtus apice dentibus 2 magnis obtusis armata ; 

 tibiae arcuatse, subtus canaliculatse, apice latiores et spinis 

 2 armatae : proalse nervus ordinarius costae partem brevissimam 

 occupans; ramulus stigmaticalis minimus, vix furcatu.s. 



This genus forms the second division of Chalcis, in La- 

 treille's Gen. Crust, et Ins. &c. Spinola placed it with Chalcis 

 pusilla in his genus Halticella, which was probaljly formed on 

 the species belonging to it ; but this being uncertain, I have 



R ojK-qpos tiimidus. 



