1G6 MONOGRAPHIA CHALCIDITUM. 



iiitidus : squamulae rufo-fuscse : mesothoracis scutellum tuber- 

 culatum : abdomen glabrum, nitidissimum : pedes uigro-virides ; 

 trochanteres fusci ; tibise apice et subtus rufo-fuscas ; tarsi rufi : 

 alae hyalinae : nervi fusci : stigma parvum. (Corp. long. 1^ — Ij. 

 lin. ; alar. 2 — 2^ lin.) 

 Taken near Paris, by M. F. de Laporte. 



Family Miscogasterid^/ 

 Genus Dipara, Walker. 



Nervus solitus costam per omnem per ejus longitudinem percurrens 

 non ut Chalciditum plerisque basi subcostalis. 



Sp. 2. Dip. cinetoides. Mas. Atra, antennis nigro-fuscis, 

 pefiolo pedibusqtie jlavis, alls pallide fulcis. 



D. 'petiolato nimis affinis ; statura multo majore, abdomine longiore 

 difFert : ater, parum nitens, subtiliter punctatus : oculi ocellique 

 obscure rufi : antennae nigro-fuscae ; articulus 1"^ omnino, 2"^*. 

 apice, 3"^. que basi subtus flavi : mesothoracis paraptera magna : 

 metathorax scaber, non canaliculatus : petiolus flavus, apice 

 crassior, abdominis dimidio paullo longior : abdomen ovatum, 

 nitidum, glabrum ; segmentum basale maximum, ejus dimidium 

 occupans ; sequentia parva, suba,qualia : pedes omnino flavag ; 

 metacoxae elongatas : alas pallide fulva, ciliatse ; nervi fulvi ; 

 stigma parvum. (Corp. long. 1 lin.; alar, lilin.) 



Taken near Darlington, in Durham, by the Rev. G. T. Rudd, 

 who observed to me that the abdomen was formed as in Cinetus, 

 which it also resembles in some other characters, but has most 

 affinity to the Chalcidites. 



Genus Merisus,^ Walker. 



Fern. — Caput magnum, thorace latins : oculi mediocres : antennas 

 12-articulatas, subfusiformes, thorace breviores ; articulus l"-"*. 

 gracilis ; 2"*. brevi-cyathiformis ; 3"^. et sequentes ad 9"'". paul- 

 latim graciliores ; clava acuminata, articulis 2 prascedentibus 

 paullo longior : thorax elongatus : pro thoracis scutellum magnum, 

 subquadratum : mesothoracis scutum magnum ; parapsidum 

 suturae vix conspicua) ; scutellum convexum, ovatum : meta- 



f The ndime Mi scogaster (Ent. Mag. Vol. 1. p. 458.) must fall; the genus had 

 already been described by Mr- VVestwood (Magazine of Nat. Hist. No. XXXII. 

 p. 121.) under the name of Lnniprolalus. 



5 /le'fos pars, icros aequalis. 



