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admitting this, even in the face of our foot notes ; yet still is it 

 dignified ? Will it benefit the Society ? The first number of 

 the Transactions comes to us, not as a simple collection of 

 memoirs, but as a review. Of the justice or injustice of the 

 review let our readers judge ; that is not a point on which an 

 interested party like ourselves ought to decide. 



Two words on the Colloquia Entomologica : first, a maga- 

 zine is only responsible for opinions conveyed in articles 

 avowedly editorial ; second, the Colloquia Entomologica are 

 neither really nor avowedly editorial, on the contrary, editorial 

 1,'emarks on them have frequently occurred. 



Art. XLV. — Monographia Chalciditum. By Francis 

 Walker. 



(Continued from p. 369. j 



the green myriads in the peopled grass.' 



Clava elongata, acuminata. 



Femora 



-gracilia Pteromalus. 



-vaiida Cheiropachus. 



Genus XIII. — PTEROMALUS,a Swederus. 



Corpus pilis sparsis hirtum : thorax postice utrinque pilis albis 

 hirtus : abdomen apice dense hirtum ; segmenta fere recta, 1^™. 

 magnum, sequentia minora : oviductus rufus, abdomine occultum 

 aut ejus apicem vix transiens ; vaginae nigra% pubescentes : 

 femora gracilia, non dilatata ; fern, mesofemora subtus apices 

 versus setigera. ^^ 



The species are very numerous, and the forms of the antennae 

 and abdomens of the females are almost as various as the species, 

 but correspondent variations ai-e not so apparent in the males. 



Sectio I. — Mas et Fern. 



Corpus angustum, sublineare, quasi squameum : caput mediocre, 

 man thorace paull6 latius, fern, thoracis latitudine : mandibulae 



a Xlrepov ala, fxaXos tener. 



b The other characters of the genus are detailed under the sections. 



