442 MONOGRAPIIIA CHALCID1TUM. 



Far. 6. — Var. e similis : caput nigro-cyaneum, antennae nigro-fuscae, 

 articulus l us . fulvus : thorax cyaneo-viridis : scutum cyaneum : 

 pedes fulvi ; tarsi apice obscuriores ; metafemora fusca, apice 

 fulva. 



Var. i. — Viridi-cyaneus : antennis articulus l uS . nigro-fuscus, basi 

 flavus : abdomen cupreum, basi viride : pedes flavi ; femora basi 

 fusca ; tibiae fusco-cinctse ; tarsi apice fusci : protarsi fulvi ; 

 metapedum femora et tibiae fusca : alae fulvo-limpidae. 



June to October ; on grass in fields ; Windsor Forest, 

 Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Cumberland, North Wales. Found 

 by Mr. Haliday, near Belfast. 



" Bred from a bundle of cocoons attached to a leaf, and 

 covered with cottony yellow wool, like that which envelopes 

 some spiders' eggs." — Curtis' s British Entomology, 395. 



Mas. — Corpus breve, crassum, convexum, punctatum, nitens, parce 

 pubescens : caput transversum, thorace paullo latius ; vertex 

 latus ; frons abrupte declivis : oculi majusculi : antenna? filiformes 

 pubescentes, corpore paullo longiores ; articulus l us . fusiformis ; 

 2"\ cyathiformis, parvus ; 3 as . et sequentes longi, lineares, usque 

 ad 8°, m . paullulum curtantes ; clava fusiformis, articulo 8°. fere 

 duplo longior : thorax ovatus : mesothoracis scutum transversum ; 

 paraptera non convenientia ; scutellum brevi-obconicum : abdo- 

 men brevi-ovatum, planum, thorace brevius non augustius : alae 

 amplae. 



Sp. 3. En. Batillus. Mas. Viridis, abdomen cupreum, 

 antennce fulvce, pedes flavi, metapedes fusci, ales sub- 

 limpidce. 



Viridis : capitis vertex cupreo varius : frons laete viridis : oculi et 

 ocelli obscure run* : antennae pallide fulvae, corporis longitudine ; 

 articulus l u \ lsete flavus ; 2 US . supra basi fuscus : scutellum cupreo 

 varium : abdomen nigro-cupreum : pedes flavi ; coxae virides ; 

 tarsi fulvi ; metapedum femora et tibiae fusca: alae sublimpidae, 

 latae, corpore longiores ; squamulae et nervi fulva. (Corp. long, 

 lin. h — | ; alar. lin. | — 1.) 



Var. ft. — Tibiae fulvo-cinctae. 



Var. y. — Metafemora et metatibiae nigro-fusca. 



Var. h. — Mesotarsi flavi apice fusci. 



June, September; on grass in fields ; near London, Berk- 

 shire, Wales, Devonshire. 



