of the Family Chalcidse. 177 



femora much incrassated, with large teeth, with two black spots on 

 the outer side, the second apical. Wings cinereous ; veins black ; 

 ulna a little more than half the length of the humerus ; radius a little 

 shorter than the ulna ; cubitus very short. Length of the body 2\ 

 lines ; of the wings 4£ lines. 



St. Paulo. Discovered by Mr. Bates. In the British Museum. 



Smieea sordida. Focm. Lutea, glabra, nitens ; caput et thorax sub- 

 punctata ; antenna? nigra?, tiliformes, breviuscula?, scapo luteo ; scutum 

 nigro quadristrigatum et postice marginatum ; scutellum inerme, macula 

 nigra elongata trigona ; petiolus brevis ; abdomen fusiforme, acumina- 

 tum, basi fasciisque pallidioribus ; coxa? postica? apice nigro strigata? ; 

 femora postica subdentata, intus nigro bimaculata, apice piceo macu- 

 lata ; ala? cinerea?, ampla?, apud costam lutescentes. 



Female. Luteous, smooth, shining. Head and thorax minutely 

 punctured, the former with a black transverse line behind. Antenna? 

 black, filiform, rather short ; scape luteous. Scutum with two black 

 streaks, which are connected hindward and join in a slender line the 

 black hind border ; a black streak on each of the parapsides ; scutellum 

 unarmed, with an elongated triangidar black spot. Abdomen fusiform, 

 acuminated, slightly compressed, paler at the base and on the hind 

 border of each segment, much narrower but hardly longer than the 

 thorax ; petiole short. Hind coxa? very long, with a black streak above 

 towards the tips ; hind femora very minutely dentate, with two black 

 spots on the inner side and with a piceous apical spot. Wings cinereous, 

 ample, with a luteous tinge along the costa except towards the tips ; 

 veins black ; ulna about half the length of the humerus ; radius nearly 

 as long as the ulna ; cubitus very short. Length of the body 4 lines ; 

 of the wings 8 lines. 



Villa Nova. Discovered by Mr. Bates. In the British Museum. 



Smteba abdominalis. Has. Lutea, glabra, nitens; caput et thorax 

 subpunctata ; antenna? nigra?, breves, robusta?, filiformes, apice scapoque 

 luteis; scutum et parapsides discis nigris; scutellum inerme, nigro 

 marginatum ; metathorax niger, scaber ; petiolus longus, niger ; abdo- 

 men ovatum, gibbum, supra piceum flavo fasciatum; coxa? postica? 

 supra nigra?; femora postica subdentata, macula discali apicibusque 

 nigris ; ala? fuscescentes, apice cinerea?. 



Male. Luteous, smooth, shining. Head and thorax minutely punc- 

 tured. Head black behind. Antenna? black, short, stout, filiform ; 

 tips and scape luteous. Prothorax black along the fore border ; disks 

 of the scutum and of the parapsides black ; scutellum unarmed, black 

 along the fore and hind border ; paraptera and metathorax black, the 

 latter scabrous. Petiole, long, black. Abdomen oval, gibbous, very 

 much shorter and narrower than the thorax, piceous above, with a 

 yellow middle band. Hind coxa? black above ; hind femora much 

 incrassated, minutely dentate, with a black spot on each disk and with 



