of the Family Chaleidae. ] 81 



punctured. Antenna? piceous, filiform, tawny at the tips. Scutellum 

 unarmed. Metathorax pale yellowish, smooth, shining. Abdomen 

 oval, acuminated, slightly compressed ; petiole pale yellowish, a little 

 more than half the length of the abdomen. Hind coxae very long ; 

 hind femora incrassated, armed with many very minute teeth. Wings 

 rather long ; veins black ; fore wings cinereous, with a blackish costal 

 stripe which widens from the base to the cubitus, where it occupies 

 half the breadth of the wing and there terminates ; tips and hind 

 border less blackish : ulna more than half the length of the humerus, 

 a little longer than the radius ; cubitus rather long for this family. 

 Hind wings blackish, excepting the base and a discal stripe. Length of 

 the body 2i- lines ; of the wings 5 lines. 

 Ega. Discovered by Mr. Bates. In the British Museum. 



Smiera tenebrosa. 3Ias. Nigra, glabra, nitens ; caput et thorax sub- 

 punctata ; oculi flavo cincti ; antennaa breves, robustae, filiformes ; 

 thorax flavo quadrimaculatus, scutello inermi, metathorace scabro ; 

 abdomen parviun, gibbosum, petiolo brevissimo; pedes flavi, coxis 

 posticis nigris, femoribus posticis subdentatis nigro notatis, tibiis pos- 

 ticis basi apiceque nigris ; alas nigricantes. 



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

 tured. Eyes with yellow orbits, which are broadest on the face, and 

 interrupted on each side of the vertex. Antennae short, stout, compact, 

 filiform. Thorax with a yellow spot on each side in front, and with 

 another on each side of the scutellum, which is unarmed ; metathorax 

 roughly scabrous. Abdomen very small, gibbous, slightly compressed, 

 less than half the length and not more than half the breadth of the 

 thorax ; petiole very short. Legs yellow ; hind coxae black, very long ; 

 hind femora much incrassated, armed beneath with many very minute 

 teeth, with an angular black band which traverses the disk on each 

 side and is connected on the inner side with an apical black spot ; hind 

 tibiae black at the base and at the tips. Wings blackish, paler at the 

 base and along the hind border ; veins black. Fore wings with the ulna 

 not more than one-fourth of the length of the humerus ; radius as long 

 as the ulna ; cubitus short. Length of the body 2{- lines ; of the wings 

 6 lines. 



Orizaba, Mexico. Discovered by M. Salle". In the British Museum. 



Smiera leucotelus. Fosm. Nigra, glabra, nitens; caput et thorax 

 scite punctata ; caput brevissimum ; antennae piceae, filiformes, sat 

 graciles ; thorax brevis, fascia interrupts fulvescente, scutello inermi, 

 metathorace scabro ; abdomen ellipticum, stylo apicali filiformi longis- 

 simo, petiolo brevissimo; coxae posticae flavo bimaciUatae; femora 

 postiea dentata ; alae cinerere, longae. 



Female. Black, smooth, shilling. Head and thorax minutely punc- 

 tured. Head very short. Antenna 1 piceous, filiform, rather slender, 

 not longer than the thorax. Thorax short ; scutum with an inter- 

 rupted dull-tawny band on the hind border; scutellum unarmed; 



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