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PLATE CCCLXXIX, 



CHALCIS CLAVIPES. 



THICK-LEGGED CHALCtS. 



HYMENOPTEEA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Mouth with a horny,, compreffed, and fometimes elongated jaw : 

 feelers four, equal : antennae cylindrical, fufiform, firft joint rather 

 thickeft ; thorax gibbous., lengthened behind, and obtufe : abdomen 

 fmall, rounded, and fubpetiolate : pofterior thighs thickilh. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Black : thighs of the hind legs thick, and rufous. 



Chalcis Clavipes : atra, femoribus pofterioribus incraffatis rufis. 



Fabr. Mant. Inf. 1. p. 272. n. 2. — Ent. Syft. T. 



2. 19<5. w- 2. — Hybii. Naturf. 24. 56. \g. tab. 2. 



Jig. 23. — Rofs. Faun. Etrufc. 2. 58. 803. — Gmel. 



Syji. Nat. T: I. p. 5. 2742. n. 2. 



This very curious fpecies of Chalcis is certainly undefcribed as a 

 Britifli Infect. The fpecimen from which the figures in our plate 

 are copied, and which is in our own cabinet, was taken in the vici- 

 nity of Faverfham, in Kent. This is not the only inftance within 

 our knowledge of its being caught in England ; we find one fpeci- 



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