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tibise produced to a point ; hind femora dilated, dentated beneath, 

 with one large tooth at the base, followed by seven smaller ones 

 (sispes, L.) or two large basal teeth, almost side by side, followed 

 by a series of very minute ones {jnyrifex, Sulz.). 



I prefer to leave the European species together for the present, 

 though they are hardly congeneric. 



2. Spilochalcis. (Plate III. figs. 4-5.) 

 Spiloclialcis, Thoms. Hym. Scand. iv. p. 15 (1876). 

 Type Clialcis xantho stigma, Dalm. Vetensk. Handl. 1820, 

 p. 141, from Northern Europe. 



Antennae pubescent, rather short and stout, scape rather 

 short ; middle tibiae spined and hind tibise truncated at the ex- 

 tremity ; hind femora armed with many minute blunt teeth. 



3. EpiTiiANTJS. (Plate III. figs. 6-7.) 



Bpitranus, Walk. Ent. Mag. ii. p. 26 (1834). 



Type JE. fiolvescens, Walk., from St. Vincent's. 



Antennae 14-jointed, scape one third of their length, and some- 

 what clavate at tip ; flagellum gradually thickened nearly to the 

 extremity, terminal joint conical, pointed ; head convex in front 

 as far as the antennal tubercles ; ocelli arranged in a triangle ; 

 thorax and scutellum thickly covered with large punctures, the 

 latter rounded behind ; petiole half as long as the abdomen, stout, 

 and apparently channelled below ; the first segment occupying 

 nearly the whole of the abdomen, which is pointed at the tip ; 

 hind femora thickened, armed with some small teeth ; hind tibiae 

 armed before the tip with a long curved spine. 



The species subsequently referred by Walker to Ejoitranus are 

 not congeneric. 



4. Chalcitella. 



Ghalcitella, Westw. P. Z. S. 1835, p. 70. 



Type Chcdcitella evanioides, Westw., from Mauritius. 



" Antennse ad os insertae 12 ?-13 ? articulatae, articulo 2do 

 brevi, 3tio et sex sequentibus pauUo majoribus, valde continuis, 

 reliquis tribus vel quatuor massam elongato-conicamefformantibus. 

 Metathorax valde declivis. Peduuculus dimidium abdominis 

 longitudine aequans, gracilis, cylindricus. Femora intermedia ad 

 basin gracilia, ad apicem subclavata ; coxae posticae crassse, longae ; 

 femora postica maxima, subtus 7-dentata. 



"Obs. G-enus Ghalcidihiis typicalibus (ex, gr. sispes) alliue." 



