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about twice as long as tlie preceding ; joints 3-11 o£ similar 

 structure, not much thickened, and clothed with fine down ; front 

 channelled to receive the scape : scutellum armed with two small 

 raised teeth ; metathorax unarmed ; hind femora hairy beneath ; 

 abdomen subpetiolate, first segment nearly twice as long as the 

 others, stylus moderately slender, about half the length of the 

 remainder of the abdomen ; wings variegated. 



2G. Anteocephalus. (Plate lY. figs. 24-26.) 



Types Halticella fascicornis and divisicornis, "Walk. Notes 

 Chalc. iii. pp. 43 & 44 (1871), from Bombay, 



Allied to St07natoceras. Antennae 12-jointed, inserted near the 

 mouth, very long, scape nearly one third of their length, nearly 

 straight, and more slender than the flagellum ; head excavated in 

 front as far back as the ocelli ; scutellum bidentate ; hind femora 

 uuarmed ; abdomen subpetiolate, the first segment half its length 

 in the male and one third in the female. 



27. EucHALCis. (Plate IV. figs. 27-29.) 



Euclialcis, Du£ Ann. Soc. Ent. Er. (4) i. p. 7 (1861). 



Alhcera, Sich. op. cit. (4) v. p. 379 (1865). 



Type U. Miegii, Duf. I. c. p. 8, pi. i. figs. 4-7 (1861), from 

 Spain. 



Antennae 11-jointed, long and rather slender ; scape very long, 

 inserted near the mouth ; abdomen and hind femora nearly as in 

 Neoclialcis. 



Dufour has placed several discordant species in his genus 

 Euclialcis ; and it is to be regretted that his type is identical with 

 that of AUocera, Sich. 



28. Neochalcis. (Plate IV. figs. 30-32.) 



Type Halticella osmicida, Baxind. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1873, p. 414. 



Antennae 13-jointed, short, pubescent, scape rather short and 

 thick, inserted opposite the lower border of the eyes, second and 

 third joints short, last three very short ; sutures of the thorax well 

 marked ; abdomen subsessile, oval in the male, conical in the 

 female, the segments gradually diminishing in length, the first 

 not more than half as long again as the second ; hind femora 

 wdth a very strong projection in the middle. 



