364 Mr. F. Walker's Notes on Chalcidites, 



the tribe, mostly dark red beneath. Head and thorax roughly 

 scabrous ; face very oblique. Antennae slender, filiform, not 

 lono-er than the thorax. Thorax with the usual structure, red 

 in front ; scutellum unarmed. Petiole extremely short. Abdo- 

 men with the basal part fusiform, a little narrower and longer 

 than the thorax; apical part red, slender, lanceolate, about half the 

 length of the preceding part. Legs red ; femora mostly black ; 

 hind-femora much incrassated, armed beneath with several rather 

 large teeth. Wings cinereous; veins black; ulna less than half 

 the length of the humerus ; radius and cubitus very short. 

 Length of the body 3| lines ; of the wings 4| lines. 

 South Africa. In the British Museum. 



Halt'icella spinator. 

 Foem. — Nigra, crassa; caput et thorax densissime punctata; 

 caput vald^ impressum, facie perobliqua; antennae filiformes, 

 thorace multo breviores ; scutellum peracutum, valde pro- 

 ductum ; metathorax scaber ; abdomen ovatum, peracutum, 

 thorace paullo brevius ; femora postica non dentata ; alae 

 anticas obscure cinereas, litura apud costam nigricante. 

 Female. — Black, robust, with cinereous tomentum. Head and 

 thorax very thickly punctured. Head very deeply impressed ; 

 face extremely oblique. Antennae filiform, inserted near the 

 mouth, much shorter than the thorax. Scutellum prolonged into 

 a stout very acute spine, extending over the basal part of the 

 abdomen. Metathorax scabrous. Petiole extremely short. Ab- 

 domen oval, very acute, a little narrower and shorter than the 

 thorax. Hind-femora incrassated, not dentate ; hind-tibiae 

 curved, slightly dilated. Wings dark cinereous ; veins black. 

 Fore-wings with a blackish mark by the ulna ; the latter less than 

 one-fourth of the length of the humerus ; radius very slender, a 

 little longer than the ulna ; cubitus extremely short. 

 Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 7 lines. 

 Singapore. Discovered by Mr. Wallace. In Mr. Saunders' 

 collection. 



Halticella cequator, 

 Foem. — Nigra ; caput et thorax scitissime punctata ; caput valdfe 

 impressum, facie perobliqu^ ; antennae filiformes, thorace 

 paullo breviores; scutellum bidentatum ; metathorax scaber ; 

 abdomen fusiforme, thorace non longius ; femora postica non 

 dentata; alae obscure cinereae. 



i^(en?«/e. —Black. Head and thorax very finely punctured. 



