374 Mr. F. Walker's Notes on Chalcidiles, 



4.um longurn ; 5^™ longissimuin. Oviductus subexsertns. 

 Pedes breves, graciles, inermes. Alee sat angustae. 



Female. — Body elongate. Head and thorax scabrous, or largely 

 punctured. Head very short, broader than the thorax ; face very 

 obliquely retracted ; an acute and prominent tooth on each side of 

 the front by the eye. Eyes very prominent, nearly petiolated. 

 Antennae filiform, 13-jointed, minutely pubescent, inserted at 

 some distance from the mouth, not longer than the thorax ; scape 

 slender ; 2nd joint short, 3rd and 4th extremely minute ; the 

 following joints to the lOth successively decreasing in length; 

 club compact, elongate-conical. Thorax slightly gibbous. Pro- 

 thorax sub-quadrate, transverse, well developed. Scutum short ; 

 sutures of the parapsides indistinct ; scutellum highly arched, 

 keeled. Metathorax declining, much developed. Petiole linear, 

 smooth, tricarinate, as long as the metathorax. Abdomen com- 

 pressed, smooth, lanceolate, slightly pubescent on each side, longer 

 than the thorax and less than half its breadth ; 1st, 2nd and 3rd 

 segments short; 4th long; 5th very long; 6th less than half the 

 length of the 5th, shorter than the 7th. Oviduct extending a 

 little beyond the tip. * Legs short, slender, unarmed. Wings 

 rather narrow, minutely and thickly pubescent ; ulna about half 

 the length of the humerus, more than twice the length of the 

 radius. 



The structure of this genus is very peculiar. It associates with 

 the Chalcidce more than with any other family, and has some 

 resemblance to Dirhinus, but the hind-femora and the hind-tibiae 

 are quite straight and slender, and thus the especially peculiar 

 character of the Chalcidce quite disappears in it. It has some 

 affinities with the Eurytomidce, others with the Eucharidce, and 

 others with some exotic genera which connect the PteromaUdie 

 with the CleonymidcB. 



Axima spinifrons. 



Foem. — Nigra; femora anteriora rufa; tibiae anticse rufse, 

 apices versus nigrse ; tarsi anteriores rufescentes ; alae vitrese, 

 fascia basali lata nigricante. 



Female. — Black. Anterior femora red; fore-tibiae red, black 

 towards the tips ; anterior tarsi reddish. Wings limpid, with a 

 broad blackish band near the base ; this band does not extend far 

 from the costa of the hind-wings ; veins black. 



Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 8 lines. 



St. Paul. Discovered by Mr. Bates. In the British Museum. 



