378 Mr. F. Walker's Notes on Chalcidifes, 



partly quite smooth. Metathorax large, green, nearly vertical. 

 Petiole EeneoLis-black, slender, linear, hardly one-third of the 

 lencrth of the abdomen. Abdomen black, smooth, elongate- 

 elliptical, concave above, keeled beneath, narrower but not longer 

 than the thorax. Legs pale yellow. Wings limpid ; veins black, 

 pale yellow at the base ; ulna very much shorter than the humerus, 

 nearly twice the length of the radius. 



Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 6 lines. 



This may be the female of E, piceicornis, notwithstanding the 

 difference in the sculpture of the thorax. 



Tasmania. Discovered by the Rev. T. Ewing and by Mr. Allport. 

 Li the British Museum. 



Eucharis riijiventris, 

 Fcetn. — Cuprea ; antennae nigrse, basi fulvse ; pectoris discus 

 viridis ; petiolus cupreus, brevis ; abdomen rufum, basi 

 nigrum ; pedes fulvi ; alae limpidae. 



Female. — Cupreous ; like the preceding species in structure. 

 Antennae black; scape tawny. Disk of the pectus green. 

 Scutellum hindward and metathorax vertical. Petiole cupreous, 

 not more than one-fourth of the length of the abdomen. Ab- 

 domen red, smooth, black towards the base. Legs tawny. 

 Wings limpid ; veins piceous ; ulna very much shorter than the 

 humerus, longer than the radius ; stigma black. 



I;ength of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 6 lines. 



Adelaide. In the British Museum. 



Eucharis contigens. 

 Mas. — Nigra, lata ; antennae lineares, serratae, basi sordide 

 albidse, apice rufescentes, capitis latitudine paullo longiores ; 

 parapsidum suturee distinctae ; scutellum striatum, productum, 

 acutum ; abdomen altissimum, thorace non longius ; pedes 

 pallide flavescentes ; alae cinereae. 



Male. — Black, broad. Head very short, quite smooth, as 

 broad as the thorax. Antennas black, linear, serrated, a little 

 longer than the breadth of the head ; scape pale dingy whitish ; 

 joints transverse; tips dark reddish. Thorax short, roughly 

 punctured. Prothorax extremely short. Sutures of the parap- 

 sides distinct ; scutellum conical, longitudinally striated, termi- 

 nating in a stout and rather long spine. Metathorax vertical. 

 Petiole less than one-fourth of the length of the abdomen. 

 Abdomen smooth, very deep, slightly compressed, narrower but 



