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



tibise intermedise calcare longo apicali, Alae anticae sat 



angustse. 

 Female. — Body convex, elongated, not broad. Head and 

 thorax minutely punctured. Head broader than the thorax, with 

 a few bristles, front very short ; face vertical, excavated. An- 

 tennce slender, sub-clavate, ]4-jointed, seated near the mouth, 

 more than twice the length of the breadth of the head ; scape long, 

 linear ; 2nd joint less than one-third of the length of the scape ; 

 3rd joint short ; the following joints very compactly joined 

 together ; the three terminal joints forming an elongated conical 

 club. Prothorax not angular, a little narrower in front, nearly 

 twice broader than long. Scutum with the sutures of the parap- 

 sides well defined ; paraptera and epimera large. Scutellum with 

 a transverse suture, longitudinally and very finely striated. 

 Metathorax well developed, largely punctured, nearly horizontal, 

 with a protuberance in front. Petiole very short. Abdomen 

 smooth, as long as the thorax or much longer, lanceolate hind- 

 ward ; 1st segment very long. Legs slender, unarmed, rather 

 long ; middle tibiae with a long apical spur. Fore-wings rather 

 narrow ; ulna a little shorter than the humerus ; radius much 

 shorter than the ulna ; cubitus long, about one-third of the length 

 of the ulna, forming a very acute angle with the radius. 



Lcelaps ficta. 

 Foem. — Nigricante senea ; antennae nigrae, fulvo fasciatse ; ab- 

 domen aeneum, basi purpureum et cyaneura, apice rufescens ; 

 oviductus exsertus ; pedes nigri, flavo fasciati ; alae anticae 

 lituia transversa nigra, vitta diffusa nigricante. 



Female. — Blackish-aeneous. Antennae black, with a broad tawny 

 band before the middle. Metathorax black. Abdomen aeneous, 

 as long as the thorax, bright purple and blue towards the 

 base, reddish at the tip ; sheaths of the oviduct black, extending 

 just beyond the tip. Legs black ; trothanters, knees, tibiae and 

 tarsi towards the base, fore-coxae and hind-coxae pale yellow. 

 Wings cinereous. Fore- wings with a transverse black mark at 

 the end of the humerus, and with a blackish stripe which is dilated 

 and paler exteriorly and occupies the whole of the apical part ; 

 veins black. 



Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 7 lines. 



Ega. Discovered by Mr. Bates. In the British Museum. 



Lcelaps decorata. 

 Fceni. — Saturate cyanea ; antennae nigrae ; scuti discus aeneo- 

 viridis ; scutellum purpurascens ; abdomen rufum, apicem 



