208 Mr. F. Walker on some new species of Chalcidites. 



the following joints from the fifth to the tenth nearly equal in length 

 but slightly increasing in breadth ; club long-conical, hardly broader 

 than the tenth joint, but more than twice its length : chest nearly 

 elliptical, brassy green : fore-chest rather short, its length about one - 

 fourth of its breadth : shield of the mid- chest rather short ; sutures of 

 the parapsides very indistinct ; axillae large, parted by about one- 

 sixth of the breadth of the chest ; scutcheon conical, coppery, rather 

 prominent ; hind-scutcheon very short, but visible : hind-chest well 

 developed, obconical, declining, with a ridge along the middle and 

 a rim on each side ; petiole very short : abdomen nearly round, 

 smooth, shining, purple, about half the length of the chest ; meta- 

 podeon blue with a copper tinge at the base ; octoon and ennaton 

 of moderate size ; the following segments extremely short, hardly 

 visible : sexual parts long, pale : legs tawny ; hips green ; thighs 

 piceous ; knees yellow ; four hinder feet pale tawny with piceous tips : 

 wings colourless ; veins pale brown ; ulna much shorter than the 

 humerus, but more than half its length ; radius much shorter than 

 the ulna ; cubitus a little shorter than the radius, and rather more 

 than half the length of the ulna ; brand very small. 



Fem. Head and chest dull green : head very little broader than the 

 chest : feelers subclavate, shorter than the head and chest ; first joint 

 tawny ; second piceous ; third and fourth tawny ; the following joints 

 from the fifth to the tenth successively decreasing in length and 

 increasing in breadth ; club eUiptical, broader than the tenth joint and 

 nearly thrice its length : scutcheon dull coppery ; abdomen long ob- 

 conical, smooth, shining, dull purple, as long and rather broader 

 than the chest, keeled beneath, and having there an angle whose 

 hinder line rises abruptly from the middle to the tip ; metapodeon 

 bright green, concave at the base, nearly one-fourth of the length 

 of the abdomen ; the following segments successively and shghtly 

 decreasing in length : legs tawny ; hips green ; thighs dark tawny ; 

 four hinder feet pale tawny with piceous tips. Length of the body |-1 

 line ; of the wings IJ-l^ line. 



Allied to Pt. hemipterus, apicalis, and conifer. 



Cerchysius Euphranor, fem. ^neo-viridis, ahdomine cupreo apice 

 purpurea, antennis nigris, pedibus fulvis, metapedum tibiis apice 

 femoribusque piceis, alis limpidis. 



Head nearly semicircular, convex in front, slightly concave behind, 

 green, coarsely shagreened, hardly as broad as the chest : eyes and 

 eyelets dark red : feelers subclavate, black, a little shorter than the 

 body ; first joint long, subclavate ; second cup-shaped ; the following 

 joints successively increasing in breadth ; club long-conical, broader 

 than the eighth joint and much more than twice its length : chest 

 short, elliptical, convex, finely shagreened : fore- chest extremely 

 short, hardly visible above : shield of the mid-chest short and broad ; 

 axillae meeting on the back ; no traces of the sutures of the parap- 

 sides ; scutcheon obconical, brassy, flat, more roughly shagreened 

 than the shield ; its fore-border forming an obtuse angle : hind-chest 

 very short, smooth, shining, purplish black : abdomen oblanceolate, 



