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ME. W. E. KIRBY ON GENERA AND SPECIES 
A Synopsis of the Genera of the Chalcididce, Subfamily Eucha- 
rince ; with Descriptions of several new Genera and Species 
of Chalcididce and Tenthredinidoe. By W. F. Kirby, 
Assistant in the Zoological Department, British Museum. 
(Communicated by Dr. J. Murie, F.L.S.) 
[Read 17th June, 1886.] 
(Plate I.) 
Synopsis of the Genera o/Eucharinse. 
I have here attempted to give a generic revision of the sub- 
family Eucharince, which includes some of the most beautiful 
and remarkable species of the Chalcididae. With few exceptions, 
the species are extra-European, and appear to be most numerous 
in Tropical America and Australia. The species in the British 
Museum represent at least fifteen well-marked genera, of which 
only ten have been previously characterized. I have selected 
only the most salient characters of each genus ; for minute and 
detailed characters are unnecessary in the present imperfect 
state of our knowledge of the subfamily. 
The Eucharinae are large, strongly-sculptured, metallic-coloured 
Chalcididae ; the abdomen is always more or less petiolated, and 
is frequently raised and compressed, giving the insects some 
resemblance to the Cynipidse. From the E erilampince , to which 
they have some resemblance, they may be distinguished by the 
longer petiole, the absence of the stigmatic nervule, &c. 
List of Genera of Eucharinae, with indication of Types , and 
characters of new Genera. 
1. Eucharis, latr., 
Hist. Nat. Crust. Ins. xiii. p. 210 (1805). 
Type, Ctnips adscendens, Fair. 
Cynips adscendens, Fair. Mant. Ins. i. p. 251. n. 1 (1787). 
Eucharis Kollari, Forst. Verb. Ver. Rlieinl. xvi. p. 91. n. 25 
(1859). 
Details : Westw. Thes. Ent. Oxon. pi. xxviii. f. 15, a-d (1S74). 
Hal. Europe. 
Panzer (Faun. Gerin. Heft 8S, pi. 10) represents the legs as 
yellow, saying only “ antennae tarsorumque ungulae nigrae; ” and 
