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CHALCIDIDiE. 



Chalcis bengalensis, sp. nov. (PL 3, f. 9). 



Nigra, pedibus anterioribns albis, basi late nigro ; coxis 

 trocliantcribus femoribusque posticis, rufis; tibiis posticis albis f 

 anticis nigris; tarsis posticis albis; alis hyalinis, nervis nigris; 

 tcgnlis albis. 2 . Long. 2 mm. 



Hab. Barrackpore (Rothney). 



Antennae 11-jointed, placed in the middle of the face; 

 black; the scape bare, shining; the flagellum with a pale 

 microscopic pile ; the scape not reaching to the hinder 

 ocelli ; the antennal depression deep, sharply bordered ; 

 at the apex produced roundly in the middle; the vertex 

 rough ; the cheeks and clypeus covered thickly with long 

 glistening white hair ; the apex rounded at the top, 

 smooth, and shining ; the mandibles with the three teeth 

 piceous. Thorax above coarsely punctured ; covered 

 sparsely with white hair; the sides and apex of the 

 scutellum thickly covered with long silvery hair ; the apex 

 of the scutellum rounded ; the median segment with an 

 abruptly oblique slope; strongly reticulated. The lower 

 part of the propleurae coarsely, the upper part finely punc- 

 tured ; mesopleurae coarsely punctured ; the depression at 

 its base wide, deep, strongly longitudinally striolated ; the 

 metapleurae strongly irregularly reticulated, the reticula- 

 tions much closer at the base. The four anterior coxae and 

 trochanters entirely black ; the front femora black at the 

 base ; the middle black with the apex white ; the hind 

 coxae (except at the base where they are black) trochanters 

 and femora red ; the tibiae white, black in front ; the tarsi 

 white except at the apex; the femoral teeth, black, short, 

 stout, closely pressed together at the apex, over a dozen 

 in number. 



Chalcis eccentrica, sp. nov. 



Long. 5 mm. 



Hab. Bombay (Rothney). 



Very similar in coloration to C. bengalensis ; but has 



