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CHALCIDID^. 



CHALCIDINiE. 



4. Trichoxenia cineearia, Walk. (PI. I. figs. 4, 5.) 

 Long. corp. 11 millim., exp. al. 18 millim. 



Male. Black ; antennsD very thick, with the second and third 

 joints very short ; scape red at the tip above ; face clothed with 

 silvery pubescence, shading into golden yellow above ; thorax 

 black, variolose; tegulse black, a bright golden spot on each 

 side at the base of the scutellum, and the sides of the metatborax 

 fringed with golden hairs above ; abdomen with the first segment 

 black, variolose, its sides and extremity above, and the sides and 

 upper surface of the remaining segments thickly clothed with 

 bright golden hairs ; abdomen black beneath ; femora black, 

 clothed with silvery hairs; tibiae and tarsi with a reddish shade, 

 and hind tibiae clothed with yellow hairs ; spines of the hind 

 tarsi golden beneath ; wings and general structure as in the 

 female. 



Hab. Australia (Du JBouJay). 



This beautiful insect, which strongly contrasts with the black 

 female, has a striking general resemblance to some species of 

 Mutilla ; but it is worthy of note, first, that this resemblance 

 is confined to the male, and, secondly, that the Miitillce which it 

 most resembles are not Australian species. 



I am indebted to Signer P. Magretti for permitting me to de- 

 scribe the three following species, taken by him in the Soudan. 

 All the other species in this paper are in the collection of the 

 British Museum. 



5. Stomatoceeas Mageettii. (PI. I. fig. 7.) 

 Long. corp. 9 millim. 



Female. Black, variolose, with silvery hairs and down; antennae 

 — scape red, black at the tip ; four followingjoinls red, with short 

 white pubescence, the rest black ; third joint with a very distinct 

 patch of white pubescence on the outside: tegulae, stylus, and 

 sides of first segment and under surface of abdomen shading into 

 dull red ; hind coxa3 and last segment of abdomen before the stylus 

 clothed Math silvery hairs ; legs black, shading into reddish, espe- 

 cially on the inner surface ; middle femora somewhat thickened, all 

 the tibiae with a strong projectiug spine beneath, and middle tibiae 

 armed with strong, stout, shoi t bristles or spines, which are much 



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