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(3. Tail depressed, subtriangular. 
5. Trigonura (Sicli.)* 
b. Antennae inserted near the mouth. 
1. Apex of posterior tibiae acuminate. 
a. Abdomen with apex normal, not caudate. 
6. Halticella (Spin.). 
/3. Abdomen with the apex abnormal, elongated into a tail-like 
appendage (^Phasg. halticelliformes, Sichel). 
7. Allocera (Sich.). 
2. Posterior tibiae not acuminate at apex. ** 
a. Metatarsi slender 8 . Kockei'ia (Walk.). 
/3. Metatarsi thick 9. (Walk.). 
B. Petiole of abdomen elongate. 
a. Antennae inserted on the middle of the forehead or of the face. 
1. Abdomen in $ with the apex normal, not caudate, rather obtuse. 
10. Smicra * (Spin.) 
( = Chalcis, W estw. ) . 
2. Abdomen in $ with the apex abnormal, elongate, tailed. 
a. Tail consisting of segment 5 and the epipygium ( Conur<B smi- 
criformeSj Sichel) Conura (Spin.), part. 
j3. Tail consisting only of the hypopygium {Phasg. smicriformeSy 
Sichel) Phasganoiihora (Westw.) part. 
b. Antennae inserted near mouth. 
1. Antennae fusiform 11. Epitranus (Walk.). 
2. Antennae clavate at apex 12. Chalcitella {W QsXiv . 
The remainder of this memoir will be noticed in the next Record. 
Gu^rin-M(§neville mentions an instance in which seven specimens of a 
Chalcidite were found to have escaped from the same number of apple-pips 
which had been kept with others in a box for two years. Ann. Soc. Ent. Er. 
4® s(§r. tome v. pp. 83-85. 
Sichel records the parasitism of Pteromalus boucheanus (Ratz.) upon 
Alucita cerealium ?, in the department of Tarn-et-Garonne, where the latter 
insect has been very injurious to the wheat in the granaries. Bull Soc. Ent. 
Er. 18G5, pp. liii-liv. 
Diplolepis pupanim is described and figured by Taschenberg (Naturg. 
wirbell. Thiere, p. 93, pi. 3. fig. 6). 
New species : — 
Smiera (= Smicra). Costa describes five new species of this genus (Ann. 
Mus. Zool. Nap. ii.) : — S. quinquesignata, S. 7nuUinotata, S. lobata, and S. capi- 
tulata, 1. c. p. 68, and S. strigosa, 1. c. p. 69 ; origin not stated. 
Smiera. Cresson (Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, iv.) describes the following 12 new 
species of this genus from Cuba : — S. coccineay 1. c. p. 91 j S. intermedin, 1. c. 
p. 92; S. ignea, ibid.; S. giindlachii, l.c. p. 93; S. euhule (Poey, MS.), ibid. ; 
S. pidchra, 1. c. p. 94 ; >S^. nigropicta, 1. c. p. 95 ; S. pallens^, 1. c. p. 96 ; S. im- 
* Sichel adopts the true spelling of this name, which has generally been 
written Smiera, owing to a misprint in Spinola’s original paper. Spinola has 
himself repeatedly corrected the name. 
S. jmlens in text : vide Corrigenda,” p. 196. 
