150 OiîDEE—H YMENOPTERA.
pedibus duobus posticis fuseis, femoribiis basi nifis ; tibiis basi albis ; oviducta nigro ; alis pone medium nubetula
vix infumatis.
Long. corp. liü. 2 i ; oviduct, lin. 1 ; expans. alar, antic. Un. of .
Habitat ; Georgia, America. In Mus. Brltann.
SECTION 2—SPECIES ASIATICHE.
SPECIES 2—METAPELMA GLORIOSA.
PLATE X X V I I , TIG. 8.
^Enea, ca;ruleo purpureo et cupreo variegata: antennis nig-ris, Il-arliculatis (fig. 8 « ) articulis secundo et
tertio brevibus, quarto longo, reliquis sensim brevioribus et crassioribus ; capite sub lente minutissime granulato
punctisque majoribus, facie albo sericanti ; collari trigono ; abdomine segmentis intermediis utrinque eaTuleo
maculatis, oviductu abdomine cum thorace longitudine asquanti ; calcari et tarsis intermediis (basi crassis) rufescentibus
; tibiis posticis nigris basi albis, dimidio apicali membrana magna extus rotunda nigra instruetis ; tarsis
albis, basi articuli primi et apice ultimi nigris ; alis pallide liyalinis, apicibus obscurioribus.
Long. corp. lin. 5 ; oviduct, lin, 44 ; expans. alar, antic, lin. 8.
Habitat ; Insula Philippinensis, Luzon, Camiguin (D. Semper). In Mus. D. Semper, Altona;.
SPECIES 3—METAPELMA EUFI lLUvA.
Praìcedenti multo minor et obscurior at simillima : tibiis posticis fere e basi sensim dilatatis ; pedibus quatuor
anticis rufis ; oviductu breviori ; alis anticis apice fuscis ; mesonoto magis cupreo-pnrpurascenti.
Long. corp. lin. 3 ; long, oviduct, lin. l i .
Habitat ; Sarawak, Borneo (Wallace). In Iilus. W. W. Saunders.
SPECIES 4-SIETAPELMA TAPKOBANyE.
Thorace nigro, ieneo et cupreo variegata ; abdomine piceo, basi supra cupreo parum tineto ; mesopleuris
macula elongato-conica alba notatis ; pedibus 4 anticis rufis, tarsis nigris, articulo primo ad basiu albo ; coxis
pedum 3 posticorum asneis, femoribus nigris, basi albis ; tibiis in spatulani rotundam clavato-compressis, nigris,
basi albis ; tarsis posticis albidis, dimidio basali articuli primi artieuloque ultimo nigris.
Long. corp. lin. 5 ; oviduct, lin. 2 | ; expans. alar, antic, lin. 64.
Habitat ; Ceylon. In Mus. Reg. Hafnise.
SPECIES S^METAPELÌ IA OBSCUEATA.
Nigra, subosnea, purpureoque parimi tincta: metatborace magis ajneo; abdomine subcbalybajo nitido;
thorace breviore et angustiore, supra plano apice acuto ; mesothorace latitudine longiore, parapsidibus elevatis
longis et parallelis, scutoque inter parapsides angusto utrinque silicato; oviductu abdomine dimidio breviore;
antennis pedibusque nigris, intermediis elongatis femoribus apice albidis ; tibiis pieeis calcari longo artieuloque
basali tarsorum albidis, hoc compresso, reliquis ad apicem attenuatis ; pedibus posticis compressis, femoribus
parum clavatis apice albo, tibiis dilatatis femoribus latioribus, nigris basi albis, tarsis compressis e basi ad
apicem sensim angustioribus ; alis pallide hyalino-fuscescentibus.
Long. corp. lin. 3 ; oviduct. | lin. ; expans. alar, antic, lin. 4.
Habitat; India Orientalis. In Mus. Hopeiano Oxonia?.
FAMI L Y—CHAL C IDID^ . S [ JB - FAMILY—EUCHARIDES . 151
SUB - FAMI LY—EUCHARIDE S .
The twenty-eighth Plate of this work is devoted to a series of remarkable insects belongino- to the family
ChalcKlKte, closely allied to the Eurytomides, but in general distinguished by the great, and often abnormal
development of the binder parts of the thorax, and often also by the strongly pectinated antennae of the males
The typical genus is Eucharis of Fabricius, but several others have been separated, including Thoracantha Lat r
Stilbnla Spmola, Schizaspidia Westw., and Gallaría Brullé; (Psilogaster Blanchard is identical with Stilbula) "
The generic distribution of the group is, however, at present unsettled, and can only be established upon
a more careful investigation of the characters of the species than has hitherto been given to them - thus in
the typical species EucAark adscendens, a native of Europe, and also introduced into the British list I have been
unab e after repeated dissections, to discover any normally formed maxilla, or labium, the mouth being apparently
closed by membrane ; the mandibles of this species are represented in pi. X XVI I I fio-s 15 a 15 i ¿ In the
msect figured under the name of ScMzaspidia rudis (fig. 5), the mandibles are armed with strong teeth (fin- 5 h)
and the maxillie and labium, with their palpi (figs. 5 5 are well developed. The antenna; vary in nearly
every species, as may be observed on inspecting the tweuty-eighth plate, in which I have added figures of the
antenua3 ol several species not represented; thus, fig. 15 c represents the antenuEe of the male, and 15 d, that of
tlie female, of the type, Bnchari, adscenden,. K g . 13 represents the 12-jointed antenna of the male of EnAan,
F o W (Entomologist, pi. P, fig. U ) ; the intermediate joints being bifurcate, with the inner branch shorter
than the outer. Fig. 14 represents the antenna, apparently 9-jointed, of the male, and 14. , that of the
female, apparently 11-jointed, oí Huchark Zalatee (ibid. fig. 4 « , and fig. 4¿ ) , in both of which the last apparent
C e t h e r " " ' ' ' '
GENUS—SCHIZASPIDIA.
(Westw. Proc. Zool. Soc. 26 May, 1835, p. 6g.)
Corpus breve crassum; antenna; breves crassa,, 13-articulata;, articulis secundo et tertio fere iequalibus
quai-to ad dec,mum interne serratis, reliquis 3 in unum coalitis ; scutellum magnum, postice supra abdoinen productum
et ejus diniidium basale superans, ad apicem furcatum; abdomen thorace paullo majus, supra planum
pedunculo (fere tertiam partem abdominis longitudine a^quante) ad thoracis ángulo apicale declive atiixum
UBS.—Perilampum (habitu) cum Eucliaride (seutello armato) conjungens.
SPECIES 1—SCHIZASPIDIA EURCIFERA. (Westw. 1. c.)
PLATE XXVI I I , FIG. 2.
Capite et thorace oeneis ; facie canali profundo pro receptione antennanim, his fulvo-albidis (fie 2 « )
ar iculo secundo et tertio parvis ferie a^qualibus, quarto ad decimum intus acute producto-serratis, undecimo ut
videtur o-annulato; mesothoracis seuto et parapsidibus semicirculariter striatis; seutello et postscutello lon^iudinahter
sulcatis ; hoc in cornu retro producto dimidium abdominis acquante, apice bifureato ; abdomCie i:::!!:::::: ^^i^niiir'"
Long. corp. lin. 2f ; expans. alar, antic, lin. 5.
Habitat; India Orientalis, Bengalia. In Mus. Britann.
t o t o M v f antennis magis serratis; thorace profundius silicato; abdomine