186 PARASITIC HYMENOPTERA, ill., 



p. 466, it is said to be parasitic on the Banded Saltbush 

 Moth, AiitJirht {/Jan/Id) (Icuf'iriildta Newm. 



Philopsyche Cam. 

 Philopsyche annulipes. 



Black ; shining ; the parts bordering the scutellum and the 

 metathorax densely covered with long white hair, the pubes- 

 cence on the rest of the body shorter and sparse, apical abdo- 

 minal segments fringed with white hair ; underside of the 

 scape and pedicle of antennae, palpi, tegulae, a raised point 

 at their base and the four anterior legs lemon-yellow, their 

 coxse and trochanters paler ; hind legs black, their trochan- 

 ters, basal three-fourths of tibiae except for a black band of 

 the length of the yellow basal part, near the base, the spurs 

 and the basal two joints except at apex, yellow ; wings hya- 

 line, stigma and nervures black ; areolet triangular, shortly 

 appendiculated, recurrent nervure interstitial with the second 

 transverse cubital ; transverse median nervure also intersti- 

 tial : transverse cubitus in hind wings b)-oken near the bot- 

 tom. There are whitish yellow bands on the apices of all the 

 abdominal segments, dilated laterally : those on the basal four 

 have the dilatations clearly separated and of equal width, 

 the other bands becoming gradually widened outwardly. The 

 basal five ventral segments are white, with large black oval 

 .<ipots on the sides. 9. Length, 16 mm.: terebra, 7 mm. 



Mittagong ; bred from "Case-moth." 



Eyes very large, projecting, the incision deep, wide ; the 

 malar space very short. Face sparsely, weakly punctured, the 

 rest of the head smooth. Thorax closely punctured, pro- 

 pleurae smooth : mesonotum closely punctured, more sparsely 

 at the apex in the middle : scutellum closely, and more 

 strongly punctured, metanotum still more strongly punctured, 

 the upper part of the metapleui'se similarly punctured, the 

 lower basal half smooth, the apical distinctly, but not closely 

 punctured. Mesopleurfe less strongly and more irregularly 



