isrr.] 57 



(k'scribed) has the antenna; sliorlev than the abdomen, while in my 

 insect they are nearly as long as the whole body in the (J, and longer 

 than the abdomen in the $ . JJncfa, it may be added, is omitted by 

 Kirchner in his " Catalogus Hymenopterorum Europje," but for what 

 reason I know not. 



14: Siihsen-ata, Thomson, Opusc. Ent., 285, 22, Hymen. Scand. i, 

 220, 25. One specimen taken by Mr. J. E. Eletcher at Worcester. 

 Thomson (I.e.) quotes doubtfully Uneolata as identical with sxihserraia, 

 but the two are quite distinct (on this point see Proc. Nat. Hist. 

 Soc. of Grlasgow, vol. iii). 



15. Albipes, Grmel. 



16. Geniculnta, Htg. TenfhreJo geniciilata, Hartig, Blatt- u. Holz- 

 wespen, 274, 31, Evcrsmann, Bull, de la Soc. Imp. des Nat. de Moscou, 

 i, p. 31, 9. T. longicornis, Hartig., I.e. 257, 32; Eversmann, I.e., 

 No. 10 ^. Blennocampa geniculata, Thomson, Opusc. Ent., 282, 11; 

 Hymen. Scand., i, 218, 21. Monojjhadnus geniculatus, Ivaltcnbach, 

 Pflanzenfeinde, pp. 237, 241, and 242 (larva). Common. 



17. Micans, King. Not common. One sj^ecimen taken by Dr. 

 Sharp at Dairy, and two by Mr. Joseph Chappell of Manchester. 

 As this species is very little known, and has only been described by 

 Klug and Hartig, I give a more detailed description of it here. 



(J black, ahnost shining, head, sides of abdomen, and legs tliickly covered with 

 long, closely pressed hairs. Knees and anterior tibiae pale testaceous. Antennae a 

 little longer than head and thorax, stout, thickly and closely covered with a stiff 

 black pile ; the basal joints distinctly separated from each other, the apical more 

 closely pressed together, the third joint a quarter longer than fourth, the fourth a 

 little longer than 5th, the ninth bluntly conical ; the antennal furrow very large, 

 deep, somewhat projecting ; frontal sutures distinct, apex of clypeus and labrum 

 truncated ; cenehri large, pale white ; blotch distinct ; sheath of saw a very little 

 projecting. Wings pale smoky, costa and stigma dark fuscous, first recurrent nervure 

 received in the middle of second sub-marginal cellule ; second sub-marginal nervure 

 slopes sharply towards the base of wing, the third slightly towards the apex. Head 

 thick, as broad as mesothorax. 



Length 21 — 3 lines. 



Micans is closely allied to nigrita, but is smaller, the wings are 

 clearer, and not much darker at the base than at the apex ; there is no 

 horny point in the second sub-marginal cellule ; the first sub-marginal 

 nervure is more distinct ; the frontal and antennal sutures are deeper 

 and more distinct ; the head, legs, and sides of abdomen more densely 

 pilose, and generally the body is more shining. 



In the (J the antenna? are much shorter than in nigrita, the joints 

 are more distinctly separated and not so flattened, the third joint is 



