y^J [March, 



basal third thickened and hairy ; palpi long and clavate, with the bases piceous and 

 apices yellow ; cheeks bare ; vibrissse few in number ; facialia quite nude ; thorax 

 grey, with three wide black stripes, the middle one trifid in front of the transverse 

 groove, the lateral ones interrupted ; external dorso-central bristles four in number 

 behind the groove ; scutellum grey, with a fugitive black central spot ; abdomen 

 oblong-ovate, convex, gi*ey, tessellated with black and white patches, which assume 

 the form of irregular, black, semilunar spots on the margins of the segments when 

 viewed from behind ; ventral surface dark brown, glistening with white reflections ; 

 wings clear, with apical cross veins deeply curved, and outer ones slightly sinuous ; 

 a slioi't cubital appendix ; legs black, hind tibiae thinly and irregularly armed with 

 setae. This species is rather anomalous, it might be placed in the genus Macronychia, 

 but differs from the characters assigned to that genus in having the third joint of 

 the antennse much wider instead of narrower than the second, by the abdomen being 

 convex instead of rather flattened, and by the claws and pulvilli being small instead 

 of large. Herr von Ernst Grirschner has described* a Macronychia Jiavipalpis 

 which somewhat resembles this species, but it has clouded veins to wings and very 

 sinuous outer cross veins. 



I do not know the male, the only specimen which I have seen was given me by 

 Mr. Bridgman, and was bred from Smerinthiis populi by Mr. F. Norgate. 



24.— MILTOGRAMMA, Mgn. 

 Sphixapata, p. Rnd. 

 Gen. ch. — Head large, somewhat swollen and vesicular ; eyes 

 nude ; vibrissse very small ; antennae short and narrow, inserted in a 

 deep facial groove, third joint about twice the length of the second ; 

 arista short, nude or subpubescent ; frontalia wide, with broad central 

 stripe ; fronto-orbital bristles short and weak, extending to root of 

 antennae ; cheeks bare ; facialia thickened, swollen, and pubescent ; 

 thorax and abdomen covered with fine hairs, but having few bristles. 

 The species are parasitic upon Hymenoptera, and they chiefly inhabit 

 the south of Europe. 



1 (2) Vibrissee all short and small, and abdominal setae few and weak... 



1. punctata, Mgn. 



2 (1) Vibrissas with two setae longer than the others, and with abdominal bristles 



moderately developed Sphixapata, End.... 2. conica, Fin. 



M. PUNCTATA, Mgn. 



Yellowish-grey ; face silvery-white, with rufous reflections ; frontal stripe red- 

 dish-yellow and very wide ; antennae black-brown, with tips of second joint ferru- 

 ginous ; palpi yellow ; vibrissae very small ; thorax with four or five black stripes in 

 front, and three behind, the transverse groove ; scutellum yellowish-brown ; abdomen 

 with three black spots on the second, third, and fourth segments ; wings clear ; legs 

 black, fore tarsi of the males with long claws and hairs. Not common. This species 



Entomol. Nachrichten, October, 1881. 



