■508 ICHXEUMONID^. 



with the metanotal areas more or less complete ; areola hexagonal, 

 apicallj^ entire, with the costulte strong. Basal abdominal seg- 

 ment apically somewhat broad, with distinct glymmal sulci ; second 

 segment witli tlie epipleuraj inflexed ; terebra slender and exserted. 

 Legs not very slender ; hind femora stout, with a strong oblique 

 ■tooth slightly beyond the centre, followed by small subcrenulatc 

 ])rocesses ; hind calcaria of unequal length ; fifth tarsal joint 

 longer and a little broader than the fourth, with the short claws 

 ])ectinate. AVings with the stigma large and broad ; areolel 

 •entirely wanting ; discoidal cell not elongate, but with its lower 

 external angle subacute ; lower wings witli the median nervure 

 not basally obsolete, nervelhis subgeniculate below its centre. 



Rawje. World-\\'ide. 



The species of this very distinct geinis are known to prey upon 

 Aarious small Tortricid and Gelechiid moths, and I once brel 

 luimbers in a room of stored apples, where tliey emerged, in all 

 probability from the codlin moth (c/. Zoologist, 1909, p. 213) 

 though not elsewhere recorded as a parasite of this species. 



TahJe of SjKcies. 



1 (!') Black; third segment aciculate viaiyi/iicoll/s, Cam. 



2 (1) Testaceous ; third segment uot at all 



aciculate . . : ". testaceus, sp. u. 



400. Pristomerus marginicoUis, Cam. 



Pristomeridla marfjinicollis, Camerou, Tijds. Ent. 190", p. 110 ( $ ). 



2 . A black species, with very variable yellowish and testaceous 

 markings. Head with the inner orbits narrowly, and tlie strongly 



though sparsely punctate clypeus, tes- 

 taceous ; face closely, regularly, and 

 somewhat strongly punctate, with 

 the epistoma circularly prominent ; 

 frons and vertex dull and alutaceous. 

 Antenna; black, witli the scape and 

 two basal flagellar joints entirely 

 testaceous. Thorax : pro- and meso- 

 thorax closely ])unctate ; prouotum 

 transversely flavidous ; " base of meta- 

 notum strongly transversely punc- 

 tured ; in the centre of the base are 

 two stout, somewhat curved inwardly 

 Fig. 149. keels ; on the apex are two longer 



Priafomerusmaiyinicollis, Cam. straight keels extending from shortly 



beyond the middle to the apex ; the 

 apical slope is bordered by a stout keel which is curved down in 

 the middle ; the slope is stoutly transversely striated, the striae 

 roundly curved " ; ])ropleurse centrally striate and impressed, with 

 n broad and parallel-sided flavidous line below ; mesopleurae 



