334 HRl'lIsn iriiNErMONS. \ Misochonis 



Similar and allied to M. anomalus, but with at most apical inargiii of 

 second segment, the sternum and more convex face testaceous, the eyes 

 small, cheeks elongate and both buccate and striolate, and the hind tibiae 

 whitish with their apices hardly infuscate. 



France, Sweden, etc. With us it would appear rare; Ilaliday took I\[. 

 Tipularius'xw larch plantations in Galway (Curtis, 13.1*1. 404.) and Bignell 

 once bred the present species in Devon on 20th June from Jodis laclcaria 

 through an Apanlflcs cocoon (Devon List </ Kntom. 1X83, p. ()7). In 

 September, 1906, Roebuck sent me a bundle of A. spin i us cocoons from 

 Liversedge in Yorks, from which emerged both sexes of this hyperpara- 

 site; and in November, 1899, I found a female had emerged from Lipaiis 

 aurifliia, through Microgaslcr connexus, sent by Prideaux, prt)bably from 

 Reigate in Surrey, 



25. facialis, Bridg. 



Mesochonts facialis, Bridg. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1884, p. 431 ; Thorns. Ann. Soc. 

 Ent. Fr. 1885, p. 343, j ? . 



A rufescent-testaceous species with s])arse black-markings; tlir hind 

 tibiae shortly black-lined basally, and their apical third bhick. Head 

 posteriorly constricted and in 9 discally piceous ; face transverse and 

 apically aciculate on either side ; mandibular teeth of equal length. An- 

 tennae mainly piceous. Thorax glabrous and nitidulous ; of 9 discally 

 piceous with sternum and the smooth mesopleurae also infuscate, ol (^ 

 with lateral piceous mesonotal vittae ; metathorax with complete upper 

 areae, and in J' basally nigrescent. Abdomen glabrous and nitidulous, 

 black with the anus, a large central spot on second and third segments, 

 and sometimes base of the first, testaceous ; sides of basal segment 

 hardly margined, second longer than broad ; third segment slightly 

 broader than long, and terebra not quite as long as basal segment. Legs 

 of normal length, testaceous with extreme base and apex of hind tibiae 

 darker ; their tarsi pale, apically infuscate. Stigma piceous and tegulae 

 whitish ; areolet broad, emitting recurrent nervure far before its centre, 

 radius apically curved ; lower basal nervure a little postfurcal, Length, 

 4-5 mm. 



The $ differs from the (^ only in having the thorax and disc of head 

 darker, with sternum and mesopleurae infuscate. 



Thomson says this species is similar to his Swedish Jf. (U-inniiioIiis, 

 which differs from i\I. anomahis in its shorter cheeks and colouratic:)n of 

 second segment and apically not obtuse ^ styls, in having the second 

 segment triangularly flavescent to its centre, but with the areolet broad 

 and transverse, emitting the recurrent nervure far before its centre, the 

 paler body and hind tibial colouration. 



Not yet bred on the Continent and only recognised from Denmark, 

 Sweden and Germany. In Devonshire it has been thrice raised during 

 June by Bignell from Eiichclia Jacobacac through ApanlcJcs papillaris, 

 whence the type emerged in 1884 (BignclTs List; quoted by Marsh. 

 Bracon. d'Europ. i. 476); three, bred on i9lh July, 1883, he has given 

 me; and I possess others from Capron's Surrey collection, and two Itred 

 by South on 24th July, 1902, from Liparis similis at Otford in Kent. 



