286 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



tubercles, an irregular mark dilated on the top, at the apex, down the 

 basal half of the mesopleurae, and the metanotum broadly laterally. 

 Legs coloured like the body, but with the four anterior femora and 

 tibiae largely yellow, and the hinder tibiae blackish behind. Wings 

 hyaline, the costa and stigma dark, the nervures of a lighter fuscous 

 colour. Antennae black, the flagellum fuscous, the scape lined with 

 yellow below. ? . Length, 7 mm. 



Kuching, Borneo (John Hewitt, B.A.). 



Smooth, shining, the labrum strongly, the mesopleurae less strongly 

 punctured; the apical abdominal segments roughened. Except on 

 the apical abdominal segments, on which it is shorter, closer, and 

 black, the pubescence is white. 



NOTES ON BEITISH BEACONID^.— VIL 

 By Claude Morley, F.E.S., &c. 



EUPHORID^. 



As I stated in my last paper (Entom. 1908, p. 125), this 

 family is distinguished from the Meteoridse, there treated of, 

 solely by its lack of a dividing nervure between the second and 

 third cubital cells ; but, in my opinion, this is but a poor 

 character, since all the subcubital cells are often obsolete or 

 entirely wanting in many of the smaller and more weakly deve- 

 loped species of the present family; and, in the genus Perilitus, 

 we get the first cubital and discoidal cells confluent, as well as a 

 partially wanting radial nervure, which indicate how inconclusive 

 must be characters drawn from pellucid or interstitial neuration 

 in this group. A very few species of the Euphoridae are extremely 

 abundant with us in the spring, but the great majority are of 

 rare occurrence, and I have met with but a very limited number 

 during the past fifteen years, a neglect for which the small size 

 of so many is doubtless responsible. Most, probably all, of them 

 are coleopterous parasites, two have been bred from Orchesia 

 minor, Walk., and species of Timarcha ; and there is a great field 

 open here for the Coleopterist, who takes the trouble to breed his 

 Phytophaga, to prove their association with these pretty little 

 Braconids. 



We have all the European genera but the curious Cosmo- 

 phorus, Ratz. : — 



(4) 1. Antennae curiously modified. 



(3) 2. First cubital cell discreted from first dis- 

 coidal EUSTALOCERUS. 



(2) 3. First cubital cell confluent with first; dis- 

 coidal . . . . ... . Streblocera. 



(1) 4. Antennae normal. 



