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Table of Species. 



(4) 1. Abclomen above centrally more or less rufous. 

 (3) 2. Wings pale at base, somewhat dark at apex. 



vialvacearion, Nees. 

 (2) 3. Wings much darker, with a whitish streak 



beneath the stigma ..... nigra, var. 



(1) 4. Abdomen entirely black. 



(8) 5. Hind tibiae with at most a faint trace of a 



dusky ring before base, terebra longer than 



body. 

 (7) 6. Palpi rufous, only basally blackish. . rufipalpis, Nees. 

 (6) 7. Palpi entirely blackish nigra, Nees. 



(5) 8. Hind tibiae with a distinct dark ring before 



base, terebra shorter than body. 

 (10) 9. Second cubital cell irregular, usually sub-tri- 

 angular, terebra as long as abdomen and 

 metathorax or thereabouts . . . anglica, Marsh. 



(9) 10. Second cubital cell quadrangular, terebra 



almost as long as abdomen. . . crevisetis, Nees. 



Agatliis malvacearum, Nees.* 



A single male in the Dale Collection is so named ; it has the 

 second ab<iominal segment rufous excej^ting at apex, but the 

 first is piceous, antennse 22-jointed ; length 4^ mm. To me the 

 specimen appears to approach very nearly to Marshall's rufous 

 var. of A. nigra described by him in Andre, ' Spec. Hym. Eur.,' 

 vol. iv, p. 565. In this work Marshall tells us that A. malvacearum 

 is found only in Central and Southern Europe, though in ' Trans. 

 Entom. Soc.,' 1885, p. 264, he states that Stephens professed to 

 have taken it in the London district. Westwood informed 

 Marshall that a male and two females were in Walker's Collec- 

 tion at Oxford; these three specimens I have been allowed to 

 examine through the kindness of Prof. Paulton, and find they 

 may all be undoubtedly referred to the genus Meteorus. 



Morley records it as taken by Donnisthorpe in abundance at 

 Eye, in August. 



Agathis nigra, Nees.t 



A rather stout, dusky-winged species with the terebra as long 

 as body and head combined ; antenna 22-24-jointed. Nees 

 describes the femora as " basi parim nigra,'' but in all the 

 examples I have seen the hind and middle femora are con- 

 colorous, as in Marshall's specimens. 



Harwood has a male labelled " Higham, 27/7/85," and in 

 Dale's Collection are two females and seven males ; two of these 

 have the second abdominal segment at the base decidedly dull 



* ' Mon.,' vol. i,p. 137. 

 t Idem, vol. i, p. 128. 



