118 Mr. P. Cameron on some 



size of the thorax, comparatively lai'ge. Abdomen with 

 a shght hair fi-inge on the base of the second segment. 

 Wings with the radial cellule small, a very little longer 

 than broad ; the margin of the wings with a long hair 

 fringe. In the general form of the antennae (except, 

 perhaps, that the joints are broader and more rounded), 

 head and scutellum, and in the neuration of the wings, 

 Cliarips agrees with Sarothrus. 



Black, smooth, shining, antennas pale testaceous, the 

 basal joint black, the apical joints sometimes pale fuscous. 

 Legs pale testaceous, the coxte, the femora and tibiae in 

 the middle obscure fuscous, the abdominal hair fringe 

 dark fuscous. ■ The alar nervures pale testaceous. 



Length a little over a ^ of a line ; alar. exp. 1 line. 



CHALCIDID^E. 

 Megastigmus pictus. 



Torymus pictiis, Foerstcr, Beitr. z. Mon. d. Pter. 



p. 31. 

 3Iegastigmus strohilobius, Ratz., Ichn. d. Forstins. ii. 



p. 182. 

 Megas. pictus, Mayr, Yerh. z. b. Ges. Wien. xxiv. 



138. 



This rare species is British. I have examined two 

 specimens — one taken by the Bev. T. A. Marshall, in 

 England, and another captured near Diimft-ies by myself. 

 According to Batzburg, it lives in pine cones, probably 

 as a parasite of Tortrix strohilana. It appears to be 

 rather an uncommon insect, for Mayr had only seen three 

 specimens. 



The other British species of this genus known to me 

 are — M. stigmaticans, Fab. = giganteus, ^Falk., which is 

 a parasite of Cgnips Kollari. 



M. dorsalis, Fab. = Bohemonni, Ratz. = xanthopygiis, 

 Foer., a common and very variable species, in many oak 

 galls. 



BI. aculeatiis, Svederus (^sec. Thoms.) = collaris, Boh. 

 z=.transversus, Walk. = punctiun, Foer. = vexilluin, Batz. 

 This is a parasite of Trypeta continua, Meig., a dweller 

 in the berries of the rose. 



