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" I found a most interesting lot of these little apterous 

 or subapterous Bracons : — 



Dimeris (iptcra, Kutlie MS. Seven females taken 3rd 

 March, 22nd — 26th September, 28th December, 1854 ; 

 antenna 16-iointed. 



D. inira, Ruthe. Twelve females and one male taken 

 30th October, 28tli December, 1854, 2nd September, 

 1855 ; antennfe <? 20-jointed, ? 16-jointed. 



An Dimeris sp. ? One male taken 6th June, 1858; base 

 of abdomen yellow, antennae 18-jointed. 



Arrhaphis duhia, Ruthe MS. (an Dimeris <? ? ?). Three 

 males taken 16th September, 1855, 4th June, 1856, 

 28th July, 1856 ; antennfe 18— 24-jointed. 



Dimeris incrmis, Rutho MS. Two males, three females 

 taken 26th October, 1854, 3rd January, 16th September, 

 1855, 15th August, 1856. 



Arrhaphis tricolor, Ruthe. Two males, black, with 

 black 23-jointed antennae, winged ; three females, ful- 

 vous, with long tricoloured, ]9 — 20-jointed, antenna?, 

 black in the middle, pale at the apex, apterous ; taken 

 23rd— 26th October, 1852, 22nd October, 1856 ( ? ), 29th 

 June, 1858 (a^). Bred from various species of Crypto- 

 cephcdus (Stett. Zeit., xx., 103 ; 1859). 



A. imminens, Ruthe MS. Two males, black with 

 much shorter antenuEe, taken 7th July, 1854, 24th July, 

 1856. 



Tcrenusa silesiaca, Ratz. {Bracon siksiacus, Ratz., 

 Ichn. d. Forst., ii., 80. Ecphiflus silesiacus, Forst., 

 Verb. pr. Rheinl., 1862, p. 237 ; S. v. VolL, Schets., ii., 

 tab. 6, fig. 11). Var. An n. sp. ? One male, antennae 

 18-jointed, taken 16th June, 1858 ; one female. 



Teremisa sp. ? One small male." 



i. Dimeris, Ruthe. 

 Ruthe, Stett. Zeit., 1854, p. 344 ; 1855, p. 329. 



? Pamholus, Hal., Ent. Mag., iv., 49 (1836) ; S. v. Vol!., 

 Schets., ii., tab. 6. 



Head globose, antenna; submoniliform, 16 — 20-jomtecl, the scape 

 elongate ; space between the mandibles and clypeus ample, semi- 

 ch-cular; maxillary palpi 5-jointed, 2d joint elongate, 3 — 5 not so 

 stout, snbeqnal ; metathorax bidenticulate ; abdomen subbiarticu- 

 late, sessile ; segment 1 semicircular., divided from the 2d by a deep 

 suture ; suturiform articulation effaced ; ^ with 2 cubital areolets ; 



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