66 Rev. T. A. Marshall's monograph of 



podiscoidal areolet complete ; anal nervure interstitial ; J apterous, 

 terebra exsertecl. 



According to Haliday {lib. cit., p. 50) Pambolus ^ has 

 the antennee 23-jointed, the joints of the flagellum 

 cylindrical ; the 3d joint of the maxillary palpi about 

 equal to the two preceding; the scutellum bounded at 

 the base by a double crenate fovea, &c. ; and the whole 

 description exhibits discrepancies which forbid the identi- 

 fication of the genus with Dimeris. 



1. Dimeris mira, Ruthe. (PL 11. , fig. 5). 



Dimeris mira, Ruthe, Stett. Zeit., 1854, p. 345 ; 1855, 



p. 329. 

 Pambolus melanocephalus, Marsh., E. M. M., vi., 



228, ? . 

 Paraptesis flavipcs, Magretti, Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital., 



xvi., 1884, p. 101 ? , tav. ii., f. 2. 



Blackish brown, very thickly and finely tuberculated, beset with 

 short adpressed hairs ; nietathorax bispinose ; 1st abdominal seg- 

 ment aciculated ; legs, and basal half of the antennae rufescent ; 

 terebra slender, \ of the abdomen in length ; the latter obtusely 

 rounded at the apex ; apterous. 5 . Length, 1 — 1;^ hnes. 



Var. Thorax and base of the abdomen rufescent. 



I have never seen a S- , and Ruthe's brief description 

 supplies no more than is given above. The ? specimen 

 I possess belongs to the var. ; it was given to me some 

 years ago at Cheltenham, but of the circumstances of 

 its capture I have no knowledge. Billups captured four 

 females at Headley Lane on January 28th. One ? 

 taken near Florence by Piccioli. 



VII. DORYCTIDES. 

 Head cubical ; occiput margined ; fore wings with three cubital 

 areolets ; abdomen subsessile. 



The Doryctides are distinguished from the succeeding 

 subfamilies by the cubical head ; from the Braconidcs 

 and ExotJiecides, by the margined occiput ; from the 

 Spathiides, by the subsessile abdomen ; and from the 

 Hecabolides, by the number of cubital cells. Of the 

 three British genera which Forster's classification here 

 brings together, Ilisteromerus is too abnormal to be 

 mistaken for anything else ; Coeloides and Doryctes con- 

 siderably resemble Bracon. 



