British BraconidcB. 69 



paler towards the tips ; recurrent nervure interstitial ; 4th joint of 

 the antennae as long as the 2d and 3d together ; terebra $ as long 

 as the body. Length, 1^- 2 ; wings, 3 — 4 lin. S $ . 



Antennae <? $ about 26 — 27-jointed (Eatzeburg says 29 in 3), 

 scarcely as long as the body. Mesothoracic sntiu'es itniting in an 

 impunctate space before the scutellum. The rest of the stracture 

 resembles that of the preceding species. In the ^ the apex of the 

 abdomen is wholly testaceous, and the black colour of the upper 

 surface less intense than in the $ ; in one specimen the 2d segment 

 is entirely piceous. 



Described from five males and three females in good 

 preservation. One pair was taken on an old railing in 

 Shropshire, the others are from South Wales ; I believe 

 Chapman bred them from some x3'lophagous coleopteron, 

 probably Hylosinus (see E. M. M., v., 120). Cartereau 

 found them parasitic on Hylosinus fraxini, Fab., and 

 Nordlinger bred a 3" on July 3rd. 



ii. DoRYCTES, Hal. 



Hal., Ent. Mag., iv., 43 ; Eeinh., Berl. ent. Zeit., 

 18G5, p. 246. 



Suturiform articulation obsolete or subobsolete ; terebra exserted ; 

 recurrent nervure interstitial or rejected ; anal nervure not inter- 

 stitial ; prasbrachial areolet shorter than the pobrachial ; pobrachial 

 areolet of the hind wings longer than \ the priebrachial ; hind 

 wings 3 without a stigma ; hind coxae angularly produced in front. 



The insects of this genus have an elongate appear- 

 ance, which is due to the production of the head behind 

 the eyes, and the attenuation of the thorax in front and 

 behind. Mesothoracic sutures rugulose, ending pos- 

 teriorly in a shallow fovea before the scutellum ; middle 

 lobe of the mesothorax more or less canaliculated ; meta- 

 thorax elongate, obscurely divided into five compart- 

 ments, two larger in front, and three behind, whereof 

 the medial one penetrates to some distance between the 

 anterior. Abdomen of the $ obovate, convex ; of the 3' 

 narrower, elongate, and depressed. 



In the Ent. Mag., iv., 46, Haliday's Subgenus III. 

 Heterospilus has been a source of error and perplexity. 

 It was misplaced by the printer, and appears to belong 

 to Spp. 4, 5, 6, whereas it refers only to the footnote on 

 p. 47 (f/. p. 106, note), its type being the exotic Sp. 6b 

 H. qucestor, the 3 of which has a stigma in the hind 



