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and Taschenberg says it is a parasite of B. finmarius, 

 Sch. Fitch reared a ? on Sept. 8tb from wheat-refuse 

 infested with weevils {Calandra) ; and Billups another 

 on May 23rd. Brischke has bred it from the cases of 

 Tinea pellionella, L. 



ii. HoRMius, Nees. 



Nees, Act. Ac. L. C. 1818, p. 305 ; Mon., i., 152 ; HaL, 



Ent. Mag., iv., 52. 

 Antennge much longer than the head and thorax, more than 12- 

 jointed; abdomen more oblong than in Chremylus ; segment 1 

 formed as m Bracon, with an oblong medial scutum and mem- 

 branaceous margins ; suturiform articulation superficial ; segment 

 2 twice as long as 3, with two longitudinal impressions near the 

 sides, arcuate, and approximating towards the base; hind margins 

 of the segments somewhat elevated ; segments 4—6 equal, 7—8 

 minute ; radius originating beyond the middle of the stigma ; 2d 

 cubital areolet with its inner hinder angle much produced, this 

 angle receives the evected recurrent nervure ; pobrachial areolet of 

 the hind wings as in Chremylus. 



1. Hormius mojiiUatus, Nees. (PL III., fig. 3). 



Hormius moniliatus, Nees, Mon., i., 153, ? ; Hal., 

 Ent. Mag., iv., 52, <? ? ; Wesm., Nouv. Mem. Ac. 

 Brux., 1838, p. 67, pL, f. 6 (wing), ? ; S. v. Veil., 

 Schets., ii., tab. 5. 



H. piciventris, Wesm., lib. cit., p. 68, 3 ? • 



Metathorax and scutum of the 1st abdominal segment black, the 

 rest of the body variable in colour, black, red, or testaceous ; 

 antenna 3^ longer, of the ? rather shorter, than the body ; wmgs 

 yellowish hyaline, often with an indeterminate dusky medial 

 stripe from the base to the apex ; stigma generally yellow ; terebra 

 $ exserted, short. Length, 1—1^ ; wings, 2— 2^ Unes. 



Variable in colour, in the length, and number of joints, of the 

 antenna, and in the rugosity of the 1st segment, which is graduated 

 in different specimens until finally it appears almost smooth. I 

 am unable to find any real difference between Wesmael's piciventris 

 and the radical species, and they are here united, in accordance 

 with the opinion of Hahday. The abdomen in British examples 

 is testaceous, more or less pitchy, and with the lateral margms 

 darker; the legs are testaceous, with more or less mfuscated 

 femora, the tips of the tarsi hardly darker. 



