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According to Van Vollenhoven, four males and five 

 females were bred from the pupae of Noctua ditrapezium, 

 Bork. 



2. Clinocentnis umhyatilis, Hal. 



CUnocentrus umhratilis, Hal., Ent. Mag., iv., 95, ? . 



Black; face, orbits, sometimes the base of the antemiae, pro- 

 thorax, pectus, disk of the mesothorax more or less, legs with their 

 coxae, and 3d abdominal segment more or less, testaceous ; stem- 

 maticum and claws black. Wings hyaline, stigma bicolorous. 

 Segments 1 — 2 rimulose, faintly carinated in the middle, 1 almost 

 linear, 3 and following smooth, 3 slightly punctulate in the J . 

 Terebra as long as ^ the abdomen. S 2 • Length, 2f ; wings, 

 5 lines. 



Like excuhitor in sciilpture, but the abdomen is longer and 

 narrower : segment 1 hardly attenuated at the base, more than 

 twice as long as its apical width ; 1 — 2 striolated, 3 vaguely punctu- 

 late in the ? , the punctures disposed in minute irregular striolae, 

 which towards the sides divaricate transversely ; extreme lateral 

 margins rufescent ; in the ^ the 3d segment is smooth, and nearly 

 all testaceoiis, except the foi'e and hind margins. Abdomen some- 

 what nigro-fuscous ; belly testaceous. Antennae ^ 30-jointed. 

 Scutellum (in one specimen) testaceous. 



The ? , which I have not seen, was taken by Haliday 

 with excubitor and cunctator. I found one (^ at Govilon, 

 near Abergavenny, and another in the New Forest, 

 in May. 



3. CUnocentrus exsertor,Y{eeB. (PL HI., fig. 4). 



Rogas exsertor, Nees, Mon., i., 207, 2 . 



Exothecus exsertor, Wesm., Nouv. Mem. Ac. Brux., 

 1838, p. 87, 5^ ? , pi., fig.lO (wing). 



Bracon orhitator, Nees, Mon., i., 91, ? . 



Black ; mouth, orbits, mesothorax before the scutellum, 3d abdo- 

 minal segment, and legs, rufo-testaceous; hind femora (sometimes 

 also the intermediate pair) black at the apex ; segments 1 — 2 and 

 part of 3, riigulose ; stigma bicolorous ; terebra nearly as long as 

 the abdomen. <? ? . Length, li — 2 ; wings, 3| — 4^ hues. 



Variable in the extent of the testaceous markings ; orbits and 

 metathorax often wholly black ; 3d abdominal segment rufo-testa- 

 ceous only at the sides, or the abdomen is entirely black ; the 

 intermediate femora not always black at the apex. 



Antennae $ as long as the body, 31 — 36-jointed (34- in my speci- 

 men), joints 1 — 2 sometimes testaceous at the base ; metathorax 



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