y8 Eev. T. A. Marshall's monograph of 



strongly contracted at the base, and less convex, black, 

 with a pale spot on the 2d segment ; the mesopleurae 

 are more finely granulated and more shining ; the wings 

 are proportionally larger ; the colours are not subject 

 to variation. The sexes are similar. 



This species has not hitherto been noticed in England. 

 It is not uncommon near Abergavenny in July, where it 

 seems to take the place of circumscriptus ; also taken at 

 Braemar, Bugbrook and Maldon. According to Eatzeburg, 

 it occurs in corn-fields and grassy places. He bred several 

 specimens from naked 16-footed {Tortrix /) larvae, the 

 name of which is not given. 



Eeinhard says that Brischke bred a female from Calo- 

 campa soUdaginis, Hub. ; Brischke gives it himself in 

 his Wirths-Tabelle from Xylophasia rurea, Fab. 



10. Rhogas circumscriptus, Nees. 



liogas circumscriptus, Nees, Mon., i., 21(3 ; Schiiff., 

 F. G., clvi ; Eeinh., Berl. ent. Zeit., 1863, p. 269, 

 <? ? ; S. V. Voll., Pinac, pi. iv., ff. 8, 9 (with 

 wing). 



Aleiodes circumscriptus, Wesm., Nouv.Mem. Ac. Brux., 

 1838, p. 106, <? ? . 



Rogas pictus, SchJiff., F. G., clvi. 



R. tcstacens, Hal., Ent. Mag., iv., 101 (nee Nees). 



Bracon circumscriptus, Eatz., Ichn. d. Forst., ii., 35 ; 

 iii., 33 (partly). 



Aleiodes nigriceps, Wesm., lib. cit., p. 109, J . 



Variable, testaceous, more or less marked with black ; abdomen 

 often black above, with an elongate medial testaceous patch, as in 

 the preceding species. Antenna? 35 — 41-jointed, testaceous, fuscous 

 at the apex. Mesopleura dull, granulated, rugose under the wings, 

 and with an obsolete rugose fovea. Abdomen of the ^ elongate, 

 segment 1 half as long again as its apical breadth, segment 2 a 

 little longer than broad ; of the $ somewhat obovate, segment 1 

 scarcely longer than its apical breadth, 2 somewhat transverse. 

 The 3d segment in both sexes is broadest, its apex, and the 

 following segments, punctulate, rather shining. Wings hyaline, 

 stigma testaceous, often with a fuscous apical sjjot ; 2d cubital 

 areolet twice as broad as its length, somewhat narrowed exteriorly, 

 longer than the podiscoitlal ; ladius of the hind wings obsolete. 

 Terebra concealed. Length, 2] — 2^ ; wings, 4 — 4:] lin. 



Antenna; as long us tlie body, with fewer joints than in anv other 



