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the 2d suture more or less obsolete ; segments 1 — 3 (or 1 — 2, and 3 

 at the sides more or less) finely rimulose ; terebra as long as the 

 body. Length, \ — 1 ; wings, 2 — 2i lin. 



The 2d suture is often indistinguishable, which, with the rufous 

 legs, may assist in separating this from the four preceding species. 

 Palpi testaceous. Legs sometimes with a narrow fuscous streak 

 on the femora, or the hind tibiiE tipped with fuscous ; coxae black. 

 It resembles sp. 6 in habit, but luteij^es is larger, with three 

 segments distinct, and a shorter terebra. 



An abundant insect in England, according to Curtis. 

 A ? was taken from a cell of Bruchus (jranarius, L., in 

 Eussian beans. Subsequently be detected numbers in 

 tbe long-pod beans from bis own garden. It is also a 

 parasite of Orcliestes semirufus, GylL, which mines in 

 birch-leaves ; reared by Nordlinger at Grand Jouan. 

 Brischke obtained both sexes at the beginning of June 

 from Orcliestes fagi, L., feeding on the beech. 



6. Sigalphiis liUeipes, Thorns. 



? Sigalphus aciculatus, Eatz., Ichn. d. Forst., ii., 26; 

 iii., 26, (? ? , pi. ii., f. 2 (wing and abdomen). 



S. liiteipes, Thoms., Opusc. Ent., vi., 1874, p. 561. 



The largest British species. Black, with rufous palpi and legs ; 

 antennae ^ 25 — 26-, ? 23— 26-jointed; abdomen ovate, very con- 

 vex, not dilated behind ; carapace tripartite, segments 1 — 2 rimu- 

 lose, 3 punctulate, hardly shining, sometimes rimulose at the sides ; 

 radius subsinuated ; terebra somewhat longer than the abdomen. 

 Length, 1+; wings, S^lin. 



This is most likely to be Thomson's species, though 

 his description is too short. That of Eatzeburg applies 

 very well, but, as the length of the terebra does not 

 correspond, I have left a query before the name. The 

 following is a summary of his description : — " Terebra 

 ^ the length of the abdomen. Segments 1 — 2 entirely 

 rimulose, as well as the base and sides of the 3d, which 

 is nevertheless shining. Antennae <? 25-jointed. Ee- 

 current nervure ending 2|- times its own breadth before 

 the end of the 1st cubital areolet. Stigma and squamulae 

 fuscous. AntenntB black. Tarsi obscure ; in the ? 

 brownish. Legs reddish ; coxae, trochanters, femora at 

 the base and on the upper edge, and hind tibiae at the 

 apex, black. Metathorax with a carina bifurcated before 

 the middle smooth before the bifurcation, afterwards 

 rugulose." In another place (iii., 26) he notices a <? 



