British Braconidce. 143 



2. Ascogaster annularis, Nees. 



Chelonus annularis, Nees, Mon., i., 286, ^ . 



Ascogaster annularis, Eeinli., Berl. ent. Zeit, 1867, 

 p. 369, c? $ . 



Black ; mandibles, palpi, antennae at the base beneath, and legs, 

 rufo -testaceous ; posterior, or only hind, coxae, sometimes hind 

 femora above, and hind tibiae, fuscous, these last with a white ring 

 in the middle ; hind tarsi fuscous ; trochanters rufo-testaceous. 

 Abdomen with or without two lateral basal testaceous spots, which 

 are sometimes confluent on the disk. Head and thorax thickly 

 and finely punctulato-rugulose ; scutellum smooth ; metathorax 

 and abdomen reticulato-rugulose, the former with two or three 

 irregular cariuie. Clypeus hardly discrete, rounded at the apex. 

 Mesothoracic sutures obsolete. Mesopleurae punctulate. Meta- 

 thorax edentate. <? J . Length, 1^ — 14 ; wings, 2i — 3 liu. 



Antennae $ filiform, 23 — 25-jointed ; ? distinctly shorter than 

 the body, incrassated before the apex, 21-jointed. The species 

 may be known by its small size, fine sculpture, and the colour of 

 the hind tibiae. 



Described from three males and one female. A male 

 was bred by Bignell from old furze-sticks containing 

 larvae of Q^cophora lamhdella, Donov. The others I cap- 

 tured somewhere in the London district. Hellins took a 

 male at Weston-super-Mare. Bred by Von Heyden from 

 one of the Colcophoridce, according to Eeinhard ; by 

 De Graaf from Xysmatodoma indanclla. Haw., according 

 to Vollenhoven, and by Warren from the same on 

 June 18th. 



3. Ascogaster rufipcs, Latr. 



Sigalphus rufipes, Latr., Gen. Crust, et Ins., iv., 14 3 ■ 

 Chelonus rujipes, Nees, Mon., i., 283 ; Eatz., Iclm. d. 



Forst., ii., 24, 3 ? . 

 Ascogaster rufipes, Eeinh., Berl. ent. Zeit., 1867, 

 p. 365 ; Thoms., Opusc. Ent., vi., 1874, p. 583, 

 3 ? . 

 A. hidentulus, Wesm., Nouv. Mem. Ac. Brux., 1835, 



p. 230, ? . 

 Chelonus multiarticulatus, Eatz., Ichn. d. Forst., iii., 25. 

 C. pallipes, Schaff., F. G., cliv. 



Black ; 3 with the antennte beneath, mouth, and legs, rufo- 

 testaceous ; hind coxae at the base, hind tibiae at the apex, and 

 their tarsi, fuscous, these last whitish at the base ; trochanters 



