174 Rev. T. A. Marshall's monograph of 



of Nees it does not agree, because it is larger than 

 glomeratus, L., the 1st segment is not canaliciilated in 

 the middle, and the wings are not pure hyaline. 



Described from 14 specimens bred by Bignell : six 

 females from Abraxas grossulariata, L., and the rest 

 from unrecorded larvae, seven being males. Gregarious. 

 Cocoons pale lemon-colour, almost white, irregularly 

 clustered, naked, connected merely by a few threads. 



12. Apanteles rubripes, Hal. 



Microgaster rubripes, Hal., Ent. Mag., ii., 253, ? . 



Apanteles rubripes, Eeinh., Berl. ent. Zeit., 1880, 

 p. 370, <? ? . 



.^ Microgaster gastropachce, Bouche, Naturg. (1834), 

 157; Eatz., Mm. d. Forst., i., 72. 



Black, with pale palpi ; belly at the base, and legs, rufo-testaceous ; 

 squamulae rnfo-fiiscous ; coxse black ; hind femora often with a 

 fuscous apical sf)ot, and hind tibiae tipped with fiiscous. Segments 

 1 — 2 narrowly edged with testaceous at the sides. Wings hyaline, 

 stigma fuscous. Mesothorax and pleurae thickly punctulate, shining, 

 pubescent ; scutellum smoother ; metathorax rugulose. Segment 1 

 subquadi-ate, truncate, rugulose ; 2 rugulose, shorter than 3, cari- 

 nated at the base ; the rest smooth and shining ; segment 3 with 

 some scattered piuictiures. Hind coxse above shining, punctulate. 

 Inner spiu- of the hind tibiae longer than \ the metatarsus. Terebra 

 very short. S ? • Length, 1^ ; wings, 3f lin. 



Antennae beneath more or less piceous. The synonym 

 gastropachce, Bouche, adduced by Eeinhard, is not free 

 from difficulties. Bouche speaks of a subtriangular 

 enclosed space upon segment 2, and Eatzeburg insists 

 specially upon the colour of the coxae, which he says are 

 not black, but brown. The foreign specimens moreover 

 were bred from Bombyces, which is not the case in 

 England. The size mentioned by Eeinhard, 2*8 mill. 

 (= If lin.), is rather less than that of British examples. 

 Beared on the Continent from Bembecia lii/keiformis, 

 Lasp., Bombijx neustria, L., Geometra p)apilionaria, L., 

 Abraxas grossulariata, L., Cymatophora or, Fab., &c. 

 Some confusion of species may here be suspected. 



Closely resembling Umbatus, No. 11, but apparently 

 distinct. It is somewhat larger ; the wings are more 

 hyaline, segment 1 is more quadrate, and its margins 

 less broadly testaceous ; the cocoons are more obviously 

 different. 



