British BraconidcB. 195 



34. Apanteles dilectus, Hal. 



Microgaster dilectus, Hal., Ent. Mag., ii., 246; Apanteles 

 dilectus, Eeinh., Berl. ent. Zeit., 1881, p. 38, 2 . 



Black ; palpi testaceous, fuscous at the base ; mandibles rufous ; 

 antennae at the base beneath, belly, and legs, rufo-testaceous ; coxae 

 and tips of the hind tibiae black ; or the 4 posterior femora lineated 

 with black above and beneath. Wings hvaUne, stigma fuscous, 

 pale testaceous at the mner angle ; ner\Tires also pale ; squamulae 

 black. Antennae $ stout to the apex, only the last joint acuminated. 

 Mesothorax thickly and minutely pimctiTlate, almost granulated, 

 hardly shining ; scutellum the same, smooth in the middle ; meso- 

 pleurae smooth and shining. Metathorax dull, gi-anulated. Seg- 

 ment 1 half as long again as its breadth, with paraUel sides, truncate 

 at the apex, rugulose ; 2 half as long as 3, granulated or coriaceous, 

 with two lateral channels curving inwards near the base ; sutm-iform 

 articulation cm'ved; the other segments subcoriaceous, hardly 

 shining. Terebra -j the abdomen, or a Uttle longer, the valves 

 somewhat decm'ved. Valvula ventrahs acuminated, not sm-passing 

 the anus. J . Length, 1:^ ; wings, 3^ lin. 



The 4 posterior femora are subject to be more or less 

 black; and the middle tibiae may be tipped with fuscous. 

 Smaller than decorus, Hal., and distinguished by its 

 bicolorous stigma and shorter terebra. 



Bignell has bred three females singly from Gracilaria 

 syriufiella. Fab. According to Eeinhard, it has also been 

 obtained on the Continent from a Tortrix feeding on 

 Syringa vulgaris. Kriechbaumer reared it from a Coleo- 

 pliora, and Brischke considers himself to have bred it 

 from a very different victim, Leucoma salicis, L. 



35. Apanteles xanthostigmus, Hal. 



Microgaster xanthostigma, Hal., Ent. Mag., ii., 244, <? ; 

 Aimnteles xanthostigma, Eeinh., Berl. ent. Zeit., 

 1881, p. 40, <? ? . 

 M. ochrostigma, Wesm., Nouv. Mem. Ac. Brux., 1837. 



p. 65, ^ ? ; Eatz., Ichn. d. Forst., iii., 53. 

 Black ; palpi pale, fuscous at the base ; tibiae at the base, fore 

 tibite enthely, testaceous. Wings whitish, stigma yellowish or 

 whitish mth a fuscoiis border, costa and base of the radius testa- 

 ceous, the other ner\aires decolorous. Mesothorax and scutellimi 

 minutely punctulate, almost smooth, shining; metathorax sub- 

 granulate, with a medial, depressed, margined area, which is often 



