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39. Apanteles ohscurus, Nees. 



Mi crog aster ohscurus, Nees, Mon. i., 182, ^ ? ; Wesm., 

 Nouv. Mem. Ac.Bi'Ux., 1837,p.68, <? ? ; Apanteles 

 ohscuriis, Eeinb., Berl. ent. Zeit., 1881, p. 41, <? ? . 



M. arenarius, Hal., Ent. Mag., ii., 246, $ ? . 



Black ; apex of palpi, and tibise ? , fernigiuous, the hiiid pak 

 fuscous at the apex ; those of the ^ are generally ferrugmous only 

 at the base. "Wings dusky hyaline, stigma fuscous, all the nervures 

 visible. Mesothorax and scutellum thickly punctulate, shining, 

 the former subtrilobate, the sutures ending before the scutellum in 

 two rugulose depressions ; ante-scutellar fovea large, crenated. 

 Metathorax rugose. Segment 1 a little longer than broad, acutely 

 margined, truncate, rugose like 2, which is not half as long 

 as 3 ; the rest smooth and shining. Terebra less than i the 

 length of the abdomen ; valves subclavate, hardly decm-ved. ^ J . 

 Length, li— 2 ; wings, 3^—41 lin. 



A robust species, often as large emfaleatiis, Nees, and 

 nrnch resembling a Microyaster, except in tbe wings. 

 According to Haliday tbe vahnla centralis ? is pale, 

 and considerably surpasses tbe anns, but tbese cbaracters 

 do not appear in tbe $ above described, nor are tbey 

 noticed by Nees and Eeinbard. Tbe antennae of tbe ^ 

 are longer tban tbe body, tbe fore tibiae sometimes 

 fuscous in tbe middle, and tbe bind tibiae more broadly 

 fuscous tban in tbe ? . 



Taken by Haliday in numbers on Salix aryentea near 

 tbe sea-sbore; I captured a $ at Niton, Isle of Wigbt. 

 Bignell bred tbe $ July 12tb, and tbe ? July 30tb, from 

 Ebulea crocealis, Hbb. A solitary parasite. Cocoons 

 silvery wbite. Giraud, doubtless erroneously, gives it as 

 a parasite of Trypeta arnicce, Meig. 



40. Apanteles viminetorum, Wesm. 

 Microqaster riminctormn, Wesm., Nouv. Mem. Ac. 



Brux., 1837, p. 50, ? . 

 Apanteles viminetorum, Eeinb., Berl. ent. Zeit., 1881, 



p. 42, ? . 

 Black ; fore tibia8 entii'ely, and the others at the base, testaceous. 

 "Wings subhyaline, stigma blackish, nervm-es fiiscous, the outer 

 decolorous. Thorax shining, punctulate. Segment 1 almost twice 

 as long as broad, somewhat narrowed posteriorly, truncate, finely 

 aciculated, the base smooth and shining ; segment 2 half as long as 



