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42. AjKintcles alhipennis, Nees, 



Microgaster alhiiwnnis, Nees, Mon., i., 186, <? ? ; 

 Eatz., Ichn. d. Forst., ii., 52, ? (not of Hal.). 



M. lactcipennis, Hal., Ent. Mag., ii., 244, <? (not lacti- 

 pennis, Eatz.). 



Apantdes alhipennis, Eeinh., Berl. ent. Zeit., 1881, 

 p. 43, c? 2 . 



Deep black ; legs coloiu'ed as in the last species. Wings mUky- 

 white, costa and stigma black, the latter usually with a pale dot 

 at the inner angle. Mesothorax shining, minutely punctulate ; 

 scutellum smooth ui the middle, punctulate at the sides ; meta- 

 thorax shining, slightly punctulate. Segment 1 hardly longer than 

 broad, shining at the base, subrugi;lose and with a few punctm'es 

 towards the broadly truncate apex ; 2 not a quarter as long as 3, 

 and, like the rest, smooth and shining. Terebra a little shorter 

 than the abdomen; valves siibclavate. Valvula ventralis not 

 reaching the anus. ^ J . Length 1^ ; wmgs 4 lin. 



Distinguishable from the other white-winged species 

 by greater size and longer terebra, as also by the tes- 

 taceous dot usually seen at the base of the stigma. In 

 the hind wings the apex of the subcostal nervure is 

 distinctly fuscous. 



Eather common. Bred by Bignell, June 22nd, from 

 Liop)tihis microdactylvs, Hub., emerging after the victim- 

 larva has taken up its winter-quarters in the stem of 

 Eupatorivm cannahimim. Kaltenbach reared from the 

 same plume-moth an Apanteles identified by him with 

 Microgaster Icevigator, Eatz. = hojMtes, Eatz. Although 

 hoplites, Eatz., is sufficiently distinct from edhipennis, 

 Nees, there is nothing to show this in Eatzeburg's 

 description; and hence it maybe surmised with great 

 probability that Kaltenbach's insect belongs to the 

 present species. Obtained by Elisha, July 31st, from 

 Lita tricolorella, Haw., one male, five females; a female 

 from Conchylis Franeillana, Fab. ; five males, seven 

 females from Eiipo'eilia cilieUa, Hiib. ; one male, two 

 females from Douglasia ocnerostoviella, Staint., July 

 6th ; and three males from Catoptria cemulana, Schl., 

 August 16th. Brischke bred it probably from Ergatis 

 Brizclla, Tr. Three males were taken by me at Barn- 

 staple, and another at Niton, Isle of Wight. Eein- 

 hard mentions the existence, in Mayr's collection at 

 Vienna, of a series of this species bred from galls of 



