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46. Apanteles exilis, Hal. 



Micror/aster exilis, Hal., Ent. Mag., ii., 247, ? . 



Apanteles exilis, Keinh., Borl. ent. Zeit., 1881, p. 44, 

 ^ ? . 



Black ; belly pitch}- at the base ; apex of the palpi pale ; fore 

 femora except at the base, uiiddle femora at the apex, fore tibiae, 

 and 4 posterior tibiae at the base, testaceous. Wings snbhyaline, 

 stigma dull testaceous. Thorax shining, pimctulate. Segment 1 

 elongate, more than twice longer than broad, with parallel sides, 

 broadly rounded behind, punctulate ; 2 short, with two lateral 

 oblique channels, smooth and shining hke the rest of the segments. 

 Terebra shorter than ^ the abdomen ; valves linear, straight. $ 5 . 

 Length, 1^ ; wings, 2f lin. 



Differs from all the preceding in the linear and narrow 

 shape of the 1st abdominal segment, which is not, how- 

 ever, attenuated posteriorly, as in the IVth Section. 

 Brischke says " bred from a Tortrix; cocoons gregarious, 

 white, woolly." 



One (? was taken by me in Birch Wood. 



47. Apanteles gagates, Nees. 

 Microgaster gagates, Nees, Mon., i., 183, ? ; Wesm., 



Nouv. Mem. Ac. Brux., 1837, p. 57, ? . 

 Apanteles gagates, Reinh., Berl. ent. Zeit., 1881, p. 45, 



Deep black ; fore femora at the apex, fore tibiae at the base or 

 along the inside, and somethnes middle tibiae at the base, testaceous. 

 Wings fuscous, with a pale streak imder the black stigma, nervm-es 

 fuscous, distinct. Mesothorax and scutellum smooth, shining ; 

 metathorax the same, with a few scattered punctures, and sub- 

 rugulose in the middle. Segment 1 of the ^ a little longer than 

 broad, of the J quadrate, truncate, margined, rugulose at the apex ; 

 2 much shorter than 3, and, with the others, smooth and shining. 

 Body thinly clothed with short black hairs. Terebra a httle shorter 

 than the abdomen, with compressed subclavate valves, deciu'ved at 

 the apex, hahy. Valvula ventralis not surpassing the anus. ^ J . 

 Length, 1| ; wings, 3f Im. 



This fine species was first discovered to be British by 

 Bignell, who took several of both sexes near Plymouth, 

 Aug. 21st, 1884; and on Aug. 29th— 30th I captured 

 three males by sweeping a hedge at Nunton, near 

 Salisbury. According to Eeinhard it has been bred from 

 Mimcseoptilus hipunetidaetglas, Haw. ; and also from 

 flowers of the scabious, 



