BiitisJi J)ni('o)ii(hc. 215 



to Keinhard, the cocoons of A. f rater mis are sometimes 

 more than 100 m number. Several masses of them, 

 collected by Kogenhofer, are preserved in the zoological 

 museum of Vienna. See Entom., xvi., 166. 



60. Apanteles triaufiiilator, Wesm. 



Microqaster irianqulator, Wesm., Nouv. Mem. Ac.Brux., 

 1837, p. 62,' c? ? . 



Apanteles triangidator, Eeinh., Berl. ent. Zeit., 1881, 

 p. 47, <? ? . 



Black ; palpi and legs testaceous ; coxae black ; fore femora black 

 at the base ; middle and hind femora edged with black above and 

 beneath, or the last entirely black ; tarsi and tips of the tibiae 

 fuscous. Wings hyaline, stigma and nervures fuscous ; the former 

 sometimes pale. Mesothorax very minutely punctulate, scutellum 

 smooth, both shining, as also is the metathorax. Abdomen smooth 

 and shining ; segment 1 twice as long as broad, with sides parallel 

 nearly to the apex (which is obtusely lanceolate, or rounded), smooth, 

 rimulose at the apex ; segment 2 somewhat shorter than 3, much 

 broader than 1, with two impressed lines curving forwards and 

 enclosing a smooth sub triangular space. Terebra very short. 

 $ ? . Length, 1:^ ; wings, 3^ lin. 



I captured one S- near Abergavenny, and a ? is in 

 the collection of Billups. Giraud records it as a parasite 

 of Thecla W-alhum, Enoch. Brischke bred it from 

 Stauropitsfagi, L., and from Pse Kdotcrpna jn-ninata ,}Inhi. ; 

 he says the cocoons are yellowish, woolly, single or 

 gregarious. Wesmael reared six males and two females 

 from a bundle of pale yellow cocoons attached to a blade 

 of grass near Boisfort, Belgium, in the middle of June. 

 W. H. B. Fletcher bred a (? from Psychoides VerhueUellus, 

 Heyd. Billups a ? from Boarmia gemmaria, Brahm, 

 April 1st ; its cocoon is white, without any perceptible 

 tinge of yellow. 



61. Apanteles paUidipes, Eeinh. 

 Apanteles pallipes, Eeinh., Berl. ent. Zeit., 1881, \). 48, 



Black; antonuiL' at the base, belly at tin- base. ])al]ii, and legs, 

 pale testaceous ; hind coxae usually black at the base. Wings 

 hyaline, stigma testaceous or fusco-testaceous. Mesothorax some- 

 what shining, very finely punctulate ; metathorax rugulose, dull, 

 with a medial carina. Segment 1 twice as long as its medial 



