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coxae black, tlie latter sometimes pale at tlie apex. Wings hyaline, 

 squamuke and costa testaceous, stigma and nervures pale fuscous, 

 or subferruginous. Head sliining, sparingly punctulate ; meso- 

 thoras thickly punctulate ; scutellum smoother. Metathorax and 

 pleurae smooth, shining, the former carinated. Abdomen com- 

 pressed beneath at the base, elongate ; segments 1 — 2 aciculated ; 

 1 almost thrice as long as its apical breadth, margined, the sides 

 nearly parallel; 2 as long as 3, narrower at the base than the apex, 

 the margins raised, and converging anterioidy. Terebra sub- 

 exserted. Valvnla ventralis not reaching the anus. ^ $ . Length, 

 1 ; wings, 2^ lin. 



The face is somewhat more punctulate than the rest of the head, 

 subcariuated above, m the ^ more distinctly. Antennae 5 about as 

 long as the body, pale testaceous, dusky above and at the apex, the 

 scape black. Euthe makes segment 1 only 14 times as long as its 

 breadth, which is certainly incorrect ; he also says that the hind 

 femora are black, evidently meaning the hind coxae. Segments 2, 3 

 bear vestiges of a medial carina ; and 3 is also sometimes sub- 

 aciculated at the base. Second cubital areolet incomplete on the 

 outer side. Hind coxae incrassated, punctulate, more strongly in 

 the ? . Hind femora and tibiae subinfuscated towards the apex, 

 especially in the <? . 



Haliday had one ? , taken on a hazel in north Ireland. 

 Since then the species has been repeatedly bred from 

 Boannia reixindata, L., by Kriechbaiimer and Brischke 

 on the Continent, and by Bignell here (see Entom., xiii., 

 244). In Fitch's collection is a brood of twenty reared 

 from the same source by Cooper, of Folkestone, June 

 14th. Brischke also bred it from Chora angidaria, 

 Thnb. The cocoons and habits of the larva are the 

 same as those of M. alvearius. 



4. Mierogaster minutus, Reinh. 



Microgaster minutus, Eeinh., Berl. ent. Zeit., 1880, 

 p. 357, S' ? . 



Like the preceding, but smaller. Pitchy-black ; palpi, antennae 

 towards the base, and legs, pale testaceous ; 4 posterior femora, 

 and hind tarsi more or less, infuscated ; hind coxae fuscous ; belly 

 at the extreme base pitchy. Wings hyaline, squamulae testaceous, 

 stigma fusco-tostaceous, almost all the nervures decolorous. Head 

 and mesothorax punctulate, shining ; scutellum, pleurae, and meta- 

 thorax smooth, shining, the last carinated. Abdomen compressed 

 beneath ; segments 1 — 2 aciculated ; 1 twice as long as its breadth, 



