250 Eev. T. A. Marshall's monograph of 



coasts of north Ireland. I have seen two males taken 

 by Billiips at High Beech, Epping Forest. Brischke 

 bred this species from Ortliotelia sjxirffaneUa, Thnb. 

 Cocoons white, woolly, transparent. 



10. Microgaster rugulosus, Nees. 



Microgaster ruqulosus, Nees, Mon., i., 163, <? ; Euthe, 



Berl. ent. Zeit., 1860, p. 112, $ . 

 M. vnfumatus, Hal., Ent. Mag., ii., 237, S . 

 M. ojxicus, Euthe, lib. cit., 1858, p. 5 ; and 1860, 



p. Ill, ? . 



$ . Black ; mandibles, abdominal segments after the 3d, and 

 belly, reddish luteous ; palpi and legs testaceo-rufous ; coxae and 

 claws black. Wings infnmated ; squamulse black ; nervures and 

 stigma fuscous, the latter nearly black. Body thickly punctulate, 

 dull ; scutelluua shining, slightly punctulate ; metathorax sub- 

 reticulato-rngiilose, carinated. Abdomen subovate, depressed ; 

 segments 1 — 3 dull, finely and densely rugulose ; 1 impressed at 

 the base ; 2 twice as long as 3 ; the rest smooth ; belly carinated. 

 Terebra scarcely | of the abdomen. Spurs of hind tibiae shorter 

 than i the metatarsus. Valvula ventralis acuminated. 



(^ . Antennte rufo-fuscous beneath ; abdomen black at the apex ; 

 hind tibiae sometimes at both ends, with their tarsi, fuscous. Meta- 

 thorax more strongly reticulato-rugose. Abdomen somewhat 

 longer than the thorax, hardly convex, with parallel sides ; segment 



1 impressed with a furrow ; 3 hardly more than half as long as 2 ; 

 the other segments obsoletely punctulate, shining, together not 

 much longer than the 2d. Wings fuscous. ^ 5 . Length, 

 1| — 2 ; wings, 3i — 4 lin. 



Antenufe ? fuscous, filiform, the scape black. Pectus and 

 pleurae thickly ruguloso-punctulate, the latter above the longi- 

 tudinal furrow, smooth and shining. Segment 1 coarsely rugose, 

 almost reticulated, 2 — 3 more finely ; 1, 2 of nearly equal length ; 



2 broader than 3 and about twice as long ; 3 at the apex, and all 

 the remaining segments, naore or less reddish luteous. Coxae at the 

 apex and luiderneath rufo-testaceous; hind tibiae at the base 

 somewhat infuscated. The (^ differs in the colour of the abdomen, 

 the antenna.^ arc i longer than the body, the wings darker, and the 

 legs varied with black. — Euthe. 



This species, of which Fitch possesses two males, is 

 next in size to rvssaiits, Hal., and apparently still rarer 

 in England ; there is a 5' in the British Museum from 

 Desvignes' collection. The only specimens of which any 



