British Bracomdc?. 275 



The specimen is in Fitch's collection, and was bred, 

 July 24th, from the larva-case of Colcophoratyocilodytelhi, 

 Dup., at Guestliug, near Hastings. 



7. Microdus rufipes, Nees. 



Microdns rufipes, Nees, Mon., i., 146 ; Wesm., Nouv. 

 Mem. Ac. Brux., 1837, p. 15 ; Ratz., Ichn. d. 

 Forst., ii., 47; Reinh., Berl. ent. Zeit., 1867, 

 p. 356, <? ? . 



Black ; palpi dull testaceous ; legs, including the coxae, rufo- 

 testaceoiis ; posterior, or only the hind tibioe, and their tarsi, tipped 

 with fuscous. Wings slightly infumated, squamuliB subtestaceous, 

 or pitchy, nerviires and stigma fuscous. Antennae ^ ? 32 — 34- 

 jointed. Mesothorax deeply trilobate. Metathorax rugose, with a 

 medial carina not reaching the hind margin. Mesopleurte with a 

 crenate fovea. Segments 1 — 2, and half of 3, striolated ; 2 with a 

 curved, and 3 with a straight, transverse impressed line. Second 

 cubital areolet stirrup-shaped, shortly petiolated ; nervure se^Darating 

 the 1st cubital areolet from the praediscoidal inchoate at both ends. 

 Terebra as long as the body without the head. (J ? . Length, 

 2 — 2^ ; wings, 4 — 4J lin. 



Var. Anterior half of the 2d abdommal segment rufous. 



The 2d segment in some specimens is pitchy, or sub- 

 ferruginous ; in one <? the hind coxoe are black at the 

 base. But the general colour of the legs, together with 

 the extended rugulosity of the abdomen, are good 

 characters by which to determine the species. According 

 to Nees all the tibiae are tipped with fuscous, and the 

 terebra is as long as the body ; hence Wesmael doubts 

 whether his own rufipes is the same ; but such dis- 

 crepancies are not of much consequence. 



Four males and two females from Darenth Wood, and 

 a male bred by Elisha, July 31st, from Coleophora 

 gryphipenneUa, Bouche. Giraud also bred it from a 

 Coleopliora, and Goossens from Pardia tripunctana, Fab. 

 According to Eatzeburg, Bouche reared male and female 

 from Hedya occllana, Fab. ; and again from Andricus 

 terminalis, Fab., in which several lepidopterous larvae 

 are to be found. 



