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



shining; vertex prolonged behind the eyes. Mesothorax as in 

 palUdipes, but destitute of punctures. Wings also like those of 

 pallidipes, but the 1st abscissa is shorter, almost punctiform ; 

 nervures distinct. Legs stout, short, piceous ; tibial and tarsi 

 paler than the femora. 



Distinguished from j^cipes, Hal., by its impimctate 

 mesothorax, smaller size, and darker legs ; compared by 

 Curtis to his similis, while Haliday compares his picipes 

 to palUdipes, Cur. It is highly probable that the 

 synonymy given by Haliday under picipes is an over- 

 sight, and it is necessary therefore to impose a new 

 name upon one of the species there apparently confused. 

 But the materials at hand are insufficient to decide the 

 difficulty absolutely. 



Described from two females taken near Barnstaple. 



6. Eityhorus accinctus, Hal. 



Leiophron accinctus, Hal., Ent. Mag., ii., 465. 



" Head, thorax, and petiole black ; abdomen piceous ; antennae 

 at the base, and legs, ferruginous. Wings hyaline, radix and 

 squamuhie stramineous, stigma pale brown, lighter at the base, and 

 touching the 2d cubital areolet. Petiole of the abdomen nearly 

 linear, rugulose, the tubercles acute, slightly prominent." $. 

 Length, 1^ ; wings, 2i lin. 



" Antenna? 22-jointed, slender, hardly shorter than the body, 

 fuscous, ferruginous at the base. Mesothoracic sutures crenate, 

 conniving before the scutellum ; medial lobe impimctate ; scutellum 

 obsoletely punctate. Metathorax minutely rugulose. First abdo- 

 minal segment nearly linear, longitudinally rugulose, somewhat 

 coarctate before the tubercles. Radial areolet narrow, acuminated 

 beneath the stigma." — Haliday. 



I have not seen this species. 



7. Euphorus similis, Cur. 



Leiophron similis, Cur., B. E., 476, 4; Hal., Ent. 

 Mag., ii., 465, 2 . 



Microctonus oblitus, Kuthe, Stett. Zeit., 1856, p. 303, ? . 



Black ; abdomen after the 1st segment piceous ; antennae testa- 

 ceous, their apical half fuscous; legs testaceous, more or less 

 inclining to piceous, hind coxa? piceous at the base. Wings hyaline, 

 squamulce and nervures testaceous, stigma large, pale brown or 



