98 Rev. T. A. Marshall's monograph of 



nervure. Abdomen shorter and broader than in deceptor, in tho $ 

 clavate ; 1st segment punctato-rugulose on the petiole ; the condylus 

 smooth, except a few basal scratches, and less than twice as long 

 as its apical breadth ; tracheal grooves distinct. Hind femora 

 with the addition of their coxae, longer than the abdomen. Terebra, 

 seen from above, as long as the 4 last segments. $ 2 . Length, 

 2f ; wiugs, 5\ lin. 



Antennae longer than the body, filiform, in the 2 testaceous, 

 annidated with fuscons, gradually darkened to the apex, the 2 basal 

 joints piceous, 36 — 39-jointed ; in the $ broken, blackish, except 

 the 4 basal joints. Head rather broader than the thorax ; orbits 

 black (in the 5 described by Nees) ; occiput and stemmaticum 

 sometimes fuscous. Metathorax irregularly subreticulate, with or 

 without a faint medial carina. Abdomen of the 2 ovato-clavate, 

 somewhat compressed ; ol the $ broader and flatter ; not longer 

 than the head and thorax ; 1st segment subdeplauate, shorter and 

 broader than in deceptor ; tubercles medial, salient. The $ is 

 darker than the $ , having the whole thorax rufo-piceous, except 

 the disk of the mesothorax. 



Differs from deceptor in size, and in the proportion of 

 parts, as stated in the table ; and distinguished from all 

 the following species by the greater number of joints in 

 the antennae, for the $ , though mutilated, must once 

 have had at least 40 joints. There is nothing like it in 

 Kuthe's collection, nor was it known to Wesmael and 

 Haliday ; Forster, however, quotes it as a type of the 

 whole genus. Nees states that he has united the two 

 sexes with some hesitation ; but there is nothing doubt- 

 ful about the male and three females which I have seen. 



Nees captured the 2 among oaks in Franconia, Aug. 

 23rd ; the $ was communicated to him by Gravenhorst. 

 With us it seems to be a northern species ; I found a 2 

 in the Yorkshire moors, two more from Sutherlandshire 

 are in Bridgman's collection, and Champion presented 

 me with $ 2 from the pine-forest of Kothiemurchus in 

 the Grampians. 



5. Meteor us caligatus, Hal. 



Meteorus caligatus, Hal., Ent. Mag., iii., 25, $ 2 . 



Black, shining ; 2d abdominal segment and legs rufo-testaceous ; 

 hind femora at the apex, hind tibiae, and their tarsi, fuscous ; base 

 of the former pallid or whitish. Wings fusco-hyaline, squamulao 



