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



9. Meteorus facialis, Ruthe. 



Meteorus facialis, Ruthe, Berl. ent. Zeits., 1862, 

 p. 22; ? . 



2 . Black ; orbits of the eyes above and behind obscurely 

 rufous (or there is a dull rufous spot on each side of the vertex) ; 

 antennae testaceous, fuscous at the apex ; or fuscous, the base of 

 the fiagellum testaceous, the scape and the other joints piceous ; 

 2d abdominal segment, and legs, rufo-testaceous, hind pair of the 

 latter somewhat darker, their coxae piceous, and their tarsi sub- 

 infuscated. Wings hyaline, stigma luteous, its outer and lower 

 angles indeterminately brown ; squamulae rufo-testaceous, nervines 

 pale fuscous ; recurrent nervure considerably rejected; 2d cubital 

 areolet very slightly narrowed towards the radius. Tracheal 

 grooves minute. Terebra equal to | of the abdomen. 



S . Black ; legs and lateral margins of the 2d abdominal seg- 

 ment piceous. Wings slightly iufumated ; squamulae testaceous; 

 nervures piceous ; stigma fuscous, with a pale spot at the inner 

 angle ; recurrent nervure joining the 1st cubital areolet at about 

 I of its length. <? ? . Length, 2— 2£ ; wings, 4J— 4§ lin. 

 . The form is that of ictericus, and the size nearly equal. Head a 

 little narrower than the thorax, much contracted behind the eyes ; 

 face subquadrate, shining brown in the $ , clypeus of the same 

 colour, convex, smooth ; on each side of the vertex is an orbital 

 spot, dull red, narrowly prolonged towards the antennae, and con- 

 tinued round the posterior margin of the eyes, becoming wider 

 beneath (in the English $ there is merely a vertical spot). Palpi 

 pale brown. Antennae 3 filiform, longer than the body, 35-jointed ; 

 of the 2 rather stout, shorter than the body, filiform, 28 — 32- 

 jointed. Pro- and mesothorax entirely black or blackish, beset 

 with whitish pubescence more thickly than in most other species. 

 Mesothorax with two crenulate striae ending before the scutellum 

 in a rugose depression. Pleurae rugose, with a shining smooth 

 medial space ; the usual furrow wide, shallow, and rugose. Meta- 

 thorax convex, intricato-rugulose, with a faint medial carina. 

 Abdomen as long as, and narrower than, the head and thorax ; 

 segment 1 black, its apex piceous ; segment 2 in the J testaceous, 

 the rest nigro-piceous ; in the $ only the margins of the 2d segment 

 are piceous ; belly of the same colour. Segment 1 slender, but the 

 petiole not much narrowed, finely striolated, the striae confused 

 and subreticulate ; tubercles situated at about \ from the base. 

 First abscissa of the radius shorter than the 2d. According to 

 Puthe the recurrent nervure is rejected into the 1st cubital areolet 

 somewhat more than the length of the 1st abscissa. 



