British Braconidce. 105 



For the description of the 3 I am indebted to Capron ; 

 it is remarkable for having dark-coloured legs, not often 

 seen in the present genus. 



The 3 was taken by Capron at Shiere, and the ? by 

 me near Barnstaple. 



10. Meteorus vexator, Hal. 



2 ■ " Black, shining ; mouth, antennae at the base, and legs, 

 ferruginous ; segment 1 obconic, elongate, and attenuated at the 

 base ; stigma very large, fuscous, with a pale spot ; terebra as long 

 as the abdomen. Very like delator 1 (sp. '25), and filator (sp. 24), 

 intermediate in size, and distinguished from filator by a shorter 

 petiole. Eyes large; clypeus narrowed inferiorly, fusco-ferruginous; 

 antennas 19 — 20-jointed." Haliday. 



$. Antennae longer than the body, 29-jointed, fuscous, joints 

 1 — 2 rufous. Sides of the prothorax testaceous ; 1st abdominal 

 segment at the apex, and 2d at the base, indeterminately pale 

 piceous ; legs testaceous. Wings subfuscodiyaline ; scpiamulae 

 testaceous ; nervures piceous ; stigma fuscoiis, conspicuous, as 

 large as the 1st cubital areolet ; 2d cubital areolet much narrowed 

 towards the radius, forming a truncated triangle; recurrent ner- 

 vure interstitial. Metathorax not convex, sloping gradually from 

 the base, almost smooth, crossed near the base by a transverse 

 carina. Abdomen shorter than the thorax ; 1st segment irregularly 

 striolatcd, short, three times broader at the apex than at the petiole ; 

 posterior segments broad, ovate. Head large, broader than the 

 thorax. Tracheal grooves distinct. $. Length, H; wings, 

 3J lin. 



Not common, according to Haliday. The ? is unknown 

 to me ; the 3 I took in Leicestershire ; the great size of 

 the stigma refers it to this species, but the condition is 

 bad, and the colours obscured ; that of the wings may 

 be entirely fallacious. 



11. Meteorus obfuscatus, Nees. 



Bracon obfuscatus, Nees, Mag. Ges. Berl., 1811, 



p. 22, 3. 

 Perilitus obfuscatus, Nees, Mon., i., 37, 3 ', Ratz., Ichn. 



d. Forst., ii., 55, $ $ . 

 Meteorus obfuscatus, Hal., Ent. Mag., iii., 31, 3 ? . 

 Zele thoracicus, Cur., B. E., 415, 9. 



