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



the 5 , more obtusely lanceolate in the $ ; segment 1 shaped as in 

 ictericus, with a medial row of confused punctures which become 

 striae on each side, and are a good character for the determination 

 of the species ; segment 2 blackish on its hinder margin ; the rest 

 nigro-piceous, becoming paler towards the anus. Stigma half 

 fuscous, half yellow, or the dark colour predominates more or less ; 

 2d cubital areolet trapeziform. The males are larger than the 

 females (those at least seen by me), and less disposed to exhibit 

 testaceous markings. 



Described from nine males, four females. The latter 

 were bred by Porritt from Scoparia angusta, Ste. Two 

 males in Fitch's collection were reared from Scoparia 

 murana, Cur., by W. H. B. Fletcher. Bignell captured 

 sixteen females, two males, on a plum-tree, and four 

 other males elsewhere in South Devon. I found several 

 specimens, all males, in the neighbourhood of Teign- 

 mouth. 



13. Meteorus jaculator, Hal. 



Meteorus jaculator, Hal., Ent. Mag., iii., 34, ? . 



M. obscurellus, Kuthe, Berl. ent. Zeits., 1862, p. 29, ? . 



Black ; metathorax and abdomen sometimes piceous ; mouth 

 and clypeus testaceous ; palpi pale ; mandibles tipped with fuscous ; 

 antennae and 4 posterior tarsi fuscous, the rest of the legs testaceous 

 or pale piceous, hind tibiae sometimes darker. Wings whitish 

 hyaline; squamulae pale; stigma piceous, scarcely paler at the base ; 

 nervures pale ; recurrent nervure subinterstitial ; 2d cubital areolet 

 narrowed towards the radius. Tracheal grooves distinct. Terebra 

 as long as the abdomen and metathorax. $ J . Length, 1^ ; 

 wings, 2-j lin. 



The smallest British species. Antennae of the only $ 2G-jointed, 

 rather longer than the body ; of the J equal to J of the body, 

 20 — 25-jointed, entirely piceous, the subapical joints scarcely 

 longer than broad. Face transverse, not narrowed inferiorly, with 

 an impression at the base of the clypeus. Pleurae nearly smooth, 

 the usual furrow having only a few wrinkles. Metathorax nar- 

 rowed posteriorly, finely reticulato-rugulose, its hinder declivity 

 not defined. Anterior margin of the 2d abdominal segment paler 

 than the rest of the surface; segment 1 obconic, hardly curved, 

 finely rimulose, its apex almost smooth : tracheal grooves minute. 

 Wings and stigma rather large ; nervures of great tenuity ; cubital 

 and anal nervures decolorous. Legs pale, with a piceous shade on 

 the hind coxae, tibiae, and tarsi. 



