British Braconidce. Ill 



segment 1 forming less than \ of its entire length, gradually 

 widened from the base to the apex, the latter of which is about 

 4 times as wide as the former, regularly and deeply striated; 

 tracheal grooves large ; segment 2 more or less piceous or testaceous 

 anteriorly, darker behind, sometimes entirely black. Terebra 

 shorter than in any other species, the valves slender, whitish, 

 piceous at the base. Wings short, reaching very little beyond the 

 abdomen; those of the J are also narrow; radial areolet small; 

 2d abscissa of the radius nearly extinct, the 3d abscissa being con- 

 nected with the 1st by a short sudden curve. 



Wesmael discovered the $ near Brussels, and obtained 

 seven specimens ; afterwards he described what he sup- 

 posed to be the ? , in his Supplement, but this is a 

 different species, having the terebra elongate, &c, and 

 probably the ? of brunnipes, Ruthe. The brevipes of 

 Wesmael being thus made up of two different species, I 

 have discarded the name in favour of albicornis, Ruthe. 

 Ruthe possessed 26 males of Wesmael's brevipes collected 

 near Berlin ; and some years afterwards detected two 

 females near the same place, which he described as 

 <i I hi corn in, hesitating to join them with brevipes, on 

 account of Wesinael's mistake, though well aware of 

 their affinit}^ to that species. Accident threw both sexes 

 in my way at the same time, before I had read Ruthe's 

 monograph ; of their identity I never had any doubt, 

 and the question may be regarded as settled. 



Described from one female, six males, in the collections 

 of Fitch, Bignell, and in my own. Two males are from 

 Devonshire ; the rest, with the female, I found near St. 

 Albans. 



16. Meteorus abdominator, Nees. (PI. V., fig. 9). 

 Bracon abdominator, Xees, Mag. Ges. Berl., 1811, 



p. 24, ? . 

 Perilitus abdominator, Nees, Mon., i., 115, ? ; Wesm., 

 Nouv. Mem. Ac. Brux., 1835, p. 47, pi. i., f. 5 

 (wing), 3 2 . 

 Meteorus abdominator, Hal.,Ent. Mag., iii., 21 ; Ruthe, 

 Berl. ent. Zeits., 1862, p. 38, S ? ; S. v. Voll., 

 Pinac, pi. xliv., f. 5, $ . 

 Black; palpi pale fuscous; basal half of the nagelluru in the ? 

 sometimes, mandibles, 2d abdominal segment, and legs, more or 

 less clear rufous ; hind femora and tibiae black at the apex. Wings 



