British Braconida. 115 



(Ent. Mas., iii-, 29), especially vars. e,f, from the hanks 

 of the Shannon. The specimens used by me, 42 in 

 number, are mostly in Fitch's and Bignell's collections, 

 and many of them have been bred. Bignell has obtained 

 them from Agrotis agathina, Dup., several out of the 

 Bame larva; from Agrotis strigula, Thunh., May 10th ; 

 Tceniocampa stabilis, View.; Hibernia leucophceria, Schiff. ; 

 Anisopteryx cescularia, Schiff.; Cheimatobia brumata, L. ; 

 Oporabia dilutata, Bork. ; and Harpella Geoffroyella, L. 

 Bridgman reared one from Scoparia truncicolella, Staint. ; 

 and three came from a geometrical larva in my keeping, 

 the name of which 1 did not ascertain ; one of the 

 cocoons thus obtained produced the hyperparasite Meso- 

 chorus confusus, Holmgr. It appears that two, three, or 

 four of these Meteori infest the same caterpillar, if it be 

 large enough ; in other cases they are solitary. Cocoon 

 like that of ictericus (sp. G), pensile, greyish brown and 

 glistening, as if varnished. 



19. Meteorus melanostictus, Capron, MS., n. s. 



Nigro-piceus ; prothoracis latera cum capite/< '.mince rufo-testacea, 

 stemmatico, occipite, nigricantibus ; maris caput nigro-piceum ; 

 orbitre plus minus, prothoracis latera cum pectore toto, nonnun- 

 quam etiam cum scute-Hi apice, rufo-testacea. Pedes testacei, tibiis 

 posticis apice et ante basin fuscis, basi ipsa exalbida, tarsis fuscis. 

 Alse subhyalinae ; squainuhe testacene ; stigma unicolor cum nervis 

 nigro-piceum ; nervus recurrens femince plane evectns, maris 

 plerumque interstitialis, rarius paulo evectus ; areola cubitalis 2da 

 radium versus non angustata. Metathorax convexus, medio eari- 

 natus, postice excavatus, intricato-rugosus. Abdominis segmentum 

 linuiii striolatum, apice triplo latins quam basi, tuberculis mediis, 

 fossulis spiracularibus conspicuis. Terebra abdominis dimidio 

 brevior. 



Nigro-piceous ; head and sides of prothorax in the J rufo- 

 testaceous, stemmaticum and occiput piceous; head of the $ nigro- 

 piceous, the orbits more or less, sides of prothorax, pectus, and 

 sometimes apex of scutellum, rufo-testaceous ; legs testaceous ; 

 hind tibiie fuscous at the apex and faintly before the base, which is 

 whitish; tarsi fuscous. Wings subhyaline ; squamulae testaceous ; 

 stigma unicolorous, aud, with the nervures, nigro-piceous ; recurrent 

 nervure of the 5 distinctly evected, of the $ interstitial, in one 

 example only evected ; 2d cubital areolet not narrowed towards 

 the radius. Metathorax convex, earinated in the middle, excavated 



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