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



posteriorly, intricato-ragose. First abdominal segment striolated, 

 3 times wider at the apex than at the base ; tubercles medial ; 

 tracheal grooves distinct. Terebra shorter than J the abdomen. 

 $ 2 . Length, 2^ ; wings, 5 lin. 



Head transverse, slightly contracted behind the eyes. Antennae 

 nearly filiform in both sexes; in the S longer than the body, 

 34 — 35-jointed ; in the 2 about as long as the body, 25 — 28-jointed, 

 the two basal joints testaceous. Palpi pale. The whole under side 

 of the thorax is testaceous, except the pectus of my 5 specimen ; 

 this character, as well as the rufous scutellum of one example, and 

 the general structure of all, brings the species very near to scutel- 

 lator (sp. 20) ; the differences ) however, are obvious ; in melano- 

 stictus the stigma is uniformly blackish ; the recurrent nervure in 

 Capron's specimens of the 2 , and in one of my males, is distinctly 

 evected ; in the other males it is interstitial, as in scutellator. The 

 direction of the recurrent nervure is not constant in the different 

 species, and causes a difficulty in determining their limits ; but it 

 is at most only a secondary character. 



Described from three females, five males. The de- 

 scription of the 2 was communicated by Capron, to 

 which I have added what relates to the other sex. The 

 females were taken at Shiere, the males at Nunton, but 

 there is no doubt that they belong to the same species, 

 and that the species is new. 



20. Meteorus scutellator, Nees. 



Perilitus scutellator, Nees, Mon., i., 38 ; Wesm., Nouv. 



Mem. Ac. Brux., 1835, p. 39, $ 2 . 

 Meteorus scutellator, Euthe, Berl. ent. Zeits., 1862, 



p. 41, $ 2 ; S. v. Voll., Pinac, pi. xliv., f. 8, 2 . 



Black ; palpi pale ; face, clypeus, mandibles, antennae at the base 

 beneath, more broadly in the ? , orbits of the eyes sometimes, 

 pleura;, pectus, scutellum and 2d abdominal segment, rufo-testa- 

 ceous ; mesopleurae sometimes blackish in front ; hind tibiae and 

 tarsi more or less infuscated at the apex. Wings hyaline ; 

 squamulffi and stigma yellow; nervures flavo-fuscous ; recurrent 

 nervure interstitial ; 2d cubital areolet scarcely narrowed towards 

 the radius. Tracheal grooves small, distinct. Terebra as long 

 ;i> ; of the abdomen. $ 2 • Length, 2 — 2| ; wings, 4^ — 6 lin. 



Var. Rufous; metathorax black; 1st abdominal segment 

 piceous towards the apex ; stigma rufo-fulvous. One male in 

 Fitch's collection. 



