118 Kev. T. A. Marshall's monograph of 



towards the radius. Tracheal grooves distinct. Terebra equal to 

 ^ or \ of the abdomen. $ $ . Length, 2i ; wings, 5 lin. 



Apart from the colour there is little to distinguish this from the 

 last species. It is, however, somewhat smaller, the antennae are 

 longer, and their basal half is always pale ; those of the $ are 

 32 — 34-jointed ; those of the $ 29- (in one British example), in 

 that adduced by Ruthe 33-jointed. Metathorax regularly rounded, 

 reticulato-rugulose, with or without a medial carina. First seg- 

 ment forming nearly \ of the entire length of the abdomen, 

 regularly striolated. 



Described from one male, five females, in the col- 

 lections of Fitch and Bignell ; the former has taken the 

 5 at Maldon ; the latter bred the S , June 28th, from 

 Tethea retusa, L., and the remaining females also in 

 June from Orthosia lota, Clerck. 



22. Meteorus consors, Ruthe. 



Meteorus consors, Ptuthe, Berl. ent. Zeits., 1862, 

 p. 44, ? . 



Eufo-testaceous, face and legs paler ; vertex, occiput, 3 bands on 

 the lobes of the mesothorax, metathorax, pectus, and 1st abdominal 

 segment blackish; antenna? except the base, hind femora and tibiae 

 at the tips, with their tarsi, fuscescent. Wings hyaline ; squamulse 

 testaceous ; nervures fuscescent ; stigma flavo-testaceous, its outer 

 lower half indeterminately fuscous ; recurrent nervure interstitial 

 or subinterstitial ; 2d cubital areolet hardly narrowed towards the 

 radius, Tracheal grooves distinct. Terebra as long as the abdo- 

 men. $ . Length, 24, ; wings, 44^ lin. 



Head a little narrower than the thorax, black above and on the 

 occiput; face and mouth l'ufo-testaceous ; palpi whitish. Antennae 

 nearly as long as the body, filiform, 31 — 34-jointed, fuscous, paler 

 beneath, joints 1 — 2 dull testaceous. Ground colour of the thorax 

 testaceous ; according to Ruthe only the metathorax and post- 

 scutellum, occasionally also the middle lobe of the mesothorax, are 

 infuscated ; but in British examples the 3 mesothoracic lobes, 

 pleurae, and pectus are often blackish. Metathorax somewhat 

 elongate, reticulato-rugulose, slightly excavated behind. Abdomen 

 slender, at its broadest part narrower than the thorax; segment 1 

 a Little shorter than all the rest taken together, black, rimulose, 

 with a short petiole and inconspicuous tubercles, behind which it is 

 insensibly dilated to the apex, this last being 3 times wider than 

 the petiole ; the remaining segments are either wholly testaceous 



