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or slightly infuscated at the sutures. Between the tracheal grooves 

 is an elevated ridge. Hind coxae, femora, and tibiae sometimes 

 rufescent. 



Described from seven females. In Fitch's collection 

 are several specimens bred from Bryotropha domestica, 

 Haw.; and I have captured two others, one at St. 

 Albans, and the other at Nunton, Wilts. 



23. Meteorus versicolor, Wesm. 

 Perilitus versicolor, Wesm., Nouv. Mem. Ac. Brux 



1835, p. 43, <? ? . 

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

 p. 45, $ 2 ; S. v. Voll., Pinac, pi. xliv., f. 6, ? . 

 Perilitus bimaculatus, Wesm., lib. cit., p. 45, ? ; 

 Meteorus bimaculatus, Euthe, lib. cit., p. 47, ? . 



Variable. Bufous ; metathorax and abdomen black ; petiole and 

 1st abdominal suture whitish ; base of antennae, face, mouth, pro- 

 thorax, humeral angles of the mesothorax, a variable patch on 

 segments 2—3 in the $ , anus, and legs flavo-testaceous ; hind 

 coxae, with their femora and tibiae, more or less blackish, these 

 femora and tibiae whitish at the base. Wings hyaline, squamulae 

 testaceous, stigma yellow or fuscous, nervures fuscescent ; recurrent 

 nervure interstitial, sometimes slightly rejected ; -id cubital areolet 

 subquadrate, not narrowed towards the radius. Tracheal grooves 

 obsolete. Terebra about \ as long as the abdomen. <y ? . Length, 

 2 — 2| ; wings, 4 — 5 lin. 



The typical form may be known by the jet-black abdomen, 

 spotted with yellowish white, the whitish petiole, and the absence 

 of the tracheal grooves ; also by the white 1st abdominal suture of 

 the ?. 



Var. a. g . Head and thorax rufous ; metathorax black above ; 

 hind coxae rufous ; legs flavo-testaceous. Abdomen with a whitish 

 petiole; hind margin of segment 1, 2 triangular transverse fascia 

 on segments 2—3, united by a longitudinal stripe in the middle, 

 yellowish white. In Wesmael's collection. 



Var. j3. J . Head black ; mesothorax and scutellum rufous ; 

 abdomen black, except the petiole and the 1st suture, which are 

 yellowish white. Hind coxae, femora, and tibiae black, the last 

 broadly white at the base, the femora more narrowly. Bred bv 

 Bignell. * 



Var. y. J . Rufo -testaceous ; metathorax more or less infuscated ; 

 1st abdominal segment with a whitish petiole, and marked before 

 the apex with 2 blackish confluent spots ; hind femora and tibiae 



