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



27. Meteorus cinetellus, Nees. 



Bracon cinetellus, Nees, Mag. Ges. Berl., 1811, p. 23, 

 ? ; not of Spinola. 



Perilitus cinetellus, Nees, Mon., i., 40, $ $ ; Wesm., 

 Nouv. Mem. Ac. Brux., 1835, p. 50, ? . 



Meteorus cinetellus, Hal., Ent. Mag., iii., 31, ? ; Ruthe, 

 Bed. ent. Zeits., 1862, p. 50, ? . 



Black ; face, mouth, orbits, disk of the mesothorax partly, 2d 

 abdominal segment, and legs testaceous ; hind femora and tibiae 

 fuscescent at the apex ; antennae fuscous, those of the $ broadly 

 testaceous in the middle. Wings of the <$ subinfuscated, of the ? 

 more hyaline ; squamulae testaceous ; nervures fuscescent ; stigma 

 fuscous, its base more or less pale ; recurrent nervure evected, but 

 sometimes interstitial ; 2d cubital areolet slightly narrowed towards 

 the radius. Tracheal grooves obsolete. Terebra about § of the 

 abdomen. $ 2 • Length, 2 — 2^; wings, 3£ — 4 lin. 



Var. J . Length, H lin. Hind coxae almost entirely black ; 

 2d abdominal segment and antennae obscurely testaceous. Ruthe. 



Head narrower than the thorax, rufo-testaceous ; front and 

 vertex in the middle, as well as the occiput, black, leaving the 

 orbits rufous, most broadly upon the vertex ; eyes large ; face 

 narrow ; clypeus prominent ; palpi whitish at the tips. Antennae 

 of the J filiform, flagellum testaceous for about half its length, 

 thence gradually darkened to the apex, \ shorter than the body, 

 25 — 27-jointed ; those of the $ setaceous, fuscous, the scape paler, 

 nmch longer than the body, 28 — 30-jointed. Thorax black, but 

 the disk of the mesothorax in the sutures and the medial space 

 usually more or less rufescent ; pleurae and scutellum sometimes 

 also rufescent, Metathorax subelongate, obliquely descending 

 behind, thickly and finely rugulose. Abdomen of the 2 somewhat 

 longer than the head and thorax, of the $ shorter ; segment 1 

 hardly equal to | of its length, of which the petiole makes 1, and is 

 smooth and shining; condylus rimulose, dilated from the incon- 

 spicuous tubercles to the apex, which is about 3 times the width of 

 the petiole ; segment 2 flavo-testaceous on its anterior or posterior 

 half, or on both ; remaining segments black, or the posterior more 

 or less flavo-piceous. Wings of the $ slightly coloured, yet enough 

 to show sometimes a whitish streak beneath the stigma : those of 

 the $? nearly hyaline. In the British specimens which I have seen 

 the recurrent nervure is uniformly evected, but according to Ruthe 

 it is often interstitial. Hind coxae at the base, hind femora and 

 tibiae at the apex, often broadly fuscous. The J strongly resembles 

 that of punctiventris (sp. 12), especially when the rufous colour of 



