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the orbits is deficient ; but the presence of the tracheal grooves on 

 the 1st segment will distinguish punctiventris. 



Perilitus cinctellus, Bouche (Naturg., 1884, p. 149) is 

 inadequately described, but Nees refers it to this species, 

 with what degree of certainty I know not. Bouche's 

 insect is a parasite of Tortrix viridana, L., and makes 

 a " snow-white " cocoon : it was known to Batzeburg, 

 like all Bouche's insects, but he is silent as to its identity 

 with the cinctellus of Nees. 



Described from two males, four females, captured in 

 Devonshire and South Wales. Not common : found by 

 Haliday in North Ireland, and, besides the authors above 

 cited, mentioned by Van Vollenhoven as taken at Middel- 

 burg. Capron has captured two females at Shiere. 



28. Meteorus tenellus, n. s. 



Niger, facie, ore, genis, verticis macula orbitali utriuque, anten- 

 narum basi subtus, pedibusque, rufo-testaceis ; abdominis cingulo 

 medio anoque flavidis. Alas hyalinse squamulis testaceis, nervis 

 cum stigmate fuscis, hujus basi indeterminate pallida ; nervo 

 recurrente vix evecto ; areola cubitali 2da radium versus parum 

 angustata. Fossulae tracheales nullse. Abdominis segmentum 

 lmum petiolo elongato tereti laevigata), condylo rimuloso. Terebra 

 abdominis dimidii longitudine. 



Black ; face, mouth, cheeks, an orbital spot on each side of the 

 vortex, antenme at the base beneath, and legs, rufo-testaceous ; a 

 medial fascia on the abdomen, and the anus, yellow. Wings 

 hyaline; squamulse testaceous; nervures and stigma fuscous ; the 

 base of the latter indeterminately pale ; recurrent nervure hardly 

 evected ; 2d cubital areolet very slightly narrowed towards the 

 radius. Tracheal grooves obsolete. Petiole of the 1st abdominal 

 segment elongate, smooth, cylindrical ; condylus rimulose. Terebra 

 as long as \ the abdomen. J . Length. lh ; wings, 2f lin. 



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

 vertex, and occiput black, leaving two large orbital spots and the 

 cheeks broadly, rufous. Face subquadrate ; eyes not approxi- 

 mating in front ; clypeus smooth, prominent ; palpi testaceous. 

 Antenme filiform, very little shorter than the body, blackish, 

 rufescent at the base and beneath, 27 -jointed, the ante-apical joints 

 longer than broad. Thorax black, except sometimes a rufous patch 

 on the mesopleurae. Metathorax subelongate, thickly and finely 

 rugulose, not carinated, nor excavated behind. Abdomen not 



