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



longer than the head and thorax ; segment 1 forming § of its 

 length, black ; petiole equal to half the segment, subcylindrical, 

 smooth, slender ; condylus gradually dilated to the apex and finely 

 rimulose ; segment 2, and sometimes the base of 3, yellow ; the 

 rest black, or those near the apex coloured like the 2d. Wings 

 short, hardly extending beyond the apex of the abdomen. Legs 

 uniformly testaceous, or the hind coxae rufescent ; tarsi fuscous. 



This species will only compare with cinctellus, Ns., 

 and from that it is easily distinguished. Described from 

 six females bred by Bignell singly from Peronea hastiana, 

 L. Cocoons not preserved. 



29. Meteorus leviventris, Wesm. 



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



1835, p. 46, ? . 

 Meteorus Iceviventris, Ruthe, Berl. ent. Zeits., 1862, 



p. 52, ? . 

 M. medianus, Ruthe, lib. cit., p. 53, 3 2 . 

 Perilitus rubens, var. @, Nees, Mon., i., 36. 

 Meteorus rubens, var. y, Hal., Ent. Mag., hi., 30, $ ? . 



Variable ; black ; mouth, face, orbits, antennas beneath and at 

 the base, sides of the prothorax, mesothorax in the middle of the 

 disk, scutellum, and legs, dull rufo-testaceous ; hind coxae and 2d 

 abdominal segment piceous. Wings hyaline ; squamulie testaceous ; 

 nervures fuscescent ; stigma luteous ; recurrent nervure interstitial 

 or slightly rejected ; 2d cubital areolet somewhat narrowed towards 

 the radius ; radial areolet sublanceolate, not reaching the extremity 

 of the wing. First abdominal segment more or less rimulose or 

 laevigated. Tracheal grooves obsolete. Terebra \ as long as the 

 abdomen. $ ? . Length, If — 2^ ; wings, 3f — 4^ lin. 



Var. Front, stemmaticum, middle of the vertex, occiput, 

 3 patches on the mesothoracic lobes, metathorax, and abdomen, 

 except the piceous 2d segment, black; the rest rufo-testaceous; 

 legs pale testaceous. $ J . M. medianus, Ruthe. 



Head somewhat narrower than the thorax ; face transverse, flat, 

 not narrowed below, subrugulose in the middle. Palpi pale. An- 

 tenna' of the 2 i shorter than the body, fuscous, more or less 

 reddish beneath and towards the base, filiform, 26-jointed; those of 

 the $ longer than the body, setaceous. 28-jointed. Metathorax 

 short, semiglobose, reticulato-rugulose, hardly excavated behind. 

 Abdomen in the J as long as the head and thorax, in the J shorter 

 and narrower; segment 1 about f of its entire length, with a short 



