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24. Dacnusa stramineipes, Hal. 
D. stramineipes, Hal., Hym. Brit., 11., p. 16; Marsh., 
lib. cit., p. 498, 2 9. 
Second discoidal areolet not closed on the outer side ; antenns 
much longer than the body, 25-31-jointed ; terebra as long as one- 
fourth, or even three-fourths, of the abdomen. Blackish-brewn, 
or piceous, pubescent ; the apex of the abdomen pale. Head not 
wider than the thorax; cheeks pale piceous; mandibles rufous ; 
palpi pale. ¢ Q Antenne very slender, blackish, more or less 
testaceous at the base. Mesonotum flattened posteriorly, having 
in front of the scutellum a linear fovea of variable length, some- 
times short and oval ; the ordinary furrows effaced ; furrow of the 
mesopleure wanting; metathorax pilose, short, not shining, punc- 
tulate, without a medial carina. Wings ample, very long, hyaline; 
squamule testaceous ; nervures and stigma testaceous in the 9, 
black in the ¢ ; stigma linear, very elongate, acuminate at the 
apex ; radial areolet very long, longer than the preebrachial, and 
approaching nearer to the tip of the wing than in the next species, 
somewhat dilated and sinuated in the middle, not much attenuated 
towards the apex, almost cultriform ; radial nervure originating 
near the base of the stigma ; recurrent neryure rejected. Legs 
straw-coloured; last joint of the tarsi obscure. Abdomen sub- 
sessile, oboval, somewhat depressed ; Ist segment not longer than 
its apical width, somewhat narrowed at the base, aciculate, downy, 
not shining ; the tubercles not apparent. Length, 14 lines; exp., 
3? lines. 
This species constitutes the genus Tanystropha, 
Forster. It is confounded by transitional links with 
D. areolaris (sp. 25) ; itis found with that species, but less 
abundantly; as it differs in no important particulars 
except superior development, it may be reasonably 
suspected of being only a well nourished variety. 
England and Ireland ; common. 
25. Dacnusa areolaris, Nees. (PI. I., fig. 5.) 
Bracon «areolaris, Nees, Mag. Ges. Berl., 1811, p. 20, 
plete tiga to: 
Alysia areolaris, Nees, Mon., i., 262, : 
D..areolanis, Hal., Hym. Brit., u.,p: 15, ¢ 2 ; Marsh., 
lab. cit., p. 491. 
Alysia pubescens, Curt. Brit. Ent., 141. 
Stigma elongate, emitting the radial nervure not far from its 
base, which is somewhat attenuated ; abdomen entirely black or 
