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countered only two hyperparasites, Lygocerus caiyenteri, 

 Curt, in abundance, and a red-headed Cynipid which I 

 believe to be the true AUotria vidri'; Westw. Otlier 

 hyperparasites of the species are mentioned by Haliday, 

 belonging to the Chalcididae ; their modern names are 

 Isocratus vulgaris, Walker, Pachycrepis clavata, Walk., 

 Cyrtogastcr vulgaris, Walk., and some of the genus 

 Encyrtus, undetermined. 



11. Ai^liidius lonicerie, Marshall. 



A. lonicerce ,'M.Qx^\i., lib. cit., p. 572, ^ $ ; pi. xix, f. 2, $ , 

 ? A. hUesccns, Hal., lib. cit., 99, $ . 



5 First abdominal segment and all the legs, yellow ; disc of the 

 anterior segments more or less infuscated. Head black above ; 

 meso- and metanotum fusco-rufescent ; the rest of the body pale 

 saffron yellow, partly white. Mouth, palpi, cheeks, and the whole 

 underside of the head, white. Antennae very slender, a little shorter 

 than the body, 18-jointed ; brown, with the radicle, the two basal joints 

 and the base of the 3rd, white. Scutellum rufotestaceous ; 

 metathorax rufescent, areated, the compartments separated by black 

 carinas. Wings hyaline ; squamulse and radicles whitish ; stigma 

 pale yellow, almost colourless ; basal nervures rather fine, pale 

 brownish, the radial and other external nervures pale, much 

 attenuated, subobsolete. Legs yellow ; coxoe and trochanters white. 

 Abdomen as in the preceding sp., but the faint dorsal bands are not 

 interrupted, and the colour is paler. ^ Dissimilar ; head black ; 

 clypeus and palpi testaceous ; antennae 20-jointed, somewhat longer 

 than the body, stouter than in the $ , black, with the two basal joints 

 and base of the 3rd rufescent ; thorax black, rufescent beneath ; 

 prothorax entirely rufescent ; legs testaceous ; hind coxae rufescent 

 above towards the base ; abdomen nigrofuscous with the two first 

 sutures pale ; belly rufescent. Length, Ij-l^^ ; exp. 2i-3 lines. 



Nearly allied to the preceding, but distinguished by 

 the great tenuity of the antennae and the neuration, as 

 well as by difference of origin. It may perhaps be 

 lutescens, Hal. but the author has given no detailed 

 description : he possessed only one ^ , the neuration of 

 which, he says, resembled that of ros^ ; this is not the 

 case with the 10 specimens above described. They were 

 reared by Bignell, 8 $ s and 2 ^ s, from Siphocoryne 

 xylostei, Schrank, the puceron of Lonicera xylosteum, tly- 

 honeysuckle, but in this instance inhabiting L. pericly- 



