British Braconid^. "^ 



obscure ; stigma pale brownish ; 1st cubital areolet indistinctly 

 limited on the lower side. Legs piceous, with pale knees. First 

 abdominal segment almost linear, but slightly widened posteriorly 

 Valves of the terebra obtuse. ^ The doubtful male {fumatus, Hal.) 

 resembles Monoctonus caricis, Hal. Blackish brown, with very short 

 palpi ; antenna a little incrassated, 16-jointed ; wings infumated ; 

 stigma narrow ; 2nd abscissa of the radius somewhat arcuate ; 1st 

 cubital areolet indistinct or effaced ; legs piceous, with pale knees and 

 tarsi ; abdomen brownish, pale at the base, dilated, spathulate ; 1st 

 segment stout, linear. Length, f ; exp. Ij lines, nearly. 



The association of the sexes is almost always doubtful, 

 unless they have been reared together ; in the present 

 case I have ioined fumatus to cxiguus agreeably to a 

 coniecture of Haliday. The insects are unknown to nie, 

 unless a $ which I captured at large should happen to be 

 fumatus ; it agrees pretty well with the diagnosis. Lxiguus 

 and fumatus both occur not uncommonly in marshy 

 meadows, overgrown with Ranunculus acris. 



33. Aphidius scaUosx, Marshall. 

 A. scahiosse, Marsh,, lih. cit., p. 596, $ ?. 



$ Head and thorax black above, all the underside of the body pale 

 yellow or whitish ; abdomen pale yellow, brownish in the middle. 

 Face clypeus, and palpi of the same pale colour. Antenna rather 

 shorter than the body, 15-jointed, blackish, with the two basal joints 

 of each yellow. Mesothoracic furrows obsolete ; metathorax 

 carinated in the middle, areated. Wings hyaline ; cubital areolets and 

 1st discoidal effaced, no nervures visible beyond the stigma, or 

 scarcely a trace of them remains ; stigma very pale, decolorous. Legs 

 pale yellow, coxse and trochanters whitish. Al^domen lanceolate, 

 very little compressed towards the apex ; 1st segment pale yellow, 

 linear, narrow, without visible tubercles ; 2nd pale brownish, yellow 

 in the middle of the base, or yellow with a dusky spot on each side ; 

 3rd and 4th brownish ; 5th yellow, more or less brownish posteriorly ; 

 6th with only a small brownish spot at the extremity ; apical seg- 

 ment yellow. Valves of the terebra blackish. $ Antenna as long 

 as the body, 17-jointed ; 4 posterior femora and tibiae stained with 

 reddish brown ; abdomen rounded at the apex, entirely browmsh 

 above, after the 1st segment. Length, 1 ; exp. 2 lines. 



In coloration this resembles asteris (sp. 22) and IwrUnsis 

 (sp. 26), but its other characters render it suftciently 



