of the Hymenopterous genus Scleroderma. 115 
precedente dimidio longiore, apice conico. Thorax 
flavus, plus minusve obfuscatus, mesonoto antice lateri- 
busque fuscis. Ale obsolete. Pedes graciles, femoribus 
tibiisque medio fuscis, basi apiceque pallidis, COXIS 
tarsisque flavis. Abdomen nigro-piceum, nitidum, elon- 
gato-ovale; oviductus cea paullulum prodientibus, 
externe nigris, terebra, aciculariformi in lsdem retractili, 
longa, tenuissima, arcuata, flavescente, valida, munitum. 
Long. corp. 2331 mm. 
Fomine alate unice, a sociis aliter haud distinguende, 
alarum diagnosis. 
Ale elongate, abdomine longiores, pellucide, flaccide, 
albescentes, nitide, ciliate, cellulis duabus basalibus 
venisque flavis instructe: ale antice costa tenuissima 
picea; vena postcostali apice lobo brevi crasso, stigma 
versus sed illud non attingente, antice projecto ; stiomate 
parvo, subquadrato, insulato luteo; vena media basali 
satis conspicua, apice cum postcostali oblique conjuncta ; 
vena transverso-media retro ante analem abrupte trun- 
cata, apice dilatata; vena anali basi incrassata, ultra 
transverso-mediam subtilissime producta: ale postice 
venis duabus abbreviatis, basi robustis coalitis, munite. 
Long. corp. 3} mm. Exp. alar. antic. 833 mm. 
Hab. In Epiro rubis exsiccatis intra Kumenidarum 
cellulas in quibus proles educatur; necnon in Corcyra 
ficus ramis siccis hibernans. 
In Mus. Britann., Hopeiano Oxonie, et nostro. 
Scleroderma gracilis, n. 8. 
Luteo-fulva, nitida, capite elongato, disco bivittato ; 
oculis parvis nigris vix compositis; antennis brevibus 
tenuibus, flavescentibus ; thorace antice valde attenuato, 
postice capite paulum angustiore, dimidio longiore, 
femoribus luteo-flavis, tibiis tarsisque pallidioribus ; ab- 
domine capitis thoracisque longitudine coequah. Ocelli 
aleeque obsoleti. Long. corp. 8 mm. 
(An hujus speciei?) Alatus, ocellatus, rufo-fulvus, 
nitidus, capite fusco, tarsis pallidis, alis hyalinis, venis 
flavis basi infuscatis. Caput mediocre, subrotundatum, 
antice productum, ore flavo, oculis compositis magnis 
rotundis argentatis, ocellis tribus albidis. Thorax gibbus 
elongatus antice attenuatus, mesonoto capite paullum 
latiore, metanoto tenuiore. Abdomen thoracis dimidio 
vix longius, mesonoto parum latius, postice fuscescente. 
Long. corp. 24 mm. Exp. alar. antic. 4} mm. 
