144 Mr. Bridgman's additions to Mr. Marshall's 



longer than wide, the 3rd subquadrate. remainder trans- 

 verse ; styles of male not projecting ; aculeus of female 

 about one-third the length of the abdomen. Legs 

 slender. Areolet pentagonal ; exterior nervure absent ; 

 transverse anal obsoletely divided below the middle. 



Black ; mouth, mandibles, except the red teeth, scape 

 beneath more or less, front coxae almost entirely, apex 

 of middle ones, front and middle and part of hind tro- 

 chanters, pale yellow. Legs straw-coloured ; middle and 

 hinder ones more or less infuscated ; hind coxae black ; in- 

 cision of 2nd and 3rd segments of the male more or less 

 stramineous ; apical margin of segments of female 

 obsoletely pale ; base of wings yellow ; nervures and 

 stigma yellowish white, the former rather the darker. 

 Length about 3 mm. 



This species I have bred from Microgaster cocoons 

 taken in the neighbourhood of Norwich. I have also 

 seen a specimen bred by Mr. G. C. Bignell, which appears 

 to me to differ only in having the spiracles of the 1st 

 segment more prominent ; it may be another species or 

 only a local variety. 



This insect at first sight looks very like small speci- 

 mens of H. fulvipes, both in shape and colour, but 

 differs from it in having the 1st abdominal segment 

 much narrower ; the intermediate segments are gene- 

 rally slightly pale at the apex ; the first three joints of 

 the llagellura of the female are longer than in fulvipes ; 

 and the styles of the male do not project, in fulvipes 

 they are of considerable length. 



Hcmiteles marginatus, n. s. 



Niger, segmentis intermediis abdominis margine pal- 

 lido ; segmentis 1 et 2 aciculatis, pedibus maximis ex 

 parte pallidis. 



Head subbuccated, behind the eyes scarcely narrowed, 

 shining, finely punctate ; antennae about as long as the 

 insect, filiform, in the female the apical half slightly 

 swollen ; female, 1st and 2nd joints of the flagellum 

 about four times as long as wide, the 3rd a little shorter ; 

 male, three first joints subequal, about three times as 

 long as wide. Mesothorax opaque, finely and densely 

 punctate ; scutellum and metathorax shining, the former 

 with a few scattered punctures ; the latter in the female 



