160 FIGITES CONSOBRIJSUS. 



1. FlGITES SCUTELLARIS. 



PI. YIII, fig. 3. 



Cynips scutellaris, Rossi, F. E. Mant., ii, App., 106. 



Figites scutellaris, Lat., N. H., xviii, 220 ; Gen. Crust. Ins. iv, 



19, and Tab. 12, fs. 4 and 5 ; Gir., Verh. 



z-b. Ges. Wien, x, 152; Reinh., B.E.Z., 



iv, 230. 



Ophion abbreviator, Pz., F. G., 73, 16. 

 Psilogaster tibialis, Htg., Germ. Zeits., ii, 203. 



Black ; the knees, four anterior tibiae, and tarsi reddish ; the tips of 

 anterior tarsi and the hinder pair entirely fuscous; wings hyaline, 

 bare, the nervures piceous. Head rather densely covered with pale 

 pubescence, rugosely punctured, the punctures running into irregular 

 reticulations ; the oral region and vertex in the centre smooth, shining. 

 Thorax sparsely pilose, shining; the lower part of the propleurse longi- 

 tudinally striolated, especially in front ; the/upper part aciculated, and 

 with some scattered punctures, or indistinctly striated in front ; meso- 

 pleura3 longitudinally striolated, the upper part not very strongly 

 behind, in front aciculated. Mesonotum shining, impunctate, the 

 parapsidal furrows complete, and having at the base on the inner side 

 a fine keel running along them to the middle, and a fine furrow on the 

 outer side. Scutellum with large irregular rugose furrows, the central 

 very broad and deep; fove* large, deep, broader than long, finely 

 striated, the apex sharp and rounded, margined. Median segment 

 rugose, pilose, a tubercle at the stigma; looked at from above the 

 middle segment is seen to have two blunt tubercle- like teeth on either 

 side. The abdomen not much longer than the thorax ; the petiole and 

 the basal segment longitudinally striolated. Wings transparent, milky 

 white, glabrous, the edges without a fringe ; radial cellule somewhat 

 longer than broad; the first abscissa of radius longer than the second; 

 areolet incomplete ; the apical nervure only present, spurious nervures 

 completely absent. 



The <$ has the third joint of the antennas cylindrical, the second 

 abdominal segment striolated. 



Length 3 5 m.m. ? ; $ 3 4 m.m. 



Bred from pupa of Sarcophaga striata. Clydesdale, 

 Dumfries, Ayrshire, London district. 



Continental distribution : Sweden, Germany, Hol- 

 land, France, Pyrenees, Italy, Dalmatia. 



2. FIGITES CONSOBRINUS. 

 Plate YIII, fig. 4. 



Figites consobrinus, Gir., Yerh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, x, 153; 

 Reinh., B. E. Z., iv, 232; Thorns., Oef., 

 xviii, 415. 



Black; the knees, the four anterior tibia3 and tarsi reddish, more or 



