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A Scotch example without note of locality. Worcester ; from 

 cones of Abies (J. E. Fletcher). 



Mayr unites T. azureus and T. caudatus, but Thomson 

 regards them as extinct species. My examples appear to show 

 a variation in the length of the ovipositor compared to the 

 length of the body. 



19. TORYMUS BEDEGUARIS, L. 



Ichneumon hedeguaris, Linne, Syst. Nat. ii. 939. 



Torymus forsteri, Ratzburg, Ichn, d. Forstins, i. 1844, 178." 



T. hedeguaris, Mayr, Verb. z.-b. ges. Wien, xxiv. 101 ; 

 Thomson, Hym. Scand. iv. 87. 



Rare in the *'bedeguar" galls of Rhodites rosce. Thomson, 

 Z. c, regards T. druparum, Boh. sec. Mayr, bred from the fruit 

 of Prunus scandica ; and T. elegans, Boh. sec. Mayr = varians, 

 Walker, Ent. Mag. i. 122. 



T. varians, Walker, I am inclined, if I have correctly identi- 

 fied my specimens, to regard as a good species, and probably, 

 as Mayr suggests, identical with T. elegans. Boh. It seems the 

 more likely of T. varians being distinct from the bedeguar 

 species from its different habits, it being a parasite on willow 

 Cecidomyise. 



20. Torymus vallisnierii, sp. nov. 



Viridis, abdomine supra cupreo, subtus testaceo ; alis hyali- 

 nis ; pedibus flavo-testaceis, tibiis posticis infuscatis. 



Long, fere 2 ; terebra 2 mm. 



Clydesdale ; ex galls of Nematus gallicola. West, {vallisnierii, 

 Htg.). 



Scape of antennae testaceous beneath ; the flagellum shining, 

 metallic purple, variegated with green ; the third and fourth 

 joints equal in length. Head dark purple, slightly variegated 

 with green, shining, very minutely punctured. Thorax green, 

 strongly and closely punctured, closely covered with a micro- 

 scopic fuscous pubescence ; the median segment almost impunc- 

 tate, shining, bare, more purplish in tint than the mesonotum. 

 Pleurae green, closely punctured. Legs pallid yellow, the coxae 

 green, except at the apex, strongly punctured; the hinder femora 

 in the middle distinctly, the hinder tibife slightly infuscated ; 

 the apex of the hinder tarsi infuscated ; the longer spur of the 

 hinder tibiae scarcely one-fourth of the length of the metatarsus. 

 Wings clear hyaline ; the nervures yellow. Abdomen dark 

 purple, except the basal segment, which is green, and the sides 

 at the apex which are slightly tinted with green ; the ventral 

 surface at the base broadly testaceous ; the rest green suffused 

 with bronzy tints. 



Comes nearest to T. ahhreviatus, but that is a larger and 

 stouter species, has the ovipositor longer, the thorax and abdo- 

 men much more bronzy and shining, the ventral surface not 



