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  Braconidce. 
  49 
  

  

  40. 
  Opius 
  comatus, 
  Wesm. 
  

  

  0. 
  comatus, 
  Wesm., 
  Nouv. 
  Mem. 
  Ac. 
  Brux., 
  1835, 
  

   p. 
  145, 
  pi. 
  ii., 
  fig. 
  7 
  (wing) 
  ; 
  Hal., 
  Ent. 
  Mag., 
  

   iv., 
  215, 
  <? 
  ? 
  . 
  

  

  5 
  . 
  Black 
  ; 
  head 
  thinly 
  beset 
  with 
  long 
  hairs 
  ; 
  face 
  strongly 
  

   carinated, 
  pieeous 
  or 
  sometimes 
  testaceous 
  in 
  the 
  middle, 
  slightly 
  

   rugulose 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  rounded 
  in 
  front, 
  separated 
  from 
  the 
  mandibles 
  

   by 
  a 
  semicircular 
  interval 
  ; 
  palpi 
  pale, 
  elongate. 
  Antennae 
  about 
  

   as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  body, 
  21 
  — 
  23-jointed, 
  testaceous 
  towards 
  the 
  base, 
  

   the 
  joints 
  fusco 
  -punctate 
  at 
  the 
  apex, 
  the 
  terminal 
  joints 
  fuscous 
  ; 
  

   3d 
  joint 
  elongate. 
  Mesothoracic 
  sutures 
  distinct, 
  punctate, 
  con- 
  

   verging 
  to 
  a 
  point 
  before 
  the 
  scutellum, 
  which 
  is 
  sometimes 
  testa- 
  

   ceous 
  at 
  the 
  apex. 
  Mesopleurse 
  with 
  a 
  deeply 
  crenate 
  farrow. 
  

   Metathorax 
  somewhat 
  elongate, 
  rugose, 
  reticulated. 
  Wings 
  dull 
  

   hyaline; 
  squamula 
  testaceous; 
  nervm-es 
  and 
  stigma 
  fusco-testa- 
  

   ceous, 
  the 
  former 
  very 
  slender 
  ; 
  radial 
  areolet 
  reaching 
  the 
  ex- 
  

   tremity 
  of 
  the 
  wing 
  ; 
  2d 
  cubital 
  areolet 
  hardly 
  or 
  not 
  at 
  all 
  attenu- 
  

   ated 
  outwards 
  ; 
  stigma 
  narrow, 
  lanceolate, 
  emitting 
  the 
  radius 
  

   from 
  the 
  middle 
  ; 
  recurrent 
  nervure 
  interstitial 
  ; 
  podiscoidal 
  areolet 
  

   subincomplete. 
  Praebrachial 
  transverse 
  nervure 
  of 
  the 
  hind 
  wings 
  

   inchoate. 
  Legs 
  testaceous 
  ; 
  last 
  joint 
  of 
  the 
  tarsi 
  blackish. 
  Abdo- 
  

   men 
  obovate, 
  subdepressed 
  ; 
  1st 
  segment 
  rather 
  long, 
  obconic, 
  rugu- 
  

   lose, 
  subcarinate 
  in 
  the 
  middle, 
  without 
  visible 
  tubercles; 
  2d 
  

   segment 
  sometimes 
  faintly 
  striated 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  ; 
  suturiform 
  articu- 
  

   lation 
  marked 
  by 
  an 
  indistinct 
  channel, 
  which 
  is 
  often 
  testaceous 
  ; 
  

   3d 
  and 
  following 
  segments 
  black, 
  shining. 
  Terebra 
  subexserted. 
  

   $ 
  . 
  Antennae 
  much 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  body, 
  slender, 
  29 
  — 
  31-jointed, 
  

   testaceous 
  towards 
  the. 
  base 
  ; 
  3d 
  joint 
  very 
  long. 
  Head, 
  including 
  

   the 
  oral 
  parts, 
  testaceous 
  ; 
  stemmaticum 
  and 
  occiput 
  fuscous. 
  

   Prothorax 
  testaceous, 
  obscure 
  on 
  the 
  sides. 
  Under 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  

   fore 
  wings 
  is 
  often 
  a 
  dull 
  testaceous 
  spot, 
  and 
  another 
  on 
  the 
  meso- 
  

   notum 
  ; 
  the 
  mesothoracic 
  sutures 
  marked 
  by 
  two 
  testaceous 
  lines. 
  

   Tubercles 
  of 
  the 
  1st 
  abdominal 
  segment 
  more 
  distinct 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  

   $ 
  ; 
  a 
  large 
  or 
  small 
  testaceous 
  spot 
  on 
  the 
  2d 
  segment. 
  Length, 
  

   I 
  — 
  1 
  ; 
  wings, 
  21 
  — 
  3 
  lines. 
  

  

  Var. 
  1. 
  Head 
  and 
  clypeus 
  black 
  ; 
  3 
  apical 
  segments 
  of 
  the 
  

   abdomen 
  rufo-testaceous. 
  Wesmael. 
  

  

  Described 
  by 
  Wesmael 
  from 
  4 
  females 
  and 
  7 
  males, 
  

   taken 
  near 
  Brussels. 
  According 
  to 
  Haliday 
  it 
  is 
  some- 
  

   what 
  rare 
  in 
  shady 
  groves 
  of 
  England 
  and 
  Ireland. 
  I 
  

   have 
  captured 
  several 
  females, 
  and 
  Bignell 
  a 
  <? 
  , 
  in 
  

   Devonshire. 
  This 
  species 
  forms 
  the 
  genus 
  Holconotus 
  of 
  

   Forster. 
  

  

  TRANS. 
  ENT. 
  SOC. 
  LOND. 
  1891. 
  PART 
  I. 
  (mAECH.) 
  E 
  

  

  