536 M. W. R. de V. GRAHAM 



edge of the eyes ; scape more than three quarters as long as an eye, reaching the level of the 

 vertex or slightly above it ; combined length of pedicellus and flagellum about equal to breadth 

 of head ; pedicellus (profile) i-8 to 2 times as long as broad, from slightly shorter to very 

 slightly longer than the first funicular segment ; funicle cylindrical or nearly so, slightly stouter 

 than the pedicellus ; first funicular segment 1-3 to 1-7 times as long as broad, sixth quadrate ; 

 clava slightly longer than funicular segments five plus six ; sensilla fairly numerous, in two 

 rows on each funicular segment, or in one irregular row on the distal segments. 



Thorax 1-4 to 1-5 times as long as broad. Pronotal collar distinctly less wide than the 

 mesoscutum, medially from one seventh to slightly more than one sixth as long as the meso- 

 scutum, rather coarsely reticulate especially in the middle, subhorizontal, its front edge abrupt 

 and often weakly and irregularly margined in the middle. Mesoscutum i-6 to 1-7 times as 

 broad as long, finely reticulate, rather more coarsely on the disc. Scutellum about as broad as 

 long, with reticulation like that of the mesoscutum, but on the front part of the scutellum 

 rather finer. Propodeum in general shape much like that of dispar (Text-fig. 383), medially 

 about half as long as the scutellum and distinctly produced beyond the bases of the hind coxae ; 

 median area 1-5 to 1-7 times as broad as long, its panels not very shiny, very finely and almost 

 uniformly reticulate ; costula absent ; median carina complete, or incomplete and irregular ; 

 plicae distinct throughout, basally subparallel, strongly sinuate medially, then becoming sub- 

 parallel on the sides of the nucha ; nucha occupying one third the length of the propodeum or 

 slightly more, with very fine, slightly raised reticulation whose areoles are slightly elongated 

 in the transverse axis ; spiracles oval, about 1-5 times as long as broad, slightly separated from 

 the metanotum ; spiracular sulci distinctly impressed, with some punctures or transverse 

 costulae ; callus alutaceous, rather shiny, moderately thickly pilose. Postspiracular sclerite 

 narrow, shiny, nearly smooth, with an impression along its front edge. Mesepisternum moder- 

 ately finely, though strongly, reticulate, with a mainly smooth subtriangular area below the 

 base of the hindwing ; mesepimeron and metapleuron rather more coarsely reticulate. Legs 

 rather short, moderately stout. Fore wing with upper surface of costal cell bare, lower surface 

 with a complete row of hairs and some additional ones scattered over the distal third ; basal 

 cell bare, open below ; basal vein with two to nine hairs ; speculum open below, on upper 

 surface of wing not extending below the marginal vein except as an extremely narrow bare 

 line ; wing beyond the speculum moderately thickly pilose, the area between the postmarginal 

 and stigmal veins pilose ; apical margin ciliate ; marginal vein 1-35 to 1-5 times as long as 

 the stigmal vein ; postmarginal vein as long as, or slightly longer than, the marginal ; stigmal 

 vein slightly curved, stigma small and oval or subcircular. 



Gaster long-ovate or sublanceolate, as long as or slightly longer than head plus thorax, 2 to 

 2-25 times as long as broad, acute and usually slightly acuminate apically, not or only slightly 

 narrower than the thorax ; basal tergite occupying about one quarter of the total length ; 

 last tergite slightly shorter than, or as long as, its basal breadth ; ovipositor sheaths slightly 

 exserted ; hypopygium extending about half way along the gaster. 



o*. Unknown. 



Holotype $. England : Oxfordshire, Otmoor, 8.ix.i956, swept from flowers of 

 Angelica sylvestris L. (Graham), in Hope Department, University Museum, Oxford. 



Paratypes. Same locality as holotype $, 1 $, 25.viii.1g56, 1 $, 29.viii.1956, 

 2 $, 8.IX.1956, 1 $, 20. ix. 1956, all swept from flowers of Angelica sylvestris L. 

 (Graham), in Graham collection. 



Species sola 

 Habrocytus hieracii Thomson 



? Pteromalus aurantiacus Ratzeburg, 1852 : 242 " $ " \recte £\. 

 Habrocytus hieracii Thomson, 1878 : 128, 6* ?• 



