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NOTES ON SOME PARASITIC HYMENOPTERAy WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF 



NEW SPECIES. 



BY THE EEV. T. A. MAKSHALL, M.A. 



Phtgadeuon scoticijs, n. sp. 



Ph. niger, sub-depressus, capite coriaceo, remote punctulato ; meso- 

 tJioracis disco punctata, paru7n nitido ; alarum squamulis, segmentis 2*° et 

 sequentibus, trochanterum femorumque apicihus, tibiis tarsisque, castaneis ; 

 alis fuscO'hyalinis, stigmate et radio fuscis, radice pallidiore ; areola 

 penfagona, nervo externa obsoleto ; terebra segmento V paulo longiore. 



? Long. 3 — 3^ lin. (terebra excl.) 



Metatborax rugulose ; areolce spiraculiferce and pleurales distinct, 

 the others obsolete. Spiracles orbicular. Carinated margin of the 

 declivity of the metathorax distinct, single, not laterally toothed. 

 Vertex with a broad shining fovea behind the antennje. AntennsB 

 stout, filiform, a little longer than the head and thorax, fuscous. Palpi 

 castaneous. Body sparingly clothed with fulvous hairs. Tubercles of 

 the first segment of the abdomen inconspicuous ; all the segments 

 aciculated, not shining ; the apical segments sometimes slightly infus- 

 cated ; the anus whitish. 



Allied to P. abdominator, Grr., andobscuripes, Tasch {= abdominator, 

 var. 3, G-r.) , but is larger, wanting the white ring of the antenna), and 

 with the abdomen opaque, etc. 



Two specimens from the Black Wood of Eannoch. 



Phtgadetjon eeeatoe, n. sp. 



Ph. niger, abdomine rufo, polito, apice sub-compresso ; segmento V^" 

 nigro, apice rufo ; pedibiis rujis, femoribus 4 posterioribus prceter basin et 

 apicem, tibiis posticis prceter basin, tarsis iisdem totis, nigris ; alis fusco- 

 hyalinis, stigmate et radio fuscis, radice et squamida rufis, areola penta- 

 gona, nervo externa obsoleto ; antennis fusca-ferrugineis, annulo alba ; 

 terebra segmento 1"° paulo longiore. 



$ Long, fere 4i lin. (terebra excl.) 

 Metathorax and vertex as in the preceding. On the inner vertical 

 orbit of each eye, above the antennae, is a rufous line. Antennae mode- 

 rately stout, filiform, fusco-ferruginous, joints 7 — 12 white, joint 7 fus- 

 cous beneath. Palpi rufous. Metathorax and abdomen on the sides 

 with a few pale hairs. Abdomen elongate, impunctate, shining, red ; 

 1st segment black, long, and slender (for a Fhygadeuon), red at the 

 middle of the apex, tubercles not prominent. 



