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blackish, the latter shorter than in the other species, oval, lanceolate, 
widest in the middle, attenuated towards the extremity, emitting 
the radial nervure just before the middle ; radial areolet cultri- 
forra, not reaching the tip of the wing ; 2nd cubital areolet not 
narrowed towards the outer end ; 3rd abscissa almost straight ; 
1st intercubital nervure shorter than the 2nd abscissa ; pobrachial 
areolet of the hindwings hardly longer than half the prsebrachial. 
Legs red ; tips of hind tibise, and their tarsi, obscure. First 
abdominal segment linear, twice as long as its apical breadth, 
finely striolate ; tubercles prominent. Terebra subexserted. 
Male unknown. Length, 2 ; wings, 4 lines. 
Not common ; I took a single specimen in Yorkshire ; 
tlie original type was captured by Walker in the London 
district. 
2. Adelura rufiventris, Nees. 
Bassiis rufiventris, Nees^ Berl. Mag., vi., 1814, 
p. 213, ^. 
Alysia rufiventris, Nees, Mon., i., 253, $ ; Kawall, 
Stett. Zeit., xvi., 1855, p. 231, $. 
Alysia flaviventris, Hal., Ent. Mag., v., 240, ? . 
Adelura rifiventris, Marsh., Species des Hym. d'Eiir. 
et d^Alg., Bracon., vol. ii., p. 421. 
$ . Black, shining ; abdominal segments after the 1st either 
dark red or flavo-testaceous, the posterior segments cinctured 
more or less distinctly with dark bands. Oral parts and palpi 
red. Antennae very slender, one-half longer than the body, 
27-30-jointed, blackish with the two basal joints red or testaceous ; 
3rd joint a little longer than the 4th. Dorsal fovea of the meso- 
thorax minute ; metathorax punctulate. Wings hyaline ; squamula 
yellowish ; nervures and stigma testaceous, the latter linear, scarcely 
reaching the middle of the radial areolet, emitting the radial 
nervure before one-fourth of its length ; radial areolet cultriform, 
reaching the tip of the wing ; 2nd cubital areolet elongate, scarcely 
narrowed towards the outer end. Legs red or yellowish ; claws 
obscure. Abdomen oval ; 1st segment ol)conic, deplanate, black, 
punctulate ; the following segments smooth. Terebra very short. 
$ . According to Kawall differs in having the face, mandibles, 
palpi, and scutellum obscurely luteous ; abdomen pitchy-red ; legs 
pale luteous. Length, f ; wings, 2|- lines. 
Yery rare in England, but taken once by Walker ; 
Gravenhorst found it near Gottingen, and Kavvali briefly 
mentions the male among the insects of Kurland. 
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