( 363 ) XIII. A Monogra'ph of British Braconidee. Part VI. By the Rev. Thomas A. Marshall, M.A., F.E.S., Member of the Societe Entomologique de France. [Read February 20th, 1895.] Plate VII. XXIV. ALYSIIDES. (Continued from Ent. Tr., 1894, p. 534.) xiii. AdelurAj Forster. FOrst., Verh. Pr. Rheinl., 1862, p. 267. Maxillary palpi 5-, labial 4-jointed. AntennsB long, slender, multiarticulate ; 4th joint not, or scarcely, longer than the 3rd. Meso thoracic sutures incomplete ; a dorsal fovea before the scutellum ; furrow of the mesopleurce more or le.ss distinct, either punctate or smooth ; metathorax rugulose, without a longitudinal carina. First cubital areolet separated from the 1st discoidal ; 2nd complete ; 1st intercubital nervure shorter than the 2nd abscissa ; stigma elongate, attenuated at both ends, or linear ; recurrent and anal nervures not exactly interstitial ;' pobrachial areolet of the hindwings at least half as long as the prajbrachial prEBbrachial transverse nervure obsolete. Abdomen depressed widened behind in the $ , linear in the $ ■ 1st segment rugulose narrow, linear, with median spiracular tubercles; 2nd and fol lowing segments smooth. Terebra concealed, or very short. Forster invented this genus for the reception of Alysia florimela, Hal., referring the other cognate species to his genera Dcqjsilarthra and Grammosjnla, which he separated widely both from Adelura and from each other. I am acquainted with a new species which can-not be placed in any of those genera, and for which another new genus becomes necessary, if the Forsterian system be accepted. This being objectionable, I have reassembled the scattered species under the heading Adelura, which now represents the primitive Section XII. of Haliday's Alysia, Brachycentri. These species are all closely related, and form a natural group distinguished by their short terebra, and a habit of body resembliuo-that of Dacnusa ; one species indeed is only separable from Dacnusa on account of its three cubital areolets. TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1895. — PART III. (rf.pt.)
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