TORYMIDÆ.
Plate XLV. fig. 2.
Megastigmus dorsalis. ♀
Me. Viridis, flavo variegatus; abdominœ œnco, oviductu corpore breriore, alis subhyalinis, maculû fuscû. (Long, Corp. 1—1½ lin.)
Ich. dorsalis, Fabricius.-Coll, bipunctatis.-Steph. Cat. No. 5352.
Green, abdomen brassy; male with the head in part yellow; antennæ brown; the seape green, with the base and beneath yellow; legs more or less yellow, or pale straw; the apex of the tarsi brown; wings somewhat hyaline, with a large brown stigma: female with the head yellow, green between the eyes, abdomen yellow beneath, the disc brassy-brown.
Common on oaks near Hertford and Ripley, in the autumn.
Plate XLV. fig. 4.
Callimome varians.
Ca. Viridis; nitens: abdomine apice renco, oviductii corpore paullo longiore, pedibus flavis, femoribus supra viridibus aut aucis; alis subfuscis. (Long. Corp. 1-2 lin.)
Ca. varians, Walker.-Steph. Numen. 2d edit.
Green, shining; eyes and occlli red; thorax behind and beneath brassy- green; abdomen with the basal segment green, tinted with copper, the apex brassy; ovipositor rather longer than the body; legs yellow, the thighs above, and sometimes the posterior tibiæ clouded with green or dusky-brass.
Taken near London, in the autumn.
