126 MR. smith's catalogue of HYMENOPTEllOUS INSECTS 



rufo-piceous at the sides, above ; wings fuscous, palest towards their 

 apex, with the stigma yellow ; the intermediate legs with the knees 

 ferruginous. Abdomen opake, finely rugose ; the basal segment with 

 a longitudinal striation, a deeply impressed space at the sides, with 

 the extreme lateral margins, yellow ; the second segment with a small 

 arrow-headed raised shape in the middle of its base and an oblique 

 impressed line on each side ; the two following segments have also 

 oblique impressed Hues at the sides ; the third and fourth segment* 

 with their apical margins straight in the middle and abruptly oblique 

 at the sides. 

 Hab. Singapore. 



12. Bracon foveatus. B. cajnte thorace ])edibusque anticis ferru- 

 gineis, alis nigris, ovipositoreque elongato pubescentibus. 



Female. Length 7 lines. Black: head, thorax, scape in fnmt and the 

 anterior legs, ferruginous ; the face punctured, the thorax smooth and 

 shining ; the mesothorax with two converging longitudinal depressions 

 extending to the scutellum ; the wings dark fuscous ; the intermediate 

 tibiee at their apex in front obscurely ferruginous. Abdomen : the 

 four basal segments longitudinally rugose ; the basal segment with 

 a longitudinal smooth shining depression on each side; the second 

 segment with two triangular smooth depressions and a longitudinal one 

 on each side running onwards and terminating in a large fovea ; the 

 third and fourth segments with a smooth shining fovea on each side, 

 the fifth and sixth segments smooth and shining ; the ovipositor more 

 than twice the length of the insect, and very pubescent. 



Hab. Singapore. 



13. Bracon laboriosus. B.capitethoracequeflavo-variegatis,pedibus 

 anterioribus et intermediis flavis, abdomine annulis flavo-marginatis. 



Female. Length 7 lines. Black : the face, mandibles and cheeks, of a 

 reddish-yellow ; a black triangular spot in the middle of the face. 

 Thorax shining, much narrower towards the head ; a line before the 

 tegulae uniting with a large spot beneath the wings, a transverse 

 space between the posterior v^ings, the metathorax above, the tegulse 

 and legs, yellow ; a transverse black patch at the base of the meta- 

 thorax with a line running backwards from each extremity ; the pos- 

 terior legs black with the knees yellow ; the wings yellowish-hyaline, 

 the nervures pale ferruginous, the apex of the wing sHghtly fuscous, 

 a black spot at the base of the first submarginal cell, the stigma pale 

 ferruginous. Abdomen : the basal segment yellow, with a shining 

 black spot in the middle; the apical margins of the four following 

 segments yellow ; the abdomen yellow beneath, with an elongate black 

 hue on each side of the segments. 



Hah. Borneo (Sarawak). 



14. Bracon crassipes. B. eajjite thorace pedibusque anticc ferrugincis, 



