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$. Agrees with the description of the type except as follows:) 

 Length 6 mm. ; reddish brown orbital line not extending as far as half- 

 way down along the inner eye-margin, twenty-eighth and following! 

 joints of the flagel apparently a little longer than thick, penultimate 

 joint apparently as long as thick, last joint apparently twice as long as 

 thick; second abscissa of the discoidal vein distinctly shorter than the 

 third abscissa of the discoidal vein, nervellus angulated a little above 

 the middle ; hind femora blackish along the edge between the great 

 tooth and the apex of the femur; areola nearly twice as long as broad, 

 the dorsal, abdominal blackish streak represented by a basal, median, 

 blackish mark on the third to fifth segments. 



A New Species of Habrobracon (Hym., Braconidae). 



By HENRY L. VIERECK. 



The species of this genus are on record as parasites of many 

 species of moths, the most notable of which is the Mediter- 

 ranean Flour Moth. The host relationship of the present 

 species is unknown. 



Habrobracon diversicolor n. sp. 



Type. No. 124, on deposit at the California Academy of 

 Sciences from the University of California. Type-locality- 

 Berkeley, California. 



9 Type. Length 2.5 mm.; related to H. variabilis Cushman ; black 

 and finely sculptured, a yellowish, interrupted orbital mark along the 

 inner and upper eye-margin, lowest part of the outer eye-margin with 

 a brownish mark, a brownish mark on each side of the face adjoining 

 the antennal scrobes, clypeus and lower edge of malar space brownish, 

 mandibles yellowish with dark tips, scape blackish, pedicel and lower 

 half of flagel dark brownish, apical half of flagel blackish, flagellar 

 joints subequal, the first joint the longest and the last joint the shortest, 

 all the joints longer than thick, the first joint at least twice as long as 

 thick. 



Tegulae blackish brown ; wings with a brownish tinge, stigma and 

 veins brownish stramineous, costa brownish; coxae blackish, rest of! 

 legs mostly reddish brown, tarsi, forelegs and mid femora more or less 

 infuscated. 



Abdomen, finely, reticulately sculptured above, smooth, blackish, except 

 for the apical margin of the, first segment, the lateral margin of second 

 to fifth segments inclusive and most of the rest of the third and basal 

 half of the fourth segments, which are reddish brown, seventh segment, 

 ventral segments, yellowish and brownish ; abdomen nearly twice as long- 

 as wide and apparently a little wider than the thorax, sheaths of the ovi- 

 positor apparently two-thirds as long as the abdomen. 



