194 tARAipITIC HYMENOPTERA, 111., 



separated at the apex by a short wide keel : it occupies the 

 basal three-fourths of the segment. Suturiform articulation 

 smooth, narrow. Legs densely pilose, hind tarsi with a dense, 

 longish, stiff, black pile : base of fore-tarsi and fore tarsal 

 joints broadly testaceous. $ . Length, 6 : lerebra, 1 mm. 



Reedy Creek, near Inverell, N.S.W. Caught on the wing. 

 (8th November; W. W. Froggatt). 



Abdomen longer than the head and thorax united. Pubes- 

 cence white, sparse, denser on metanotum. First abdominal 

 segment twice longer than it is wide at the apex. Hind tibiae 

 densely pilose. 



Bracon levisulcatus, sp.n. 



Black ; head and thorax red, the head of a deeper, darker 

 red than the thorax : sides of first abdominal segment and its 

 ventral surface, and apices of fourth and fifth dorsal white , 

 second and third with a semicircular mark on the basal half, 

 testaceous : legs black, four hinder tibiae and tarsi fus- 

 cous-black, apex of femora, tibiae and tarsi rufo-testa- 

 ceous : wings hyaline, costa and basal nervures black, a])ical 

 and the stigma testaceous : second cubital cellule about thrice 

 longer than wide, recurrent nervure received in first cubital 

 cellule clos3 to first transverse cubital nervure. cf- Length, 

 4 mm. 



Reedy Creek, near Inverell, N.S.W. (September 8th: W. 

 W. Froggatt). 



Smooth and shining ; first abdominal segment twice longer 

 than it is wide at apex, lateral keels stout ; the area on second 

 segment longish-triangular, reaching to the base of the apical 

 fourth, the bordering furrows wide, smooth, separated at the 

 apex, but not by a keel, the area becoming gradually narrow, 

 the furrow smooth. There is not a distinct scutellar furrow. 

 Stemmaticum darker-coloured than tlu rest of the vertex. 

 First abdominal segment one-half longer than wide at the 

 apex ; second square. 



