THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Family LXXVIII.— Braconid/e. 

 Subfamily VIII. — Sigalphinte. Fornicia, Brulle. 



Fornicia annulipes, new species. — $. Length, 4.5 mm. Black, the 

 thorax punctured, the mesonotum with a distinct median carina, and with 

 a smooth, almost impunctate, space on each side of the carina posteriorly, 

 and again near the insertion of the wings ; the scutellum, the mesopleura, 

 and the metathorax are more coarsely punctured or rugulose \ the very 

 short pronotum is acutely toothed at each anterior angle ; the abdomen 

 has only three visible segments and is coarsely longitudinally rugulose, the 

 first segment with a distinct median carina its entire length, the last 

 segment at apex medially excised, with its margin rimmed. The liead is 

 small, transverse, hardly two-thirds the width of the thorax, and is smooth 

 and shining ; the pubescent eyes are whitish ; the ocelli are pale, and 

 arranged on a slight curved line ; the pal])i, except the first two joints, 

 the front knees, tibiae and tarsi, the tips of the middle tibia?, 

 and the base of the tarsi, more or less, are honey-yellow ; 

 the tibial spurs are white, while the middle and hind tibiae have a 

 broad white annulus at base ; rest of the legs mostly black. Wings 

 hyaline, faintly dusky towards apex, the stigma and veins brown-black. 



Type.— No. 8i2r,U. S. N. M. 



Manila. (Father Brown.) 



Subfamily XV. — Braconin^. 



Tribe III. — Euurobraconini. 



Brownius, new genus. 



This interesting new genus is named in honour of Father Robert E. 

 Brown, S. J., to whom I am indebted for several sendings of Philippine 

 Hymenoptera, among which were many new species in families and 

 genera not before known to occur in the Archipelago. 



Probably most Hyraenopterists would have described this Braconid 

 in Brulle's genus Spinaria, as I find some of the described Spinarice 

 really belong to Broumius. This new genus, however, falls into my tribe 

 Euurobraconini; while Spinaria, Brulle, as I shall restrict it, will fall into 

 the tribe Braconini. 



Brownius has the venation much as in the genus Bracon, except that 

 the submedian cell is much longer thau the median ; the recurrent nervure 

 is received by the first cubital cell very near its apex ; the second cubital 

 cell is longer than wide, but shorter than the first or the third ; the head 

 is obtrapezoidal with the occiput and temples immargined ; the proihorax 

 is bidentate anteriorly and armed above with a long acute, erect spine on 



