338 PAHASITIC HYMENOPTERA, I., 



yellow spot, at base laterally, of the same colour. Wings 

 hyaline, iridescent, stigma and nervures black, areolet almost 

 appendiculated in front, recurrent nervure received at apex ; 

 transverse median nervure interstitial. Length, 10mm. 



Mittagong, N.S.W. ; in January (W. W. Froggatt). 



Head smooth, upper part of thorax closely punctured, 

 except for a smooth space in middle of metanotum at base ; 

 pleurae almost impunctate ; abdomen, except the last segment, 

 more strongly and quite as closely. Basal slope of first abdo- 

 minal segment obliquely sloped, and margined on sides of 

 slope, which is narrowed above. 



This species is very similar in colouration and clothing of 

 the body to the type of the genus, P. albobcdtenta Cam., 

 from Ceylon, which is, as the name denotes, a parasite on the 

 moth Psyche . The small black spot on the sides of the bands 

 on the second to fourth segments is also present in the 

 Ceylonese species, but the colouration of the legs in that is 

 very different ; and it is smaller. 



BRACONID.^. 

 Braconiii£e. 



Platybracon nigriceps, n.sp. 



9 ■ Rufo-luteous ; antenna, head, hinder tarsi, and sheath 

 of ovipositor black ; mandibles, except the tips, and tarsi 

 rufo-testaceous ; wings rufo-testaceous to near the transverse 

 basal and transverse median nervure, dark fuscous beyond, 

 except the greater part of the first cubital cellule, the 

 blackish part in the apex of the latter being triangular ; a 

 small hyaline cloud running along outer part of stigma from 

 the commencement of the black apical part to the radius : 

 stigma yellowish-ochraceous, apical fourth black ; third 

 abscissa of the radius as long as the basal two united, second 

 cubital cellule thrice longer than wide ; recurrent nervure 

 received in the apex of first cubital cellule. Central part of first 

 abdominal segment and centre of lateral finely, closely 

 striated; second, third, and fourth more strongly striated. 



