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Bracon picipes, n. sp. 



Eufous, polished; head, antennae and legs, piceous: wings dark fuscous; ab- 

 domen, short, ovate, second segment broadly and obliquely excavated on each 

 side at base, third segment deeply incised at base, remaining segments not in- 

 cised ; ovipositor longer than the body. 



Female. — Pale rufous, polished ; head globose, piceous, tinged with 

 testaceous on the face; orbits and lower part of cheeks, clothed with 

 pale pubescence; antennas as long as the body, black, basal joint elon- 

 gate, slightly thickened at tip. Thorax smooth and polished ; lobes of 

 the rnesothorax distinct; metathorax smooth and convex, slightly pu- 

 bescent; tegulas black. Wings uniformly dark fuscous, with a hyaline 

 streak within the first submarginal cell, ending in a spot below its tip; 

 nervures and stigma black. Legs piceous, the four anterior coxa; ru- 

 fous at base and beneath. Abdomen short, ovate, polished ; first seg- 

 ment excavated at base and on each side, the middle towards the tip is 

 prominent, subconvex and bordered on each side by an acute longitu- 

 dinal carina, lateral margins reflexed, with the apical angles prominent 

 and acute ; second segment obliquely depressed on each side, more 

 deeply so at base, the basal middle prominent and prolonged behind 

 into a well defined carina which extends nearly to the tip of the seg- 

 ment ; third segment deeply incised at base, and with an oblique im- 

 pressed line on each side at base passing behind the basal angle ; re- 

 maining segments smooth and slightly pubescent; venter concave, the 

 last segment prominent, elongate, acute and slightly curved at tip; 

 ovipositor a little longer than the body, piceous. Length 4 lines ; ex- 

 panse of wings 9 lines. 



Collection. — Ent. Soc. Philad. One specimen. 



Bracon aciculatus, n. sp. 



Rufous: antennae and legs black: wings fuscous; abdomen rough at base, the 

 second, third and fourth segments densely striated longitudinally; head rather 

 transverse; ovipositor shorter than the abdomen. 



Female. — Obscure rufous, shining, slightly pubescent; head rather 

 transverse, black, tinged with rufous around the mouth ; antenna: two- 

 thirds the length of the body, entirely black. Thorax smooth and 

 shining; dorsal lines of the rnesothorax deeply impressed; beneath, 

 just in frout of each anterior coxa, an elongate black space; metatho- 

 rax convex, smooth and polished ; tegulse rufous. Wings uniformly 

 fuscous, with a subhyaline streak in the first submarginal cell and a 

 spot beneath its tip; the outer nervure of the second submarginal cell 

 margined with hyaline; nervures and stigma blackish. Legs, including 

 the coxae, slightly tinged with piceous; tips of the trochanters tinged 

 with rufous. Abdomen broadly ovate, subdepressed, obscure rufous; 



