78 [January 



Bracon intimus, n. sp. 



Rufous; antennae and legs black: wings dark fuscous, posterior pair hyaline 

 at base in 9 >' abdomen broadly ovate, the segments deeply incised at base, se- 

 cond segment carinated down the middle, with a deep excavation on each side 

 at base ; ovipositor longer than the abdomen. 



Female — Rufous, shining; head globose, pubescent; tips of mandi- 

 bles and palpi blackish; antennas longer than the body, blackish-pice- 

 ous. Thorax smooth aud polished ; mesothorax flattened, the lobes not 

 well defined ; scutellum slightly convex ; metathorax small, polished, 

 convex and slightly pubescent, sometimes paler in color than the rest 

 of the body; tegulte rufous. Wings uniformly dark fuscous, the pos- 

 terior pair hyaline at base, anterior pair with an oblique subhyaline 

 streak beneath the base of the stigma ; nervures black. Legs black, 

 pubescent ; the posterior coxae and base of the middle pair rufous. 

 Abdomen short, broadly ovate, polished, depressed ; first segment ex- 

 cavated at base and on each side, swelled on the middle towards the tip, 

 with a longitudinal, sharply defined carina on each side, the lateral 

 margins acute and reflexed towards the tip; second segment with a deep 

 excavation on each side at base, and a slight one on the disk divided 

 down the middle by a carina which proceeds from an elevation on the 

 basal middle, apical margins suddenly rounded on each side ; third 

 segment deeply incised at base, the incisure slightly striated and ex- 

 tending' on each side both before and behind the basal angles which 

 are prominent or tuberculated; the two following segments very deeply 

 incised at base which is more or less concealed ; remaining segments 

 suddenly narrowed and pubescent; venter concave, the terminal seg- 

 ment acute; ovipositor slightly longer than the abdomen, rufous, valves 

 piceous. Length 3 — 3} lines; expanse of wings 7 — 8£ lines. 



Male. — Like the female, except that the antennae are longer, the 

 mesothorax more distinctly lobed, the base of posterior wings not hya- 

 line; the tegulae, disk of metathorax and posterior coxae slightly tinged 

 with dusky, and the abdomen more elongate and gradually narrowed to 

 the apex, with the basal incisures of the third, fourth, fifth and sixth 

 segments striated, more distinctly so on the third segment. Length 3 

 lines; expanse of wings 7 lines. 



Collection. — Ent. Soc. Philad. Two 9 , one S , specimens. 



This seems to be allied to B. erythrxus Brulle, which is described 

 as a Cuban species, and which I have not been able to identify. That 

 species, according to the description, has the metathorax channelled 

 down the middle and the abdomen differently sculptured from the spe- 

 cies above described. 



