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Female. — Yellowish, tinged with honey-yellow, shining; head sub- 

 globose, extreme tips of mandibles and a spot within the ocelli, brown- 

 ish ; antennae about as long as the body, fuscous. Thorax smooth and 

 polished; lobes of the mesothorax scarcely defined; metathorax convex, 

 smooth and polished, slightly pubescent, faintly depressed on the disk; 

 tegulae yellowish, with a dusky dot. Wings subhyaline, faintly tinged 

 with dusky, especially at base, iridescent ; nervures and stigma pale 

 testaceous. Legs pale yellowish, tips of the four anterior tarsi, and the 

 posterior legs, more or less dusky. Abdomen broadly ovate, depressed, 

 shining; the segments slightly incised at base, the second segment 

 somewhat excavated on each side of the basal middle, the two apical 

 segments excavated on their disk ; venter concave ; ovipositor one- 

 fourth longer than the abdomen, yellowish, valves fuscous. Length 1^ 

 line ; expanse of wings 4 lines. 



Collection. — Dr. J. Grundlach. Que specimen. 



Allied to B. exiguus, but is a little larger, with longer wings, and the 

 abdomen smooth and not densely punctured as in that species. 



Bracon centralis, n. sp. 



Yellowish; spot on vertex, antennae, legs, and a large mark on the disk of 

 abdomen, occupying nearly the whole of the second and following segments, 

 blackish; wings fusco-hyaline. 



Female. — Head subglobose, shining, honey-yellow; tips of mandibles 

 and a large spot on the vertex enclosing the ocelli, blackish; antennae 

 slightly longer than the body, blackish. Thorax honey-yellow, polished ; 

 lobes of the mesothorax scarcely defined ; metathorax convex, smooth 

 and polished; tegulae pale honey-yellow. Wings uniformly fusco-hya- 

 line ; nervures and stigma fuscous. Legs, including the coxse, black- 

 ish ; tips of the trochanters and of the femora, pale. Abdomen broadly 

 ovate, depressed, polished, pale yellowish, second and following segments 

 above blackish except their lateral margins, which are pale yellowish; 

 segments not incised, the second with a few faint depressions; apical 

 segments gradually narrowed; venter concave, yellowish-white; ovipo- 

 sitor one-half longer than the abdomen, black. Length If line; ex- 

 panse of wings 3i lines. 



Collection. — Dr. J. Grundlach. One specimen. 



Easily distinguished from the other species by the large, black, dis- 

 coidal mark on the abdomen. 



Bracon perparvus, n. sp. 



Yellowish; antennre, disk of metathorax, base and apex of abdomen, fuscous; 

 wings hyaline; abdomen ovate, finely punctured, not excavated. 



Male. — Pale yellowish, faintly tinged with honey-yellow, slightly 



