302 [Apr it, 



One specimen. Easily recognized by the small slender form, and 

 the bright orange-colored abdomen and its sculpture. 



'5. Bracon uniformis, n. sp. 



Uniform honey-yellow, polished; antennae, mouth, wings, base of legs, and 

 posterior tibiae and tarsi, black; ovipositor longer than the body. 



Female, — Uniform honey-yellow, smooth and polished, rather thickly 

 clothed with a pale pubescence; head small, subtransverse ; tips of 

 mandibles, labruin. palpi and antennae, black; mesothorax distinctly 

 trilobed ; scutellum and metathorax smooth and polished, the latter 

 broadly rounded behind. Wings dark fuliginous, with a subhyaline 

 dash beneath the stigma, slightly iridescent; nervures and stigma black; 

 second submarginal cell twice longer than broad, the terminal nervure 

 hyaline on each side. Legs honey-yellow; most of the four anterior 

 coxae, tips of their femora, most of the trochanters, and the posterior 

 tibiae and tarsi, black. Abdomen robust, convex, elongate-subovate, 

 arcuated; basal segment broad, depressed, with a large, rounded, ele- 

 vated space on the middle ; second segment with a rather large, flat- 

 tened, broadly sublanceolate space on the basal middle, enclosed by a 

 finely striated, impressed line whirl) continues obliquely on each side 

 to the lateral margin ; basal incisure of the third segment finely striated, 

 with a slight swelling on each basal corner ; remaining segments smooth 

 and highly polished ; ovipositor half again as fong as the body, rufo- 

 piceous, valves black. Length 4 lines; expanse of wings 7 lines. 

 One specimen. 



7. Bracon croceus. n. sp. 



Pale honey-yellow: antennae, breast and legs, black; wings fuliginous ; ovi- 

 positor longer than the body. 



Female. — Uniform pale honey-yellow, smooth and polished, thinly 

 pubescent ; face tinged with yellowish ; mouth, tips of mandibles, palpi, 

 spot enclosing ocelli, and the antennae, black; mesothorax distinctly 

 trilobed, the middle lobe broad and somewhat depressed in front; 

 pleura beneath, between the four anterior legs, black. Wings uniform 

 fuliginous, with an obsolete subhyaline dash beneath the stigma. Legs, 

 including the coxae, black; tips of anterior femora, their tibiae and tarsi, 

 base of posterior coxae, and extreme tips of four posterior tibiae, honey- 

 yell >w. Abdomen sometimes orange-yellow, especially at tip and be- 

 neath, sculptured like that of B. uniformis, except that the swelling 

 on the first segment is ovate, and the third segment has a deeply im- 

 pressed, oblique line on each side, making the swelling on each basal 

 coiner much more prominent; ovipositor longer than the body, honey 



