230 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



Bracon Panzer. 

 Key to Species. 



1. Wings with a triangular areolet 2 



Wings with a quadrangular areolet 4 



2. Reddish; wings fuscous; front vertex and occiput mostly- 



black 3 



Black; fore and mid femora partly, their tibiae and their tarsi 

 wholly, brownish stramineous; hind femora brownish 

 stramineous at tip, their tibiae dark brown, with the ex- 

 ception of nearly all of the basal two-thirds, which is 

 brownish stramineous except for brownish annulus near 

 the base; wings fuscous. Length 2 mm. (male) . . . .solidaginis 



3. Legs blackish, hind coxae partly reddish, their femora red- 



dish, blackish at base; dorsum of thorax stained with 

 black; length 3 mm. (male and female); exserted portion 



of ovipositor 3 mm. long sassacus 



Fore and mid legs blackish, except coxae, which are reddish, 

 and femora, which are partly brownish stramineous; hind 

 legs reddish, except tibiae and tarsi, which are dark; dor- 

 sum of thorax reddish throughout (male) branfordensls 



4. Thorax black or red, or black with metapleurae and pro- 



podeum partly red 5 



Thorax black and red; black or blackish, except metapleurae 

 and propodeum, hind legs (with exception of trochanters, 

 base and apex of tibiae, and all tarsi, which are black or 

 blackish) and abdomen, all of which are red or reddish; 

 wings fuscus; length i mm; exserted portion of ovipositor 

 3 mm, long semirubra 



5. Thorax red; abdomen red; prosternum, fore and mid coxae 



and trochanters, fore and mid femora at base, hind fem- 

 ora at apex, their tibiae at base and apical half, and the hind 

 tarsr, black or blackish; rest of hind tibiae brown; wings 

 fuscous; length 7 mm.; exserted portion of ovipositor 



3.5 mm. long haematodes 



Thorax black, or with metapleurae and propodeum partly red 6 



6. Abdomen black, except a reddish mark on each side of first 



segment; exserted portion of ovipositor more than 4 mm. 

 long; legs more or less blackish yellow; wings blackish, 

 with a rudimentary hyaline band in middle; length 4 mm.; 



thorax black tibiator 



Abdomen red; propodeum partly reddish; wings blackish; 

 fore and mid legs black; hind legs reddish, with tro- 

 chanters, bases and apices of tibiae and tarsi black; ex- 

 serted portion of ovipositor shorter than the body, which 

 is 7.5 mm. long liberator 



