80 Annals of the South African Museum. 



short, the radius ending half-way between the stigma and apex of 

 the wing ; second cubital cellule much narrowed in front, the first 

 and second transverse cubital nervures converging in front. Occiput 

 not margined. Malar space nearly as long as the antennal scape. 

 Mesonotum trilobate. Abdomen narrow, of equal width, longish ; 

 there is no area on the second segment ; it is indistinctly keeled 

 down the middle ; the third and fourth are keeled throughout. 

 Antennae and ovipositor very long. 



This does not fit very well mto any of the sections into which the 

 BraconincB are divided. The Braconini have the transverse median 

 nervure interstitial ; in the Exothecini it is received beyond the 

 transverse basal ; in the Apkraiitohraconini it is as in the present 

 genus ; but then the type and only genus {Aplirastohracon) has the 

 eyes large, extending to the base of the mandibles, there being no 

 malar space ; also it has a long radial cellule, extending to the tip of 

 the wings. 



Odesia longicornis, sp. nov. 



Testaceous, the antennae, tips of mandibles, a large, longish mark 

 on each lobe of the mesonotum, the greater part of the first 

 abdominal segment, a large mark, narrowed towards the apex on 

 the centre of the second and two marks, longer than wide, on the 

 base of the third and fourth segments, black; wings hyaline, the 

 iipex of the anterior from near the second transverse cubital nervure, 

 dark smoky. ? . 



Length 10 mm. ; terebra 20 mm. 



Southern Rhodesia. Sebakwe. 



Face distinctly, but not closely punctured ; a smooth space in the 

 middle below. Pro- and mesothorax smooth; the metanotum, 

 except at the base, closely, distinctly punctured ; the pleurae are not 

 so closely, but fully more strongly punctured. Apex of first 

 abdominal segment in the middle closely, transversely rugose ; the 

 others closely striated-punctured longitudinally ; suturiform articu- 

 lation deep, crenulated ; there is a curved, weakly crenulated furrow 

 on the base of the fourth segment and a weaker one on the fifth. 

 Basal two abscissae of radius equal in length ; both united are shorter 

 than the apical. The second cubital cellule is clearly narrowed in 

 front ; the recurrent nervure is interstitial. 



