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tibiaej pale honey-yellow; abdomen sculptured almost precisely as that of Bel- 

 fragei, extreme apex blackish. Length .23 inch. 



One specimen. (Coll. G-. W. Belfrage.) 



Bracon tcxanus, n. sp. 



9. — Long, narrow, uniformly yellowish-ferruginous, tips of mandibles 

 black; flagellum dusky, blackish at tips; metathorax rugulose centrally; 

 wings short and narrow, pale fusco-hyaline, a hyaline streak iu first cubital 

 cell and a spot beneath it, stigma subhyaline ; tips of tarsal joints dusky ; abdo- 

 men long, narrow; first segment rugose, with a large central prominence 

 nearly as wide as the segment, apical corners depressed ; second segment long, 

 divided centrally by a very deep transverse finely crenulated groove, anterior 

 to which the middle is occupied by a large, depressed, subrhomboidal, rugose 

 space with a central longitudinal carina., sides obliquely depressed and ob- 

 liquely aciculated, on each side of ' basal margin a small triangular shining 

 space; apical half of second segment obliquely aciculated, smooth and polished 

 on apical margin and with a shining prominence on each basal corner; third 

 segment with fine oblique striae; apical segments smooth and polished; ovi- 

 positor longer than body. Length .33 inch. 

 Two specimens. (Belfrage.) 



Bracon imperils, n. sp. 



£> . — Small, black, shining; head transverse, subbuccate; space beneath 

 eyes, mouth and mandibles honey-yellow; thorax smooth and shining, upper 

 margin of prothorax more or less pale ; wings fuliginous, apical half subhya- 

 line, the usual hyaline streak in first cubital cell and spot beneath ; legs honey- 

 yellow, coxae, trochanters, four anterior femora above, apex of four posterior ti- 

 biae and the tarsi, black or blackish; abdomen broad ovate, smooth and shining, 

 the central transverse groove on second segment deep and sinuate, sometimes 

 the prominent disc of first segment and a spot on basal middle of second seg- 

 ment are black; ovipositor as long as body. Length .15 inch. 

 Three specimens. (Belfrage.) 



Bracon minimus, n. sp. 



% 9. — Minute, black, shining; mouth honey-yellow; wings pale fuscous, 

 apical half subhyaline; legs blackish, tips of four anterior femora and base of 

 posterior tibiae dull yellowish; abdomen rather broad ovate, shining, honey- 

 yellow, disc of first segment, a spot on basal middle of the second and a large 

 mark, much reduced in %, covering apical half of second segment, and the re- 

 maining segments except lateral margin, black ; ovipositor of 9 longer than 

 body. Length .10 inch. 



Two specimens. (Coll. Gr. W. Belfrage.) This is the smallest 

 species of this genus known to me. 



Bracon xanthostigma, Cress. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, iv., p. 303. 



9. — Yellowish-ferruginous or honey-yellow, head much paler, shining, 

 abdomen opaque; a dusky spot within ocelli; antennae dusky; pleura beneath, 

 sometimes the disc of metathorax and of first abdominal segment, black ; 

 wings pale fusco-hyaline, paler on apical half, stigma larger, pale yellow; tips 

 of posterior tibiae and the tarsi more or less obfuscated; abdomen broad ovate, 



