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about three times as long as the first, the second submarginal cell 

 being a little longer than the first; the recnrreiit nervnie joins the first 

 submarginal cell a little beyond its apical third. Abdomen broadly 

 ovate and shagreened, the segments 2 to 4 subequal. the following a 

 little sliorter. j 



Male. — Length, 2 to 2.5 mm. Agrees with the female, except that I 

 the antenna' are 25-jointed, longer than the body, while segments 3 

 to 5 above are black. i 



Habitat. — Punduloya, Ceylon. | 



Types. — Xo. 32G7, U.S.X.M. Three females and two males, reported [ 

 by Mr. E. Ernest Greeu as having been bred from Tachardia a,ruizzia: 

 It is likely, however, that he was deceived in this, and that the tineid j 

 larva mentioned in the introduction as prejang upon the Tachardia is I 

 in reality the host of this Bracon. 



APHRASTOBRACON, new genus (Ashmead). 



Wings ample, the transverse median nervure received by the median 

 cell before its apex, the submedian cell on the externo-medial nervuie 

 therefore distinctly shorter than the median; marginal cell extending 

 to tip of wing; wings with the submedian cell very short, less than 

 one-third the length of the median. Head transverse, the occiput 

 immargined; eyes very large, occupying the whole side of the head, 

 the face in consequence very narrow; maxillary palpi 5-jointed, labial 

 palpi 3-jointed; otherwise as in typical species of Bracon. 



It is extremely difiicult, according to our present classification, to 

 decide to which subfamily of the Braconida^ this remarkable genus 

 belongs. It belongs to Wesmael's division Cyclostomi, and on account 

 of the immargined occiput is allied to the subfamilies Braconina^ and 

 Exothecina^, but on account of the shortness of the submedian cell, 

 which readily distinguishes the genus from all others yet described, it 

 will not fit into either of these; the former has the submedian and 

 median cells et^ual, while in the latter the submedian cell is the longer. 

 It may therefore represent a new subfamily if the length of these cells 

 is still to be considered of primary importance. 



At present I prefer to place it in the subfamily Braconinte, since 

 I am inclined to believe that too much importance has been given to 

 the length of the basal cells. 



APHRASTOBRACON FLAVIPENNIS, new species (Ashmead). 



^[aJe. — Length, 4,5 mm. Brownish-yellow; eyes black, very large, 

 occupying the whole side of the head and leaving the face very narrow. 

 Antenna^, abont •48-jointed, as long as body, brown-black, the scape 

 and pedicel beneath brownish-yellow; the scape is abont three times 

 as long as thick, the pedicel very small, the first joint of flagellum 

 longer than wide and the longest flagellar joint, the others all being a^ 

 little wider than long. The head and thorax, except the face, which is 



