NO. 2178. TEE GENUl^ nRACON FABRICWS— MORRISON. 329 



almost blackish; fore and middle claws deeply cleft, hind, toothed; 

 with 1-2 spines at apex of middle tibiae, and with three apical spines 

 at end of hind tibiae. 



Abdomen. — Three mm. long, honey-yellow, most of the first two 

 segments darker, the sides and dorsum of the first segment blackish 

 to behhid the spiracles, the first segment relatively broad at its apex 

 m comparison to its length, not flattened but gradually elevated 

 caudally till near the hind margin, then rather sharply rounded off; 

 the fossa at its attachment to the propodeum broad, deep, and rela- 

 tively long, the sides parallel for a little distance; the spiracles set 

 on small protuberances; ovipositor yellow, sheaths dark reddish 

 bro\\Ti, length, 3 mm. 



Male. — The male closely resembles the female except m the follow- 

 ing characteristics: Color: With the exception of a little along the 

 upper border of the lobes of the pronotum and on the upper third of 

 the front part of the mesopleurae, there is no light color on the 

 plem-ae, while the abdomen is uniform reddish-yellow in color: Struc- 

 ture: The profile of the face is different, the sides of the labrum more 

 nearly angulate, the groove runnmg downward from between the 

 antennal plates is very short and the whole middle of the face is 

 shghtly depressed below the end of the groove; the mesopleural fur- 

 row is a little longer, and runs upward instead of horizontally; the 

 transverse carinae connectmg the longitudinal ridges of the propo- 

 deum are more irregular and less distinct than m the female. 



Described from two specimens, 1 female and 1 male, labeled "Nev." 

 and from the collection of the American Entomological Society, but 

 m the possession of the United States National Museum. This 

 species was given the manuscript name of discoidea by Ashmead. 



Type.—Csii. No. 20478 U.S.N.M. 



BRACON ASHMEADI, new species. 



Size rather small for the genus, length 6 mm., black, abdomen red, 

 hmd angles of metathorax produced into a rather prominent verti- 

 cally compressed lobe. 



Female. — Head. — Triangular, slightly wider than high; height, 

 49; width, 51; height of eye, 26; malar space, 20; width between 

 eyes, 26; width at bottom of head, 16; mterantennal plates dis- 

 tinctly separated; face below these triangularly flattened for one- 

 third of its length and with a median groove from the interantennal 

 plates dividing most of its length ; ridges around the antennal fossae 

 not very promment, highest opposite or a Uttlc behind the middle of 

 the median ocellus, continuous to the lateral oceUi, or slightly obso- 

 lete, just before reachmg them; profile of face nearly straight below 

 the flattened area; face rather closely pimctured and hairy in the 

 middle just below the antennae, more sparsely and finely punctate 



