268 KANSAS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



Bracon piceiceps, n. ep. 



Male. — Length, 2 mm. One of the smallest species in the genus. Head 

 phicing; scape a little longer than the first joint of the flagellum, joints of the 

 flagelium subequal. Tips of the antenrae broken, more than eighteen jointed. 

 Thorax polished, smooth; wings clear, stigma and nervures blackish, first dig- 

 coidal cell petiolate, the petiole nearly as long as the second abcissa of the cubi- 

 tus, first abcissa of the radius a little shorter than the second transverse 

 cubitus ; parapsidal grooves not strongly impressed. Abdomen dullish, granular, 

 first segment convex, bulged in the middle, depressed laterally. Ferruginous; 

 abdomen and legs rather testaceous; head strongly brownish, almost piceous, 

 especially the vertex; antencfe dark brown, almost black; anterior half of dor- 

 sulum and posterior half of abdomen dark brownish; claws and apical tarsal 

 joints brownish. Thinly pubescent, the pubscence fine and whitish. 



Type: University of Kansas. Type locality: Douglas county, Kansas. E. S. 

 Tucker. One specimen. 



Bracon kansensis, n. sp. 



Female. — Length, 3 mm. Head shining except the face which is dull and 

 minutely sculptured ; scape somewhat broader than the pedicellum, a little 

 longer than the first joint of the flagellum. Antennte broken. Thorax shining, 

 dorsulum and pleura polished, metanotum polished, metapleura minutely sculp- 

 tured, dullish ; wings brownish, especially the basal half, nervures and stigma 

 dark brown, second submarginal cell a little more than twice as long as broad, 

 longer on the cubitus than on the radius. Abdomen shining, the first segment 

 minutely sculptured on the sides and with a median impressed Y, apical half 

 with some poorly defined strias in the middle; second segment minutely rugulose 

 with a longitudinal median elevation; terminal segments smooth, sparsely 

 minutely pitted or punctured ; ovipositor nearly one-half as long as the abdomen. 

 Black; legs excepting coxae, trochanters and femora at base brown, the edge of 

 the abdomen and abdominal segments beyond the second brown, triangular lat- 

 eral space, mandibles except castaneous apex and supraorbital line yellow. Pu- 

 bescence silvery, not very abundant except on the parapsidal grooves of the 

 dorsulum and on the metapleura of the thorax where it nearly obscures the 

 tegument. 



Type: University of Kansas. Type locality: Sedgwick county, Kansas. 

 Taken in vineyard, September, 1895. E. S. Tucker. One specimen. 



Bracon xanthostigma Cresson. 



A variable species, usually honey yellow tinted with brown. One specimen 

 has the dorsum of thorax, pectus, dorsum of first abdominal segment and a spot 

 on the base of the second abdominal segment black ; another specimen with the 

 metanotum, dorsum of first abdominal segment and a spot at base of second 

 abdominal segment black ; a third specimen has a large spot on the metathorax 

 black; a fourth specimen has the vertex, thorax excepting pleura and scutellum, 

 dorsum of first abdominal segment, a large proportion of the dorsum segments 

 two, three, four and five black. These specimens seem to represent only color 

 varieties of the typical insect. 



Douglas county, Kansas, May, 1892, W. J. Coleman ; August, 1893, V. L. 

 Kellogg and E. S. Tucker; April and August, E. S. Tucker; and one specimen, 

 F. H. Snow. Morton county, Kansas; June, 1902, F. H. Snow. 



Melanobracon rugosiventris Ashmead. 



Clark county, Kansas, 1962 feet; June, 1903, F. H. Snow. 



