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men smooth and shining, the basal segment with a deep fovea ante- 

 riorly, and a convex shape beyond extending to the posterior margin ; 

 the two following segments with an oblique depression on each side. 



Hab. Borneo (Sarawak). 



This species resembles the B. aculeata, Fabr., but differs in not having 

 the thorax narrowed anteriorly, and in having an additional spot on 

 the wings ; the head is also much larger, and in what I consider to be 

 B. aculeata, the two basal joints of the antennae are pale ferruginous. 



6. Bracon perplexus. B. flavus, vertice macula triangular! notato, 

 antennis tarsisque posticis et ovipositore nigris, alis fuscis, dimidio 

 basali flavis. 



Female. Length 6 lines. Yellow : the vertex with a large triangular shape, 

 which extends to the insertion of the antennae, the tips of the mandibles 

 and the antennae, black ; the head smooth and shining ; the thorax 

 smooth and shining, with the posterior tarsi dusky ; wings yellow-hya- 

 line as far as the apex of the externo-medial cell, beyond which they 

 are of a uniform black, not intense in colour, and with an oblong 

 hyaline streak in the first submarginal cell and two ovate ones below ; 

 the stigma yellow at the base. Abdomen : the first segment with a 

 central longitudinal convex shape in the middle, which, as well as the 

 two following segments, is longitudinally striated ; the ovipositor black. 



Hab. Borneo (Sarawak). 



7. Bracon vagatus. B. capite thorace pedibusque anticis et inter- 

 mediis ferrugineis, abdomine maculaque metathoracis nigris, alis fla- 

 vescentibus. 



Female. Length 5 lines. Head, thorax and legs, smooth, shining, fer- 

 ruginous, the antennae black, a fuscous spot on the vertex. Thorax 

 smooth and shining ; the metathorax black above, and the posterior 

 legs black; the wings flavo -hyaline ; a black spot at each end of the 

 stigma ; the apex of the posterior wings and the apical portion of the 

 inferior margin of the superior pair, slightly fuscous. Abdomen : the 

 lateral and apical margins of the basal segment, and the apical mar- 

 gins of the third and following segments, yellow ; the basal segment 

 with a longitudinal deep lateral channel and a central carina; the 

 second segment rugose, with the apical margin and three triangular 

 spaces at the base, smooth, shining, black ; the third segment with an 

 oblique deeply impressed line on each side, the ovipositor black. 



Hab. Malacca (Mount Ophir). 



8. Bracon inquietus. B. capite thorace pedibusque anticis et inter- 

 mediis ferrugineis, abdomine alis maculaque metathoracis nigris. 



Female. Length 9 lines. Head, thorax, anterior and intermediate legs, 

 ferruginous ; the face with a triangular flattened projecting appendage 

 at the base of the clypeus; the antennae black, the head quadrate, 

 smooth and shining. Thorax smooth and shining, with a black spot 

 on the metathorax above; the wings and posterior legs black. Ab- 



