COLLECTED AT BACUIAN, KAISAA, ETC. 141 



of the thorax striated ; the wings hyahne ; the nervures ferruginous; 

 the first submargiual cell with a semicircular colourless space near its 

 apex marked on one side with a dark line ; the legs pale ferruginous, 

 their coxae black. The abdomen dark rufo-fuscous, with the two basal 

 segments black ; the abdomen covered with a dense griseous pile. 



Hab. Bachian. 



This species may possibly be a variety of 0. univittatus of BruUe. 



2. Ophion unicolor. 0. rufo-fen-ugineum j metathorace arcuate 

 striato ; alis hyalinis. 



Female. Length 10 lines. Rufo-ferruginous ; the mesothorax and 

 scutellum very smooth and shining ; wings hyaline and iridescent, 

 the nervures rufo-fuscous ; the raetathorax with a divergent arcuate 

 striation ; abdomen smooth and shining. 



Hab. Bachian. 



3. Ophion insinuator. 0. rufo-ferrugineum ; abdominis apice fusco ; 

 metathorace oblique striato. 



Female. Length 8 lines. Rufo-ferruginous ; the face reddish-yellow ; 

 the legs rather paler than the body j the wings hyaline and iridescent ; 

 the nervures fuscous ; the mesothorax and scutellum smooth and 

 shining ; the metathorax with strong even stria;, which diverge ob- 

 liquely from the centre ; the third and following segments of the 

 abdomen rufo-fuscous. 



Hab. Kaisaa. 



Fam. BKACONID^, Westw 



Gen. Bracon, Fahr. 



1. Bracon tricolor, Gue'r. Voy. Coq. Zool. ii. 199. 

 Hab. Dory. 



2. Bracon jaculatus. B. niger ; capite, thorace, ))edibusque anticis 

 et intermediis ferrugineis ; alis nigris. 



Female. Length 7 lines. The head, the pro- and mesothorax, the scu- 

 tellum, ))ostscutellum, and the anterior and intermediate legs ferru- 

 ginous; the flagellum, intermediate coxaj and trochanters, posterior 

 legs, metathorax, and abdomen black ; the wings nigro-fuscous. The 

 head and thorax smooth and shining ; the metathorax with a central 

 diamond-shaped impression, and an imjjressed line on each side of it. 

 Abdomen rugose ; the basal segment with a central and lateral ini- 

 ])ressed line ; the second segment with two central longitudinal and 

 lateral oblique carina: ; the fifth and following segments smooth and 

 shining; the ovipositor a little longer than the body. 



Hab, Bachian. 



3. Bracon quadriceps. B. rufesccnti-flavus; antcnnis, tibiis, tarsisque 

 posticis nigris ; alis nigro-fuscis, nnicnla hyalina. 



Female. Length 7^ lines, lleddish-yellow, smooth and shining; the 



