OF.MTSOL, CEEAM, WAIGIOU, BOURU, AND TIMOE. 11 



Female. Length 4| lines. Bright-green, shining; the thorax with 

 rather distant jiunctures on the disk ; the scutellura and metathorax 

 more strongly jjunctured ; the second and third segments with oblique 

 depressions, the first and second punctured. The antennae, from the 

 eleventh to the seventeenth joints, white, elbowed at the eighteenth, 

 and from thence tapering to a point. The anterior legs, trochanters, 

 base of the tibiae, and the tarsi white, the apical joint of the latter 

 black; the wings hyaUne ; the stigma white, the apical half black; 

 the base of the costal nervures white; a fuscous line runs along the 

 apical portion of the externo-medial cell ; a fuscous stain also runs 

 from the base of the marginal cell nearly across the anterior wings ; 

 the apical mai-gins of the third and seventh segments of the abdomen 

 with a white fascia. The male differs in having the antennae simple, 

 the wings without fasciae, the body more elongate, and the abdomen 

 without white marginal fasciae. 



Hab. Mysol. 



Fam. BEACONID^, Westw. 

 Gen. Beacon, Fahr. 



1. Bracon occultator. B. rufescenti-flavus, antennis et oviposi- 

 tore nigris ; alis fuscis, macula hyalina. 



Female. Length 5 lines. The head, thorax, and legs of a clay-coloured 

 yellow ; the abdomen of a ferruginous yellow ; the antennae black, 

 with the scape yellow ; the wings dark fuscous, yellow at the base, 

 with a subhyaline yellow macula beyond the stigma, the nervures 

 testaceous, with the stigma black. The first segment of the abdomen 

 with a deep channel on each side ; the second and third segments 

 with a central longitudinal carina ; the second has besides this a lateral 

 abbreviated carina on each side at its base, and is also irregularly lon- 

 gitudinally striated ; the basal half of the third segment is also striated ; 

 the ovipositor black and as long as the thorax and abdomen. 



Hab. Mysol. 



2. Bracon penetrator. B. niger, capite, thorace pedibusque an- 

 ticis et intermediis ferrugineis ; alis nigro-fuscis, macula hyalina. 



Female. Length 6 lines. The head, thorax, anterior and intermediate 

 legs ferruginous ; the head has a yellowish tinge ; the antennae black, 

 with the scape yellow ; wings dark brown, with a small hyaline ma- 

 cula beyond the discoidal cells, their extreme base reddish yellow ; 

 the posterior legs have the coxae, trochanters, and knees ferruginous. 

 The first segment of the abdomen with a deep longitudinal channel 

 on each side, and a central carina; the second segment coarsely and 

 irregularly striated at the base, and a longitudinal channel at the la- 

 teral margins. 



Hab. Mysol. 



