228 ' [March, 



P. TELATUS, Duval. 

 L. c, '50 — 'GS mm. Shorter and more hemispheric than I*, alutaceus, piceous, 

 and very shining, very faintly alutaceous, thorax circularly rounded in front ; an- 

 tennae yellow, with the 6th joint very slightly enlarged, legs and apical segments of 

 the venter yellow. 



Found in Spain and in Morocco. 



P. Matthewsii, Beitter. 

 L. c, "50 — "63 mm. Ovate, attenuated in front, exceedingly convex, pale cas- 

 taneous, thorax ovally rounded in front, smooth, and very shining, elytra distinctly 

 punctured, legs and antennse bright yellow. 



Found in Syria. 



At p. IGO, ante, of this Magazine, the following erratum occurs 

 in my description of Corylopliodes \ line 7, from the bottom, insert 

 "1st" before " very." 



Crumley, Market Harborough : 

 December Uh, 1885. 



TWO ADDITIONAL BRITISH SPECIES OF BRACONID^. 

 BY EDWARD CAPRON, M.D. 



Bracon Oostmaeli, Wesm. 



Br aeon Oostmaeli, Wesm., Nouv. Mem. Ac. Brux., 1838, p. 57, ? ; 

 VoUenhoven, Pinacographia, pi. 2-i, fig. 8, ? . 



? . Head black, with reddish spot at the top of the inner orbits, antennae as 

 long as body. Thorax entirely black, metathoracic space very smooth and shining. 

 Abdomen with Ist segment black, remainder rufo-testaceous above and beneath, en- 

 tirely smooth and shining, legs rufo-testaceous, with posterior coxss, extreme base of 

 posterior tibiae, and all the tarsi, black. Wings deeply infuscated, with an angular 

 whitish mark beneath the stigma. Terebra one-fourth the length of abdomen. 



Length, 2 lines. 



<J coloured as the female, but the abdomen has a black spot on the last one or 

 two segments, and is somewhat smaller. Length, If lines. 



Three males and three females taken at Shiere in the summer of 

 1884. 



The deeply infuscated wings contrasted with the pale legs and 

 abdomen make it easily identified. It would come under the Eev. T. 

 A. Marshall's 4th section ; as he appears not to have received it from 

 any of his correspondents, and Wesmael only had one female, it seems 

 to be not a common species. Yollenhoven's^ figure is very character- 

 istic. Among the rarer species I have also taken here a single female 

 of Icetus, and one of Marshall's new species, exaratoVy agreeing en- 

 tirely with his description. 



