﻿Manchester 
  Memoirs, 
  Vol. 
  xli. 
  (1897), 
  No. 
  13. 
  15 
  

  

  Head 
  ferruginous, 
  the 
  teeth 
  of 
  the 
  mandibles 
  black 
  ; 
  

   rather 
  closely 
  covered 
  with 
  black 
  hair, 
  particularly 
  on 
  the 
  

   face 
  ; 
  the 
  front 
  and 
  vertex 
  smooth, 
  the 
  face 
  smooth 
  in 
  the 
  

   centre, 
  the 
  sides 
  with 
  large, 
  shallow, 
  distinctly 
  separated 
  

   punctures 
  ; 
  the 
  sides 
  of 
  the 
  clypeus 
  have 
  a 
  yellowish 
  hue 
  ; 
  

   the 
  palpi 
  are 
  covered 
  with 
  long, 
  black 
  hair 
  ; 
  the 
  man- 
  

   dibular 
  teeth 
  black. 
  Antennae 
  entirely 
  black 
  ; 
  the 
  scape 
  

   with 
  longish 
  black 
  hair. 
  Pro- 
  and 
  meso-thorax 
  smooth 
  

   and 
  impunctate 
  ; 
  their 
  pleurae 
  and 
  sternum 
  sparsely 
  

   covered 
  with 
  fuscous 
  hairs. 
  The 
  metathorax 
  thickly 
  

   covered 
  with 
  longish 
  black 
  hair 
  ; 
  the 
  upper 
  part 
  almost 
  

   entirely 
  black. 
  The 
  two 
  anterior 
  legs 
  entirely 
  ferruginous; 
  

   the 
  four 
  hinder 
  black 
  ; 
  the 
  intermediate 
  with 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  

   the 
  coxae 
  broadly, 
  and 
  the 
  extreme 
  base 
  and 
  apex 
  of 
  their 
  

   femora 
  ferruginous 
  ; 
  the 
  hinder 
  legs 
  are 
  thickly 
  haired. 
  

   Wings 
  large, 
  uniformly 
  smoky-violaceous 
  ; 
  there 
  is 
  an 
  

   •elongated 
  clear 
  hyaline 
  spot 
  below 
  the 
  first 
  transverse 
  

   cubital 
  nervure. 
  The 
  petiole 
  is 
  deeply 
  depressed 
  at 
  the 
  

   base 
  ; 
  the 
  raised 
  centre 
  bordered 
  along 
  the 
  sides 
  by 
  a 
  

   wide, 
  moderately 
  deep, 
  shallow 
  furrow 
  ; 
  the 
  raised 
  central 
  

   part 
  bearing 
  stout 
  longitudinal 
  keels 
  ; 
  the 
  central 
  being 
  

   stouter 
  and 
  straighter 
  ; 
  at 
  the 
  apex 
  of 
  the 
  segment 
  there 
  

   are 
  shorter 
  keels 
  between 
  the 
  longer 
  ones, 
  or 
  those 
  

   become 
  bifid. 
  The 
  third 
  segment 
  is 
  nearly 
  similarly 
  

   striolated, 
  but 
  with 
  the 
  striae 
  closer 
  together 
  ; 
  and 
  there 
  

   is 
  at 
  the 
  apex 
  an 
  interrupted 
  transverse 
  furrow 
  ; 
  the 
  

   remaining 
  segments 
  shining, 
  smooth 
  ; 
  the 
  ventral 
  surface 
  

   pale-yellowish, 
  the 
  sheaths 
  of 
  the 
  ovipositor 
  thickly 
  

   covered 
  with 
  long 
  hair. 
  

  

  Of 
  the 
  Oriental 
  species 
  it 
  comes 
  nearest 
  to 
  B. 
  fovcatus 
  

   Sm., 
  but 
  that 
  has 
  the 
  ovipositor 
  twice 
  the 
  length 
  of 
  the 
  

   body. 
  

  

  Bracon 
  charaxus, 
  sp. 
  nov. 
  

  

  Niger 
  ; 
  capite, 
  thorace 
  pedihusqiie 
  anticis 
  ferrtigineis 
  ; 
  alis 
  

   fuscis, 
  fere 
  violaceis. 
  2. 
  Long. 
  11; 
  terebra 
  12 
  mm. 
  

  

  