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tibiae, pale honey-yellow; abdomen sculptured almost precisely as that of iJe/- 

 fragei, extreme apex blackish. Length .23 inch. 

 One specimen. (Coll. G. W. Belfrage.) 



Bra(>on texanus, n. sp. 



9. — Long, narrow, uniformly yellowish-ferruginous, tips of mandibles 

 black; flagellum dusky, blackish at tips; metathorax rugulose centrally; 

 wings short and narrow, pale fusco-hyaline, a hyaline streak in first cubital 

 cell and a spot beneath it, stigma subhyaline ; tips of tarsal joints dusky ; abdo- 

 men long, narrow; first segment rugose, with a large central prominence 

 nearly as wide as the segment, apical corners depressed ; second segment long, 

 divided centrally by a very deep transverse finely crenulated groove, anterior 

 to which the middle is occupied by a large, depressed, subrhomboidal, rugose 

 space with a central longitudinal carina., sides obliquely depressed and ob- 

 liquely aciculated, on each side of basal margin a small triangular shining 

 space; apical half of second segment obliquely aciculated, smooth and polished 

 on apical margin and with a shining prominence on each basal corner; third 

 segment with fine oblique striae; apical segments smooth and polished; ovi- 

 positor longer than body. Length .33 inch. 

 Two specimens. (Belfrage.) 



-t Bracon niiperiis, n. sp. 



9. — Small, black, shining; head transverse, subbuccate; space beneath 

 eyes, mouth and mandibles honey-yellow; thorax smooth and shining, upper 

 margin of prothorax more or less pale; wings fuliginous, apical half subhya- 

 line, the usual hyaline streak in first cubital cell and spot beneath ; legs honey- 

 yellow, coxae, trochanters, four anterior femora above, apex of four posterior ti- 

 bias and the tarsi, black or blackish ; abdomen broad ovate, smooth and shining, 

 the central transverse groove on second segment deep and sinuate, sometimes 

 the prominent disc of first segment and a spot on basal middle of second seg- 

 ment are black; ovipositor as long as body. Length .15 inch. 

 Three specimens. (Belfrage.) 



^ Bracon minimus, n. sp. 



% 9- — Minute, black, shining ; mouth honey-yellow; wings pale fuscous, 

 apical half subhyaline; legs blackish, tips of four anterior femora and base of 

 posterior tibite dull yellowish; abdomen rather broad ovate, shining, honey- 

 yellow, disc of first segment, a spot on basal middle of the second and a large 

 mark, much reduced in %, covering apical half of second segment, and the re- 

 maining segments except lateral margin, black ; ovipositor of f longer than 

 body. Length .10 inch. 



Two specimens. (Coll. Gr. W. Belfrage.) This is the smallest 

 species of this genus known to me. 



-t Bracon xantho»«tigma, Cress. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, iv., p. 303. 



9- — Yellowish-ferruginous or honey-yellow, head much paler, shining, 

 abdomen opaque; a dusky spot within ocelli; antennae dusky; pleura beneath, 

 sometimes the disc of metathorax and of first abdominal segment, black ; 

 wings pale fusco-hyaline, paler on apical half, stigma larger, pale yellow; tips 

 of posterior tibiae and the tarsi more or less obfuscated ; abdomen broad ovate, 



