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entircl}' black, with the spurs testaceous. The ventral 

 surface testaceous. 



A cHstiuct species. The abdominal spines are not so 

 strongly developed as usual. 



Bracon PAUPERATUS, sp. nov. 



Luieiis, aiitewiis nigris ; alls flavo-Jiyaliiiis, macula 

 sub-stigviaticali fusca. 9 • 



Long. 10 ; terebra 9 mm. 



Scape of antenn.'t covered with bright fulvous hairs. 

 Front and vertex smooth and shining ; the latter sparsely 

 covered with long fuscous hairs; the frontal furrow is wide 

 and deep ; the face thickly covered with long fulvous 

 hair; the upper part of the clypeus is bordered by a distinct 

 keel on the sides. The apex of the mandibles black ; 

 palpi fulvous. Thorax smooth and shining ; the base of 

 the middle lobe of the mesonotum raised in the middle 

 and bordered by furrows ; the furrow on the mesopleura; 

 is wide, curved, and reaches from the base to the apex ; 

 the furrow on the metapleura^ is wide, deep at base and 

 apex. Legs thickly covered w^ith fulvous pubescence. 

 Wings yellowish hyaline, the apex smoky ; at the base 

 of the stigma is an oblique cloud which extends to the 

 recurrent nervure and is continued narrowly along the 

 nervure on to the prodiscoidal cellule; the second cubital 

 cellule is not much shorter than the third. Petiole smooth ; 

 the central part obscurely shagreened and keeled down the 

 middle ; the basal plate on the second segment is smooth; 

 its keel does not reach to the apex ; the space on either 

 side of it is obliquely striated ; the securiform articulation 

 is longitudinally striated ; the apical segments are covered 

 with loncf fulvous hair. 



