40 p. CAMERON, HYMEXOPTERA OF THE DUTCH EXPEDITION 



form articulation wide, moderately deep and ereuulated ; there 

 is a narrow, smooth transverse furrow on the base of the 

 3"^ segment. Hypopygium large, sharp pointed at the apex. 

 There is a wide depression, twice longer than wide, on the 

 upper half of the face below the antennœ ; into the centre of 

 its apex projects a a -shaped process, with a hollow in the 

 centre. Palpi pale fulvous. Mandibles fulvous, black at the apex. 

 The head in this species is large, more cubital, more deve- 

 loped behind the eyes than it is in the Braconini, more as in 

 the HecaboUni. 



ßracon etnaellus sp. nov. 



Ferruginous, the antennae, head, mandibles, the apex of the 

 4^'' and the whole of the following abdominal segments, the 

 apex of the hinder tibiœ from near the middle, the apical half 

 of the 1^' joint of the hind tarsi and the whole of the others, 

 black ; wings yellowish hyaline, a broad band extending from 

 the lower part of the transverse basal nervure to the base of 

 the stigma, and one on the apex, commencing near the base 

 of the radius, and bearing a hyaline cloud in the radial cellule 

 in front of the 2"' transverse cubital cellule, dilated more 

 towards the apex than to the base, and extending backwards 

 on eitherside of the 2'"' transverse cubital nervure to the 

 cubitus ; the hind wings are for the greater part fuscous, 

 the base in front to the commencement of the radial nervure 

 and an irregular mark, not much longer than wide and roun- 

 ded behind, at the stigma, yellowish hyaline, obscured with 

 fuscous. 5. 



Length 14 ra.m. ; terebra 20 m.m, 



Etna Bay. Merauke. 



Long and slender, the abdomen more than twice the length 

 of the thorax; smooth, shining, almost bare. Down the centre 

 of the face is a deep, wide farrow, which becomes triangularly 



