82 SPOLTA ZRYLAXICA. 



Metanocum keeled down the middle ; the apical slope stoutly reti- 

 culated, almost areolated ; eyes villose ; malar space large. First 

 abdominal segment with the central area bordered by keels and 

 with a shorter keel in the centre. Suturiform articiilation distinct. 

 Mesopleural furrow wanting. Tibial spurs short, about one-fourth 

 of the length of the metatarsus. There is a narrow, but distinct 

 keel round the centre of the prothorax. Radius and cubitus in 

 hind wings indistinct. Shortly below the middle of the mesopleu- 

 rse is a furrow which bifurcates at the apex. On the mesonotum, 

 in the centre, are three furrows, central being the shorter and it 

 is also less distinct. Apices of tarsal joints spinose. 



Black : palpi and foiir front legs testaceous ; the hind femora and 

 the abdomen, except at the base, red ; the basal two-thirds of the 

 hind tibiae and the calcaria white, wings hyaline, the nervures 

 and stigma black, the latter white at the base. Head and thorax 

 densely covered with white pubescence, almost opaque. Metano- 

 tum depressed at the base. The depi-ession at base of post- 

 scutellum with four stout keels. Post-scutellum depressed at the 

 base. Frontal depression clearly separated, deep, stoutly keeled 

 in the middle. Last joint of tarsi one-half longer than penultimate. 



Length nearly 5 mm. 



Thisspecies comes closest to Microgaster as now defined, but is 

 not quite typical. 



Bred from larva of Dasychira securis. .June. 



Braconin^. 



17. — Iphiaulax xanthopsis, sp. nov. 



Luteous, the face, oral region, malar space and inner upper ey-^ 

 orbits, yellow; the antennae very long, black ; hind tarsi fuscous ; 

 wings yellowish hyaline to the iniddle of the transverse basal 

 nervure ; beyond that blackish-fuscous : the upper part of the first 

 cubital cellule and a spot below the first transverse cubital nervure 

 hyaline ; basal half of stigma luteous, ?. 



Length 11; terebra 4 mm. 



Elephant Pass, March. 



Face smooth, densely covered with long pale hair. Frontal 

 furrow narrow ; vertex thickly covered with long fuscous 

 hair. Thorax smooth : impunctate, the median segment thickly 

 covered with long pale haii-. Abdomen ovate, broader than the 

 thorax, short ; the area on the first segment longitudinally rugosely 

 striolated ; a keel in the centre; basal depression smooth. Basal area 

 on the second segment closely striated, not much narrowed towards 

 the apex : not limited at the apex : the rest of the segment and the 

 third closely, strongly, rugosely, punctured ; the lateral depression 



