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female, with only the faintest suggestion of the crenulation seen in 
M. tranquilia. The species greatly resembles the Philippine forms 
of IM. abluta, but there is black hair on the head and thorax above. 
The ventral scopa is white at the base, black on last segment and 
sides of penultimate, but otherwise orange-fulvous.. The female is 
therefore to be compared with WM. abluta subrixator, from which it 
is readily distinguished by the shorter mandibles, with very much 
smaller apical teeth and the long black hair on the scutellum. The 
males are best distinguished from abluta by the black hair on the 
vertex. The anterior cox have rather short spines. 
Hab.—Los Banos, Luzon (Baker, 8309 =type). Mt. Makiling, 
Luzon (Baker, 1799, 5287, 5239, 5241); Dapitan, Mindanao 
(Baker coll., 3146); P. Princesa, Palawan (Baker coll., 8841). 
Readily distinguished (?) from M. robbii, Ashm., by the black 
tegule, and face without fulvous pubescence. 
Nomada bakeri, Cockerell. 
A new locality is Mt. Banahao, Luzon (Baker coll., 4998). 
In the key in ‘ Ann. Mag. N. Hist.,’ March, 1915, p. 265, under 
4, read ‘‘ basal half of second abdominal segment yellow.” 
CONTRIBUTIONS TO OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE 
BRITISH BRACONIDA. 
No. 3.—MicroGastERID®. 
By G. Tosti Eves 
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SECTION 1. 
Solitarius, Ratz.* 
A rather robust species having the first three segments of the 
abdomen rugulose (the third, however, is sometimes almost 
smooth) and the hind femora more or less testaceous ; the belly 
at the base is also testaceous. A solitary parasite attacking 
young larve, generally of Bombyces or Noctuze. There seem to 
be several generations in the year, the first appearing in April, 
after having passed the winter within the body of the host, 
probably in the ova state. This insect remains within its cocoon 
from eight to twenty days according to the weather, cold 
retarding and heat hastening emergence. Cocoon pale lemon 
colour, attached to a leaf or twig of the food plant. 
Bred from Triphnea jfimbria several times between April 4th 
and 29th, and also, doubtfully, from T'eniocampa  stabilis, 
* “Ich. d. Forst.’, 1, tee 
