26 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



identify IE. gestroi with .S. formosa. In JE. corallipes, Gestro, 

 the last segment of the abdomen is described as testaceous. In 

 the insect here described the entire abdomen is bluish-black, and 

 the fulvous elytral band is much wider than in ^^. formosa ; the 

 legs also are greenish -black. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO NEW SPECIES OF 

 BRACONID^ FROM AUSTRALIA. 



By p. Cameron. 



Bracoii turneri, sp. nov. 



Black, the pro- aud mesothorax, except the former at the base 

 below, red ; the mandibles, except their teeth and the sides of the first 

 abdominal segment, pale yellow ; apical joints of palpi fuscous ; wings 

 fuscous, the nervures and stigma black. J . Length, 5 mm. 



Central part of first abdominal segment coarsely, irregularly punc- 

 tured ; a narrow, fine, shining keel down its centre ; the second segment 

 is deeply, irregularly, rugosely punctured, except at the apex in the 

 middle, where there is a raised, smooth, shining area to which the 

 middle keel extends ; the latter is smooth and shining, the dilated 

 base is longer by about one-half than its width at the base ; suturiform 

 articulation deep, crenulated ; it does not extend to the sides and there 

 is no apical lateral branch ; the third and following segments are 

 smooth and shining, sparsely covered with longish white pubescence ; 

 the hind tibife and tarsi are thickly covered with long, soft, white 

 pubescence ; the second abscissa of the radius is as long as the third ; 

 head and thorax smooth, thickly covered with long, soft, white hair. 



Agathis latibalteata, sp. nov. 



Black, shining ; the sides of the first and third abdominal seg- 

 ments, the apex of the first broadly, and the whole of the second, and 

 the greater part of the ventral surface, pale yellow ; the apical two- 

 thirds of the fore femora and their tibire and tarsi, pale testaceous ; 

 wings fuscous, highly iridescent, the nervures and stigma black. ^ . 

 Length, 6 mm. 



Head, pro- and mesothorax smooth, shining; the face, pleurae and 

 breast sparsely covered with white pubescence ; mandibles of a paler 

 rufous colour than the head ; the palpi pale testaceous ; scutellar 

 depression with a stout central and two lateral narrower keels, the 

 outer obliquely sloped ; mesopleural furrow weakly crenulated ; meta- 

 notum rugosely punctured, the sides more weakly than the centre ; 

 there is no area, but the centre is raised, the raised part narrowed . 

 above ; the sides and pleurae are densely covered with long white 

 pubescence ; abdomen smooth, shining ; the first segment is fully more 

 than twice longer than the width at the apex ; areolet small, oblique, . 

 triangular ; the nervures united above, where they are much thickened ; ; 

 radial cellule short, narrow ; front deeply excavated laterally ; the ' 

 metapleurae are more thickly pubescent than usual, as in some species i 

 of Eiiagathis. 



