6 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
ochraceous at base and extending to third abdominal segment ; 
antennz black, first joint slightly passing apex of head, second, third 
and fourth joints longest and almost subequal in length ; body above 
thickly and somewhat coarsely punctate. 
Long, 19 mm. 
Tonkin ; Chapa. 
Laprius nigritus, sp. n. 
Head black, ocelli red, eyes brownish-ochraceous; pronotum and 
scutellum dark castaneous, almost black; corium a little paler and 
more castaneous; membrane dark greyish; body beneath and legs 
black; rostrum very dark castaneous, basal joint ochraceous ; 
antennz mutilated in type, but first and second joints dark ochra- 
ceous, basal joint annulated with black near apex, first joint not 
reaching apex of head; head, pronotum and scutellum thickly, very 
coarsely punctate, corium thickly but more finely punctate; body 
beneath thickly, very finely punctate; rostrum very slightly passing 
the posterior coxe; antenniferous tubercles with a small spine at 
base. 
Long, 11 mm.; breadth between pronotal angles, 5} mm. 
Laos; Xieng ee 
(To be continued.) 
CONTRIBUTIONS TO OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE 
BRITISH BRACONIDZE. 
By G. T. Juvnn, FE: Ees: 
(Continued from vol. liii, p. 250.) 
Described from two males and two females in the Dale 
Collection at Oxford and a pair in the Cambridge University 
Museum. Considering these are all old pinned specimens they 
are in fairly good condition though all are more or less damaged. 
The Cambridge specimens and two of those at Oxford are 
without data; the remaining Oxford examples bear locality labels, 
but Dale’s writing thereon is almost indecipherable; one has 
the date 1899 with some hieroglyphs and the other appears to 
read ‘‘ex Polycommata.” All Dale’s specimens were named by 
him Microdus rugulosus, Nees; that species, however, has a 
length of only 83 mm. and the terebra as long as abdomen and 
thorax, besides differing in other respects. 
Earinus tuberculatus, Wesm.* 
Very similar to delusor, but differing in that the radius has 
a double curve and the tubercles of the first abdominal 
segment are very prominent, etc. Wesmael’s description is as 
follows : 
“Niger, pedibus rufis, coxis, trochanterum  articulo primo, 
* «Nouv. Mem. Acad. Sc. Belg.,’ vol. x, p. 13. 
