THE 



TRANSACTIONS 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



OF 



LONDON 



FOE THE YEAR 1885. 



I. Munoijraph of British Braconidae. Part L 

 By the Rev. T. A. Maeshall. 



[Eead March 4th, 1885.] 



Plates I. — VI. 



The object of the present work is to furnish entomologists 

 with short but sufficient descriptions of our native 

 Braconidce. Since the publication of Haliday's admirable 

 " Essay on the classification of Parasitic Hymenoptera," 

 &c., in the ' Entomological Magazine,' nothing in a 

 connected form has been attempted on this subject, and 

 the want of some manual comprising recent discoveries 

 has no doubt been mainly the cause of the indiiferencc 

 with which British collectors have treated this group of 

 insects. The discoveries of the last hfty years, both in 

 new species and in the biology of those previously 

 known, are so numerous and interesting that they 

 cannot fail, if conveniently presented, to attract a con- 

 siderable class of observers. The number of lepidopterists 

 who breed their specimens is very large, and contains 

 many men of inquiring minds who would gladly know 

 something of the curious parasites that so often frustrate 

 their labours ; while the advantage which would accrue 



TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1885. — PART I. (APRIL.) B 



