British Braconidce. 17 



1 — 3 more coarsely sculptured tliau the rest ; segment 1 black, not 

 sliining, much depressed in the middle, the margins elevated; 

 sides beyond the scutum testaceous ; segments 2 — 3 with a medial 

 fuscous blotch, in which the rugosity is most apparent. According 

 to Wesmael, the stigma is rather vaguely defined on its inner edge, 

 especially towards the base, owing to the absence of a nervure in 

 that place. More specimens might perhaps elucidate the author's 

 meaning, which, as applied to this insect, is at present obscure. 

 Notwithstanding this, the identification of the species is in no way 

 doubtful. 



Bred by Fitch from Alucita hexadactyla, L., July 8th. 

 Wesmael examined fom^ specimens taken near Liege. 



2. Bracon Uetus, Wesm. 



Braco latus, Wesm., Nouv. Mem. Ac. Brux., 1838, 

 p. 13, ? . 



Bright testaceous ; a spot on the occiput, pectus, metathorax, 

 and 1st abdominal segment, black or blackish ; abdomen wholly 

 rugulose ; suturiform articulation well marked, crenate, bisinuated, 

 emarginate in the middle ; wings hyaline, stigma fuscous ; terebra 

 $ as long as the abdomen. 5 . Length, 1^ ; wings, 3f lin. 



Antennae 27-jointed (according to Wesmael, 26-), black. The 

 British specimen has a brown spot on each side of the mesothorax 

 at the base of the wings, from which a fascia extends round the 

 scutellum, covering the upper part of the metathorax, which is 

 gibbous and smooth. First abdominal segment infuscated on the 

 scutum. Ocelli bright red. 



Colour more fulvous than in the preceding ; the rugu- 

 losity of the abdomen finer and more uniform, not 

 coarser at the base of the segments. The females are 

 sufficiently distinguishable by the length of the terebra ; 

 in the present species the vertex is more transverse, the 

 legs and wings shorter in proportion. 



The ? here described was formerly in Walker's col- 

 lection. Wesmael had only one ? from Liege. 



3. Bracon erytJirostictus, n. s. 



Testaceus ; antenuis, stemmatico, occipite, mesothoracis lobis, 

 metathorace, abdominis vitta interrupta, tarsisque apice, nigris ; 

 abdomine supra subtiliter transversim rimuloso (in ^ fere punctu- 

 lato) ; articulatione suturiformi crenulata bisiuuata ; alis sub- 

 hyalinis, stigmate luteo. Terebra $ abdominis dimidio lequalis, 

 vel paulo lougior. 



TKANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1885. PAKT I. (Al'KlL.) C 



