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4. Bracon minutator, Fab. 



Bracon minutaior, Fab., Piez., 110 ; Nees, Mon., i., 



70, <y $ . 

 Braco minutator, Wesm., Nouv. Mem. Ac. Brux., 



1838, p. 15, ? . 



Black ; orbits more or less, lateral margins of abdomen, belly, 

 and tibiae at the base, testaceous ; wings fuscous, paler towards the 

 tips, with a hyaline streak behind the black stigma. Abdomen 

 rugulose on segments 1 — 2, afterwards punctulate ; sutui'iform 

 articulation notched in the middle, deep, crenulate. Terebra as 

 ong as the body. Length, <? 1^ ; wings, 3:^ : ? 2 ; wings, 4f Im. 



5 . Head black ; labrum, mandibles, and orbits, more or less 

 rufescent. Metathorax smooth and shining. Abdomen above 

 black, lateral margins and 3 apical segments almost entirely 

 testaceous ; punctulate, subcarinated ; segments 1 — 2 rugulose ; 1 

 subquadrate, margined ; 2 longer than 3. Belly testaceous. An- 

 tennae 29 — 34-jointed. The $ is smaller, with the abdomen more 

 oblong; antennae (in two specimens) 29-jointed ; otherwise like 

 the $. 



Described from 5 males, 3 females. A large species, and 

 easy to recognise. First indicated as British by Curtis, 

 with his usual accuracy (' Guide,' 2d ed., column 115) 

 where it is marked as contained in his collection. Wes- 

 mael possessed 2 females. A ? was taken by E. A. Butler, 

 at Battle, Sussex ; a 5" by me, Sept. 1st, at Nunton, 

 Wilts ; others by Fitch, at Maldon. Elishabred 2 females, 

 in July, from Argyrolcpia zephiirana, Tr. Brischke 

 reared it from Bemhecia hylmformis, Lasp. (not a British 

 sp.). According to him (Schrift. nat. Ges. Danz., n. s., 

 V. (3) 135) the cocoons are light brown, cylindrical, 

 filling up the bore made by the larvae. 



5. Bracon fulvipes, Nees. 



Bracon fulvipes, Nees, Mon., i., 74, c? ? . 



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

 p. 26, pi., fig. 3 (wing). 



Black ; mandibles, face, orbits more or less, legs, and abdomen, 

 rufo-testaceous ; a variable black longitudinal dorsal stripe more or 

 less covering the segments ; metathorax rugulose, longitudinally 

 carinated in the middle ; abdomen transversely and finely acicu- 

 latcd ; wings nearly hyaline, stigma fuscous ; terebra $ | — f of 



