24 Rev. T. A. Marshall's monograph of 



Antennae J black, together with the palpi, 25-jointed, and \ as 

 long as the body. Mandibles, orbits narrowly, two spots beneath 

 the antennae (sometimes obsolete), margins and under side of the 

 abdomen, yellowish. Legs black, 2d joint of trochanters, apex of 

 femora, and base of tibiae, testaceous. The tibiae sometimes testa- 

 ceous with a black line in front, and middle and hind femora 

 entirely black. Abdomen rugulose above, becoming rather punctu- 

 late towards the apex ; segments 2 — 3 more coarsely rugose at the 

 base, and the 2d sometimes with a faint longitudinal carina. 



The (J is similar, but with more yellow on the face ; antennae 

 27-jointed, as long as the body. Abdomen rather punctulate than 

 rugulose ; segments 2 — 3 not more coarsely sculptured than the 

 rest ; the two apical segments almost smooth. 



Common on umbelliferous flowers, and may also be 

 beaten from furze, thatch, &c., in spring ; Fitch finds it 

 on windows. Taken in Cadder Wilderness near Glasgow ; 

 Leicestershire ; Worcestershire ; Hainault Forest ; Devon- 

 shire ; Essex, Abundant in old jackdaw nests in a 

 church-tower in Northants, together with Bracon rarie- 

 gator, Nees. In the same nests Attagcnus pellio, L., and 

 some TinecB were also common, of which the Bracons 

 were perhaps parasites. Ratzeburg records that Nord- 

 linger bred this species from ash-bark, with Hylesinus 

 crenatus, Fab. W. H. B. Fletcher bred two males and 

 two females, June 6th, from Gelechia mulinella, Zell. 



10. Bracon hrevicornis, Wesm. (PI. I., figs. 1 a, 1 h). 



Bracon punctulator, var. B bis, Nees, Mon., i., 88, (? 5 . 



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

 p. 23, pL, fig. 2 (wing). 



In Catalogue of Ichneum., p. 96, dele syn. Bracon 

 variegator, Cur. 



Black ; head, thorax, and scutellum varied with testaceous ; 

 femora at the apex, tibiee and tarsi more or less, 1st abdominal 

 segment at the base and sides (often the 2d also in the (3^), and 

 belly, testaceous; wings brownish, hyaline at the apex, stigma 

 sometimes bicolorous ; 2d cubital areolet very small, separated 

 from the exterior margin by twice its own length, measured on the 

 cubitus, which becomes obsolete a little beyond the 2d cubital 

 areolet ; terebra J .\ the length of the abdomen, which is obovate, 

 dei^ressed, shining, and very finely punctulate. Length, 1:| — 1^ ; 

 wings, 3 lin. 



Antennae $ unlike those of any other species, not longer than 

 the head and thorax, stout, 14-jointed in two British specimens 



