42 Rev. T. A. Marshall's monoriraph of 



Described from 4 females. Rannoch, Scotland ; 

 Hainault Forest ; Pre Wood, near St. Albans. Bred by 

 Brischke from capsules of Campanula rapimculoides and 

 persicifolia, galled by Gymnetron campanulce, L. 



31. Bracon otiosus, n, s. 



Ater, nitidus, palpis nigris, mandibulis abdomine pedibusque 

 testaceis ; segment! Imi disco, coxis, troclianteram basi, femorum 

 anteriorum linea, terebraeqiie valvis, nigris ; tibiis apice, tarsisqiie 

 totis, fuscescentibus. Alae subfuscse, stigmate nervisque fuscis, 

 squamulis nigi-is. Corpus toturn Iseve, nitidum. Terebra abdomine 

 paulo brevior. 



Deep black, shining ; palpi black ; mandibles, abdomen, and 

 legs, testaceous; disk of segment 1, cox^, base of trochanters, a 

 line on the anterior femora, and valves of the terebra, black ; apex 

 of tibiae, and all the tarsi, fuscescent. Wings pale fuscous, stigma 

 and nervures darker, squamulae black. Entire body smooth and 

 shining. Terebra a little shorter than the abdomen. 5 . Length, 

 If ; wings, 4 lin. 



Antennae 25-jointed, shorter than the body. Abdomen as long 

 as the head and thorax ; segment 1 rather longer than broad, 

 tuberculated on each side of the base, testaceous, with a large, 

 shining, elevated, black, apical spot ; in one specimen entirely 

 black ; the rest of the abdomen bright testaceous ; suturiform 

 articulation hardly sinuated. 



Described from 3 specimens in Fitch's collection. The 

 abdomen is coloured as in B. piger, Wesm., Nouv. Mem. 

 Ac. Brux., 1838, p. 48 ; but that species has black, 

 stout legs, and the antennae 32— 33-jointed. Another 

 nearly related species seems to be B. palpehrator, Ratz., 

 Ichn. d. Forst., i., 47, pi. vii., f. 8, the face of which, below 

 the antennae, and the orbits, are testaceous. 



32. Bracon variator, Nees. 



Ichneuvion guttator, Panz., F. G., xcii., 8 (not the fig.) 

 Bracon variator, Nees, Mon., i., 79, var. c ; Ratz., 



Ichn. d. Forst., iii., 31. 

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



p. 52, <? ? . 



Black, smooth and shining ; abdomen elongate-ovate, rufo- 



testaceous, with a dorsal band of black variable spots ; belly, and 



hind tibiae at the base (seldom all the tibial')) rufo-testaceous ; head 



transverse, vertex narrow ; wings blackish, with a subobsolete 



