British Braconida . 163 



1. Mirax simrtii, Hal. (PI. V., fig. 4). 



Mirax rufilahris, Hal., Ent. Mag., ii., 230, ? ; S. v. 



Voll., Schets., n. Braconiclen, tab. vi., wings, 



drawn by Haliday. 

 M. spartii, Hal., lib. cit., 467 ; Kiitlie, Berl. ent. Zeit., 



1858, p. 7, ? . 



Black ; head rufo-castaneous with a black spot ou the vertex ; 

 abdominal sef^ments 1 — 2 pale yellowish ; legs ferruginous ; wings 

 hyaline, yellowish at the base, stigma fuscous with the extreme 

 apex pale. ? . Length, 1 ; wings, 2^ lin. 



Head transverse, as broad as the thorax, covered with whitish 

 pubescence ; eyes green, small, minutely and thinly villose. 

 Antenme scarcely shorter than the body, slender, blackish, with 

 the pedicel rufescent ; scape ovato-cylindrical ; 3d joint of the 

 flagellum longer than the scape, the others decreasing in length to 

 the apex. IMandibles triangular, bifid. Thorax ovate, depressed ; 

 mesothorax smooth, sericeous, with fine whitish pubescence ; meta- 

 thorax and abdomen smooth and shining, the latter as long and as 

 broad as the thorax, ovato-orbicular, subdepressed, anterior seg- 

 ments equal, posterior short, transverse ; scutum of the 1st 

 segment very narrow (more so than in Apanteles lateralis, Hal.), 

 elevated, attenuated at the apex, membranaceous margins broadly 

 visible; valvula ventralis carinated, produced. Terebra sub- 

 exserted. Wings hyaline, nervures pale fuscous, squamute fusco- 

 ferruginous. 



First taken, in some numbers, by Haliday, on Spartium 

 scoparium, the common broom ; but its association with 

 this plant seems to have been accidental. Now known 

 to be a parasite of Nepticula septemhrella, Stainton, 

 which mines the leaves of Hypericum perfoliatmn, St. 

 John's wort. Fitch bred a specimen from this source 

 on June 7th, and W. H. B. Fletcher, of Worthing, about 

 a dozen in May and June, all females. 



ii. AccELius, Hal. 



Adelius, Hal., Ent. Mag., i., 262 (1833) ; Acvelius, 

 Hal., lib. cit., ii., 231. 



Maxillary palpi 5-, labial 3-jointed. Antenna 20-jointed, the 

 scape elongate. Eyes Adllose. Occiput contracted, finely margined. 

 Vertex prolonged behind the ocelli. Abdomen broad, sessile, 

 shorter than the thorax, showing 5 segments above, 6 beneath, 

 smooth and shining ; segment 1 as long as 2 — 5 taken together. 



