British Braconidce. 229 



Very nearly allied to the preceding, but doubtless dis- 

 tinct. Antennae entirely black, scarcely shorter than the 

 body. Face with scanty whitish pubescence. The 1st 

 segment is not flat on the basal half, but longitudinally 

 excavated, not remarkably gibbous posteriorly, and not 

 carinated. The belly at the base is concolorous, or 

 nearly so. The valvula ventralis is more conspicuous 

 than in other species, reaching or even exceeding the 

 anus. The terebra of the British specimen is subexsertod, 

 but not so long as in the four German females described 

 by Piuthe, viz., one-fifth or one-fourth of the abdomen. 



A single specimen is in Bridgman's collection. 



3. Microplitis ocellatce, Bouche. 

 Microgastcr oceUatc?, Bouche, Naturg. (1834), IGl ; 

 Eatz., Ichn. d. Forst., ii., 48 ; iii., 48 ; Ruthe, 

 Berl. ent. Zeit., 1860, p. 132, <? ? . 

 M. canaliculatus, Wesm., Nouv. Mem. Ac. Brux., 1837, 



p. 41, ? . 

 M. inqratiis, Hal., Ent. Mag., ii., 236, $ ; cf. Eeinh., 



Berl. ent. Zeit., 1880, p. 359. 

 Black ; palpi pale at the apex ; antennae beneath reddish fuscous ; 

 sides of segment 1 uaiTowly, and legs, testaceous ; coxse black ; 

 sometimes the base of the femora, the hind tarsi, and the last joint 

 of the 4 anterior tarsi, blackish. Wings slightly infumated, with 

 an obsolete darker stain beneath the fuscous stigma ; squamulte 

 testaceous ; nervm-es fuscescent. Autennte S" ? longer than the 

 short, comj)act body. Head and naesothorax dull, granulated, the 

 hmd margin of the latter, and the punctulate scutellum, more 

 shining. Metathorax short, rugulose, subreticulated. Abdomen 

 smooth and very shining ; segment 1 subquadrate, rounded pos- 

 teriorly, anteriorly depressed and excavated. Terebra concealed. 

 Valvula ventralis subtruncate. S ? • Length, 1| — 2 ; wings, 

 3i— 4ilin. 



Mandibles rufous, fuscous on the outer edge. Clypeus shining, 

 the rest of the face dull. Mesothoracic sutures obsoletely in- 

 dicated. Metathorax with an indistinct carina sometimes bifur- 

 cated hindwards. Abdomen oval, shorter than in the other species, 

 everywhere smooth and shinmg. Stigma often with a pale dot at 

 the inner angle. Legs short. 



Described from 44 specimens, (? ? . A common 

 parasite of the hawk-moths, SvicrintJins ocellatiis, L., 

 and S. yojiuli, L. Has been bred on the Continent by 

 Bouche, Ratzeburg, Ptcissig, Dahlbom, Giraud, and 



