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VI. A Monograph of British Braconidae. Part III. 

 By the Kev. T. A. Marshall, M.A., F.E.S. 



[Read December 5tb, 1888.] 



Plates X. & XI. 



XVI. CALYPTIDES. 



Abdomen sessile. Fore wings with 2 cubital areolets, the 1st 

 separated from the praediscoidal ; recm'rent nervure rejected ; 

 radial areolet lanceolate, not reaching the apex of the wing ; prae- 

 discoidal areolet petiolated ; axillary areolet closed by an oblique 

 transverse nervure. Terebra elongate. 



The two genera here brought together by authors are 

 so different in appearance that their association seems 

 hardly natural ; the structure of their abdomen varies 

 in some important respects. They agree, however, in 

 the combination of a sessile abdomen with 2 cubital 

 areolets, characters not found united in any other sub- 

 family except the Blacides and Liophronides. These 

 two have the axillary areolet of the fore wing open ; in 

 the Calyptides the same areolet is closed. On the other 

 hand, the Calyptides have the podiscoidal areolet of the 

 fore wing closed, while it is half open in the Blacides 

 and Liophronides. 



Abdomen showing 8 segments above ; the 1st much longer 



than broad . . . . . . . . . . . . i. Eubadizon. 



Abdomen seldom showing more than 3 or 4 segments 

 above, the rest more or less retracted ; the 1st not or 

 hardly longer than its apical breadth . . . . ii. Calyptus. 



i. EuBADizoN, Nees. 



Euhazus, Nees, Act. Ac. L. C, 1819, p. 307. 



Eubadizon, Sectio I., Nees, Mon., i., 233 ; Hal., Ent. 

 Mag., iii., 131 ; Wesm., Nouv. Mem. Ac. Brux., 

 1835, p. 164 ; S. v. VolL, Schets., ii., Braconiden, 

 tab. iv. 



Charmon, Hal., Ent. Mag., i., 262. 



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