British Braconidce. 153 



bicarinated, the rest very smooth. Terebra longer than the body. 

 (? 2 . Length, IJ — If ; wings, 2^—3 lin. 



Formed like extensor, but the antennae, legs, and abdomen are 

 shorter. $ . Antennae shorter than the body, filiform, 21 -jointed, 

 the last joint enlarged, oblong. Palpi much shorter than those of 

 extensor. Mesothoracic sutures impunctate. Metathorax areated, 

 vaguely punctulate. Wings hyaline ; stigma fuscous ; radix and 

 squamulae pale ferruginous ; pobrachial areolet of the hind wings 

 hardly as long as f of the praebrachial. Hind tibiae at the apex, 

 and their tarsi almost entirely, fuscescent. Abdomen narrower 

 and scarcely longer than the thorax ; 1st segment occupying more 

 than ^ of its entire length ; tubercles minute, situated between the 

 base and the middle ; on the disk are two acutely elevated carinae, 

 approximated posteriorly, the interstices hardly striolated ; the 

 remaining segments very smooth ; 2d and 3d hardly discrete, 

 together as long as the 1st ; the following segments very short ; 

 belly carinated, pale, pellucid. Terebra slender, less than half as 

 long again as the body. ^ . Antennae 24 — 25-jointed, somewhat 

 longer than the body. 



Inhabits north Ireland, but rarely. Haliday. An 

 English ? specimen is in Fitch's collection, having the 

 antennae 22-jointed, and somewhat incrassated towards 

 the tips ; it presents some other characters not noticed 

 by Haliday ; 1st abdominal segment piceous, its extreme 

 base testaceous ; hind coxae above, and a line on the 

 4 posterior femora, piceous ; hind tibiae broadly fuscous 

 at the apex ; nervures, especially of the hind wings, 

 decolorous and hard to be seen. I cannot consider it 

 anything more than a variety of flavipes. 



Obs. There is an obscure reference in Eatzeburg 

 (Ichn. d. Forst., ii., 65) to a parasite bred by Eeissig 

 from Cryptorrhynchus lapathi, L., and which was never 

 properly examined. It resembled a Macrocentrus, but 

 had only 2 cubital areolets — the neuration of a Brachistes. 

 This is immediately suggestive of Euhadizon flavipes, 

 and of nothing else. "A hint," says Eatzeburg, "for 

 future breeders." 



ii. Calyptus, Haliday. 



_^ Hal., Ent. Mag., iii., 128 (1835) ; S. v. Voll., Schets., 

 ii., Braconiden, tab. iv. (wing). 



Brachistes, Wesm., Nouv. Mem. Ac. Brux., 1835, 

 p. 109. 



