GUA Ee) 
SOT, A Monograph of British Braconide. Part V. By 
the Rev. Tuomas A. Marssatt, M.A., F.E.S., and 
Member of the Société Entomologique de France. 
[Read March 28th, 1894 ] 
Plates XI. and XII. 
V. EXODONTES. 
XXIV. ALYSIIDES. 
Heap large, with dilated cheeks ; occiput concave, not margined. 
Mandibles broad, flattened, tridentate, or quadridentate, usually 
wide open after death, and often carried in that position by the 
living insect, even in repose ; they project on each side of the head 
when inspected from above. Antenne multiarticulate, often very 
long. Maxillary palpi generally with 6, labial with 3, joints, but 
the number is variable. Thorax oval, convex; prothorax short; 
furrows of the mesonotum usually inchoate, denoted by two 
humeral impressions ; often obsolete ; less frequently complete. 
Three cubital areolets in the forewings, the first sometimes con- 
founded with the second, or with the first discoidal ; stigma 
variable in form, oval or subtriangular, more or less elongate and 
linear, or disappearing altogether in the genus Aspilota, where it 
is confounded with the metacarp; posterior wings often furnished 
with a pobrachial transverse nervure. Both sexes are apterous 
in the genus Chasmodon; the @ of Panerema has rudimentary 
wings, the ¢ is unknown ; in Allwa the wings of the ¢ are very 
short and narrow, with all the nervures and areolets contracted ; 
those of the ? are generally, but not always, complete. Abdomen 
sessile, subsessile, or subpetiolate, longer than the thorax, more or 
less depressed, seldom compressed, as in Panerema, Mesocrina, and 
Aspilota ; Ist segment rugulose, the rest almost always smooth 
(except Trachyusa) ; suturiform articulation effaced, or barely 
visible ; segments 2-3 taken together longer than all the following. 
Terebra exserted, of variable length, short, and almost concealed 
only in Adelura. 
The above characters are equally applicable to the 
next tribe, Dacnusides, except that these have only two 
TRANS, ENT. 80C. LOND. 1894,—ParTIv. (DEC.) 
