British Braconide. 5138 
7. Alysia mandibulator, Nees. 
Bassus mandibulator, Nees, Mag., Ges. Berl., 1814, 
p. 204. . 
A. mandibulator, Nees, Mon., i., 242 (not the var.) ; 
Hal., Ent. Mag., v., 224, 6 ¢. 
Mesothoracic sutures inchoate, but effaced on the disk. 9 Deep 
lack, shining ; mandibles pitchy red. Head and thorax vaguely 
punctulate, thinly beset with whitish hairs. Antenne a little 
longer than the body, filiform, rather stout, 32-34-jointed. The 
effaced sutures of the mesonotum are indicated by rows of very 
fine punctures ; before the scutellum is a median line of similar 
punctures ; metathorax rugose. Wings dingy byaline ; squamula 
reddish ; nervures brown ; stigma reddish, subelliptic, emitting the 
radial nervure from its exterior half; radial areolet (measured 
along the costa) hardly longer than the stigma, lanceolate, not 
reaching the extremity of the wing ; 2nd abscissa a little shorter 
than the Ist intercubital nervure; @rd abscissa slightly curved at 
the extremity ; recurrent nervure interstitial ; pobrachial areolet 
of the hind wing half as long as the prebrachial. Legs as in the 
preceding species ; hind tibiz sometimes dark at the extremity. 
Abdomen elongate-oval, deep black, brilliant; lst segment some- 
what narrowed towards the base, regularly striolate. Terebra 
about 2 of the length of the abdomen. ¢ unknown. 
Haliday’s only specimen had a dark stigma, but in my 
four specimens the stigma is of a reddish tinge. Walker 
first detected this species in England, and I have siuce 
found it in some numbers in an osier-bed at Nunton, 
Wilts, but females only: more I believe are in Dr. 
Capron’s collection. 
8. Alysia atra, Hal. 
A. atra, Hal., Ent. Mag., v., 223, d¢, pl. xvu, £3 
(wing). 
Mesothoracie sutures finely traced, complete, punctulate, con- 
verging to a linear fovea before the scutellum. Very like the 
preceding, but more hairy. ¢ deep black, shining, with the ex- 
tremity of the abdomen pale piceous ; mandibles reddish. Antennz 
a little shorter than the body, 29-81-jointed. Wings hyaline ; 
squamula pale brown; stigma dull testaceous. Legs reddish ; 
coxe, upper side of femora, and tarsi, blackish. Terebra as long 
as 2 of the abdomen. ¢ antenne longer, 35-jointed ; stigma black ; 
