British Braconide. 51S 
A, abdominator, Nees, Mon., i., 245, ¢ 2. 
A. tipule, Hal., Ent. Mag., v., 224, d 2, pl. xvi, f. 4 
(wing). 
Antenne @ 34~-35-jointed; terebra as long as 2 of the ab- 
domen. Black, shining ; abdomen often partiy red, in varieties ; 
mandibles testaceous ; palpi rufous, Antenne rather stout, as 
long as the body, black, with the two first joints testaceous ; cheeks 
often more or less rufescent. Prothorax piceous ; mesothoracic 
sutures inchoate, effaced posteriorly ; before the scutellum is an 
oval fovea ; metathorax rugose. Wings hyaline ; squamula rufous ; 
nervures and stigma testaceous, the latter emitting the radial ner- 
vure from its outer half; radial areolet cultriform, not quite 
reaching the tip of the wing; 2nd discoidal areolet emitting 
the anal nervure from the middle of its angular extremity ; Ist 
intercubital nervure somewhat shorter than the 2nd abscissa ; re- 
current nervure interstitial, Legs testaceous, with dark tarsi ; an 
indistinct dark spot on the upper side of the hind coxe. Abdomen 
oblong-oval ; 1st segment finely rugulose, hardly twice as wide 
at the extremity as at the base; ist suture deeply impressed ; 
2nd and following segments very smooth, generally more or 
less brownish-black, with the 3 or 4 apical segments paler brown. 
6 antennz longer than the body, filiform, 43-jointed ; stigma fus- 
cous ; abdomen entirely black. Length 13-2 ; wings, 32-43 lin. 
Var. 1. ¢ 2. Second abdominal segment rufescent at the base. 
Var. 2. 9. Abdomen, after the Ist segment, rufous, each 
segment banded with black ; apical segments pale. This variety, 
at least in England, is more common than the typical form, and 
most of my specimens belong to it. 
Common throughout Europe, frequenting fungi in 
woods, and parasitic probably in the larve of Myceto- 
phila, and its allies. 
11. Alysia Sophia, Hal. 
A. Sophia, Hal., Hunt. Mag., v., 225, ¢. 
Q. Antenne 38-jointed, flavo-rufous with the extremity fus- 
cous (¢ unknown). Black, shining, abdomen testaceous, except 
the first segment. Clypeus brown ; mandibles rufous ; palpi the 
same, but paler. Antenne a little longer than the body. Wings 
hyaline; squamula and stigma flavo-rufous. Legs flavo-rufous, 
with paler coxe. Second abdominal segment testaceous, but 
darker than the rest. Terebra as long as the 5 or 4 apical seg- 
ments. Length, 13 ; wings, 4 lin. 
Taken, once only, by Haliday, in Ireland. 
