British Braconidx. Eyilng 
one-third of the total length of the abdomen; the following 
segments smooth, testaceous. Terebra a little longer than half the 
abdomen. ¢ Antenne one-half longer than the body, slender, 
setaceous, 38-jointed ; abdomen somewhat clavate, depressed, of a 
more dingy testaceous than that of the ?, the apical segments 
infuscated. Length, 2; wings, 43 lin. 
The 2 is not unlike A. tipule (No. 10), but imme- 
diately distinguishable by the form of the Ist abdominal 
segment. Taken first by Walker in England; in Ireland, 
rarely, by Haliday, amongst fungi. I have three speci- 
mens, 2 6, 1 ?, which I captured in Devonshire. 
viii. Tanycarpa, Forster. 
Forst., Verh. Pr. Rheinl., 1862, p. 265. 
Fourth joint of the antenne shorter than the 3rd. Metathorax 
not carinated ; furrow of the mesopleure crenate. Stigma elongate, 
emitting the radial nervure before the middle; radial areolet 
reaching the tip of the wing ; recurrent nervure interstitial ; 1st 
intercubital nervure longer than the 2nd abscissa; Ist cubital 
areolet separated from the Ist discoidal ; 2nd complete, separated 
from the first ; anal nervure springing from the middle of the ex- 
tremity of the 2nd discoidal areolet. First abdominal segment 
somewhat elongate; 2nd segment smooth, shining. ‘Terebra 
considerably exserted. 
TABLE OF SPECIES. 
. Abdomen red and black, or red and f fuscous. 
Abdomen red, with thes Ist segment black, or 
bla-k with segments 2 2-3 red ... 2. rufinotata, Hal. 
. Abdomen blackish or fuscous, with ‘the Ist 
segment and base of the 2nd reddish, or 
impure testaceous alee noe ; . 3. ancilla, Hal. 
(4) 1. Abdomen entirely black. 
(3) 2. Antennze 22-25-jointed .. 305 306 . 3. ancilla, var. 
(2 . Antennz 33-37-jointed .. .. 1. gracivicornis, Nees. 
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1. Tanycarpa gracilicornis, Nees. 
Bassus qracilicornis, Nees, Mag., Ges. Berl., 1814, 
p. 206. 
Alysia eee Nees, Mon., i, 247; Hal., Ent. 
Mag., v., 228, ¢ 9, pl. xvii, f. 11 (wing). 
2. Black, steht face minutely punctulate ; clypeus and 
mandibles ferruginous, palpi paler. Antenne slender, nearly one- 
half longer than the body, black with the two first joints rufous, 
33-37-jointed. Metathorax rugulose, sometimes smooth at the 
