British Braconide. PA 
Stigma attenuated, confounded with the metacarp at its outer 
end. Antenne 9? 19-, g 25-jointed. @ Black, shining ; man- 
dibles reddish ; labial palpi 3-jointed. Antenne shorter than the 
body, black ; 3rd joint elongate. Mesothoracic sutures inchoate, 
almost complete in large specimens ; a dorsal fovea before the 
scutellum ; furrow of the mesopleure barely indicated, un- 
punctured ; metathorax indistinctly rugulose. Wings hyaline ; 
squamula fuscous ; nervures and stigma pale brown or testaceous ; 
Ist abscissa a little shorter than the greatest thickness of the 
stigma; pobrachial areolet of the hindwings somewhat less than 
half as long as the prebrachial. Legs dull testaceous ; cox, and 
tips of the femora and tibis, infuscated. Abdomen oblong-oval ; 
Ist segment obconic, finely striolate. Terebra as long as 
% Of the abdomen. ¢ Antenne one-half longer than the body; 
legs longer, more slender, and darker ; wings slightly infumated. 
Length, 3 ae ; wings, 22 lin. 
Common in England and Ireland ; Nees was acquainted 
with it in Germany, and Walker obtained it in his tour 
through Finmark. 
x. Iprasta, Forster. 
Forst., Verh. Pr. Rheinl., 1862, p. 265. 
Fourth joint of the antenne longer than the 3rd. Maxillary 
palpi 6-, labial 4-jointed. Mesothoracie sutures deeply impressed, 
complete, crenulate or merely inchoate ; metathorax carinated at 
the base. Stigma large, determinate ; Ist intercubital nervure 
longer than the 2nd abscissa; 1st cubital areolet separated from 
the 1st discoidal ; 2nd quadrangular ; radial areolet lanceolate, not 
reaching the tip of the wing; 3rd abscissa straight ; recurrent 
nervure not evected ; 2nd discoidal areolet completely closed ; anal 
nervure not interstitial. Terebra considerably exserted. 
(2) 1. Black with a tint of bronze, submetallic ; 
wings clouded with obscure patches; anal 
nervure not interstitial . ... 1. maritima, Hal, 
(1) 2. Black without a metallic tinge; wings infumated, 
without darker spots; anal nervure ens 
interstitial ee ae ye E ... li, Nephele, Hal. 
1. Idiasta maritima, Hal. (PI. XII, fig. 2, ¢.) 
Alysia maritima, Hal., Ent. Mag., v., 230, ¢?; pl. 
xvi, f. 14 (wing). 
? Black, with a tint of bronze, submetallic, shining, beset with 
whitish pubescence ; face and margin of the vertex very finely 
TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1894.—rarriv. (pEC.) 21 
