British Braconide. 523 
1st discoidal (as in gen. iii., Syncrasés) ; 2nd cubital areolet separated 
from the Ist; 1st intercubital nervure shorter than the 2nd 
abscissa ; 2nd discoidal areolet obsolete ; anal nervure interstitial ; 
hindwings very narrow, pobrachial areolet and transverse nervure 
obsolete. Terebra considerably exserted. 
With this genus commences the second artificial 
section of the Alystids, comprising those which have an 
elongated 2nd cubital areolet ; in other words, the Ist 
intercubital nervure is shorter than the 2nd abscissa 
of the radial nervure. There is only one species, 
variable in size and appearance, but with characters that 
cannot be mistaken. 
1. Aphxreta cephalotes, Hal. 
Stephanus minutus, Nees, Mag. Ges. Berl., 1811, 
Boye. 
Alysia fuscipes, Nees, Mon., i., 254, 2 (not of Hal.). 
Bassus minutus, var. Nees, Mag. Ges. Berl., 1814, 
p- 212. 
Alysia minuta, var. y, Nees, Mon. 1., 252, ?. 
Alysia cephalotes, Hal., Ent. Mag., v., 231, d 2, pl. 
xvu, f. 18 (wing). 
Alysia confluens, Ratz., Ichn. d. Forst., 1., 55. 
Black or pitchy-black, shining ; head large ; mandibles and palpi 
rufous. ¢ Antenne a little longer than the body, blackish, with 
the two first joints rufous, 19-25-jointed. Prothorax often 
piceous ; mesothoracic sutures usually distinct, smooth, less visible 
in small specimens ; no dorsal fovea before the scutellum ; furrow 
of the mesopleure rugose ; metathorax rugulose, smoother in the 
middle and towards the base. Wings subhyaline; squamula 
brown ; nervures and stigma testaceous, more or less dusky, the 
latter much attenuated, confounded posteriorly with the metacarp ; 
radial areolet cultriform, elongate, reaching the tip of the wing ; 
2nd cubital areolet elongate, narrowed towards the end; 2nd 
abscissa almost twice as long as the 1st intercubital nervure ; anal 
nervure springing from the cubital; no 2nd discoidal areolet. Legs 
dull rufous. First abdominal segment obconic, finely rugulose, 
sometimes rufescent. Terebra as long as2of the abdomen. ¢@ 
similar ; antenne hardly twice as long as the body, 27-jointed. 
Length, 1-1; ; wings, 23-3 lin. 
Var. 1. 9. Form more slender, Antenne one-half longer than 
the body, blackish, broadly testaceous at the base, 25-jointed ; 
mesonotum with a fovea before the scutellum ; furrow of the 
