British Braconide. . 529 
the abdomen, the valves ciliated. ¢ Similar; antenne much 
longer than the body, 25-32-jointed ; head more broadly rufous 
than in the 9. Length, 11-2; wings, 24-5 lin. 
Var. 1. ¢ Wings with a yellowish tinge, the nervures decolor- 
ous towards the tip. 
Var. 2. ¢@. Red colour of the head more or less extended on 
the thorax. 
Var. 3. ¢ 9 Head pale rufoas or testaceous; thorax and Ist 
abdominal segment the same, but more obscure; the rest of the 
abdomen fuscous or fuscescent. Alysia testacea, Nees. Two Qs 
which I received from Scotland belong to this variety ; their 
metathorax is almost smooth ; the mesothoracic sutures and the 
mesopleure fuscous. 
Var. 4. Head black. This variety is not uncommon ; it must 
be recognised by the subcarinate metathorax, and the thickness 
of the stigma. 
This very common species is known to be parasitic in 
the larve of Anthomyia radicum, L., Lonchea vaginalis, 
Fall., and Piophila casei, L. Ratzeburg must have 
been mistaken in supposing that his Alysia oculator 
came from the caterpillar of Tortrix rosana, L. 
6, Phenocarpa Maria, Hal. 
Alysia Maria, Hal., Ent. Mag., v., 237, ¢ 
Second cubital areolet short (for the genus), the 2nd abscissa 
being not much longer than the Ist intercubital nervure. ¢ 
Shining black ; mandibles rufescent. Antenne rather shorter than 
the body, filiform, 19-21-jointed. Mesothoracic sutures complete, 
punctulate, meeting posteriorly in an acute angle ; furrow of the 
mesopleure finely traced, crenulate ; metathorax smooth and 
shining. Wings hyaline, somewhat whitish ; squamula testaceous ; 
nervures and stigma fuscous, the latter small, acute at both ends ; 
Ist abscissa as long as the width of the stigma; radial areolet 
cultriform, attaining the tip of the wing ; recurrent nervure inter- 
stitial ; anal nervure subinterstitial ; pobrachial areolet of the hind- 
wings + as long as the prebrachial. Legs fuscous ; base of tibize 
rufescent. Abdomen attenuated at base and apex, wide in the 
middle ; 1st segment a little longer than its apical breadth, faintly 
striolate, longitudinally elevated in the middle. Terebra as long as 
Lof the abdomen. ¢ unknown. Length, 1}; wings, 4-3 lin, 
England and Ireland; very rare. I captured a ? at 
Sandwich, and another in an osier-bed in Wiltshire. 
