British Braconide. 3 
tudinal carina which is bifurcate at the base ; tubercles minute, 
placed near the base ; segments 2-3 brown, very finely rugulose, 
carinate, smooth, bordered posteriorly with testaceous, which 
is the colour of the following segments. 2 unknown, 
Length, 1} lines. 
Taken once only by Haliday in Ireland, and not seen 
since by any one. The author adds that it is a singular 
species, forming perhaps a section apart, but imperfectly 
described from an injured specimen. 
3. Dacnusa talaris, Hal. 
Da iolants, Jal... Eyma brite, p. 8 (1839). 6g°2); 
Marsh., lib. cit., p. 464, f 2. 
¢ 2? Mesonotum with the mere commencement of a medial 
furrow, the two ordinary furrows subobsolete, converging towards 
a fovea in front of the seutellum. Black, with dark pubescence ; 
mandibles rufescent ; palpi testaceous. Antennz of both sexes 
about 32-jointed, hardly longer than the body. Thorax oblong- 
oval, pubescent , the mesothoracic furrows punctulate ; on the fore 
margin is a short linear impression ; metathorax obtuse, rugose- 
punctate, with yellowish pubescence, scarcely carinate in the 
middle. Wings slightly infumated ; squamule brownish ; nervures 
and stigma fusco-ferruginous ; the latter linear, emitting the radial 
mervure not far from the base ; radial areolet elongate, sinuated, 
attenuated towards the extremity. Legs fusco-testaceous ; all the 
cox, upper margin of the 4 posterior femora towards the apex, 
tips of the 4 anterior tarsi, and the whole of the hind tarsi, fuscous. 
Abdomen as broad as the thorax, and scarcely longer, oblong, sub- 
sessile, narrowed at the base; Ist segment of the ¢ almost linear, 
of the 2 obconic, robust, somewhat gibbous, one-half longer than 
its apical width, punctate-rugose, pubescent, with hardly visible 
tubercles; 2nd seguent pubescent, rugosely punctate at the 
extreme base, but occasionally smooth, in both sexes. Terebra 
scarcely exserted. Length, 14 lines ; exp., 22 lines. 
Var. Scape of the antenn, and legs, dull testaceous; last 
joint of the tarsi blackish, 
This is extremeiy like D. lateralis (sp. 15), but differs 
in having much si orter antennx, and the base of the 2nd 
abdominal segie i’ usually, though not always, rugose. 
It is moderately co\nmon, and has been taken in Iingland, 
Treland, and Cen +l Hurope ; many specimens are in the 
present writer’s «ollection, 
