British Braconide. 9 
trureate posteriorly, carinated at the base. Wings subhyaline ; 
squamulz brownish ; nervures and stigma dark brown ; the latter 
much attenuated, acuminate at both ends, emitting the radial 
nervure before one-third of its length ; radial nervure thickened 
towards the base ; radial areolet broader near the extremity than 
in D. petiolata; recurrent nervure interstitial. Legs testaceous ; 
middle femora somewhat infuseated, the hind femora blackish ; all 
the tarsi fuscescent. Abdomen longer than the head and thorax, 
hardly wider behind, somewhat compressed ; Ist segment much 
shorter than in D. petiolata, linear, finely punctate-rugulose ; the 
tubercles subobsolete. Terebra briefly exserted, falciform. 
unknown. Length, 2 lines; exp., 3} lines. . 
Formerly I regarded this as the Alysia navicularis, 
Nees, but the description of that insect differs in too 
many particulars to justify the identification. ‘Taken on 
the banks of the Usk, near Abergavenny, and unique in 
my collection. 
10. Dacnusa temula, Hal. 
D. temula, Hal., Hym. Brit., u., p. 14, ¢; Marsh., Jvb. 
Cita ps 412, 2. 
Stigma thicker than the length of the Ist abscissa, dull fer- 
ruginous, more than four times as long as its breadth ; recurrent 
nervure hardly rejected ; 2nd discoidal areolet oblong. ¢ Black, 
shining, hardly pubescent; middle of the abdomen brownish 
testaceous. Mandibles and palpi ferruginous. Antenne scarcely 
longer than the body, blackish, with the three basal joints ferru- 
ginous, except at their extremities, 25-jointed; all the joints 
cylindric, after the 2nd. Thorax oblong oval; furrows of the 
mesothorax abbreviated, humeral ; an impressed line before the 
scutellum ; metathorax finely scabrous ; furrow of the mesoplcure 
smooth. Wings hyaline; squamule pale testaceous; nervures 
stout, ferruginous ; stigma large, linear-lanceolate, obtuse at the 
base, acuminate at the extremity,emitting the radial nervure before 
one-third of its length; radial arcolet attenuated and sinuated 
before the apex; and nervure scarcely inchoate. Legs pale testa- 
ceous. Abdomen oval ; Ist segment black, finely scabrous, twice 
as long as its breadth, somewhat contracted at the base, rectangular 
at the extremity ; intermediate segments testaceous brown, the 
posterior infuscated. @ unknown. Length, 1-13 lines. 
Found in the woods of North Ircland; rare in England. 
