British Braconide. 1] 
emitting the radial nervure before one-fourth of its length ; radial 
areolet hardly attenuated and sinuated before the apex; recur- 
rent nervure interstitial. Fore legs ferruginous, their cox often 
infuscated ; middle legs ferruginous, their cox, the base of the 
trochanters, the upper edge of the femora, and the tarsi, blackish ; 
hind legs blackish, with the 2nd joint of the trochanters, and the 
tibiew, ferruginous, these last dark at the tips, the femora sometimes 
reddish underneath. Abdomen longer and narrower than the 
thorax, convex, pointed at the extremity ; Ist segment sublinear, 
carinated in the middle, rugulose, the tubercles hardly visible ; 2nd 
and following segments very smooth, having each a series of 
minute impressed points along the hind border. Terebra_ briefly 
exserted, curved, with stout, compressed valves. ¢ antenne longer, 
37-40-jointed; abdomen depressed, somewhat spathulate. Length, 
13 lines ; exp., 33 lines. 
Var. ¢ Q Alysia rufipes, Nees. Ferruginous parts of lighter 
tint ; mandibles, base of antenns, squamulze, and legs, red ; hind 
cox and tips of hind femora either red or blackish. Pubescence 
of the metathorax and first segment very fine. In one ¢ of my 
collection the 2nd segment is reddish at the base. 
Not uncommon in marshes; a parasite, according to 
Rondani, of Phytomyza albiceps, Meigen. Besides 
England, it has been noticed in Germany, Iialy, and 
Norway. 
13. Dacnusa imisella, Marsh. 
D. misella, Marsh., lib. cit., p. 475, ¢ 2. 
Metathorax less densely covered with down, often nearly bare ; 
hind femora entirely pale, or rarely and faintly streaked with 
fuscous. ‘The smallest species, very minute. Body short, black, 
shining, with pale pubescence; base of the 2nd abdominal segment 
somewhat reddish. Head large, transverse, wider than the thorax ; 
mandibles 3-denticulate, red; palpi red. @ antenne much longer 
than the body, black, 20-22-jointed ; scape pale at the extremity. 
Thorax short, gibbous ; mesonotum divided by an indistinct medial 
channel, sometimes effaced, which terminates in a fovea before the 
scutellum ; pectus and pleure covered with whitish pubescence ; 
furrow of the mesopleure smooth; metathorax very short, 
not shining, abruptly truncate bebind, carinated at the base, 
furnished at each posterior angle with a tuft of whitish woolly 
hair, Wings subbyaline ; squamule, nervures, and stigma pale 
