British Braconide. 15 
segment covered with fine down; 2nd segment somewhat reddish 
at the base. Head transverse, wider than the thorax; mandibles 
rufous, tridenticulate ; palpi dusky. @ Antenne longer than the 
body, blackish, with two or three of the basal joints more or less 
testaceous, 31-jointed (in 4 examples). Thorax short, gibbous ; 
mesothoracic furrows almost obsolete ; a rather large oval fovea 
before the scutellum ; metathorax short, not shining, finely rugose, 
vertically truncate behind, the descending portion bounded by a 
transverse carina. Wings subhyaline: nervures and stigma 
fuscous, th2 latter elongate, linear-lanceolate, obtuse at the base, 
acuminate at the extremity, emitting the radial nervure from near 
the base ; radial areolet large, much dilated in the middle, sinuated 
and gradually attenuated towards the extremity, longer than the 
prebrachial; recurrent nervure interstitial. Last joint of the 
tarsi infuscated. First abdominal segment short, twice as long as 
its apical width, hardly narrowed at the base, not shining, finely 
aciculate, with medial tubercles, not salient; the following seg- 
ments form a pointed oval, as wideand as long as the thorax, black, 
more or less reddish at the base. Terebra hardly exserted. ¢ 
similar; antenne 31-jointed ; legs of a more dingy hue; abdomen 
obtuse at the extremity, narrower than the thorax. Length, 
hardly 1 line; exp., 23 lines. 
Var. @Q Abdomen, after the Ist segment, dull, testaceous, 
infuscated at the sides. 
Found at Nunton, Wilts, 3 9, 1 g¢; the var. in 
Cornwall. 
19. Dacnusa leptogaster, Hal. 
D. lepiogaster, Hal., Hym. Brit., i, p. 10; Marsh., lib. 
Clie, ators 6 fs 
Squamule black. Body black, pubescent ; abdomen linear, not 
so wide as the thorax; 2nd segment reddish at the base. Resembles 
D, petiolata (sp. 8), but is much smaller, and the head and abdomen 
are relatively narrower. Q Antenne as long as the body, 26-30- 
jointed. Thorax oblong-oval; a punctiform fovea before the 
scutellum ; metathorax short, pubescent, slightly excavated behind. 
Wings hyaline, with a faint dusky tinge; nervures and stigma 
fuscous, the latter linear, rather stout, emitting the radial nervure 
before one-quarter of its length; radial areolet short, hardly 
sinuated and narrowed before the extremity. Legs testaceous ; 
the 4 anterior femora marked above with a blackish streak ; hind 
tibix blackish at the apex. Abdomen somewhat compressed, 
