British Braconide. iby 
palpi ferruginous. 9 Antennz longer than the body, slender, 
blackish, with the base ferruginous, 42-jointed, and upwards. 
Thorax subcylindric ; mesothoracic furrows united, not far from 
the fore margin, in a channel which terminates in a deep round 
fovea before the scutellum ; metathorax downy, punctate-rugulose, 
obtuse behind, canaliculate in the middle. Wings hyaline; 
squamulz pale yellow ; stigma linear, acuminate at the extremity, 
emitting the radial nervure from near the base; radial areolet 
lanceolate, hardly sinuated, longer than the preebrachial ; recurrent 
nervure interstitial. Legs entirely ferruginous. Abdomen nar- 
rower than the thorax, somewhat compressed posteriorly ; 2nd 
segment ferruginous, the rest blackish. Terebra subexserted. 
¢ Antenne twice as long as the body, about 32-jointed; Ist 
abdominal segment twice as long as its apical width, hardly con- 
tracted at the base, canaliculate in the middle, very finely aciculate, 
with medial tubercles not salient ; abdomen narrowly oblong, not 
compressed ; 2nd and 3rd segments testaceous. Length, $line ; 
exp., 14 lines. 
Var. Second abdominal segment piceous. 
Found in marshy places; England and_ Ireland ; 
Germany ; Russia, according to Kawall. I possess one 
$, not in good condition. 
22. Dacnusa gracilis, Nees. 
Alysia gracilis, Nees, Mon., p. 257, 2 2. 
D. gracilis, Marsh., lib. cit., p. 487, $ 2. 
Head transverse, dilated behind the eyes; nervures and stigma 
fuscous. Black, shining ; middle of the abdomen ferruginous. 
© Head large ; oral parts rufous. Antenne somewhat longer than 
the body, testaceous as far as the middle, thence gradually darkened 
to the apex, 3l-jointed. Mesothoracic furrows continned to the 
oblong fovea before the scutellum; metathorax carinate in the 
middle, pubescent posteriorly, hardly rugulose, truncate behind. 
Wings hyaline with an obscure tinge ; nervures and stigma pale 
brown, the latter linear-lanceolate, emitting the radial nervure at 
one-third of its length ; radial nervure hardly sinuated ; recurrent 
nervure rejected. Legs rufous, the cox included ; last joint of 
the tarsi infuscated. Abdomen longer than the head and thoray, 
narrow, strongly compressed towards the apex ; Ist segment almost 
linear, striolate, carinate in the middle, with subobsolete tubercles ; 
2nd and part of the Srd, testaceous or rufous; the rest blackish, 
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