British Braconide. 2h 
thorax short, obtuse. Wings hyaline: squamule and stigma pale 
ochreous ; radialareolet slightly dilated and sinuated in the middle, 
somewhat acuminate at the extremity, shorter than spp. 24, 25; 
recurrent nervure almost interstitial. Legs pale testaceous, the 
tips of the tibize and of the tarsi infuscated. Abdomen subsessile, 
oval, convex; 1st segment obconic, densely pubescent like the 
metathorax, and finely rugulose ; segments 2—5 cinctured with pale 
yellowish before the posterior margin ; 6-7 ochreous. Described 
by Haliday from a single specimen. ¢@ unknown. Length, 
14 lines, 
Taken in Ireland. 
27. Dacnusa aquilegix, Marsh. 
D. aquileqizx, Marsh., lib. cit., p. 493, 2. 
Stigma as long as the prebrachial areolet ; radial nervure bent 
in the middle, forming almost a blunted angle, indicating thus a drd 
abscissa, which proceeds almost in a straight line to the metacarp, and 
terminates in anacute angle at a considerable distance from the tip 
of the wing. This conformation is found also in certain species of 
Opius, as O. ochrogaster, Wesm., and O. nitidulator, Nees (see Tr. Ent. 
Soc. Lond., 1891, pp. 32,38). @ Black, scarcely pubescent ; abdo- 
men piceous, with the Ist segment testaceous. Head much wider 
than long; mandibles rufous; palpi paler. Antenne slender, longer 
than the body, 28-jointed, black, with the two first joints reddish. 
An impressed line on the m2sonotum before the scutellum ; meta- 
thorax short, not shining, pubescent, with a smooth space at the 
middle of the base. Wings nyaline; squamule testaceous ; 
nervures and stigma fuscous, the latter stout, extending to two- 
thirds of the short radial areolet, emitting the radial nervure from 
near its base ; the dividing nervure between the Ist cubital and 
Ist discoidal areolets colourless, but still traceable; recurrent 
nervure directed towards the inner lower angle of the 2nd cubital 
areolet. Legs rufotestaceous, the cox included ; last joint of the 
tarsi infuscated. Abdomen as long as the head and thorax, sub- 
sessile ; Ist segment twice as long as its apical width, not much 
narrowed at the base, finely striolate and margined, with salient 
tubercles ; the following segments smooth, forming a claviform 
mass as wide as the thorax. Terebra concealed. ¢ unknown. 
Length, 1 live; exp., 24 lines. 
The only example was bred from an unknown dipte- 
rous pupa found on the columbine, Ajuilegia vulgaris, 
by Mr. Billups. 
