British Braconide. 23 
yellow. Antenne as long as the body, blackish, with the first 
+ or 5 joints yellow, the 3rd somewhat elongate. Thorax oval, 
convex ; mesothoracic furrows scarcely inchoate, punctulate; a 
punctiform fovea before the scutellum ; metathorax very short, 
obtuse, punctate-rugulose. | Wings hyaline; squamule yellow ; 
nervures and stigma testaceous, the latter very narrow, emitting 
the radial nervure from its attenuated base; the nervulation 
‘according to Haliday) resembles that of D. areolar/s (sp. 25), but the 
recurrent nervure is interstitial, and the 1st abscissa longer. Legs 
slender, yellow. Abdomen subpetiolate, spathulate, somewhat less 
wide than the thorax, slightly compressed at the apex ; 1st segment 
linear, punctate-rugulose, very little contracted at the base, with 
medial tubercles. Terebra as long as one-fourth of the abdomen, 
its valves slender. 4 similar, but with stouter legs. Length, 
1-1} lines. 
Var. 1. d@ Abdominal segments, after the Ist, fuscous ; an 
obscure testaceous patch at the base of the 2nd. 
Var. 2. ¢ Hind tarsi and tips of their tibiz infuscated. 
I have not seen this species, which, according to 
Haliday, resembles D. albipes (sp. 14), differing only in 
having the thorax nearly glabrous, the radial areolet and 
the stigma shorter, and the recurrent nervure interstitial. 
Forster has made for it the genus Mesora. Found in 
Hngland and Ireland, but very rare. 
V. GYROCAMPA, Forster. 
Forster, Verh. Pr. Rheinl., 1862, p. 276. 
Palpi elongate, the maxillary 6-, the labial 3- or 4-jointed. Head 
transverse ; cheeks somewhat dilated ; eyes rather small, glabrous. 
Thorax smooth; mesonotum canaliculate in the middle, the channel 
developing into a fovea before the scutellum ; mesothoracic furrows 
incomplete, directed at first across the disk, but soon forming 
almost a right angle, marked by a punctiform impression, and then 
suddenly effaced ; furrow of the mesopleurze smooth ; metathorax 
pubescent. Wings narrower than in Dacnusa ; 2nd abscissa form- 
ing a regular parabolic curve, not at all sinuated; recurrent nervure 
rejected ; stigma linear, elongate, sometimes very much attenu- 
ated and indeterminate, emitting the radial nervure at one-fourth 
or one-third of its length ; radial areolet remote from the tip of 
the wing ; 2nd discoidal completely closed ; radial nervure of the 
hind wings colourless or effaced. Abdomen spathulate, pointed at 
the apex in the ? ; 2nd and following sutures very indistinct ; Ist 
