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British Braconidm. 3 



mandibles rufescent ; palpi testaceous, fuscous at the tips. Antennae 

 longer than the head and thorax, stout, rufescent beneath at the base, 

 29-32-jointed. Mesonotum punctulate, its furrows subobsolete, 

 converging about the middle of the disc, and prolonged in a faint 

 linear fovea to the base of the scutellum. Wings dusky hyaline ; 

 squamulse fuscescent ; nervures and stigma dark fuscous, the latter 

 narrow. Fore legs rufous, sometimes dark at the base ; 4 posterior 

 legs black, with piceous tibite and tarsi ; extremities of the trochanters 

 reddish, as well as the base of the tibiae and of the tarsi. Abdomen 

 compressed, carinated both above and beneath ; 1st segment elongate , 

 striolate, emarginate at the apex. Terebra very short, somewhat 

 elevated. ^ Antennae slender, as long as the body, 42-47-jointed, 

 the 2nd and 3rd joints equal, the 2nd piceous ; stigma and radial 

 areolet narrower than in the ^ ; abdomen depressed, sublinear. 

 Length, 1| lines. 



Var. $ Cheenon obscurus, Curt. Antennse rufescent at the base 

 for some distance ; legs testaceous ; middle femora streaked with 

 blackish above ; hind coxae and femora blackish, as well as the base 

 of the trochanters ; middle of the abdomen rufescent. 



Not uncommon in Ireland, in sandy places, according to 

 Haliday ; taken in England by Walker, Kudd, and several 

 times by myself. 



2. Coeliniits ijodagricus, Haliday. 



Alysia (C.) podagrica, Hal., l. c, $ . 



C. podagricus, Marsh., lib. cit., p. 516, $ . 



(J Similar to viduus, but less elongate. Mandibles rufescent ; 

 palpi short, testaceous. Wings narrow ; radial areolet and stigma 

 more attenuated. Legs very short, the hind pair scarcely exceeding 

 the abdomen ; femora almost oval, incrassated, not longer than the 

 trochanters ; legs black, the first pair and the base of all the tibiae 

 rufescent. $ Unknown. Length, 2| lines. 



Not seen since the time of Haliday, who captured one 

 ^ at the end of July on a sandy shore near Dublin. 



3. Ccelinius niger, Nees. 



Stephaoius niger, Nees, Mag. Ges. Berl, 1811, p. 5. 



C. niger, Nees, Mon. i, 10; Curtis, in Morton's Cyclop, 

 of Agricult., s. V. Chlorops, pi. civ, ff. 7, 8 ; Farm 

 Ins., 242, pi. xxxiv, f. 8, and pi. H. frontisp. f. 16 ; 

 Marsh., lib. cit., p. 517, $ $ . 



Alysia (C.) nigra, Hal., lib. cit., 24, ^ $ . 



