British Braconidse. 5 



testaceous at the base, with more than 41 joints (mutilated). 

 Wings hyaline with a glaucous tinge, infumated in the middle and 

 in the cubital region ; squamulae testaceous ; nervures and stigma 

 fuscous. Legs testaceous ; 2nd pair of femora with a dark spot in 

 the middle ; hind coxae and femora fuscescent, as well as their tibiae 

 and the tips of their tarsi ; hind femora testaceous at the extreme 

 base. Second abdominal segment testaceous, blackish at both ends. 

 (J Unknown. Length, 3| lines. 



Taken once in England by Haliday ; unknown to me ; 

 otherwise noticed as captured in Holland and Germany. 



5. Cceliimts gracilis, Haliday. 



Alysia (C.) gracilis, Hal., lib. cit., 23, ^ ? . 



Chienon gracilis. Curt., B. E., 289. 



C. gracilis, Marsh., lih. cit., p. .519, ^ ^ . 



$ Black, pubescent, with the middle of the abdomen ferru- 

 ginous. Head subcubic, as broad as long, hardly emarginate 

 posteriorly, wider than the thorax ; mandibles and palpi 

 ferruginous. Antennae shorter than the body, stout, submoniliform, 

 broadly rufous towards the base, 36-jointed. Wings largely 

 infumated in the middle ; stigma and nervures of the charac- 

 teristic region fuscous ; base and extremity of the wings whitish, 

 with yellowish nervures ; the fuscescent patch generally extends 

 across the cubital areolets to the tip of the wing, the radial and 

 posterior areolets remaining pale ; sometimes however the wings 

 are hardly at all clouded. Legs ferruginous ; femora of the 2nd 

 pair in great part blackish ; hind coxae and femora, together with the 

 tips of the tibiae, blackish, as also are the extremities of all the tarsi. 

 Abdomen claviform, slightly compressed ; 2nd segment ferruginous, 

 bright testaceous, or yellow, blackish at the apex ; all the following 

 segments blackish. Terebra almost concealed. ^ Antennae 

 slender, longer than the body, black, with the base piceous, 54- 

 jointed ; wings infumated, hyaline at the base and in the radial 

 areolet ; squamulae piceous ; legs darker than those of the $ , having 

 also the intermediate coxae and the hind tarsi blackish ; abdomen 

 very elongate ; 1st segment black ; 2nd and 3rd (taken together) 

 obscurely ferruginous, darker at the base and apex ; 4th and 5th 

 blackish, or the base of the 4th ferruginous ; the following segments 

 blackish. 9 Length, 2^ ; exp. 3| lines ; ^^ length, 3 ; exp. 4^ lines. 

 Var. ^ Abdomen black, with only a rufous band across the 2nd 

 segment. 



