British Braconid^. 41 



the mesonotiim is either entirely black, or marked with testaceous 

 lines between the lobes ; humeral angles often testaceous ; prothoi-ax 

 sometimes black above. Wings slightly infu mated, especially 

 towards the tips, and with a nebulous patch on the 2nd intercubital 

 nervure ; squamulse and radicles yellowish ; nervures and stigma 

 fuscous, the latter large, triangular. Legs brownish testaceous, the 

 middle pair more or less infuscated in the middle of the femora and 

 tibiffi ; hind legs still darker, with the knees and the base of the 

 tarsi pale ; hind coxse infuscated ; all the trochanters testaceous. 

 Abdomen black or blackish, longer than the head and thorax, 

 lanceolate, compressed towards the extremity ; 1st segment linear to 

 beyond the tubercles, which are placed in the middle ; condylus 

 dilated as in the preceding species. Valves of the terebra obtuse, 

 broad, not ascending. ^ Black, with the 2nd suture pale ; legs 

 darker ; all the coxse black ; wings hyaline, whitish, stigma and 

 nervures black ; condylus of the 1st segment very little dilated. 

 Length, 2 ; exp. 3 lines. 



Parasite of the species of Lachnus inhabiting Fimis 

 sylvestris and Ahies larix ; bred by Bignell out of Lachnus 

 pini, L. taken on the spruce fir, Abies excelsa. 



7. Aphidi^LS laricis, Haliday. 



A. laricis, Hal, lib. cit., 97 ; Marsh., lib. cit , p. 567, $ $ . 



9 Black, with the 2nd suture and less frequently one of the 

 following, pale brownish. Mesonotum shining, very finely and 

 vaguely punctulate. Wings hyaline, infumated towards the tip and 

 below the stigma ; squamulfe and radicles brownish testaceous ; 

 nervures and stigma blackish. Fore legs yellowish, infuscated on. 

 the outer side, tarsi obscure ; 4 posterior legs infuscated, tips of the 

 trochanters and both ends of the tibiae dull yellowish ; all the coxse 

 black. First abdominal segment hardly or not at all widened pos- 

 teriorly. Terebra short, ascending, the valves acute at the extremity. 

 (J Wings white, not infumated ; legs darker than those of the $ • 

 Length about l|-2 ; exp. 2-2| lines. 



Reared by Haliday out of some puceron inhabiting 

 Abies larix. 



8. Aphidius urticse, Haliday. 



A. urticsB, Hal, lib. cit., 100 ; Marsh., lib. cit., p. 568, $ . 



$ Slender, elongate, yellow ; head and thorax infuscated or rules- 

 cent above ; anterior segments of the abdomen infuscated towards 



