114 Mr. Rowland E. Turner on Australian Braconidad. 



hairy; the parapsidal furrows strong. The only species 

 known to me is 



Platyagathis leaena, sp. n. 



$. Nigra; capite rufo, antennis mandibulisque nigris; segmentis 

 dorsalibus primo, secundoque lateribus latissime, tertioque basi 

 lateribus, ventralibus primo secundoque in medio nigro-maculatis, 

 tertioque basi albis; tibiis anticis basi, tarsisque anticis fusco- 

 ferrugineis; alis fusco-hyalinis, vein's fuscis. 



Long. 7 211111. 



9 c?- Smooth and shining; the face very finely and closely punc- 

 tured; two short longitudinal carinae between the antennae as in 

 Disophrys. Antennae 49-jointed in both sexes, nearly as long as the 

 whole insect in the female, distinctly longer in the male; marginal 

 carinae of the frontal depression well defined, vertex smooth and 

 shining. Parapsidal furrows and the sulci of the mesopleurae 

 punctured; scutellum with a finely striated depression at the ban'; 

 median segment short, the dorsal surface no longer than the scutel- 

 lum, coarsely reticulate, with six rather ill-defined longitudinal 

 carinae, covered with rather short whitish hairs, which partly con- 

 ceal the sculpture. Abdomen smooth and shining; the white lateral 

 bands of the two basal tergites as broad as the black median bands, 

 and continued more narrowly on the basal half of the third tergite. 

 Second cubital cell subquadrate, with the stump of a vein springing 

 from the second transverse cubital nervure ; nervulus interstitial. 

 'Ilu- cubital margin of the first cubital cell is open in the middle. 



Ihib. S. \Y. Australia, Yallingup (Tiirner), January 

 19] 1. 



