ART. 16 WASPS OF THE SUBFAMILY BRACONINAE MTJESEBECK 



later followed Foerster and Marshall and placed it in his Agathinae. 

 Even more recently Lyle* has retained Orgilus in this group. The 

 margined or immargined condition of the occiput is one of the most 

 dependable subfamily characters in the Braconidae, and the mar- 

 gined occiput of Orgilus, combined with the open second cubital cell 

 and the broader radial cell, seems to me to necessitate the exclusion 

 of the genus from this subfamily. Accordingly, it is omitted from 

 the Braconinae as treated in this paper. Szepligeti also incorrectly 

 included Plumarius Phillippi and Neoneurus Haliday. The former of 

 these has been shown by Bradley'^ to belong in the Mutillidae; and 

 Bengtsson^ has properly established the subfamily Neoneurinae for 

 the reception of Neoneurus and Elasmosoma Ruthe, Meteoridea 



Tig. 1.— Wings of bassus sanctus say. 

 Veins. — Anterior wing: ab=costa; bc=stigma; ch'd=metacarpus; hkh'=radius; gk'g'=cubitus 

 FT=MEDius; Ti'p=DiscoiDEUs; pp'=suBDiscoiDEUs; ut'=submedius; t'u'=brachius; jt=basal vein; 

 kk'=ist intercubitus; ll'=2d intercubitus; n'=REcuRRENT vein; tt'=nervulus. 



Posterior wing: ajb=subcostella; hh'=radiella; gg'=cubitella; ft=ist abscissa of mediella; 

 TG=2D abscissa OF MEDIELLA; ut'=submediella; jg=basella; tt'=nervellus. 



Cells.— 2=radial cell; 3=cubital cells; 4=median cell; 5= discoidal cells; 6= submedlan cell; 

 7=brachial cells; 8=anal cell; ii=costellan cell; 12=radiellan cell; 13=mediellan cell; 

 14=cubitellan cell; 15=submediellan cell; 16=discoidellan cell; 18=brachiellan cell. 



Ashmead was placed by its author in his Agathidinae, but it clearly 

 does not belong there, being evidently a Diospiline. 



The following combination of characters will distinguish members 

 of the Braconinae : Head transverse ; face sometimes much length- 

 ened; eyes bare or practically so; maxillary palpi five-segmented; 

 labial palpi usually four-segmented ; no opening between clypeus and 



<The Entomologist, vol. 53, 1920, p. 177. 

 sJourn. Wash. Acad. Sci., vol. 11, 1921, p. 214. 

 6Lund. Univ. Arsskr., n. f., Avd. 2, vol. 14, 1918, p. 1. 



