On the Braconides in the British Museum. 241 
beginning of last third. Legs black, the anterior and middle 
knees and anterior tibize in front pallid ; hind tibie and tarsi 
with dark fuscous hair on outer side and shining pale yellowish 
on inner ; hind spur with two lamelliform teeth, the first very 
large. Abdomen honey-colour, with transverse black bands 
across middle of segments, that on first sometimes incomplete, 
the first also with two dusky spots anteriorly and a dark 
mark on each side; apical part of segments 2 to 4 with 
appressed orange hair ; caudal rima yellowish, but black hair 
on each side of it, 
Palcazu, Peru (from Rosenberg). U.S. National Museum. 
Related to A. vulpicolor, Crawt., but the abdomen is quite 
differently coloured and the base of metathorax is much more 
coarsely sculptured. 
Agapostemon tyleri, sp. n. 
Almost exactly like A. viridulus, Fabr., in nearly all 
characters, and running to that in published tables, but 
distinct in the following characters :— 
? (type).—Tegule black, with a yellow mark in front ; 
scutellum finely and closely punctured all over; base of 
metathorax behind sides of enclosure without distinct grooves 
or striz directed meso-caudad. 
¢.—Tegule chestnut-red, with a yellow spot ; yellow band 
on first abdominal segment broadly interrupted; hind femora 
and tibize on upper (inner) side broadly banded with black 
for their whole length ; anterior tibiee mainly black behind. 
San Juan Allende, Mexico, Noy. 29 (C. H. 7’, Townsend). 
U.S. National Museum. 
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XXVI.—WNotes on the Braconide: in the British M useum.—lI. 
By Row.anp K.“lurner, F.Z.S., F.E.S. 
Subfamily Braconrz. 
Chavilta decorata, Szép. 
Blastomorpha decorata, Szép. Term. Fiizetek, xxiii. p- 50 (1900), 
Chaoulta decorata, Szép. Wytsman’s Genera Insect. xxii. p- 17 (1904). 
This species was originally described from Dutch New 
Guinea. I took a specimen at Cooktown in November 1904. 
