246 On the Braconide in the British Museum. 
of the antenne 8 mm. ‘Thorax smooth and shining, the 
scutellum finely punctured, the basal half of the scutellum 
occupied by a deep depression in which are three longitudinal 
carine, the apex and sides of the scutellum strongly longi- 
tudinally striated. Median segment smooth at the base, 
coarsely rugose-striate at the apex. Abdomen longitudinally 
rugose-striate, with only three visible tergites ; second tergite 
with a distinct longitudinal carina; the first broader at the 
‘apex than long, not much narrowed to the base; the second 
a little shorter than the first, twice as broad at the apex as 
long; the third very little longer than the second, without 
teeth at the apex beneath. Recurrent nervure received 
before the first transverse cubital nervure. 
Hab. S.W. Australia, Yallingup (Zurner), November and 
December ; three specimens. 
The tergites are less strongly curved downwards both late- 
rally and apically than in the European S. irrorator, from 
_ which it also differs in the absence of apical spines and in the 
broader and less elongate abdomen. It approaches the 
North-American S. bicolor much more closely in these points, 
but is a larger and more robust species. The colour of the 
fore femora and tarsi seems to vary, one specimen having the 
femora black and two having the tarsi except the apical joint 
testaceous red. 
Spheropyx neavet, sp. n. 
Q@. Nigra; palpis, mandibulis apice, abdomine, pedibus tegulisque 
rufo-testaceis; femoribus posticis apice, tibiis posticis apice, 
tarsisque posticis, basi extremo excepto, nigris; alis venisque 
fuscis. 
Long. 7 mm. 
@. Front and clypeus closely punctured and sparsely 
clothed with fuscous pubescence ; vertex and thorax shining, 
finely punctured ; a, broad transverse groove at the base of 
the scutellum divided by a longitudinal carina; median 
segment punctured-rugose, the sides rugose-striate. Abdomen 
rugose ; the first segment with two longitudinal carine con- 
verging at the apex, a little longer than the apical breadth, 
half as broad again at the apex as at the base; second tergite 
a little longer than the first, not as long as the apical breadth ; 
third tergite no longer than the second, without apical teeth. 
Recurrent nervure received before the first transverse cubital 
nervure. 
Hab. N.E. Rhodesia, Serenje District, 4500 feet (S. A. 
Neave), December. : 
