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VIT. — Notes on the Braconidse in the British Museum. — 

 II. On the Australian Species of Cardiochilinae and 

 Doryctiuae. By Rowland E. Turner, F.Z.S.. F.E.S. 



Subfamily Carbiochilinm, Aslmi. 



Genus Cardiochiles, Nees. 



Key to the Australian Species. 



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1. Hind metatarsus distinctly broadened, not 



cylindrical; head and abdomen black, 

 the basal abdominal segment sometimes 



reddish 2. 



Hind metatarsus cylindrical ; head and abdo- 

 men mostly red or fulvous 3. 



2. Thorax and abdomen entirely black C. assimilator, Turn. 



Thorax and basal abdominal segment red. ... C. dissimulator, Turn. 



3. Vertex entirely black C. vertical is, Turn. 



Vertex red or fulvous 4. 



4. Wings strongly infuscate on the apical third ; 



costa and basal half of stigma yellowish . C. rufator, Roman. 

 Wings uniformly subhyaline ; costa and 

 stigma fuscous, a yellowish spot at the 

 base of the stigma C. uniformis, Turn. 



Cardiochiles assimilator, sp. n. 



$ . Nigra ; femoribus auticis apice, tibiis anticis subtus, tarsisque 

 anticis et intermediis, unguiculia exceptis, albido-brunneis ; cal- 

 caribus albis ; alis fusco-hyalinis, tertio apicali fuscis, stigmate 

 venisque nigris ; mandibulis fusco-ferrugineis. 



3 . Feminae similis, tarsis intermediis nigris ; alis fuscis uni- 

 coloribus. 



Long. 6 mm. 



$ . Head nearly as broad as the thorax ; antennae 37- 

 jointed, the second joint of the flagellurn distinctly longer 

 than the third. Vertex and face shining, minutely punc- 

 tured, the cheeks a little shorter than the breadth of the 

 mandibles at their base. Thorax minutely punctured, 

 shining, the notauli crenulated. Pubescence white, long, 

 and rather close on the sides of the scutellum and on t lie 

 dorsal surface of the median segment ; the enclosed area of 

 the median segment ovate, rather narrow, the longitudinal 



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