Braconidse in the British Museum. 51 



Cardiochiles verticalis, sp. n. 



5 . Fulva ; antennis, vertice latissime, segmento dorsali sexto 

 macula apicali, valvulis terebrae, tibiis posticis apice extremo, 

 tarsis posticis, unguiculisque nigris ; alis flavo-hyalinis, apice ad 

 medium stigmatis fortiter infuscatis, venis basi flavis, apice 

 infuscatis. 



Long. 6 mm. 



? . Head distinctly broader than the thorax, not narrowed 

 behind the eyes, distinctly narrowed anteriorly, face minutely 

 and not very closely punctured ; cheeks a little more than 

 half as long as the breadth of the mandibles at their base. 

 Antennas 41-jointed, stout, setaceous, second joint of the 

 flagellum shorter than the scape and no longer than the 

 third joint. Notauli deep and smooth; median segment 

 finely rugulose, with an enclosed ovate area in the middle, 

 on each side of which, halfway to the lateral margin of the 

 segment, is a longitudinal carina. Abdomen almost smooth, 

 the punctures microscopic ; the sheath* of the ovipositor 

 nearly half as long as the abdomen, deflexed, broadened, 

 obliquely truncate at the apex. The nervulus is received 

 much nearer to the basal nervure than in saltator, Fabr., or 

 rufator, Roman, the distance between them being scarcely 

 more than one-fifth of the lower margin of the first 

 discoidal cell. 



Hab. Mackay, Queensland (Turner), January 1900. 



This is near rufator, Roman, but the colour-differences 

 are considerable, and the ovipositor seems to be longer, and 

 the comparative length of the basal joints of the antennas is 

 different. The male has the apical half of the hind femora, 

 the hind tibiae, except a spot at the base, and the hind tarsi 

 black. 



Cardiochiles uniformis, sp. n. 



5- Fulva ; mandibulis apice extremo, antennis, mesosterno apice, 

 segmentis dorsalibus quarto, quinto, sextoque macula mediana, 

 valvulis terebrae, tibiis posticis apice, tarsis posticis incisuris 

 fulvis, unguiculisque nigris ; mesonoto fasciis longitudinalibus 

 4 brunneis ; alis pallidissime t'usco-hyalinis ; stigmate fusco, 

 basi macula parva tlava ; venis fuscis, apice pallidis. 



3 . Feminae similis ; vertice fascia lata curvata utrinque circum 

 ocellos, mesoiioti fasciis, segmentoque septimo dorsali macula 

 mediana nigris. 

 Long. 5 mm. 



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