L';U ICIINEtTMOXIDJE. 



tlie mcsoihorax with two triangular whitish spots anteriorly, ii 

 (luadrato white spot on the disk, and a line close to the togulso ; 

 the sculollum, postscutellum, and a (juadratc; spot 1)cnoalh it, also 

 the motathorax laterally, the sides of the thorax bcncutli tlic coxic, 

 also the trochanters of the anterior and intermediate logs, with their 

 tibiiu and femora honeatli, wliitish ; the posterior femora are also 

 pale beneath ; the legs partly ferruginous and partly black above : 

 wings ]ialo fulvo-hyaline. Abdomen with tlic three basal segments 

 black above, with their margins whitish and longitudinally striated ; 

 the three apical sog-monts smooth, shining, ferruginous. 



Hah. Costa Rica, Irazu. 



BEACON, Fabr. 



1. Bracon laevis. 



Female. Length 5 lines. — Head, thorax, and legs black, the abdo- 

 men pale yellow-ferruginous, and entirely smooth and shining ; 

 wings dark fuscous, with three small hyaline spots across the an- 

 terior wings, opposite the base of the stigtua, which is black. The 

 second segment of the abdomen with the lateral angles elevated, 

 subtuberculato in the middle, whence a shining carina crosses 

 to the apical margin ; there is a depression on the segment late- 

 rally; the ovipositor as long as from its base to that of the anterior 

 wings. 



Ilab. Costa Rica, Cache. 



