On the Braconidse in the British Museum. 241 



beginning of last tliiixl. Legs black, the anterior and middle 

 knees and anterior tibise in front pallid ; hind tibiee and tarsi 

 with dark fuscous hair on outer side and shining pale yellowish 

 on inner ; hind spur with two lamelliform teetli, the first very 

 laige. 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 o£ 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, Crawf., 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). — Tfgulai 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 strige directed tneso-caudad. 



r^ . — Tegulse chestnut-red, with a yellow spot ; yellow band 

 on first abdominal segment broadly interrupted ; hind femora 

 and tibia3 on upper (inner) side broadly banded with black 

 for their whole length ; anterior tibise mainly black behind. 



San Juan Allende, Mexico, Nov. 29 (C. IJ. T. Townsend). 

 U.S. National Museum. 



XXVI. — JS'otes on the Braconida? in the British Museum. — I. 

 By liOWLAND E. TURNEE, F.Z.S., F.E.S. 



Subfamil}^ Braconin^. 



Chaoilta decorata, Sz^p. 



Blastomorpha decorafa, Szep. Term. Fiizetek, xxiii. p. 50 (1900), 

 Chaoilta decorata, Sz(5p. Wytsman's Genera Insect, xxii. p. 17 (1904). 



This species was originally described from Dutch New 

 Guinea. 1 took a specimen at Cooktown in Novensber 1904. 



