Braconidye //* the British Museum. 245 



Easily distinguislied from curvi^pina, Cam., luzonensis, 

 Eiiderl., and other Malayan species with somewhat similar 

 colouring by the very large emarginate eyes and by the 

 shorter and straight spine of the pronotum, also by the shorter 

 second cubital cell. The second tergite is twice as broad as 

 long. 



Genus Mesobracon, Szep. 



Mesohricon, Sz^p. Termes. Fiizetek, xxv. p. 46 (1902). 

 Telerda, Cam. Ann. S. Afric. Mus. v. p. 75 (1906). 



Mesohracoii macuUceps, Cam. 



Telerda maculiceps, Cam. Ann. S. Afric. Mus. v. p. 75 (1906). 

 Mesohracnn eoncolor, Szep. Ann. Mus. Nat. Hungar. iv. p. 579 (1906) 

 (Dec. 25). 



The localities in the British Museum range from Mombasa 

 to Salisburj'. 



Subfamily Dobtctin^. 



Grenus Trichiobracon, (yam. 



TricMohrncon, Cam. Journ. Straits Br. I'oy. Asiat. Soc. xliv. p. 104 



(1905). 

 Trichodoryctes, Sz^p. Ann. Mus. Nat. Ilungar. iv. p. 599 (1906). 



Trichiobracon striolatus, Szep. 



Acanthobracon striolatus, Szep. Termes. Fiizetek. xxv. p. 48 (1902). 

 Trichiobracon pilosus, Cam. Jouru. Straits Br. lioy. Asiat. Soc. xliv. 



p. 104 (1905). 

 Neotrimorus luteus, Cam. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) xvi. p. 161 (1905). 



Subfamily Chjelonuv^. 



Sphceropyx conjugator, sp. n. 



2 . Nigra ; abdomine rufo-ferrugineo ; mandibulis apice testaceis ; 

 femoribus anticis, tibiis anticis, tarsisque anticis basi extremo 

 rufo-testaceis ; alis dimidio basali hyaliuis, dimidio apicali fuscis, 

 venis nigris. 

 Long. 8 mm. 



$ . Olypeus short and broad, shining and finely punc- 

 tured ; front finely punctured, with a longitudinal groove on 

 each side nearly reaching the base of tlie antennte ; vertex 

 smooth and shining, the head widely emarginate posteriorly, 

 the ocellar region somewiiat raised. Second joint of the 

 flagellum very distinctly longer than the third, the first very 

 short and almost concealed in the apex of the scape, length 



