Indo-Chinese Ilymenoptcra. 9L 



Supei family ICHNEUMONOIDEA. 



Family Braconida. 



Subfamily Braconinjs. 



Medinoschiza laosensis, sp. n. 



2 . Nigra ; capite, thorace, pedibus anticis intermediisque, tibiisqne 

 tarsisque posticis testaceis ; aiitennis, mandibulis apice, moso- 

 notoque antice lateribusque nigris ; alia flavis, apice leviter 

 infumatis, macula magna ante stigmatis basin fusca. 



Long. 14 mm., terebrae long. 13 mm. ; antennanim, long. 11 mm., 

 65-articulatis. 



?. Head large, cubical; eyes oval, temples as broad as 

 the eyes ; cheeks long, more than half as long as the eyes, 

 slightly concave. Face sparsely and rather finely punctured, 

 sparsely clothed with long brown hairs; vertex and front 

 smooth and shining, the front between the anterior ocellus 

 and the base of the antennpe rather deeply excavated, the 

 concave area not reaching the eyes. Thorax smooth and 

 shining ; notauli narrow but distinct ; scutellum not separated 

 by a groove from the mesonotum. Median segment shim'ng; 

 with a few small scattered punctures, each bearing a black 

 liair ; the sides of the segment and the hind coxse more 

 closely punctured. First tergite about half as long again 

 as broad, the marginal lateral carina very strong, the lono-i- 

 tudinal lateral grooves transversely rugulose ; the raised 

 median portion with two longitudinal carinse, the space 

 between tliem smooth and shining, the space between them 

 and the lateral grooves longitudinally rugulose. Second 

 tergite broadened from the base, twice as broad at the apex 

 as long, irregularly obliquely striated ; with a large, smooth, 

 and shining diamond-shaped basal area, from the apex of 

 which a carina runs to the apex of the segment; second 

 suture ttrongly crenulate ; tergites 3-5 smooth and shining, 

 the basal angles of the third with an area separated from the 

 rest of the tergite by a shallow groove. The apical tergites 

 testaceous brown, microscojncally punctured, and sparsely 

 clothed with fulvous hairs, llypopygium pointed, projectin"- 

 beyond the apical tergite ; valvulte clothed with very short 

 hairs. Legs densely clothed with short hairs; hind meta- 

 tarsus as long as the three following joints combined ; calcaria 

 short, about one-quarter of the length of the hind metataisu.s. 

 Radius originating at one-third from the base of the stigma; 

 second abscissa of the radius very long, longer than the 

 third ; recurrent nervine interstitial, nervulus very slightly 



