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VI T. — Notes on the Braconidse /'// the British Museum. — 

 II. ( hi the Australian Species of Cardiochiliiue and 

 Doryctinae. By Rowland E. Turner, F.Z.S., F.K.S. 



Subfamily Cardiochilix^, Ashin. 



Genus Cakdiociiiles, Nees. 



Key to the Australian Species. 



1. Hind metatarsus distinctly broadened, oof 



cylindrical; head and abdomen black, 

 the basal abdominal torment sometimes 



reddish 2. 



Hind metatarsus cylindrical ; head and abdo- 

 men mostly rod or fulvous 3. 



2. Thorax and abdomeu entirely black ' C. assimilator, Turn. 



Thorax ami basal abdominal segment red. . . . C. dissimulator, Turn. 



3. Vertex entirely black C. verticals, Turn. 



Vertex red or fulvous 4. 



4. Wings Btrongly Lnfoscate on the apical third ; 



costa and basal half of stigma yellowish . C. rufator, Roman. 

 Wings uniformly subhyaline ; costa and 

 [gma fuscous, a yellowish spot nt the 

 li ise of the stigma C. uniformis, Turn. 



Cardiochiies assimilator, sp. n. 



2 . Nigra ; femoribus anticis apice, tibiis anticis subtus, tarsisque 

 anticis et intermediis, unguiculis exceptis, albido-bruuneis ; cal- 

 caribus albis ; alis i'usco-hyalinis, tertio apicali fuscis, stigmatc 

 venisi[UO nigris ; mandibulis fusco-ferrugineis. 



d . Feminfle similis, tarsis intermediis nigris ; alis fuscis uni- 

 coloribus. 



Long. 6 mm. 



? . Head nearly as broad as the thorax ; antennre 37- 

 jointed, the second joint of the rlagellum distinctly longer 

 than the third. Vertex and face shining, minutely punc- 

 tured, the cheeks a little shorter than the breadth of the 

 mandibles at their base. Thorax minutely punctured, 

 shining, the notauli crenulated. Pubescence white, long, 

 and rather close on the sides of the scutellum and on the 

 dorsal surface of the median segment ; the enclosed area of 

 the median segment ovate, rather narrow, the longitudinal 

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