Braconidaa in the British Museum. 51 



Cardiochiles verticalis, sp. n. 



2- Fulva; an tennis, vert ice latissime, scgraento dorsali soxto 

 macula apicali, valvulia terebrs, tibiia posticis apice extremo, 

 tarsia posticis, anguiculiaque nigris; alia flavo-hyalinis, apice ad 

 medium stigmatia fortiter infaacatia, venia basi flavis, apico 

 infuscatis. 



Long. (J mm. 



? . Head distinctly broader than the thorax, not narrowed 

 behind the eyes, distinctly narrowed anteriorly, face minutely 

 and not very closely punctured \ checks a little more than 

 half as long as the breadth of the mandibles at their base. 

 Antennae 4-1-jointed, stout, setaceous, second joint of the 

 fiagellum shorter than the scape and no longer than the 

 third joint. Notauli deep and smooth; median segment 

 finely rugulose, with an enclosed ovate area in the middle, 

 on each side of which, halfway to the lateral margin of the 

 segment, is a longitudinal carina. Abdomen almost smooth, 

 the punctures microscopic ; the sheath of the ovipositor 

 nearly half as long as the abdomen, deflexed, broadened, 

 obliquely truncate at the apex. The nervulus is received 

 much nearer to the basal nervure than in saltator, Fabr., or 

 rnfator, Roman, the distance between them being scarcely 

 more than one-fifth of the lower margin of the first 

 discoidal cell. 



Hah. Mackay, Queensland (Turner), January 1900. 



This is near rufator, Roman, but the colour-differences 

 are considerable, and the ovipositor seems to be longer, and 

 the comparative length of the basal joints of the antenuaj is 

 different. The male has the apical half of the hind femora, 

 the hind tibiae, except a spot at the base, and the hind tarsi 

 black. 



Cardiochiles uniformis, sp. h. 



$. Fulva; mandiliulis npice extremo, antennis, mesostcrno apice, 

 segmeutis dorsalibus quarto, (panto, sextoque macula mediana, 

 valvulia terebrae, tibiis posticis apice, tarsis posticis incisuris 

 t'ulvis, unguiculisque nigris; mesonoto t'asciis longitudinalibna 

 4 brunneis ; alis pallidisaime f usco-hyalinis ; stigmate fuaco, 

 baai macula parva flava : venia fascia, apice pallidis. 



J. Feminaa Bimilis; vertice fascia lata curvata utrinque circum 

 ocellus, meaonoti lasciis, segmentoque septimo dorsali macula 

 mediana nigris. 

 Long. 5 mm. 



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