Braconidse in the British Museum. 55 



lateribua llavis ; alia pallide fuaoia, stiytnato veniaque nigria * 

 terebra abdomine paullo longiore. 



Long. 1 1 min . ; torebne long. 5j mm. 



?. Very similar to australiensis and erythrothorax, 

 differing Irorn both in the black bead and in tbe more 

 distinct longitudinal Btriation of the first tergite. Tbe 

 spiue of tbe bind coxa; is pale, not black as in 

 erythrothorax. 



Hub. Mackay, Queensland (Turner). 



Liodoryctes australiensis, Szep. 



Acanthobracon australiensis, Szep. 'formes. Fiizetek. xxv. p. 48 



(1902). o". 

 Neotrimorus australiensis, Szep. Wytaman'a Genera Insect, xxii., 



Braconidae, p. 64 (1904). 

 Liodoryctes australiensis, Sze"p. Ann. Mua. Nat. Hungar. iv. p. 599 



(1900). 



This species is variable in colour, tbe tergites are usually 

 fulvous brown, with tbe basal segment and sides of tbe 

 second pale yellowish, but in a specimen taken by me at 

 Kuranda in .May 1913 the brown is replaced by black. 

 Ovipositor distinctly longer than abdomen. 



Hub. Cooktown (D. Le Souef) ; Kuranda and Mackay 

 [Turner). 



Genus Acanthodoryctes, gen. nov. 



Front strongly concave between tbe anterior ocellus and 

 the base of tbe antennas ; prouotum depressed, armed with 

 two spines ; basal half of tbe seutellum depressed and 

 coarsely striated ; first tergite as broad at tbe apex as long, 

 coarsely longitudinally striated, second tergite punctured- 

 striate on tbe rounded basal area ; second abscissa of tbe 

 radius about twice as long as tbe second transverse cubital 

 nervure ; radial cell of bind wing not divided, discoidellan 

 cell not divided. Ovipositor nearly as long as tbe abdomen. 



Key to the Species of Acanthodoryctes. 



1. Spines of the pnmotiun strong, upright, and 

 acute; median segment covered with close- 

 lying hairs, without carinas on the basal 



half : head yellow A. morleyi, Frogg. 



t the prouotum reduced to tubercles; 



