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Ion*;, covered with yellowish hairs like the face, and having a 

 yellow line beneath fiom its base almost to the extremity ; 

 front yellow, with a dark fuscous streak between, and a broader 

 one each side of the antenna?, the central streak dividing about 

 the middle and enclosing a rhomboidal yellow spot containing 

 a small fuscous dot of similar form ; vertex black, punctured ; 

 eyes narrowly margined with yellow, and two small yellow 

 spots between the ocelli ; thorax black, roughly punctured, 

 clothed with scattered yellow, or reddish hairs, prothorax above 

 with a trausverse yellow band, narrowing very much at tiie 

 sides and expanding below into the anterior pair of feet, meso- 

 thorax with two abbreviated yellow lines, nearly confluent 

 toward the scutel ; tegulse black, punctured with yellow margin, 

 and a small yellow spot just behind the t^gula, on the meso- 

 thorax ; scutel large, greenish yellow, punctate, an abbreviated 

 black band nearly, dividing it through the middle ; peduncle 

 yellow, surrounded by a thin hyaline collar at its base, more 

 than one-third as long as the abdomen ; abdomen greenish 

 yellow, with two black spots, followed by five sutural bands of 

 the same color, gradually diminishing in width to the apical 

 one ; tip of the ovipositor almost concealed, fuscous ; posterior 

 coxae polished black, slightly yellow near the base beneath ; 

 femora greenish yellow, swollen, lenticular, seven or eight 

 toothed, a large rounded black spot before the middle, curving 

 narrowly backward beneath, including four teeth, and expand- 

 ing slightly at the apex, an abbreviated slender black line 

 above, and a large irregular black spot covering nearly the 

 whole inner surface, and almost surrounding a small yellow 

 spot near the apex ; tibia3 black at base, remainder of their 

 length, as well as the tarsi, light yellow ; wings hyaline, faintly 

 tinged with smoky, having a fuscous stigma and light brown 

 veins. 



The specimen from which the figure and description were 

 taken, is the only one I have seen, and is st, female ; if it should 

 prove to' be hitherto undescribed, it may receive the specific 

 name bracala, (l)reeches-wearing,) in allusion to the oi'iui- 

 mental and trousered appearance of the posterior feet. It is 

 about .32 in length. 



To this family also belong the small Pleroma/i, which attack 

 the larvaj of various moths and butterflies, and deposit some- 



