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tantum incboatis ; metathorace fcabriculo : abdomen oblongo- 

 lanceolatum, segmento l m0 . perbrevi scabriculo seu punctato- 

 exasperato, absque carinulis : segmenta reliqua lsevissima, 

 fusco-picea : terebra brevissime exerta : pedes ocbrei : alse 

 angustae, infumatse stigmate nervisque fuscis : stigma elliptico- 

 lanceolatum in medio cubitum excipiens : nervi bracbiales medio 

 approximati : alae posticae areola brachialis posterior \ anterioris 

 brevior. 



Habitat prope Londinum lectus. — F. Walker. 



Sp. 14. R. Col. braconius. Niger antennis basi, palpis 

 pedibusque silaceis ; alarum stigmate linear i-lanceolato, 

 testaceo, cubitum ante medium excipienle; nervo recur- 

 rente interstitiali ; fern, terebra 5 abdominis longitudine. 

 (Long. corp. f — 2 ; alar. If — 4| lin.) 



Colastes braconius ined. A. H. H. Ent. Mag. I. 266. 



Caput thorace angustius, subglobosum : antennae corpore longiores, 

 graciles, basi pallide flavescentes : thorax oblongus utrinque 

 attenuatus, mesothoracis sulcis in depressionem latam rugulosam 

 ante scutellum effusis : metathorax attenuato-declivis confertim 

 punctulatus, pubescens, areis obsoletis : abdomen elliptico-lanceo- 

 latum, lateribus medio deflexis in femina (ut in Braconibus 

 Microcephalis) segmentum l mum . parvum obconicum, latitudine 

 apicis longius, striolatum nonnunquam cannula media instructum, 

 foveisque 2 contiguis pone medium in lineam transversam sitis : 

 sequentia laevissima : terebra segmento l mo . longior : pedes gra- 

 ciles silacei : alae hyalinse stigmate flavo-testaceo vel pallide-flavo : 

 stigma lineari-lanceolatum, cubitum in triente prima excipiens : 

 nervus aream cubitalem postice designans ssepe incrassatus : nervi 

 brachiales valde approximati : alse posticse brachiales-posterior \ 

 anterioris brevior. 



Variat autem magnitudine et colore. 



Far. a. — Majores. (Long. corp. If ; alar. 3f lin.): antennae 30-arti- 

 culatae : caput, thorax, abdominis segmentum l mum . nigra ; seg- 

 mentum 3 tium . et nonnunquam proxima fulvescentia, reliqua fusca : 

 mas gracilior, antennae longiores et basi latius flavescentes : 

 abdomen lineari-clavatum segmento l mo . sublineari. 



Far. j3. — Maximus. (Long. corp. 2 ; alar. 4| lin.) Far. a. similis 

 sed abdominis segmentum 2 dum . tantum fuscum, sequentia fulves- 

 centia. 



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