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border, and sheaths of ovipositor ; in light specimens the entire body is 

 pale honey-yellow with only the flagellum of antennae, tips of man- 

 dibles, ocellar triangle, clouds on the second and third segments, and 

 ovipositor black, piceous or brown. Wings faintly to distinctly tinged 

 with brown, the stigma and veins fuscous. Antennae 25- to 27-jointed, 

 the joints slightly decreasing in length to apex, the basal ones barely 

 twice as long as thick. Mesonotum .shagreened, scutelliim shining ; 

 propodeum distinctly shagreened, but often more nearly smooth basally 

 toward the middle, without median carina except at extreme apex 

 which is finely areolate ; mesopleura finely shagreened, with a narrow 

 polished strip along its posterior margin. Abdomen broadly oval or 

 nearly circular in outline ; first segment twice as wide at apex as at base, 

 posterior corners separated by deep grooves, median field triangular ; 

 second segment four times as broad as long, with an obsolete median 

 carina ; third segment a little longer than, the second ; following shorter ; 

 entire abdomen except corners of first segment finely roughened, without 

 distinct punctures or reticulations, except sometimes on the second and 

 third segments near the middle ; second sutme finely crenulate. Wings 

 as figiued by Dudgeon and Gough {loc. cit.). 



Male. Length 2 mm. Similar to the female with the antennae 

 24-25-jointed and the head and thorax generally darker ; the abdomen 

 has the sixth segment black and lacks almost all the yellow at the sides 

 although the first two segments are yellow and usually paler than in 

 the female. 



There is an enormous amount of colour variation in the large number 

 of specimens examined, a slight variation in the number of antenna! 

 joints and in the sculpture of the propodeum and abdomen but none of 

 these seem to be in any way definite or correlated. 



Microbracon sp. / 



In the lot of bollworm parasites are two males from Pusa (3 XII. 

 15 ; T. Ram), easily distinguishable from the foregoing. The 

 head is pale yellow with black markings, the antennae 29-jointed, the 

 propodeum bears a median carina and the abdomen is coarsely some- 

 what irregularly longitudinally striate. In the absence of the female, 

 it would be hazardous to attempt to identify it. 



This redescription of Microbracon lejroiji will be useful to Indian jj^ Fletcher, 

 workers, but I may add that we at Pusa are not quite ready to agree 

 that all the specimens of Microbracon parasitic on Earias belong to 

 M- lefroyi. Indeed, as you will see, Professor Brues considered two 

 specimens to represent a distinct sp,ecies. When this redescription 



