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tinge ; on the under side of the hinder coxae is a large 

 V-shaped black mark ; and beyond the middle of the 

 hinder femora is a broad black line. Wings yellowish 

 hyaline, a broad, oblique, smoky band is on the apex, at 

 and touching the base of the stigma and reaching to the 

 bottom of the discoidal cellule ; at the apex of the stigma 

 is a shorter mark of similar colour, which reaches to the 

 cubital nervure, but not touching the basal corner of the 

 radial cellule ; in the lower part of the podiscoidal cellule 

 is a fainter elongated cloud, narrowed at base and apex. 

 Abdomen slightly darker towards the apex (perhaps 

 through discoloration) ; the base of the second segment 

 above forms in the middle a large, somewhat pyriform, 

 raised area ; the narrowed end is at the apex, and has, 

 on either side, a deep, elongate depression, the two de- 

 pressions being separated by a sharp keel ; the third, 

 fourth and fifth segments have the lateral and oblique 

 apical transverse depressions distinct ; in the middle of 

 the third segments the keel is formed at the base into a 

 clearly defined, triangular, raised space. The ventral 

 surface at the base is obscure lemon-yellow. 



Bracon ORIENTALIS, sp. nov. 



Long. 13 ; terebra 15 mm. 



Similar in the colour of the body and wings to 

 B. V-macula, but may be known from it at once by the 

 form of the area on the second abdominal segment ; in 

 V-macula it is elongate, fully twice as long as the 

 greatest width, and with the apex conical ; in the present 

 species it is hardly longer than it is broad, with the 

 apex distinctly triangular ; the depression at the base is 

 broader and without a keel. 



Antennae black, distinctly longer than the body ; the 

 scape on the lower side thickly covered with longish, 



