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the third segment there is no transverse furrow at the 

 base ; on the fourth and fifth segments the furrows are 

 distinct, forming a triangular space at the base ; the basal 

 transverse depressions on these segments are also distinct. 



Bracon SIMLAENSIS, sp. nov. 



Ferrugineus ; jiagello antennarum nigro ; alis flavo- 

 hyalinis, nigro-unimaciilatis. ? . 



Long. 17 ; terebra 12 mm. 



Hab. Simla. 



AntennjE as long as the body; the scape ferruginous, 

 marked with black laterally; the under side thickly covered 

 with long, rufous hairs. Head shining, ferruginous ; the 

 face yellowish, the apex of the mandibles black. Front 

 and vertex shining, impunctate, the vertex sparsely covered 

 with long, greyish hairs ; the ocellar region raised ; the 

 front broadly depressed, with a distinct furrow down its 

 centre. Mandibles black, testaceous at the base ; the palpi 

 pallid testaceous ; face covered with long, pale hairs, 

 rather strongly punctured, but with the punctures not 

 close together ; the base of the clypeus has a distinct 

 curved keel. Thorax shining, impunctate; the base of the 

 pronotum fringed with long, pale hairs; below the middle 

 it is depressed, the depressions having two short, longi- 

 tudinal keels on either side and two in the middle. The 

 middle lobe of the mesonotum is raised; the apex is flat; 

 the transverse furrow at the base of the scutellum is 

 stoutly crenulated. The median segment has a gradually 

 rounded slope, and is thickly covered with long, pale hair. 

 Pleurae shining and impunctate ; the pro- and meso- very 

 sparsely, the meta- thickly, covered with long, pale hair; 

 the oblique furrow on the upper part of the meso- wide, 

 shallow ; the metapleural furrow wide and deep ; the part 

 of it behind the spiracles being slightly deeper. Legs 



