68 Cameron, Hymenoptera Orientalia. 



lation smooth ; the middle crenulated ; the keels stout, 

 moderately widely separated ; the middle keel distinct ; 

 the lateral depression large ; the central furrow distinct. 



BRACON PHAEDO, sp. nov. 



Long, fere 12 mm. 6 . 



Similar in coloration to B. lepcha, but smaller, the 

 colour paler, of a more yellowish hue, especially on the 

 legs ; the wings also paler, more hyaline ; the stigmal 

 cloud smoky, not deep black ; the lobes of the mesonotum 

 distinctly infuscated ; differing otherwise in the depression 

 at the base of the petiole being larger, deeper and more 

 distinctly triangular ; the depressions on the second and 

 third segments deeper and more clearly defined and 

 separated, that on the base of the fourth is irregularly 

 crenulated, not smooth ; &c. 



Antennae longer than the body ; the scape testaceous, 

 marked laterally with a large, oblique, black mark ; 

 the flagellum black ; densely covered with a microscopic 

 pile. Head above smooth, shining ; the face, especially 

 laterally, of a paler, more yellowish tint ; irregularly 

 and rather roughly punctured ; the lower part of the 

 face keeled ; the apices of the mandibles black ; the 

 palpi covered with longish, fuscous hair ; the front is 

 shallowly depressed. Thorax shining, impunctate; the 

 middle lobe of the mesonotum slightly, the lateral 

 distinctly, black. The middle of the pronotum is pallid 

 yellow ; its apex depressed ; the middle of the propleurae 

 is also pallid yellow and slightly depressed ; along the top 

 of the mesopleurae is a curved, shallow furrow ; in the 

 centre of the mesopleurae is a wider and deeper one, 

 bent in the middle. Legs yellowish-testaceous, darker at 

 the base ; the femora sparsely covered with fuscous, the 

 tibiae and tarsi thickly with paler, hair. Wings yellowish 



