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num closely and minutely punctured; furrowed down the 

 middle. Petiole rugosely punctured ; the sides widely 

 depressed, with a few transverse furrows near the apex. 

 The second to the fifth segments are closely rugose; the 

 triangular base of the central keel is longitudinally rugose ; 

 the space on either side of it strongly, irregularly reticu- 

 lated; the sides at the base are depressed, the central 

 portion being sharply raised at the sides. The middle 

 ventral segments are pallid yellow ; the hypopygium 

 sharply cultriform. Legs stout, thickly covered with white 

 hair ; the tarsal spines fulvous. 



Bracon dodonaeus, sp. nov. 



Luteus ; flagello antennarum terebraque nigris ; abdo- 

 minis medio striolato ; alis flavo-hyalinis ; macula subs tig- 

 matali fusca. ? . 



Long. 15 ; terebra 7 mm. 



Scape of antennae luteous ; the sides and beneath 

 black ; the flagellum entirely black ; indistinctly covered 

 with a microscopic down. Head shining ; the face thickly 

 covered with long, fulvous hair ; the front with shorter and 

 darker hair ; the vertex with the hair longer and paler. 

 Ocellar region indistinctly raised ; a straight, not very 

 distinct, furrow at their side ; immediately above the 

 antennae there is a transverse, shallow depression with a 

 flat keel down its middle, the keel becoming wider towards 

 the apex. Mandibles broadly black at the apex. Thorax 

 shining, the base of the median segment obscurely 

 punctured ; the pro- and meso-notum almost glabrous ; 

 the median segment rather thickly covered with long, 

 fuscous hair; the pleurae almost glabrous above, the lower 

 part sparsely covered with short, white hair, the middle 

 lobe of the mesonotum is indistinctly raised, not very 

 clearly defined ; the scutellum at the apex distinctly 



