Manchester Memoirs, Vol. xliii. (1899), No. 3. 79 



Bracon DECLARATUS, Sp. nov. 



Long. 10; terebra 3 mm. 



Comes near to B. jejunus, but is smaller, has the 

 ovipositor shorter, the metapleurae, the hinder coxae, 

 trochanters, and femora, fuscous ; the middle of the petiole 

 smooth, not striated ; the depression on the base of the 

 second segment deeper, especially at the apex; the second 

 cubital cellule longer compared with the third, and the 

 cloud is larger, and not narrowed at the cubital nervure, 

 only narrowed beyond it, near the margin of the wing. 



Antennae deep black, the scape sparsely covered with 

 long, black hair. Head smooth and shining; the face 

 thickly covered with long, white, the vertex more sparsely 

 with fuscous, hair ; the face is coarsely punctured ; the 

 clypeus is raised, its sides rounded, narrowed towards the 

 top, which is depressed in the middle; the mandibular 

 teeth are black ; the palpi pallid yellow. Thorax very 

 smooth and shining, the pleurae covered with long, white 

 hair. Legs rufo-testaceous ; the hinder coxae, trochanters, 

 and femora blackish, as are also the tips of the tarsi ; the 

 tibiae and tarsi are thickly covered with fulvous hair. 

 Wings yellowish-hyaline, the apex infuscated ; the cloud 

 behind the stigma extends slightly beyond the recurrent 

 nervure, and is continued along the median discoidal 

 nervure to the end of the wing; the second cubital cellule 

 is shorter than the third. Petiole, including the raised 

 centre, smooth and impunctate; the second segment 

 strongly irregularly striolated ; the lateral depression wide 

 and shallow, deepest at the apex ; the basal area strongly 

 and deeply punctured, the central keels raised, except at 

 the apex of the segment. The securiform articulation 

 wide and deep, stoutly longitudinally striolated, more 

 closely and finely at the sides; the apical segments are 

 smooth and shining, without any punctures. 



