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Antennas nearly as long as the body, black ; the scape 

 testaceous beneath ; the flagellum thickly covered with 

 short black hair. Head black ; the mandibles yellow ; 

 their teeth piceous-black ; below the antennae thickly 

 covered with silvery hair ; the vertex more thickly with 

 shorter black hair. Thorax black, hardly shining, except 

 on the apex of the meso- and the base of the meta-pleurae ; 

 the propleurae at the apex longitudinally striolated. The 

 median segment with a curved keel near the base ; on the 

 metapleurae a keel unites to the spiracle, and, from near 

 the apex cf this keel, a less distinct one runs to opposite 

 the middle of the coxae. Legs rufous ; the hind coxae 

 black ; the four anterior trochanters pale-yellow ; the pos- 

 terior tarsi infuscated. Petiole black, except the apex, 

 which is very shining and testaceous, at the sides finely 

 striated ; the rest aciculated ; the second segment black ; 

 the apex broadly, the sides narrowly, rufous. The areolet 

 oblique, narrow, the nervures touching at the top ; the 

 areolet projecting beneath ; the recurrent nervure received 

 beyond the middle of it. 



BRACONID^. 



ASCOGASTER CRENULATUS, Sp. nov. 



Niger, tarsis fuscis ; alis fttniatis. ?. Long, fere 5 mm. 



Head almost opaque, except the vertex, which is 

 smooth and shining in the centre, covered, especially in 

 front, with a white pubescence ; the mandibles pale-yellow 

 at the apex ; the teeth piceous ; it is closely punctured, 

 the vertex and front being less strongly punctured than 

 the lower parts. Thorax covered with a microscopic white 

 pile ; the pronotum irregularly longitudinally striolated in 

 front ; the striations in the hollowed middle being the 

 larger. Mesonotum finely and closely punctured ; down 

 the middle are two shallow, striated furrows. Scutellum 



