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c 'incinnati Society of Natural History. 



Abdomen ovate, sub-compressed, a little longer than the 

 thorax. 



Hab. — Wooster, Ohio. 



Described from a single specimen. The small size and 

 color of the legs readily distinguish the species. 



FAMILY BRACONIM. 

 Sub-family Braconin^e. 

 Bracon Fabr. 



(2) BRACONFUNGicoLAsp.n. Female — Length, 3 mm; ovi- 

 positor a little longer than the abdomen. Head and thorax, 

 black, highly polished; space between the lateral ocelli and 

 eyes, anterior orbits, face, mouth parts, except apex of 

 mandibles which are black, legs, except the last joint of all 

 the tarsi, and the apical half of posterior tibiae and their tarsi 

 which are black or dark fuscous, and sides of the abdominal 

 segments one, two, and three and the extreme apical seg- 

 ments, honey - yellow or reddish - yellow ; abdomen above 

 delicately shagreened; wings, subfuliginous ; the stigma and 

 nervures dark brown. 



Antennas, 30-jointed, a little longer than the body; head 

 transverse ; mesonotum with a slight triangular elevation, 

 but the parapsidal furrows are not defined or impressed ; scu- 

 tellum semi-circular, sub-convex ; metathorax rounded off pos- 

 teriorly, smooth, polished; wings with the second abscissa of 

 radius two and one-half times as long as the first, the second 

 sub-marginal cell along its lower margin a little longer than 

 the first, the recurrent nervure not interstitial with the first 

 transverse cubital, but joining an angle in the first sub-mar- 

 ginal cell. 



Hab. — Wayne Count} 7 , Ohio. 



Bred in April, by Prof. F. M. Webster, from black knot, 

 Plowrightia morbosa. This species is probably parasitic on a 

 Coleopteron Hydnocera verticalis Say, living in this fungus. 



(3) Bracon rhyssemati, sp. n. Male — Length, 2.1 mm. 

 Brownish-yellow; stemmaticum, eyes, antennae, except two 



