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Cameron, Hymcnoptcra Orientalia. 



and base of the meta-pleurae shining and impunctate ; the 

 latter with a curved keel on the innerside of the spiracle, 

 beyond which the segment is shagreened. The base of 

 the petiole depressed ; the depression margined, the 

 margin continued shortly beyond it as blunt keels ; the 

 apex of the segment obscurely punctured. 



The areolet is petiolated to near the bottom, where 

 there is formed a minute cellule, not much wider than the 

 transverse cubital nervure ; its outer nervure is faint, and 

 is interstitial with the recurrent. 



BRACONIDiE. 

 Bracon ceylonicus, sp. nov. (PL 3, f. 5). 

 Niger, pro- meso-thoraceque rtifis; pedibus anticis testaceis;- 

 alts fere hyalinis. 2. Long, fere 7 mm.; terebra fere 2 mm.. 

 Hab. Ceylon (Yerbury). 



Head black, shining, impunctate, the oral' region 

 (including clypeus) rufo-testaceous ; the tips of the 

 mandibles black ; the palpi pallid testaceous. Antennae 

 longer than the body, entirely black. Thorax shining,, 

 impunctate, sparsely covered with white pubescence; the 

 prosternum black ; the metapleurae and the median seg- 

 ment at the apex infuscated. Wings longer than the 

 body ; the lower side of the stigma fuscous. The middle 

 legs, except at the base, infuscated ; the hinder coxae, 

 femora, tibiae, and tarsi, black ; the trochanters fuscous. 

 Abdomen black ; the basal three ventral segments white, 

 with a black spot in the centre of each. Petiole broadly 

 depressed at the base and down the sides ; the rest 

 rugosely longitudinally punctured. The other dorsal 

 segments coarsely rugosely punctured ; the second with a 

 raised somewhat triangular space in the centre at the base, 

 from which a sharp keel runs to near the apex; at its side 

 is an oblique furrow, with a sharp border on the inner 

 side ; the suturiform articulation longitudinally striated. 



