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Cameron, Hymcnoptera Oricntalia. 



is a keel ; the other segments are only black down the 

 centre and at the sides; the ventral segments black, the 

 base testaceous, sharply produced in the middle. 



Bracon itea, sp. 1IOV. 

 Long. 4 — 5 mm. ; terebra 2 mm. 

 Hab. Trincomali (Yerbury). 



Head testaceous, shining, the face, except in the 

 centre, aciculated ; the palpi pale ; antennae black ; the 

 second joint obscure testaceous. Thorax testaceous, the 

 median segment infuscated in the middle, where there is 

 a shallow furrow. The legs pallid testaceous ; the hinder 

 femora and tibiae infuscated, the former above and beneath. 

 The raised central part of the petiole aciculated ; the 

 second and third segments rather strongly rugosely punc- 

 tured ; keeled down the centre ; the dilated base of the 

 keel on the second segment aciculated ; the suturiform 

 articulation finely longitudinally striolated ; the third and 

 fourth segments with a transverse furrow, oblique at the 

 sides and longitudinally striolated ; the second, third, and 

 fourth segments broadly black in the middle ; the black 

 suffused with piceous on the third ; the third with a 

 distinct, the fourth with a less distinct longitudinal 

 furrow ; the ventral segments yellowish-testaceous. 



Bracon agraensis, sp. nov. (PI. 3, f. 6). 



Flavus, vertice antennisque nigris ; alis futiginosis, bast 

 late flavo. 2. Long. 13 mm. ; terebra 2 mm. 

 Hab. Agra (Rothney). 



Antennae as long as the body, black, almost glabrous. 

 Head shining, thickly covered with long fulvous hair ; the 

 sides of the clypeus with an oblique, the base with a 

 straight furrow ; the apices of the mandibles black ; 

 behind the black extends to near the middle of the eyes. 

 Thorax entirely yellow, smooth ; a broad, curved furrow 

 across the mesopleurae. Legs entirely yellow. The raised 



