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Cameron, Hymenoptera Orientalia. 



Bracon Rothneyi, sp. nov. 



Fulvus ; alts fuscis, bast flavo ; antennis nigris. Long. 

 6*5 mm. 



Hab. Agra (Rothney). 



Head entirely yellow, except the tips of the mandibles, 

 which are black ; the front and vertex shining, impunc- 

 tate; below the antennae it is obscurely rugose; furrowed 

 down the centre ; the clypeus shining, impunctate. 

 Antennae entirely black. Thorax above entirely smooth, 

 shining, impunctate, very sparsely haired. Pleurae smooth 

 and shining ; the metapleurae with an oblique furrow. 

 Legs entirely luteous, sparsely covered with white hair. 

 Wings uniformly dark fuscous ; the costa, except before 

 the stigma, and the latter at the base, fulvous. Abdomen 

 rugosely punctured ; the raised part of the petiole with a 

 double keel, open at the base, rounded at the apex. At 

 the base of the second segment is a shining, smooth, 

 raised area from which a stout keel proceeds to near 

 the apex; at the side is a large oblique /\ -shaped space, 

 acutely margined on the innerside and obliquely strio- 

 lated; there are indistinct depressions on the sides of the 

 third and fourth segments. 



Bracon Yerburyi, sp. nov. 



Niger, orbitis ocidorum, pro- et meso-thorace rufo-testaceis ; 

 tibiis, tarsis anterioribus, femoribusque anticis, testaceis; alts 

 fere hyalinis. 2. Long. 4 mm.; terebra fere 1 mm. 



Hab. Ceylon, Trincomali (Yerbury). 



Antennae black ; the flagellum covered with a very 

 microscopic pile. Head obscure dark testaceous, darker 

 on the face and on the vertex ; the face with a distinct 

 longitudinal keel. Thorax dark rufo-testaceous; the meta- 

 thorax much darker ; the mesopleura with an oblique 

 deep wide furrow at the top. The hinder legs are 

 entirely black and thickly covered with white microscopic 



