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Head ferruginous, the teeth of the mandibles black ; 

 rather closely covered with black hair, particularly on the 

 face ; the front and vertex smooth, the face smooth in the 

 centre, the sides with large, shallow, distinctly separated 

 punctures ; the sides of the clypeus have a yellowish hue ; 

 the palpi are covered with long, black hair ; the man- 

 dibular teeth black. Antennae entirely black ; the scape 

 with longish black hair. Pro- and meso-thorax smooth 

 and impunctate ; their pleurae and sternum sparsely 

 -covered with fuscous hairs. The metathorax thickly 

 covered with longish black hair ; the upper part almost 

 entirely black. The two anterior legs entirely ferruginous; 

 the four hinder black ; the intermediate with the base of 

 the coxae broadly, and the extreme base and apex of their 

 femora ferruginous ; the hinder legs are thickly haired. 

 Wings large, uniformly smoky-violaceous ; there is an 

 elongated clear hyaline spot below the first transverse 

 cubital nervure. The petiole is deeply depressed at the 

 base ; the raised centre bordered along the sides by a 

 wide, moderately deep, shallow furrow ; the raised central 

 part bearing stout longitudinal keels ; the central being 

 stouter and straighter ; at the apex of the segment there 

 are shorter keels between the longer ones, or those 

 become bifid. The third segment is nearly similarly 

 striolated, but with the striae closer together ; and there 

 is at the apex an interrupted transverse furrow ; the 

 remaining segments shining, smooth ; the ventral surface 

 pale-yellowish, the sheaths of the ovipositor thickly 

 covered with long hair. 



Of the Oriental species it comes nearest to B. foveatus 

 Sm., but that has the ovipositor twice the length of the 

 body. 



Bracon charaxus, sp. nov. 

 Niger ; capite, thorace pedibusque anticis fermgineis ; alts 

 fuscis, fere violaceis. 2. Long. 11; terebra 12 mm. 



