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XIII. A Monograph of British Braconidse. Part VI. 
By the Eev. Thomas A. Maeshall, M.A., F.E.S., 
Member of the Societe Entomologique de France. 
[Read February 20th, 1895.] 
Plate VII. 
XXIV. ALYSIIDES. (Continued from Ent. Tr., 1894, p. 534.) 
xiii. Adelura^ Forster. 
Forst., Verh. Pr. Rheinl., 1862, p. 267. 
Maxillary palpi 5-, labial 4-jointed. Antennse long, slender, 
multiarticulate ; 4tli joint not, or scarcely, longer than the 3rd. 
Mesothoracic sutures incomplete ; a dorsal fovea before the 
s(ititellum ; furrow of the mesopleur^ more or less distinct, 
either punctate or smooth ; metathorax rugulose, without a 
longitudinal carina. First cubital areolefc separated from the 1st 
discoidal ; 2nd complete ; 1st intercubital nervure shorter than the 
2nd abscissa ; stigma elongate, attenuated at both ends, or linear ; 
recurrent and anal nervures not exactly interstitial ; pobrachial 
areolet of the hindwings at least half as long as the prsebrachial ; 
prsebrachial transverse nervure obsolete. Abdomen depressed, 
widened behind in the 9 , linear in the ^ ; 1st segment rugulose, 
narrow, linear, with median spiracular tubercles; 2nd and fol- 
lowing segments smooth. Terebra concealed, or very short. 
Forster invented this genus for the reception of Alysia 
florimela, Hal., referring the other cognate species to 
his genera Dapsilarthra and Grammospila, which he 
separated widely both from Adelura and from each 
other. I am acquainted with a new species which can- 
not be placed in any of those genera, and for which 
another new genus becomes necessary, if the Forsterian 
system be accepted. This being objectionable, I have 
reassembled the scattered species under the heading 
Adelura, which now represents the primitive Section XII. 
of Haliday's Alysia, Brachycentri. These species are 
all closely related, and form a natural group distinguished 
by their short terebra, and a habit of body resembling 
that of Dacnusa ; one species indeed is only separable 
from Dacnusa on account of its three cubital areolets. 
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