British BraconidsB. 
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To this genus, liitlierfco unnoticed^ belong two unde- 
scribed. female specimens^ specifically distinct^ in my 
collection. They are not in the best possible condition, 
bat their descriptions will, I hope, prove intelligible. 
The form of the stigma and the neuration in general for- 
bid me to refer them to the genus Asjpilota, with which 
they have many characters in common. 
(2) 1. Abdomen black 1. j/T6_7nat?-ia;, Marsh. 
(1) 2. Abdomen, after tbe 1st segment, dull rufo- 
testaceous, the segments indistinctly 
margined with, fuscous ... ... ... 2. venatrix, Marsh, 
1. Mesocrina jpugnatrixj Marsh. 
M. pugnatrix, Marsh., Species des Hym. d'Eur. et 
d^Alg., Bracon., vol. ii., p. 428, ?. 
$ . Black, shining. Antennae stout, not quite so long as the 
body, 28-jointed, the two basal joints testaceous, 3rd joint almost 
twice as long as the 4th. Mesonotum smooth, very shining ; a 
rather large fovea, oval and rugulose, before the scutellum ; meta- 
thorax rugose. Wings hyaline with a cinereous tinge ; squamula 
testaceous ; nervures and stigma brown, the latter emitting the 
radial nervure a little beyond the middle ; radial areolet short, 
cultriform, not quite reaching the tip of the wing ; 3rd abscissa 
straight ; recurrent nervure interstitial ; anal nervure springing 
from the lower half of the extremity of the 2nd discoidal areolet ; 
pobrachial areolet of the hindwing half as long as the prsebrachial. 
Legs short, stout, especially the femora towards the extremity, 
testaceous with the apex of the tarsi dusky. Abdomen a little 
longer than the head and thorax, strongly compressed, linear as 
viewed from above, oblong-oval as seen sideways, acuminate at the 
apex ; 1st segment linear, almost three times longer than broad, 
striolate, with medium tubercles ; 2nd not wider than the 1st, with 
two basal fovese {gastrocceli)- 3rd and following progressively more 
and more compressed, so as to end acutely at the apex ; belly 
testaceous at the base. Terebra very short, deflected, the valves 
stout. Length, 1| ; wings, 3^ lines. 
I captured this insect at Oornworthy, in Devonshire. 
2. Mesocrina venatrix J M.SiY&h. 
M. venatrix, Marsh., Species des Hym. d^Eur. et d^Alg., 
Bracon., vol. ii., p. 428, ? . 
$ . Head and thorax black, very shining. Antennae slender, 
somewhat longer than the body, 35-jointed, testaceous, giadually 
