British Braconidse, 
385 
12. Aspilota distracta, Nees.' 
Alysia distracta, Nees, Mon., i., 255 ; Hal., Bnt. Mag., 
v., 247, ^ $ . 
Bassus concolor, Nees, Mag. Ges. Berl., vi., 213. 
Alysia concolor, Nees, Mon., i., 254; Hal., Eut. Mag., 
v., 247, $ ? . 
Asp. distracta. Marsh., Species des Hym. d'Eur. et 
d'Alg., Bracon., vol. ii., p. 445, S ? . 
$ . Black or piceous ; sometimes with the 1st abdominal seg- 
ment rufous ; smooth, shining, mandibles and palpi rufescent. 
Antennge shorter than the body, 13-18-jointed. Fovea of the 
mesonotum punctiform or obsolete ; furrow of the mesopleurse 
crenulate, or indicated by a row of punctures ; metathorax more or 
less rugulose, smooth on the sides. Wings hyaline ; squamula and 
nervures brownish testaceous ; 1st cubital areolet confounded with 
the 2nd, and with the 1st discoidal ; 3rd abscissa straight, or with a 
scarcely perceptible curve ; radial areolet reaching the tip of the 
wing. Legs either rufous, or fuscous with the tips of the trochan- 
ters and base of the tibiae rufous. Abdomen strongly compressed; 
1st segment almost linear, hardly striolate. Terebra shorter than 
the abdomen. $ Similar ; antennae much longer than the body, 
21-23-jointed. Length, |-li ; wings, l^-2f lines. 
Vae. ^ . Antenna 23-jointed ; nervures fuscous, distinct ; 2nd 
cubital areolet much contracted towards the outer end ; 1st cubital 
areolet separated from the 1st discoidal; 1st abscissa very oblique, 
forming part of the same curve as the 2nd, with hardly any dis- 
tinct angle ; the 2nd angle of the radial nervure is also very obtuse 
Length, f line. Probably a different species. 
I possess 1 ?, 5 ansv7ering the descriptions of 
Nees and Haliday : only one <^ attains the larger size 
given above ; the others are smaller, like those described 
by Nees. I cannot find any difference between distracta 
and concolor, except the colour of the legs. Haliday 
gives with distracta a var. jS having the colours of curta 
(sp. 11), and not unlikely to be the same; yet the 
difference of the wings is a serious objection, see 
Haliday's plate (Ent, Mag., v., pi. xvii., fig. 26), in which 
the radial areolet of one of these insects reaches the tip 
of the wing. I suspect the present species of being 
merely factitious ; if we had more knowledge, it would 
