British Braconidse, 
391 
3. CEnone ringens, Hal. 
(E. ringens, Hal., Hym. Brit., 4, ? ; Marsh., Species 
des Hym. d^Eur. et d'Alg., Bracon., vol. ii., 
p. 454, $ ? . 
Resembles hians, from which it may be distinguished in few 
words. Palpi obscure. Antennae $ $ , SG-SS-jointed. Mesono- 
tum more coarsely punctured, the medial furrow dilated anteriorly 
instead of being effaced ; spine of the postscutellum shorter and 
stouter ; scutelium punctate, somewhat shining. Wings infumated ; 
squamulse brownish ; stigma and nervures blackish ; the former is 
longer than in the two other species, emitting the radial nervure 
before the middle ; nervures of the hindwings blackish. Legs dull 
rufous ; coxae, base of trochanters, tarsi, and tips of hind tibiae, 
blackish. The striae on the carapace are fine like those of hiansj 
and continued to the extremity like those of mandihularis ; 4th 
and following segments concealed. Length, 2 ; wings, 3i-4 lines. 
Eare in Ireland, according to Haliday ; in England it 
is commoner than the other species, and I have fre- 
quently found it on willows. 
ii. Epimicta, Forster. 
Forst., Verh. Pr. Hheinl., 1862, p. 274. 
Body robust, convex, in great part smooth. Head and its 
appendages as in (Enone. Mesothoracic furrows deeply impressed, 
complete, crenulate ; an impressed line starting from the anterior 
margin, between the two furrows, becomes dilated before the 
scutelium into an oval crenate fovea ; postscutellum unarmed ; 
furrow of the mesopleurae broad, punctate-rugose, like the rest of 
the pleurae ; mesosternum smooth ; metathorax very short, rugose. 
Stigma linear-lanceolate, emitting the radial nervure just before the 
middle • radial areolet lanceolate, acuminate, not reaching the tip 
of the wing ; radial nervure almost insensibly sinuated near the 
extremity. Abdomen oval, convex, as wide as the thorax and a 
little longer, showing 7 segments above in the 6 in the $ , 
the 2nd and 3rd united by coalescence, not reaching the middle 
of the abdomen ; 1st very short, transverse, ascending, rugose ; 2nd 
minutely striolate, often almost smooth ; 2nd suture scarcely 
visible ; 3rd and following segments smooth ; 4th a little longer 
than the 3rd ; 5th as long as the 4th ; 6th somewhat shorter and 
diminishing in breadth ; 7th hardly exserted in the ^ , concealed in 
the $ . Terebra concealed. 
