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Color: Head golden brown except occiput, temples, and vertex 
suffused with black; flagellum beyond F6 dark brown; palpi white; 
mesosoma golden brown except metapleuron entirely black; scutel- 
lar disc, metanotum, propodeum, mesopleuron, and pronotum 
suffused with black; legs pale yellowish brown to pale white; wing 
venation dark brown; metasoma yellowish brown except basal 3/4 
of tergum 1 and entire tergum 3 completely black; apical 1/4 of 
tergum 1 and terga 4-6 suffused with black; ovipositor sheaths 
black. 
Male: Unknown. 
Remarks: S. evansi may be distinguished from S. arimaensis by 
its smoother propodeum and terga 1-2 (Figs. 2-5). 
Host: Unknown. 
Distribution: Virgin Islands. 
Etymology: Named for Howard Ensign Evans, eminent hymen- 
opterist, gifted natural history writer, and collector of the holotype 
specimen. 
Acknowledgments 
Special thanks to Dr. C. van Achterberg, Rijksmuseum van 
Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden, who examined a paratype of Serico- 
hracon arimaensis and provided his opinion on its phylogenetic 
placement. Additional thanks are due to Dr. P. M. Marsh, System- 
atic Entomology Laboratory, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 
c/o National Museum of Natural History, Washington D.C., and 
Dr. W. R. M. Mason, Biosystematics Research Institute, Agricul- 
ture Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, who reviewed the manuscript and 
provided their helpful comments. Field work by the junior author 
was supported by grants from the National Academy of Sciences, 
Sigma Xi, and the National Science Foundation (NSF Doctoral 
Dissertation Improvement Grant BSR-83 12897). 
Summary 
Sericobracon Shaw, a new doryctine braconid genus from the 
Neotropical region, is described and illustrated. Two new species are 
included in the genus: S. arimaensis and S. evansi. the type-species, 
S. arimaensis, was reared from Clothoda urichi (Saussure), the first 
record of Braconidae parasitizing Embiidina. 
