Australian Braconidae — PARROTT 
195 
The works of Wilkinson and Nixon in 
England and Muesebeck in the United States 
have undoubtedly contributed toward a 
sounder knowledge of braconid systematics 
generally, and their work forms a basis for a 
clearer interpretation of the Australian forms 
in particular. 
Other workers have contributed to the 
knowledge of the Australian braconid fauna, 
but those mentioned have made the principal 
contributions. 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 
To Dr. Leonard Tuthill, Professor of En- 
tomology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, 
I want to convey my very sincere thanks for 
suggestions on the layout of this catalogue; 
without his kindly co-operation this work 
would not have been completed. 
To Dr. David Miller, Director, and Mr. 
L. J. Dumbleton, Senior Entomologist, En- 
tomological Research Station, Nelson, New 
Zealand, my thanks are due for helpful sug- 
gestions during the final stages of preparation 
of this catalogue. 
To Miss Shirley Armstrong, Librarian, En- 
tomological Library, Cawthron Institute, Nel- 
son, New Zealand, I am indebted for her 
untiring efforts in tracing references and ob- 
taining publications. 
To Mr. G. E. J. Nixon, British Museum 
(Natural History), London, Mr. Anthony 
Musgrave, Entomologist, and Mr. G. Gross, 
Assistant Entomologist, Australian Museum, 
Sydney, go my thanks for the literature which 
they supplied. 
To Mr. Erank Wilson, Principal Research 
Officer, C.S.I.R.O., Canberra, Australia, I am 
indebted for the list of introduced Braconidae. 
To Dr. Rene Malaise, Natural History Mu- 
seum, Stockholm, my thanks are due for a 
list of Roman’s types and other Australian 
species in the collections of the Museum. 
ABBREVIATIONS OF MUSEUMS 
The following abbreviations are used in 
giving the location of types of Australian 
Braconidae. 
B.M. 
H.D.O.M. 
H.E.S. 
N.C.A.C. 
N.H.M. 
N.H.M.S. 
N.H.M.V. 
N.K. 
S.C.M.G. 
U.S.N.M. 
British Museum of Natural 
History, London 
Hope Department, Oxford 
Museum, Oxford. 
Hawaii Entomological Society 
Collections, Honolulu. 
National Collections of Aus- 
tralia, Canberra. 
National Hungarian Museum, 
Budapest. 
Natural History Museum, 
Sweden. 
Natural History Museum, 
Vienna. 
Location not known. 
Saussure Collection, in Mu- 
seum, Geneva. 
United States National Mu- 
seum, Washington. 
Order HYMENOPTERA 
Suborder apocrita ( = clistogastra) 
Superfamily ichneumonoidea 
Eamily BRACONIDAE 
Subfamily APHIDIINAE 
All members of this subfamily are internal 
parasites of aphids. 
Genus Diaeretus Eoerster, 1862 
rapae (Curtis) 
Curtis [Aphidius] (1855, 2: 194) 9 descr. 
Ashmead [Lipolexis] (1900: 353) Austr. rec- 
ord. 
Eroggatt [Lepolexis] (1907; 87) noted. 
Cameron [Lipolexis] (1912; 197) Austr. rec- 
ord. 
Smith (1944: 101) syn., descr., fig. 
Loc: Victoria; New South Wales. 
Hosts; Rhopalosiphum pseudobrassicae 
(Davis). 
Mysus persicae (Sulz) . 
Brevicoryne hrassicae (Linn.). 
Type: N.K. 
Note: This European species is now well 
established in at least the southern 
