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the apex, more regular and stronger than the base. On the upper, basal 
half of the metapleurae is a large earshaped area formed by smooth, shin¬ 
ing keels; in its centre is a smooth keel ; at its apex are 2 small 
semicircular areae; the rest is irregularly reticulated. The ventral 
surface of the abdomen is more roundly convex—not so flat—as the dorsal; 
the apical 4 segments are of almost equal length. 
Evaniidse. 
Evania appendegaster , Lin. 
Schletterer, Ann. K . K. Hof. Mus., Wien y IV, 136 ; Bradley, Trans • 
Am. Ent. Soc., XXXIV, 139. 
Suraj Bagh, Dehra Dun. August. A common, cosmopolitan parasite 
of the cockroach. 
BRACONID^E. 
Braeoninae. 
JBracon tachardice y sp. noy. 
Rufo-testaceous, the legs paler, distinctly yellowish in tint, the 
antennae metanotum and the 3rd and 4th dorsal segments of the abdo¬ 
men, except narrowly on the sides, black ; wings hyaline, iridescent, the 
costa, parastigma, stigma and nervures fuscous, the costa and stigma 
round the edges darker coloured, the apical nervures paler than the 
basal ; the 2nd transverse cubital nervure fully one-third the length of 
the 2nd abscissa of radius. ? . 
Length 2 mm. ; ovipositor 1 mm. 
Bred from Tachardia (lac). 
Antennae 23-jointed in ? The <$. has the mesothorax for the 
greater part black ; the basal segment may be paler, more yellowish than 
the others. The 2nd and 3rd abdominal segments are finely, closely 
punctured, the former more strongly so than the latter ; there is a not 
very distinct keel down the centre of the 2nd segment, its base slightly 
dilated, the suturiform articulation narrow, obscurely striated and without 
a lateral apical branch. In the 6 the vertex, occiput and the apical 
dorsal abdominal segments may be black, in the $ the abdominal 
black marks vary in extent; there may be only narrow transverse lines 
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