On the Braconidse in the British Museum. 241 
beginning of last tliiixl. Legs black, the anterior and middle 
knees and anterior tibise in front pallid ; hind tibiee and tarsi 
with dark fuscous hair on outer side and shining pale yellowish 
on inner ; hind spur with two lamelliform teetli, the first very 
laige. Abdomen honey-colour, with transverse black bands 
across middle of segments, that on first sometimes incomplete, 
the first also with two dusky spots anteriorly and a dark 
mark on each side ; apical part o£ segments 2 to 4 with 
appressed orange hair ; caudal rima yellowish, but black hair 
on each side of it. 
Palcazu, Peru (from Rosenberg). U.S. National Museum. 
Related to A. vulpicolor, Crawf., but the abdomen is quite 
differently coloured and the base of metathorax is much more 
coarsely sculptured. 
Agapostemon tyleri, sp. n. 
Almost exactly like A. viridulus, Fabr., in nearly all 
characters, and running to that in published tables, but 
distinct in the following characters : — 
? (type). — Tfgulai black, with a yellow mark in front; 
scutellum finely and closely punctured all over; base of 
metathorax behind sides of enclosure without distinct grooves 
or strige directed tneso-caudad. 
r^ . — Tegulse chestnut-red, with a yellow spot ; yellow band 
on first abdominal segment broadly interrupted ; hind femora 
and tibia3 on upper (inner) side broadly banded with black 
for their whole length ; anterior tibise mainly black behind. 
San Juan Allende, Mexico, Nov. 29 (C. IJ. T. Townsend). 
U.S. National Museum. 
XXVI. — JS'otes on the Braconida? in the British Museum. — I. 
By liOWLAND E. TURNEE, F.Z.S., F.E.S. 
Subfamil}^ Braconin^. 
Chaoilta decorata, Sz^p. 
Blastomorpha decorafa, Szep. Term. Fiizetek, xxiii. p. 50 (1900), 
Chaoilta decorata, Sz(5p. Wytsman's Genera Insect, xxii. p. 17 (1904). 
This species was originally described from Dutch New 
Guinea. 1 took a specimen at Cooktown in Novensber 1904. 
242 Mr. Tl.E. Turner on the 
Genus Cratobracon, Cam. 
Crafohracon^ Cam. Proc. Zool. Soc. Loudon, p. 226 (1901). 
IIi/hrot?wra.r, Sz(5p. Ann. Mus. Nat. lluugar. iv. p. 550 (1906) (nee 
(liatsb.). 
Szepli'tjeti places Cameron's genus in the Dovyctinse, merely 
quoting Cameron's description, not having seen tlie type. I 
have recently examined the type-specimen of C. rnJicepSj 
Cam., and find that it is congeneric with Hyhothorax caudalus, 
Szep. 
Ceratohracon caudalus, Sz^p. 
fyhinulax caudatus, Sz^p. Termes. Fuzetek. xxiv. p. 375 (1901). J. 
Iphianlax reticuJatus, Cam. Jouru. Straits Br. Koy. Asiat. Soc. xxxix. 
p. 105 (1903). $ . 
Hyhothorax caudatus, Sz6p. Ann. Mus. Nat. Hungar. iv. p. 556 (1906). 
Szepligeti places his genus Hyhothorax in tlie Braconinse, 
and does not notice that the nervulus is not interstitial with 
tlie basal nervure, but received distinctly beyond it, according 
to which character the genus should be placed in the Exo- 
tlieciiiEe according to his own tables. 1 do not think that a 
character which is so variable in degree can be used as the 
sole character for a subfamily, and therefore retain the genus 
in the Braconinaj. Cameron states that the transverse basal 
nervure is interstitial, but this is incorrect. 
Ipohracon insidiator, Fabr. 
Ichneumon insidiator, Fabr. Spec. lusect. i. p. 429 (1781). 
Jirucon insidiator, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 108 (1804). 
fyhiaulax speciosissintus, Sz^p. Ami. Mus. Nat. Huugar. iii. p. 31 (1905). 
Ipohracon speciosissimus, Sz^p. Ann. Mus. Nat. Huugar. iv. p. 562 
(1906). 
Hah. Sierra Leone ; Ashanti. 
The type is in the Banksian collection. Dalla Torre gives 
the locality erroneously as Europe. 
Bathyaulax phwiosus, Kirby. 
Bracon phtmosus, W. F. Kirby, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) xviii. 
p. 262 (1890). 
IphiauJax cristatus, Szep. Auu. Mus. Nat. Huugar. iii. p. 30 (1905). 
Bathyaulax cristatus, Sz6p. Aun. Mus. Nat. Huugar. iv. p. 559 (1906). 
Iphiaulax fastidiator, Fabr. 
Ichnemnon fastidiaior, Fabr. Spec. Insect, p. 428 (1781). 
Bracon fastidiator, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 105 (18U4;. 
Bracon corallinus, Kits. Tijdscbr. v. Futom. xyii. p. 179 (1874). 
BraconidfB in the British Museum. 24:3 
The type in tlie Banksian collection is headless, but the 
description gives the head as red with a black mark on the 
vertex. Dalla Torre is probably correct in giving coccineus, 
BruUe, as a synonym, but I am not sure that the North- 
African form identified by Marshall as fasfidiator is really 
this species. Specimens in the British Museum are from the 
Gambia and Sierra Leone, from the latter of which localities 
some of the African species in the Banksian collection seem 
to have been received. 
Tphiaulax plm'i macula, Brulle. 
Bracon plurhnncula, Brulle, Hist. Nat. Insect. Hymen, iv. p. 429 (1846). 
Iphicmlux coccineomaculatus, Cam. Ann. S. Afric. Mu3. v. p. 46 (1906). 
Iphiaulax perynutans, sp. n. 
5 . Fusco-riifa ; capita flavo, antennis, pedibus, terebraque nigris ; 
alia nigris, dimidio apieali flaro late bivittatis; stigmate liavo, 
apice extremo nigro. 
Long. 13, terebra 9 mm. 
? . Front below the antennge punctured-rugulose, with a 
small, smooth, semicircular area above the clypeus. An- 
ttnuEe as long as the whole insect, the scape less tiian twice 
as long as broad ; hind margin of the head widely emargi- 
nate. Thorax smooth, the jmrapsidal furrows distinct. First 
tergite as broad at the apex as long; the elevated median 
portion longitudinally striated, with a strong median carina ; 
second tergite transverse, more than twice as broad at the 
apex as long, longitudinally striate, with three small smooth 
spaces on the anterior margin, but without a raised basal 
area. Third and fourth tergites longitudinally striate-rugose, 
the anterior angles raised and smooth, the remaining tergites 
smooth. Recurrent nervure received a little before the first 
tiansverse cubital nervure; cubitus sharply bent near the 
base. 
Hah. Nyasaland, Mlanje {S. A. JS'eave), November to 
January. 
This is very near I. calopferus, Szep. (Sjostedt, Kilimand- 
jaro-Meru Exp. ii. p. H3), and will probably prove to be a 
subspecies ; but in that insect the fourth tergite is smooth 
and the sculpture of the third tergite confined to the middle. 
Tiie two yellow bands of the fore wing are united in calo- 
pteriis, but in some specimens of permutans the black area 
between the yellow bands is more or less broadly interrupted. 
2L4: Mr. R. E. Turner 0/; (lie 
Iphiaulax grenadensis, Aslim. 
Iphtaulax grenadcnsis, Ashm. Trans. Ent. Sue. Loudon, p. 294 (1900). 
2d. 
Iphiaulax harpert, Cam. Traus. Amer. Ent. Soc. xxxi. p. 383 (1905). 
$. 
Ip/iiaulax me(hanu$, Cam. Journ. Roy. Agric. Soc. Demerara, i. p. 310 
(1911) (necSz(5p. 1901). $. 
Iphiaulax villosus, Cam. Jouru. Roy. Agric. Soc. Demerara, i. p. 310 
(1911). S- 
This lias considerable economic importance as a parasite on 
the larva of the moth Diatrcea saccharalis, the well-known 
sugar-cane pest. 
The type-specimens of all the above-quoted names are in 
the British Museum. 
Subfamily Exotsecis^. 
Spinaria al'icke, sp. n. 
5 . Eufo-ferruginea ; abdomine pallide flavo ; fiagello, macula 
inter ocellos, segmentis dorsalibus prime secundoque in medio 
latissime, tertio quartoque omnino spinis lateralibus excej^ti.'', 
unguiculis anticis, tarsis intermediis articulo apicali, tibiis tarsis- 
que posticis nigris ; coxis trochanteribusque posticis fusco- 
ferrugineis ; femoribus posticis basi uigris, apice fusco-testaceis ; 
alis fusco-byalinis. 
Long. 9 mm. 
$ . Front shining, almost smooth ; eyes very large, very 
distinctly emarginate near the base of the antennae ; posterior 
ocelli almost touching the eyes, situated very close to the 
hind margin of the head. Pronotum with a straight erect 
spine which does not reach the level of the mesonotum ; 
parapsidal furrows well defined. Median segment rather 
indistinctly rugulose, with distinct lateral carins3 and a stout 
blunt spine on each side at the apical angles, the median 
third of the segment forming an area separated from the rest 
by a curved longitudinal carina on each side. Dorsal surface 
of the abdomen coarsely longitudinally .^triated ; each seg- 
ment with a low longitudinal carina in the middle, which is 
not produced into a spine on the third or fourth segments, 
both of which have a stout but rather short spine at the apical 
angles; fifth tergite very broad at the apex, produced into a 
long acute spine in the middle of the apical margin. Second 
abscissa of the radius not quite as long as the first transverse 
cubital nervure, but a little longer than the second. 
Hah. North Queensland, Kuranda {Turner), July 1913. 
Braconidye //* the British Museum. 245 
Easily distinguislied from curvi^pina, Cam., luzonensis, 
Eiiderl., and other Malayan species with somewhat similar 
colouring by the very large emarginate eyes and by the 
shorter and straight spine of the pronotum, also by the shorter 
second cubital cell. The second tergite is twice as broad as 
long. 
Genus Mesobracon, Szep. 
Mesohricon, Sz^p. Termes. Fiizetek, xxv. p. 46 (1902). 
Telerda, Cam. Ann. S. Afric. Mus. v. p. 75 (1906). 
Mesohracoii macuUceps, Cam. 
Telerda maculiceps, Cam. Ann. S. Afric. Mus. v. p. 75 (1906). 
Mesohracnn eoncolor, Szep. Ann. Mus. Nat. Hungar. iv. p. 579 (1906) 
(Dec. 25). 
The localities in the British Museum range from Mombasa 
to Salisburj'. 
Subfamily Dobtctin^. 
Grenus Trichiobracon, (yam. 
TricMohrncon, Cam. Journ. Straits Br. I'oy. Asiat. Soc. xliv. p. 104 
(1905). 
Trichodoryctes, Sz^p. Ann. Mus. Nat. Ilungar. iv. p. 599 (1906). 
Trichiobracon striolatus, Szep. 
Acanthobracon striolatus, Szep. Termes. Fiizetek. xxv. p. 48 (1902). 
Trichiobracon pilosus, Cam. Jouru. Straits Br. lioy. Asiat. Soc. xliv. 
p. 104 (1905). 
Neotrimorus luteus, Cam. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) xvi. p. 161 (1905). 
Subfamily Chjelonuv^. 
Sphceropyx conjugator, sp. n. 
2 . Nigra ; abdomine rufo-ferrugineo ; mandibulis apice testaceis ; 
femoribus anticis, tibiis anticis, tarsisque anticis basi extremo 
rufo-testaceis ; alis dimidio basali hyaliuis, dimidio apicali fuscis, 
venis nigris. 
Long. 8 mm. 
$ . Olypeus short and broad, shining and finely punc- 
tured ; front finely punctured, with a longitudinal groove on 
each side nearly reaching the base of tlie antennte ; vertex 
smooth and shining, the head widely emarginate posteriorly, 
the ocellar region somewiiat raised. Second joint of the 
flagellum very distinctly longer than the third, the first very 
short and almost concealed in the apex of the scape, length 
246 On the Braconiclje in the British Museum. 
of tlie aiiteniife 8 mm. Thorax smootli anrl shining, the 
scutelluni finely punctured, tlie basal half of the scutellum 
occupied by a deep depression in which are three longitudinal 
carinfe, the apex and sides of the scutellum strongly longi- 
tudinally striated. Median segment smooth at the base, 
coarsely rugose-striate at the apex. Abdomen longitudinally 
rngose-striate, with only three visible tergites ; second tergite 
with a distinct longitudinal carina ; the first broader at tlie 
apex than long, not much narrowed to the base ; the second 
a little shorter than the first, twice as broad at the apex as 
long ; the third very little longer than the second, without 
teeth at the apex beneath. Kecurrent nervure received 
before the first transverse cubital nervure. 
Hah. S.W. Australin, Yallingup (Turner), November and 
December ; three specimens. 
The tergites are less strongly curved downwards both late- 
rally and apically than in the European S. irrorator^ from 
which it also differs in the absence of apical spines and in the 
broader and less elongate abdomen. It approaches the 
North-American S. bicolor much more closely in these points, 
but is a larger and more robust species. The colour of the 
fore femora and tarsi seems to vary, one specimen having the 
femora black and two having the tarsi except the apical joint 
testaceous red. 
Sphceropyx neavei, sp. n. 
2 . Nigra ; palpis, mandibulis ai^ice, abdoraiue, pedibus tegulisqne 
rufo-testaceis : femoribus posticis apice, tibiis posticis apice, 
tarsisque posticis, basi extremo excepto, uigris ; alis venisque 
fuscis. 
Long. 7 mm. 
? . Front and clypeus closely punctured and sparsely 
clothed with fuscous pubescence ; vertex and thorax shining, 
finely punctured ; a broad transverse groove at the base of 
the scutellum divided by a longitudinal carina; median 
segment punctured-rugose, the sides rugose-striate. Abdomen 
rugose ; the first segment with two longitudinal carinse con- 
verging at the apex, a little longer than the apical breadth, 
half as broad again at the apex as at the base ; second tergite 
a little longer than the first, not as long as the aj.ical breadth ; 
third tergite no longer than the second, without apical teeth. 
Recurrent nervure received before the first transverse cubital 
nervure. 
Hub. N.E. Rhodesia, Serenje District, 4500 feet {S. A. 
Neave)y December. 
On the Genera of Hapalidas. 2-47 
A smaller and less robust species than the last^ but 
agreeing with it in the absence of apical abdominal spines. 
Phanerotoma nova-guineensis, Sz^p. 
Phanerotoma nova-guineensis, Szep. Termes. Fiizetek, xxiii. p. 59 
(1900). $. 
A single specimen from Mackaj, Queensland, taken in 
August 1900, answers well to the briet' description of this 
species. 
Phanerotoma leeuwinensis, sp. n. 
cJ . Brunneo-ochraceiis ; mesonoto lateribus, mesopleuris, segmento 
mediano, segnienfcisque dorsalibus lateribus nigris ; segmento 
dorsali tertio fiisco, peclibus pallide testaceis ; tibiis posticis basi 
albidis apice pallide bruuneis ; alls hyalitiis, venis fuscis. 
Long. 2'o mm. 
(^ . Antennae 23-jointed, a little longer than the insect ; 
the whole surface finely granulate, clothed on the head and 
thorax with very short and delicate white pubescence ; 
sutures between the tergites finely crenulated, the third 
tergite distinctly longer than the second. Recurrent nervure 
interstitial with the first transverse cubital nervure ; first 
abscissa of tlie radius as long as the second, but distinctly 
shorter than the second transverse cubital nervure. Meiian 
segment without a carina. Posterior ocelli a little further 
from the hind margin of the head than from each other. 
Hab. S.W. Australia, Tallingup {Turner), November 
1913. 
Easily distinguished from nova-gumeensis by the very 
different shape of the second cubital cell ; in that species, as 
in most of the species of the genus, the second abscissa of the 
radius is much longer than the second transverse cubital 
nervure. The colour is probably variable as to the extent of 
the dark markings. 
XXVII. — The G^ewera o/ Hapalidse {Marmozets). 
By R. I. PococK, F.R.S. 
Introduction. 
Many attempts have been made in the past to classify the 
marmozets generically, notably by Wagner, Lesson, Reichen- 
bach, and Gray ; but the distinctive characters employed 
have appealed so little to the judgment of modern zoologists