THE TRANSACTIONS ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON FOE THE YEAR 1885. I. Munoijraph of British Braconidae. Part L By the Rev. T. A. Maeshall. [Eead March 4th, 1885.] Plates I. — VI. The object of the present work is to furnish entomologists with short but sufficient descriptions of our native Braconidce. Since the publication of Haliday's admirable " Essay on the classification of Parasitic Hymenoptera," &c., in the ' Entomological Magazine,' nothing in a connected form has been attempted on this subject, and the want of some manual comprising recent discoveries has no doubt been mainly the cause of the indiiferencc with which British collectors have treated this group of insects. The discoveries of the last hfty years, both in new species and in the biology of those previously known, are so numerous and interesting that they cannot fail, if conveniently presented, to attract a con-siderable class of observers. The number of lepidopterists who breed their specimens is very large, and contains many men of inquiring minds who would gladly know something of the curious parasites that so often frustrate their labours ; while the advantage which would accrue TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1885. — PART I. (APRIL.) B
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