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specimen was compared with a pair of specimens (l o. + 1 O from Texas (USA) and they are now deposited by an exchange in the Museum of Budapest. Between the North American and Tunisian representatives of this species there are a few infraspecific deviations which are tabulated below: North American o. 1. Face smooth and shiny. 2. Antenna with 27 joints. 3. Body 2.5 mm long (according to the original description "2 mm"). 4. Body yellow. Tunisian o. 1. Face shagreened, medially almost smooth, dull. 2. Antenna with 24 joints. 3. Body 2 mm long . 4. Body brownish yellow, propodeum .and metasoma from fourth tergite with brownish pattern. BRACONINAE Bracon (Glabrobracon) atrator Nees, 1834 - 1 5: Degache, 16 IV 1977, No. 122. Bracon (Glabrobracon) cingulator Szépligeti, 1901 - 1 6*": Skanés, 10 km Monastir, No. 14 7. - Reported from the European part of the USSR, Hungary, Italy (Sardinia) and Germany. New to the fauna of Tunisia. Bracon (Bracon) extasus sp.n.: see p. Bracon (Lucobracon) fortipes Wesmael , 1838 - 1 o_: 2 km W of La Hencha , 9 IV 1977, No. 93. - Reported from several countries xn Europe. New to the fauna of Tunisia. Bracon (Bracon) fulvipes Nees, 1834 (?= B. nitidifrons Niezabitowski , 1910) - 8 oo + 7 55: Plage Chaffar, Nakta, 7 IV 1977, No. 80. - From amonq the 15 specimens 3 o_o. + 3 SS differ from the rest of the material in that that their tergites 3-8 are almost smooth to smooth - a feature of the form nitidifrons. Supposedly this form is but a "smoothed" variety of the nominate form. - A Palaearctic species, has never been reported from northern Africa. New to the fauna of Tunisia. Bracon (Orthobracon) fumatus Szépligeti, 1901 - 1 S: Plage Chaffar, Nakta, 7 IV 1977, No . 80. - Described from Hungary, listed from Austria and from the USSR (Ukraine, Kazakhstan). New to the fauna of Tunisia. Bracon (Lucobracon) hedwigae Schmiedeknecht, 1897 - 1 g: Tunisia, 1898, leg. 0. Schmiedeknecht. - It seems to be a Ponto-Mediterranean species. In the Mediterranean Subregion it is known from Algeria, Spain, Greece, Tunisia and Israel . Bracon (Bracon) leptu s Marshall, 1897 - 1 g: ca . 2 km NW from Maktar, 3 IV 1977, No. 50. 1 o: 2 km W of La Henche , 9 IV 1977, No. 93. - Widely distributed in the USSR (Tobias 1986: 125), in Europe reported from Spain, Austria and Hungary. New to the fauna of Tunisia. Bracon (Bracon) luteator Spinola, 1808 var. nigripedator (Nees, 1834) 1 Q in Lund : "Tunisien, Bou Hedma" 11 IV 1976 , leg. M. Olsson. 1 0: .El Kef, 2 IV 1977, No. 46. - Ovipositor sheath relatively short, almost as long as body (usually clearly longer) . Bracon (Bracon) mariae Dalla Torre, 1898 (= B. semiflavus Thomson, 1892)1 6": 84 km NW from Sfax, between Kairouan and Sfax, 3 IV 1977, No. 56. - Widely distributed in the southwestern part of the Palaearctic Region, in northern Africa listed from Algeria. New to the fauna of Tunisia. Bracon (Cyanopterobracon) mauritanicus Schmiedeknecht, 1896 - 2 ocf: Kelibia, 26 III 1968, leg. Andriescu. - Described from Algeria, reported from South Italy, South France, Albania and Azerbaidzhan (in the USSR^. Supposedly a Ponto-Mediterranean species. New to the fauna of Tunisia. Bracon (Orthobracon) micros Szépligeti, 1901 - 1 S (in Wien): "Tunis" V-VI 1913, leg. Ruschka . - Listed in Hungary and Austria. New to the fauna of Tunisia .
