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8. On some South African Ichneumonidae in fhe Collection of the 

 South African Muse-um. By CLAUDE MOKLEY, F.E.S., F.Z.S., 

 Menib. Soc. Entom. de Franco, etc. Part II. 



I HAVE much pleasure in presenting a further account of the parasitic 

 Hymenoptera of Africa, comprising a consignment sent for determina- 

 tion by Dr. L. Peringuey of the Cape Town Museum and including a 

 few additional species from other sources. It is issued in continuation 

 of the former paper by me upon the same subject, which appeared in 

 these Annals late in 191G. All the types of the species herein described 

 as new are, unless otherwise stated, in the South African Museum at 

 Cape Town. 



The number of new descriptions is by no means surprising, when 

 the size of the area be considered, along with the paucity of collectors. 

 The outstanding feature of the present contribution to our knowledge 

 of these very beneficial insects is the discovery of a new and most 

 extraordinary Tribe allied to the Bauchides. 



Also, be it noted, the more we investigate these parasites in all parts 

 of the globe the wider is discovered to be the range of individual 

 species. For at least one kind, recorded herein, no part of the equator 

 seems too hot, though it is also of frequent occurrence so far north 

 as Sweden ; another occurs with equal frequency in both Queensland 

 and Assam ; and now we find Bengalese insects of this group occurring 

 in Natal. All these are doubtless imported in or along with their 

 Lepidopterous and other hosts' food-plants, shipped in the ordinary 

 course of commerce. 



CLASSIFIED CATALOGUE. 

 ICHNEUMONIDAE. XAIJTHOJOPPA., Cum. 



ICHNEUMONINAE. lutea, Cam. 



inermis, sp. n. 



Joppides. EPIJOPPA, Mori. 

 LEPTOPHATNUS, Cam. variabilis, Mori, 



ruficcps, Cam. nigricoxata, Mori, 



bucephalus, sp. n. AGLAOJOPPA, Cam. 

 ISCHNOJOPPA, Kriech. rubrithorax, sp. 11. 



uteator, Fab. COELICHNEUMON, Thorns, 

 visibilis, sp. u. petiolaris, sp. n. 



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