On some S<miJi African Ichneumonidae. 195 



or, rather, vallate ; postscutellum Ismail, transverse and, at least in 9 

 basally margined. Abdomen elongate-fusiform and much longer than 

 head and thorax ; basal segment indistinctly punctate, slender and fully 

 thrice as long as apically broad, with the J 1 spiracles prominent ; 

 second segment basally constricted to the small gastrocoeli at its basal 

 third ; terebra nigrescent only at extreme apex. Legs very slender and 

 strongly elongate. Wings fulvescent-hyaline with stigma and the 

 subcosta testaceous, nervures inf uscate ; areolet somewhat large, nearly 

 coalescent above, emitting the broadly bifenestrate recurrent nervure 

 from distinctly before its centre ; nervellus sinuate, emitting spurious 

 nervure from its lower fourth. Length, g $ , 15 mm. 



In 1915 I restricted this genus to a single species, ranging through 

 Africa, India and Australia. A second was brought forward in 19 10 

 (Ann. S. Afr. Mus. p. 358). I am glad to recognise another, so distinct 

 as to render a glance sufficient to differentiate it, by its longer antennae 

 and legs, irregular mesouotum, circumvallate scutellum and the 

 antecentral emission of the recurrent from areolet. 



Marley took the female type at Kranzkloof in Natal during May, 

 1915 ; and the androtype occurred to W. E. Jones at Mfongosi in 

 Zululand. 



XANTHOJOPPA, Cam. 



Ann. Nat. Hist, vii, 1901, p. 378 : Anisnjopj_>a, Cam. Ann S. Afr. 



Mus. Y, 1906, p. 168. 



The distinctions between the descriptions of these two genera con- 

 sist solely in the size of the gastrocoeli and the sculpture of the meta- 

 notum, though not of its carinai' ; and an examination of the type of 

 the former and a co-type of the latter genus proves them to be 

 synonymous. The main feature of distinction, I think, was overlooked 

 by their author : I find the anterior claws of the former to be simple 

 and those of the type species of the latter stoutly pectinate ; but this 

 character is inconstant, and doubtless (as in Neotypus) at most sexual. 



XANTHOJOPPA LUTEA, Cam. 



Anisojoppa lutea, Cam. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. v. 1906, p. 168, <$ 9 . 

 Cameron dismisses the J of this species in a dozen words ; but it 

 differs from his 9 description in having the head and thorax 7 mm. in 

 length, the abdomen no more than 11 mm. ; the metanotum rugulose 

 throughout ; the gastrocoeli very broad and deeply impressed, with the 

 intervening space not at all striate ; the flagellar joints 14 21 alone 

 are white ; the stigma fulvous ; the face sparsely punctate throughout, 



