On some South African Ichneumon !<ln>'. '201 



green with the dull and reticulate mesonotum, the mesopleurae, base 

 of pronotum on either side and its extreme apical margin, sanguineous- 

 red ; notauli and sternauli wanting, mesopleurae transversely im- 

 pressed centrally ; metanotum nitidulous and rugulose, its areola 

 large and hexagonal, extending to base and emitting costulae from its 

 centre. Scutellum, postscutellum and frenum red ; the first elevated, 

 but hardly pyramidal, very coarsely rugose and laterally carinate to 

 its flavidous apex ; postscutellar region metallic blue, with its apical 

 margin stramineous. Abdomen eyaneous with apices of all the 

 segments, but fourth, stramineous ; basal segment glabrous and 

 obsoletely aciculate apically ; second and third very closely punctate 

 and dull. Legs somewhat short and not slender, with anterior tarsi 

 and their tibiae laterally white. Wings normal ; tegulae fulvous, 

 radix and stigma nigrescent; recurrent emitted slightly beyond centre 

 of areolet. Length, 11 mm. 



The type was found by W. E. Jones at Mfongosi in Zululand 

 during May, 101G. 



SUBTRIBE PLATYURINI.* 

 PLATYLABUS, Wesm. 



Nouv. Mem. Ac. Brux. 1844, p. 150; Mori. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. xv, 



191C, p. 308. 



Some of the southern African species of this genus are so closely 

 allied that a superficial tabular guide appears desirable. 



(2). 1. Flagellum dilated before apex ; notauli deep. croceocephalus,Tosq. 



(1). 2. Flagellum not dilated ; notauli obsolete or wanting. 

 (20). 3. Head, at least discally, black. 



(7). 4. Palpi infnscate or black, never pale. 



(f>). 5. Gastrocoeli of second segment deeply impressed, nigripalpis, Cam 



(5). 6. Gastrocoeli of second segment small, triangular, bicinctoriiis, Eoman 



(4). 7. Palpi always pale ; gastrocoeli superficial. 

 (17). 8. Disc of thorax entirely red; stigma black. 

 (10). 9. Second segment red; hind coxae discally white. Phorr.ys, sp. nov. 



(9). 10. Second segment not red-marked ; hind coxae black. 

 (]r>). 11. Metanotal areola siibcircular ; nesonotiim dull ; punctate. 

 (13). 12. Apophyses acute ; central segments white-banded. 



hcmcrythraeus, sp. n. 



(12). 13. Apophyses wanting ; central segments not white-marked. 

 (15). 14. Flagellum immaculate ; hind calcaria white. alMdornatus, Cam. 



* Cameron places his new genus FJini.surn (Ann. S. Afr. Mus. v, 190r>, p. 170) 

 in the Joppides. An examination of two co-typical males, the only sex known, 

 in the British Museum, has convinced me that the genus belongs to the 

 Platyurini. 



