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5. On some South African Ichneumonidae in the Collection of the 

 South African Museum. By CLAUDE MORLEY, F.E.S., F.Z.S., 

 etc. Author of Iclmeumonologia Britannica, A Revision of 

 the Ichneumonidae, etc. Part I. 



THERE has recently been forwarded to me from the South African 

 Museum a small collection of Iclmeumouidae for determination and 

 description. It consists of 136 specimens, distributed as follows 

 among the five subfamilies of these parasitic Hymenoptera : Ichneu- 

 nioniuae, 32 specimens, comprising 23 species, of which 4 were already 

 described ; Cryptinae, 32 specimens, comprising 19 species, of which 

 5 were described ; Pimplinae, 29 specimens, comprising 19 species, of 

 which 12 were already described ; Tryphoninae, 9 specimens, comprising 

 7 species, of which 5 were already described ; and Ophioninae, 34 

 specimens, comprising 19 species, of which 11 were already described: 

 giving the total of 87 species, of which no more than 37 had previously 

 been known, and several of these from Europe only. These have all 

 been compared by Dr. L. Periuguey with the types of 92 South 

 African species in that Museum, described by Peter Cameron, and 

 found by the former to be distinct. 



I am. not aware that anything in the form of a bibliography of the 

 African Ichneumonidae has yet been attempted ; and it may be well to 

 here indicate where students of these insects should turn for descrip- 

 tions of their captures. This is in so scattered a form that the follow- 

 ing must be regarded as no more than the works entering my head as 

 I write. First, in the 4th volume of Lepeletier's general work on 

 Exotic Hymenoptera, Histoire naturelle des Insectes, Hymenoptcres, 

 we have a good many species superficially sketched by Brullu in 1846 ; 

 Lucas added others in his Exploration Scientifique de 1'Algerie, 

 Zoologie, in the same year. G-ucrin Meneville extended our know- 

 ledge in Lefebre's Voyage en Abyssmie in 1848. Next Holmgren 

 brought forward several kinds in his general account, Eugenies Resa 

 Insect, of 1868 ; and Dr. Taschenberg described several Ophionides in 

 Zeits. Ges. Nat, 1875, p. 436. Fred. Smith added others in the 



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