364 Annals of the South African Museum. 



The type was captured at Potcliefstroom iu the Transvaal by 

 T. Ayres ; and two co types are from Kimberley 011 May 5th, 1912, by 

 Bro. Power, and Cape Town early in 1915 by L. Pcriuguey. Co-type 

 in the British Museum. 



BABICHNEUMON, Thorns. 

 Opusc. Ent, xviii, 1893, p. 1959. 



BARICHNEUMON GRANDIS, sp. nov. 



$ only. A black and red species, with white markings. Black 

 with the epistoma, labrum, underside of scape, propleurae above, 

 meso- and meta-thorax except the frenal callosities, scutellum, and the 

 anterior legs except basally, dull dark red ; palpi, maudibular base, 

 sides of clypeus, inner and the upper outer orbits, a broad central 

 flagellar band, pronotum centrally, subradical callosities and post- 

 scutellum both linearly, apical lateral angles of two basal segments 

 and whole disc of the seventh and sixth, white. Face sparsely 

 punctate and not discreted from the apically truncate and centrally 

 slightly produced clypeus, whose lateral foveae are large. Thorax 

 finely and evenly punctate, shining ; pronotum discally tuberculate, 

 notauli obsolete ; metanotal areae entire with but weak carinae and 

 evanescent costulae, areola strongly elongate and apically emarginate. 

 Scutellum deplanate, sparsely punctate and not margined. Abdomen 

 fusiform and dull, with the fourth and following segments pilose and 

 shining ; postpetiole evenly explanate, broad and punctate with no 

 carinae ; gastrocoeli deeply impressed but not large. Legs normal and 

 subelongate, with very strong hind coxal scopulae and inpectinate 

 claws. Wings somewhat narrow, with black stigma and nervures, 

 areolet broad above, basal nervure continuous through the median. 

 Length, 10mm. It has the f acies of a large B. ridibundns, Grav.,and 

 shares with that species the pronotal tubercle, though the abdomen is 

 more ovate and of different colouration. 



The type was captured at Dunbrody in the Cape Province on 

 March 1st, 1912. 



CHASMIAS, Ashm. 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1900, p. 17. 



Chasmodes, Wesm. Nouv. Mem. 1844, p. 13 (nee Cuvier). 

 Essential Characters. Metathoracic spiracles elongate ; hypopygium 

 remote from terebral base ; scutellum deplanate, basal metanotal 

 sulcus wanting; clypeus apically emarginate; body subcylindrical. 



