On some South African Ichneumonidae. 367 



stout arid dark red with all the trochanters, and the simple coxae, 

 black ; hind femora inf uscate. Wings distinctly and evenly nigrescent 

 throughout ; stigma and nervures black ; basal nervure continuous 

 through median, areolet broad above. Length, 12 mm. Very like the 

 last species but differing, besides the divergence of the gastrocoeli, in 

 the postpetiolar and metanotal struct ui'e, abdominal colouration and 

 deeply infumate wings. I have no doubt it is the insect described 

 under this name by Tosquiuet, but give an account of it, since it 

 appears to belong to his " var. 1," which is barely mentioned. 



"Le Cap de Bonne- Esperauce " (Tosq.). Port Elizabeth by J. L. 

 Drege, and Johannesburg in 1898 by A. Ross. 



AMBLYTELES TUBERCTJLATA, sp. nov. 



? only. A dull, brick-red species with profuse black markings, and 

 evenly infumate wings having the stigma stramineous. Head closely 

 and coriaceously punctate, with the truncate and margined apex of the 

 narrow clypeus alone smooth ; mandibular teeth, of which the lower 

 is very small, the superficial clypeal foveae, vertex and occiput, alone 

 black ; apex of scrobes with a minute and acute central tubercle. 

 Antennae not short, fulvous and somewhat slender to beyond their 

 centre, thence black and compresso-dilated, with their apices strongly 

 attenuate. Thorax stout and coriaceously punctate with the pro- 

 sternum apically, mesopleurae except above, meso- and meta-sternum, 

 metapleurae, frenuui, metauotal base linearly, mesonotum except two 

 vittae, and the scutellar fovea, black ; metauotum with elongate but 

 obsolete areola and weak lateral carinae indicated, its spiracles large 

 and remarkably strongly elevated ; apophyses wanting. Scutellum 

 convex, dull and. coarsely punctate, with strong lateral carinae to 

 beyond its centre. Abdomen exactly fusiform with the terebra, and 

 basal half of the second to fourth segments both discally and ventrally, 

 dead black ; postpetiole deplanate and so finely aciculate as to appear 

 shagreened, with prominent spiracles and apical angles ; second segment 

 basally glabrous, succeeded by very rough puncturatiou, its gastrocoeli 

 somewhat deep but not large ; second to fourth ventral segments very 

 definitely plicate ; hypopygium not acuminate, extending nearly to the 

 anus. Legs elongate and somewhat slender, with only base of the 

 simple and closely punctate hind coxae black. Wings distinctly 

 infumate though not nigrescent, with nervures piceous ; costa and 

 stigma bright stramineous ; nervelet strong, basal nervure subcon- 

 tinuous, areolet broad emitting recurrent from slightly before its 

 centre. Length, 12 mm. The structure of the metanotum and espe- 

 cially of its spiracles, the convex and margined scutellum, and the rare 



