On some South African Ichneumonidae. 379 



basal segment subcylinclrical and but little explauate apically ; 

 nervellus intercepted almost at its centre; areolet large and broad 

 above. 



OSPRHYNCHOTUS NIGER, Sp. UOV. 



J ? . A uitidulous, black species with the wings deeply violaceous, 

 the scutelluni convex, and only the inner side of front femora and 

 tibiae pale. Head distinctly and not very closely punctate, with a 

 small sulcus beyond apical ocellus ; clypeus not discreted, its apex 

 subtruncate ; maudibular teeth of equal length. Antennae of < stout, 

 and attenuate only at extreme apices, the joints cylindrical and extend- 

 ing to second segment ; of ? desunt. Thorax closely punctate and 

 somewhat shining ; mesouoturn sparsely pxiuctate and glittering, with 

 iiotauli elongate, but sternauli foveiform ; metanotuin distinctly short, 

 its base glabrous on either side, its apical transcarina alone present, 

 somewhat strong; spiracles elongate-oval, basal area and apophyses 

 wanting. Scutelluni convex, glittering, sparsely punctate and not 

 margined. Abdomen glabrous, strongly uitidulous and exactly fusi- 

 form, narrower in ; basal segment strongly convex, with a central 

 postpetiolar sulcus ; terebra deflexed, slightly shorter than abdomen, 

 with spicula red; ^ ventral valvulae exserted and black. Legs 

 normal and not stout. Wings evenly nigrescent throughout, with 

 violet iridescence ; lower basal uervure slightly antefurcal ; areolet 

 large, above rectangular and broad, emitting the broadly fenestrate 

 recurrent from its centre ; nervellus a little postfurcal, emitting 

 nervellus nearly from its centre. Length, 9 mm. This is a much 

 smaller and darker species than any referred to in my monograph of 

 this genus (Entomologist, 1914, p. 24), nor does it appear to be con- 

 tained in Ghigi's account of which I was then ignorant and to which 

 Dr. E. Bergroth has kindly called my attention published in Ann. 

 Mus. Zool. Napoli, vol. iii, 1911. 



L. Pcringuey took the typical female along with a couple of males 

 at Saldanha Bay in Cape Colony during September, 1912. Co-type in 

 the British Museum. 



STICTOCRYPTUS, Cameron. 

 Zeits. Hym.-Dip. 1907, p. 462. 



Essential Characters. Face not centrally tuberculate ; areolet not 

 explanate above ; nor nervellus intercepted above its centre ; basal 

 segment but little explanate apically ; metathorax not trans-striate, its 

 spiracles neither circular nor strongly elongate ; sides of scutellum 

 carinate. 



