On some South African Ichneumonidae. 387 



POECILOPIMPLA, Morley. 

 Revis. Iclm. iii, 1914, p. 35. 



Essential Characters. Metathorax very short; antennae apically 

 subclavate ; metanotum with cariuae ; abdomen impunctate ; tarsal 

 claws of ? basally lobate ; clypeus centrally impressed ; areolet entire ; 

 third segment not longer than broad. 



POECILOPIMPLA TESTACEA, sp. uov. 



$ only. A pale, testaceous species with only the maudibular 

 apices, ocellar region narrowly, antennae, apical angles of the second 

 segment transversely, and the hind tarsi, determinately black. The 

 head is subbuccate behind the eyes, the face convex and nearly 

 glabrous ; antennae filiform and but slightly explauate apically, 

 extending to second segment ; the metathorax is glittering and ex- 

 areolate, with scattered punctures and small, circular spiracles ; abdo- 

 men much longer than head and thorax, with all the segments short 

 and apicallv callose, tubercles distinct and thyridii of the second 

 transverse. Wings narrow, with the discoiclal cell apically strongly 

 acute below ; areolet almost petiolate and but slightly broader than 

 high, emitting the curved and bifenestrate second recurrent distinctly 

 beyond its centre ; nervellus centrally intercepted. Length 8, terebra 

 6, mm. 



Found by W. H. Bell Marley at Durban, Natal, early in 1915. 



THERONIA, Holmgr. 

 Ofv. Yet. Ak. Furhdl. 16, 1859, p. 123. 



THERONIA TRIVITTATA, Krieg. 

 Sitz. Nat. G-es. Leipzig, 1899, p. 113. 



A male from the Elsenburg, Stellenbosch, Cape Colony. Known 

 from Sierra Leone to Delagoa Bay and Madagascar. 



THERONIA LURIDA, Tosq. 

 Mem. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1896, p. 282. 

 A male found at Barberton in the Transvaal bv Miss H. Edwards 



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during April, 1911. "Emerged from mud nest of wasp." Widely 

 distributed from British East Africa southwards. 



PHILOPSTCHE, Cam. 

 Spolia Zeylauica, 1905, p. 137. 



Essential Characters. Eyes internally emarginate ; face centrally 



