On some South African Ichneumonidae. 389 



CKYPTOPIMPLA, Tascli. 

 Zeits. Ges. Nat. 1863, p. 292. 



Essential Characters. Body not elongately pilose ; head fully as 

 broad as thorax ; apical flagellar joints well discreted and the last half 

 dozen inoniliform ; metathoracic areae wanting, and spiracles both 

 small and circular ; tarsal claws not pectinate ; wings somewhat small 

 with areolet entire. 



CRYPTOPIMPLA RUBRITHORAX, sp. nov. 



$ only. A black species with deep red scutellum, meso- and ineta- 

 thorax, evenly punctate and not very shining ; the collar except cen- 

 trally, tegulae and radices, the seventh segment and base of stigma, 

 alone pure white. Antennae slender, black and of equal breadth 

 throughout with the 29 basal flagellar joints elongate, the apical 

 of these well discreted ; remainder desu/tt. Metathorax evenly 

 convex and punctate throughout with no trace of discal or lateral 

 carinae ; mesosternum black-marked ; basal segment sessile, evenly 

 punctate with centre of its basal half glabrous and glittering ; the 

 fourth and at least apical half of the third segment glittering and 

 impimctate ; terebra short, as long as basal segment, or a third of 

 abdomen ; legs elongate and black with only the front tibiae rufescent. 

 "Wings narrow and hyaline with the stigma except basally, and all the 

 nervures, deep black ; external radius a little curved above the sub- 

 triangular areolet, of which the lower half of the external nervure is 

 fenestrate and continuous with the centrallv broadly unifenestrate 



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second recurrent ; lower basal nervure postfurcal ; discoidal cell very 

 short, subquadrate, with distinct nervelet ; nervellus intercepted far 

 below centre. Length 8, terebra 2, mm. Has the facies of C. 

 errabunda, Grav., with the thoracic and abdominal colouration 

 transposed. 



The type was captured at, Elsenburg, Stellenbosch, Cape Colony, on 

 October llth, 1914, by C. W. Mally, of the Agricultural Department. 



TRIBE BANG HIDES. 



EXETASTES, Grav. 



Ichu. Europ. vol. iii, 1829, p. 395. 

 Cf. Mori. Eevis. Iclm. iv, 1915, p. 142. 



EXETASTES ANNULATOR, sp. nov. 

 $ only. A black species and somewhat nitidulous with evenly 



