On some South African Ichneumonidae. 391 



Taken at Jackals Water, Bushmanland, in the Cape Province, by 

 E. M. Lightfoot during October, 1911. 



TRIBE BASSIDES. 

 BASSUS, Fall. 



BASSUS LAETATORIUS, Fab. 

 Spec. Insect, i, p. 424. 



Peringuey has taken several examples of this most cosmopolitan of 

 all Ichueumonidae in Cape Town during 1913 and 1915. I am 

 unaware that it has hitherto been recorded from South Africa, though 

 well known in Egypt, Abyssinia and other northern countries, and 

 figui'ed by de Saussure in Grandidier's Hist. Madag. in 1892 under 

 the name Bassus venustulus from Madagascar. 



HOMOCIDUS, Mori. 

 Ichn. Britaunica, iv, 1911, p. 87. 



HOMOCIDUS LINEIPES, sp. nov. 



$ only. A small and inconspicuous species, black with only the 

 thorax shining ; the whole front of head, underside of scape, pro- 

 steruuni, a conspicuous apical mesopleural mark, radices, tegulae and 

 a subhamate mark before them, scutellar apex, and all the legs except 

 hind tarsi and the outer side of their tibiae, stramineous. Head with 

 vertex somewhat emargiuate ; face parallel-sided ; metanotal and 

 petiolar areae wanting ; scutellum subdeplanate ; postpetiole not 

 quadrate ; areolet wanting. Length, 4 mm. In my latest table of 

 the species of this genus (Eevision Ichii. iii, 1914, p. 129) the present 

 is most closely allied to H. biguttatus, but with the hind tibiae not at 

 all white. 



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

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



TRIBE EXOCHIDES. 



POLYCLISTUS, Forst, 

 Verh. pr. Eheinl. 1868, p. 161. 



POLYCLISTUS FEMORALIS, Fourc. 



Ent. Paris, ii, 396. 



L. C. Peringuey has found this species in Cape Town during 1913. 

 It has doubtless been imported from Europe ; and seems to have 



