392 Annals of the South African Museum. 



occurred in some numbers in Southern Africa, whence Peter Cameron 

 lias sent supposititious types of new names for this species to the 

 British Museum : Plesioexochus rufipes, Cam. ? and Exochus fnsci- 

 pilosus, Cam. (cf. Mori. Ann. Nat. Hist 1915). 



SUBFAMILY OPHTONINAE. 

 TBIBE OPHIONIDES. 



NOTOTRACHYS, Marsh. 

 Tr. Ent. Soc. 1872, p. 260. 



NOTOTRACHYS FOLIATOR, Fab. 



Entom. Syst. Suppl. 1798, p. 239. 



Two males of this genus, which I prefer to temporarily regard as 

 colour forms of the palaearctic N. foliator, were taken at Dumbrody, 

 in Cape Province, on March llth, 1912, and by Haviland at Estcourt 

 in Natal during December, 1896, also cf. Record of Albany Museum, 

 1905, p. 250, et Revis. Ichn. 1912, p. 69. Both have the apices of 

 metathorax and hind coxae, with the scutellum flavous and the abdomen 

 partly red. 



TRIBE ANOMALIDES. 



AGRYPON, Furst. 

 Verh. pr. Rheinl. xvii, 1860, p. 151. 



AGRYPON XANTHOMELAS, Brulle. 

 Barylypa xanthomelas, Mori. Revision Ichu. ii, 1913, p. 81. 



A study of a female example of this species, which no one has 

 recognised since first described (Hist. Nat. Ins. Hym. iv, 1846, p. 173, 

 $ ), enables me to at length assign it a definite genus in our modern 

 classification. The character which led me to place it in Barylypa in 

 1913 is less pronounced than Brulle's description leads one to believe 

 and, moreover, the nervellus emits no nervure. The present example is 

 from Elsenburg in the Cape district ; the earlier record is vaguely from 

 South Africa. 



(I should like to here record the occurrence of a $ example of 

 Barylypa humeralis, Brauns, from the Island of Paros in the Grecian 

 Archipelago, which I have examined in the Deuts. Ent. Mus. ex coll. 

 Leonard! ; it is a very little known species.) 



