On some South African Ichneumonidae. 



NEMERITIS, Holmgr. 

 Svensk. Vet. Akad. Handl. ii, 1858, p. 104. 



NEMERITIS CANESCENS, G-rav. 



Ichn. Europ. iii, p. 555. 



This is an addition to the African fauna of the greatest importance, 

 since the species is the parasite par excellence of the terribly destruc- 

 tive moth Epliestia Kuhniella, which executes such havoc among 

 flour. Its beneficial Ichneumon has been known since 1829, but the 

 economy of the latter was quite recently discovered and two new 

 names bestowed upon it (Idechthis Oalniensis, Aslim. Fauna Hawaii- 

 ensis, 1901, p. 355, etAmorphota epliestiae, Cam. Proc. Linn. Soc. New 

 South Wales, 1912, p. 187), the references to which exhibit a consider- 

 able range, to which must now be added Potchefstroom in the Trans- 

 vaal, some thousand miles to the north of Cape Town, where a female 

 occurred to T. Ayres. 



PHOBOCAMPA, Thorns. 

 Opuse. Ent, xi, 1887, p. 1120. 



Essential Characters. Wings with the discoidal cell apically acute 

 below, both lower basal nervure and nervellus strongly oblique, and 

 the radius centrally subrectaugular ; nietathorax declived only from 

 its centre ; clypeal foveae neither large nor deeply impressed ; nervellus 

 antefurcal and geniculate ; metathoracic spiracles circular. 



PHOBOCAMPA STRIGIPES, sp. nov. 



? only. A small black species with the anterior legs except basally, 

 hind femora, apices of central segments and sides of the apical ones, 

 fulvous; mandibles, tegulae, radices, trochanters except base of the 

 hind ones, base of hind tarsi and of hind tibiae with centre of the latter 

 externally broadly, whitish-stramineous. Scape and anterior coxae 

 black ; inetanotal areae subentire ; postpetiole subglobose and a little 

 longer than broad ; terebra hardly as long as basal segment ; stigma 

 and nervures luteous, areolet elongately petiolate and not small, 

 emitting the recurrent from its centre; discoidal cell apically acute 

 below. Length, 4| mm. It is most closely allied to P. obscurella, 



Holmgr. 



The type was taken in the Prieska District of the Cape Province by 



Dr. R. Marloth. 



OMORGA, Thorns. 

 Opusc. But. xi, 1887, p. 1125. 

 Essential Characters. Postpetiole ovate, abruptly explanate basally; 



