On some South African Ichneumonidae. 397 



CALLIDORA, Thorns. 

 Opusc. Eut. xi, 1887, p. 1135. 



Essential Characters. Areolet large and rhomboidal ; ? flagellum 

 pale-banded and tei'ebra not exserted ; lateral petiolar sulci wanting ; 

 apical abscissa of radial nervure longer than the basal ; lower basal 

 nervure not oblique ; metathorax declived from centre ; lateral clypeal 

 foveae not large ; iiervellus antef urcal ; head transverse ; petiolar area 

 not excavate ; spiracles round. 



CALLIDOBA COSTULATA, sp. nov. 



cf only. A somewhat stout, dull black species with the abdomen 

 except both extremities, mandibles except apices, the small tegulae, 

 and whole of the legs, deep red. Head posteriorly nearly as broad 

 as the eyes (as in Meloboris) with clypeus not discreted, apicaliy 

 rounded and its lateral foveae wanting ; antennae not slender, apicaliy 

 attenuate and extending to second segment. Thorax convex, with 

 notauli punctifonn ; metathorax scabriculous with the indefinite petiolar 

 area subtriangular and terminating in the very small areola, which 

 emits determinate costulae and basal area ; petiole slender and black* 

 postpetiole red, shagreened, much longer than broad, parallel-sided, 

 convex and basally abruptly explanate. Wings ample, evenly and very 

 slightly clouded, with stigma and nervures black ; basal nervure con- 

 tinuous ; discoidal cell parallel- sided, apicaliy strongly acute below, 

 emitting an elongate nervelet ; areolet entire, subpetiolate and not 

 higher than broad ; radius but very slightly angled centrally ; nervellus 

 distinctly antef urcal, geniculate below its centre and emitting a pellucid 

 and curved spurious nervure. Length, 10 mm. The neuration and 

 metanotal areae are distinctive. 



Captured by L. Pt'ringuey at Saldanha Bay in Cape Colony during 

 September, 1912. 



NEPIERA, Forst. 

 Verh. Ver. Rheinl. xxv, 1869, p. 56. 



NEPIEKA CONCINNA, Holmgr. 

 Sv. Ak. Handl. 1858, p. 84. 



Five females of this abundant palaearctic species have been captured 

 at Estcourt in Natal during 1894 (Haviland ; Stellenbosch in Cape 

 Colony during 1897 (L. Peringuey) ; and at East London in July, 

 1914 (R. M. Lightfoot). They differ to no appreciable extent from 



