226 Albany Museum Records. 



Characteristic of this genus are the stoutly clavate uiiteiuml 

 fiagellum, keeled apex of scutellum and the deep curved, 

 crenulated furrow bordering the 2nd abdominal segment. Its 

 affinities are pi-obably with Idris. 



Roeiia caritiiscutis, sp. nov. 



Black, the tarsi and anterior tibiee testaceous : the head, 

 thorax and base of abdomen covered withh white, glistening, 

 longish hair. Wings hyaline, the nervures pale. Female. 



Length 3.5 mm. 



Head obscurely, closely striated : the longitudinal striae on 

 the mesonotum and scutellum are intersected by finer transverse 

 ones, which form reticulations. Malai- space st)'iated. Abdomen 

 not quite so long as the head and thoi-ax united ; the apices of the 

 2nd and 3rd segments smooth and shining. The metanotum with 

 a strong lens is seen to be closely reticulated. 



ICHNEUMONID^. 



ICHNEUMONTNI. 

 Ichnewnou Leppani, sp. nov. 



Black, the head, the basal two segments of the abdomen, and 

 the basal half of the 3rd rufous, as are also the tibiae and tarsi and 

 the apex of the femora : wings fuscous-violaceous, the stigma and 

 nervures black. Female. 



Length 13-14: mm. 



Teafontein. May. Miss Leppan. 



Face coarsely punctured, broadly roundly raised in the middle, 

 clearly separated from the sides. Clypeus shining, sparsely 

 punctured. Vertex and upper part of front rugosely punctured ; 

 the front excavated, smooth, shining : the middle of the punctured 

 part of vertex slightly projecting into it. the sides rounded. 

 Temples wide, rounded, 'not much narrowed. Thorax closely, 

 almost rugosely punctured, except the scutellum, which is smooth, 



