1902.] 123 



P. 20 — I. dubitatus. Much resembles Amblyteles palliatorius, Grav., <? , in 

 structure, and the metathoracic apophyses are identical, but the antennae are longer, 

 the postpetiole more gradually explanate from base to apex ; the face is centrally 

 black marked, and the general colour-scheme unlike that found in even so protean 

 a species as the above. It is most probably a colour variety of A. trifasciatus, Grav. 



P. 22—1. flavocinctus. This is recognised as Ctenichneumon FLAVOCINCTUS, 

 Desv., though Berthoumieu overlooking Bridginan's description of its sculpture 

 (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1881, p. 145), does not tabulate it; it appears to be allied 

 to Amblyteles albomarginatus, Kriech. (cf. Ann. Soc. Fr., 1895, p. 622, et 1896, p. 

 289) ; and indeed I believe these species to be identical ; the ? is still unknown. 



P. 22 — I. mimitorius. This appears to be, or to be closely allied to, Ichneumon 

 gradarius, Wesm., £ , a species with which I am not sufficiently familiar to express 

 a definite opinion, nor am I aware of the latter's occurrence in Britain. 



P. 23 — /. binotalus — Cratichneumon cohuscatoe, Linn., var. luridus, 

 Grav., (J. 



P. 25 — I. niveatus. This is the $ of some Cryptid, and Desvignes himself has 

 labelled his types "probably Phygadeuon arridens." 



P. 2b— I. cinctorius. Probably a good species, allied to Amblyteles tint- 

 guttatus, Grav., var. Ooedarti, Grav., <? , but with the apophyses tuberculiform. 



P. 29—7. rubedinis = Ichneumon vulneeatorius, Zett., ? ; it is not Sten- 

 ichneumon ochropis, Gmel. 



P. 50 — HorLiSMENtrs semieufus. A good species closely allied to Platylabus 

 Stalii, Holmgr., but differing in its entire petiolar area, scabrous postpetiole, basally 

 broadly red abdomen and white marked front legs, by which points it may also be 

 known from P. albinus, Grav.* The production of the 5th ventral segment, noted 

 by Desvignes, is accidental. 



Desvignes also described, in Ent. Mo. Mag., 1867, p. 130, Ichneumon cambrensis 

 = Limerodes cambrensis, Bridg. and Fitch, Fntom., 1881, p. 60, = Phceogenes 

 stipator, Wesm. (1865), <J . Berthoumieu has rightly ascribed this species to P. 

 stipator, Wesm., which was recorded as new to Britain under the name P. cicutella, 

 Sieb., by Bridgman in 188i. The two <? 3 described by Desvignes are in the 

 British Collection. 



Ipswich : March, 1902. 



FURTHER NOTES ON SOUTH AFRICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 



BY FRANCES BARRETT ; EDITED BY C. O. BARRETT, F.E.S. 



{Continued from Vol. 37, p. 289). 



Apisa canescens, Walk.—" This moth is from the chrysalis of a caterpillar 



found in an ant hill in the garden by the boys. They found two, but one died ; they 



were of an unhealthy drab colour, with scattered hairs. 



* Even though Thomson has not pointed out that Gravenhorst's description of Hopl. erra- 

 bunduz, which obviously differed from the type examined by Wesmael, could not stand for this 

 species, since he writes of the apical " dorso albis " = " stor flack," the latter s H. albmus must 

 have taken precedence. — C. M. 



