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male (sic) = Campoplex anqiistatus, Thorns. Opusc. Ent. xi. 

 (1887), 1061, female. (4) Ephialtes lateralis, Woll. I.e. p. 22, 

 female, I regard as a good species, though extremely closely 

 allied to E. ruficollis, Desv., and most probably nothing more 

 than a meridional form of it, with terebra variable in length and 

 not always as long as the body, the outline stouter and thorax 

 darker. (5) E. lineatiis Woll. l. c. p. 22, female, is also a good 

 species belonging rather to Exeristes than to Ephialtes ; in the 

 two co-types the terebra is nearly as long as the body. (6) Ephi- 

 altes linearis, Woll. /. c. p. 22, male and female, is a Clistopyga 

 unknown to me, but possibly C. eriithrcea or C. rufescens, Fonsc. 

 Ann. Soc. France, 18o4,- p. 518 ; Walker regarded the female as 

 Perithous mediator ! (7) Lissonota dorsalis, Woll. I. c. p. 23, 

 male, nee Grav. et Fonsc. is a Pimpla sensu Thoms., represented 

 by one of each sex. (8) Bassiis albovarius, Woll. I. c. p. 23, is a 

 small and dark B. latatorius, F., a common species in Madeira, 

 the Ichneumon fauna of which appears to be distinctly Palse- 

 arctic rather than African. 



Cryptus pnlcJierrimus, Kirby [Bull. Liverpool Mus. iii. (1900), 

 p. 14 et the Nat. Hist, of Sokotra and Abd-el-Kuri, by H. 0. 

 Forbes, 1903, p. 237], belongs to the genus Acroricnus, Ratz. ; 

 both sexes, including the typical female, are in Mus. Brit. 



Ambli/teles ludovieus, Cameron, from Yatsurhiro, in Japan 

 (Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasgow, 1883, p. 272), is a female 

 Melanichneumon leucomelas, Gmel., with European examples of 

 which it agrees ad amussim. Hoplismenus mikado, Cam. {lib. cit. 

 1885-6, p. 274), from Kobe= Trogiis lutorius, F., male, differing 

 from the usual form only in its basally black second and third 

 segments. Callojoppa bilineata. Cam., from Japan = Trogiis 

 exaltatorius, Panz., female. Colpognathas magellansis, Cam. 

 (Proc. Manchester Soc. 1888, p. 129) is a female Cryptus (sensu 

 Thoms.) with exserted terebra and strong mesopleural sulci. 



Eight new species are brought forward by A. H. Haliday in 

 " Description, &c., of the Insects collected by Captain P. P. 

 King, R.N., F.Pi.S., in the Survey of the Straits of Magellan " 

 (Trans. Linn. Soc. 1836, pp. 316-19), all of which are, of course, 

 new, and I have examined the types in Mus. Brit. (1) Ichneumon 

 xantliorrhceus, Hal., is a male Platylabus. (2) I. plebeius, Hal., 

 male, is extremely like, though distinct from, Cteniehneumon 

 melanocastanus, Grav. (3) I. patricius, Hal. (male, sic) is a 

 female Amhlyteles. (4) Phygadeuon prcelatus, Hal. (male, sic) is 

 a female Cteniehneumon with metallic blue body. (5) Traehy- 

 sphyrus imperialis, Hal., female, a splendid metallic purple 

 insect, which also occurs in Chili and is probably re-described 

 in Claudio Gay's ' La Historia Fisica y Politica de Chile ' — in 

 Spanish — vol. vi. ; the fiagellum is entirely black, filiform, and 

 extends to apex of basal segment. (6) Cryptus bellicosas, Hal., 

 female = C. nitidipennis, Brulle, Hym. iv. (1846), 188; I have 



