BACCHA. 41 
tubercles; occiput dull black, grey pollinose, with a fringe of 
glittering, stiff white hair; face ‘shining black towards the middle, 
dullish and white pollinose on the sides; yellowish on the lower 
portion of the cheeks and on the very narrow peristoma ; facial 
tubercle not very prominent, rounded; hairs on the side of the face 
whitish and very soft. Antennz short, entirely orange-coloured, 
the first two joints very short, the third bluntly oneal arista 
longer than the antenna, brown, yellowish toward the base: Kyes 
bare, apparently adorned with two transverse dark bands, one on 
the middle, the other on the superior fourth. Thorax metallic 
black, with purple and bluish reflexions, clothed with short, silky, 
whitish hair, which, however, do not conceal four rounded spots, 
two before and two behind the suture; the sides and a band 
along the suture are grey-dusted; humeri with a broad rounded 
yellow spot; pleura bluish black, with greyish dust and short 
white hair. Scutellum finely punctate, wholly bluish black, with 
very short dark hair. Squamule very small, yellowish, without 
fringes; halteres yellow, with darker knobs. Abdomen ver ‘Vy narrow, 
the stalk being formed by the second and the front half of the third 
segments, pied rest being very little dilated; therefore the abdomen 
appears to be more linear than spatulate ; second segment black, 
reddish yellow towards the base, like the first, longer than the 
third; third, fourth, and fifth dark reddish yellow, shining, with a 
narrow longitudinal blackish stripe, and two less distinct lateral 
blackish stripes at the base of the Suan segment; sixth segment 
black ; after the sixth segment there are two father black seoments, 
terminated by a blackish bilobate scale, which forms a peculiar 
ovipositor. Venter yellowish, black at the tip; the reddish seg- 
ments are bordered by a very narrow black line on the exterior 
sides ; the second segment and the constricted portion of the third 
are clothed with thin erect white hair on the sides, the rest is 
clothed with short depressed whitish hair. The four anterior legs, 
with the coxe, w holly pale luteous; hind legs with bluish, 
thickened cox, black femora yellowish at the tip, black tibie 
yellow towards the base, and yellow tarsi a little darkened at the 
apex. Wings greyish hyaline, with black veins; subcostal cell 
and stigma w holly black ; a blackish elongate apical spot extends 
from the end of the first to the end of the third longitudinal vein ; 
third vein sinuous; submarginal cross-vein very sinuous; seventh 
longitudinal vein not sinuous at end, the anal cell shaped as usual. 
T ype 2, a single speeimen from Obuasi, Ashanti, 28. vi. 1907 
(Ors WM. Graham). 
35. Baccha ichneumonea, sp. n. 
2. Length of body 9 mm., of wing 6 mm. 
A medium-sized species, distinguished by its red and black 
spotted abdomen and by the very long ovipositor of the female. 
Not unlike a small Iehneumonid wasp of the genus Cryp/us, and 
resembling con?frons in having very small and not fr inged squamule. 
