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discover any plastic distinctions sufficient to justify specific rank 
(though I consider the difference in shape of the areolet and 
brachial cell to be constant), and thinks the “distribution of 
red-brown colour varies greatly, apparently according to in- 
dividual developement”; to me this variation appears very 
slight, and that of the hind tibial colour even less so. The 
synonymy of the whole genus is repeated in the same critic’s 
“‘ Zweihundert alte Hymenopteren”’ (Berl. Ent. Zeit. 1912, 
p. 68), where O. violator, Thunb., alone is allowed to stand, 
though far antedated by O. objurgator, Fab., as I pointed out in 
1909. 
TABLE OF SPECIES. 
(8). 1. Wings, basal abdominal segment and part of thorax black. 
(3). 2. Areolet externally subrectangular above ; bra- 
chial cell apically less explanate; anus pale; 
flagellar pale band usually six-jointed . 1. violator, Thunb. 
(2). 3. Areolet externally rounded above; brachial 
cell apically strongly explanate; anus black; 
flagellar pale band usually four-jointed. 
4. Propleurz and temples utterly glabrous; hind 
tibize white only to their centre . . 2. objurgator, Fab. 
5. Propleurz striate and temples pilose; central 
hind tibial flavous band extending far beyond centre. 
6. Hind tibial black band longer than calearia: 
length 27 mm. : k 3 ; . 3. gigas, Kriech. 
(6). 7. Hind tibial black band not longer; length 
21 mm. . . 4. ruficeps, Cam. 
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(1). 8. Wings brown, basal abdominal segment and 
nearly whole thorax red. 
(10). 9. Wings basally paler; flagellum and hind legs 
red and not pale banded . O. pulcherrimus, Kirby. 
(9). 10. Wings unicolorous; flagellum and hind legs 
black, pale banded ; : 2 . 8. flavipes, Brullé. 
1. OSPRHYNCHOTUS VIOLATOR, Thunb. 
Ichneumon violator, Thunb. Mem. Acad. Sc. Petersb. ix. 1824, 
p- 803; cf. Roman, Zool. Bidr. Uppsala, i. 1912, p. 288. 
Osprhynchotus capensis, Spin. Mag. Zool. xi. 1841, p. 75, 
male, female. Distantella trinotata, Sauss. Nat. Trans- 
vaal, 1892, p. 280, female. 
Maximilien Spinola beautifully figures (loc. cit. pl. Ixxv.) 
both sexes with details of the head and of the male abdomen, 
which latter is not apically pale; he regarded the genus as a 
‘‘ Sous-famille des Ophionides”’ and derived his generic name 
from the rostriform mouth; only three examples of both sexes 
were known to him, from the Cape of Good Hope. I have 
examined what Mr. W. L. Distant assures me is the type 
specimen of Saussure’s elaborately described genus Distantella, 
and find it to be entirely synonymous with O. capensis, Spin. 
