A MONOGRAPH OF THE GENUS OSPRHYNCHOTUS. 25 
This genus has since been employed by both Cameron* and 
Schmiedeknecht, with the erroneous characters ascribed to it 
by Ashmead (Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus. 1900, p. 41), for very 
different insects, whose position is consequently untenable. 
Though Saussure records only a single female from Pretoria, 
there is a long series of (presumably) cotypes from that locality 
in Distant’s collection, now in Mus. Brit.; the former was at a 
loss where to place the genus and adds, “ Je ne crois pas pouvoir 
le placer, ailleurs que dans la tribe des Cryptiens.”’ ‘There area 
score of females in Mus. Brit. found by Dr. Smith in 1844 in 
South Africa, in 1852 in West Africa, in 1859 at Knysna in 
South Africa, later at Sterkfontein, &c., in the Transvaal, 
Queenstown in Cape Colony, and in March, 1900, at Slievyra, 
in Natal. I have also seen it from Bonnefoi, in the Transvaal, 
in the Deutsches Entomologisches Museum of Berlin. 
2. OSPRHYNCHOTUS OBJURGATOR, Fab. 
Ichneumon objurgator, Fab. 8. I. 1781, p. 426; Cryptus objur- 
gator, Fab. Piez. 1804, p.79, female. Osprynchotus heros, 
Schlet. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1891, p. 33, female; Tosq. 
l. c. 1896, p. 248, male, female. 
This species is described :—Head and thorax dull red and 
punctate; male face white; antenne black, white-banded; 
abdomen black, smooth and shining, apically compressed; legs 
black, the front ones dull red with tibiz dull stramineous, the 
hind tibiz and sometimes their tarsi pure white-banded ; wings 
infuscate-violaceous ; length, male 20 mm. and female 28 mm. 
All this, as I have already pointed out (Entom. 1909, p. 135), 
exactly agrees with the type of Fabricius’s species, which is still 
preserved in the Banksian Cabinet in the British Museum. This 
species is extremely constant in the coloration of its hind tibie, 
and the score in Mus. Brit. all have pure white hind tibial bands, 
extending only to the centre, in both sexes. Schletterer’s female 
was from the equator in the Congo, Fabricius’s from ‘‘ Africa 
equinoctiali”; Tosquinet gives it a range through Togoland, 
the Cameroons and Senegal, to Sierra Leone; and it appears 
pretty constant to that latitude, for I have seen examples only 
* Distantella pilosella, Cameron (Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1909, 
p. 729) is a true Cryptws, sensu Thoms., male. Of Cameron’s other Indian 
species of Cryptus, C. luculentus (Entom. 1905, p. 85) = tarsolewcus, Schr. ; 
C. himalayensis (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1904, p. 106) = Hedycryptus—not a good 
genus—filicornis, Cam. (Zeits. Hym.-Dip. 1903, p. 299); C. orientalis 
(Manch. Mem. 1897, p. 16) = obscurus, Grav. ; C.nurset (J. Bomb. N. Hist. 
Soc. 1906, p. 285) = insidiator, Smith; Bwathra—not a good genus—ru/i- 
ventris (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1903, p. 284) must be included and is probably hardly 
distinct from apparitortus, Vill.; nor is C. bibulws (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1904, 
p- 106) from C. albatorius, Vill. Cryptus indicus, Cam. (Manch. Mem. 
1897, p. 15) = Mesoleptus annulipes, Cam. (lib. cit. 1900, p. 103) = Syzeuctus 
annulipes, Morley, Fauna of India, Ichn. 1913, p. 286.—C. M. 
