Braconidse in the British Museum. 243 
‘The type in the Banksian collection is headless, but the 
description gives the head as red with a black mark on the 
vertex. Dalla ‘Torre is probably correct in giving coccineus, 
Brullé, as a synonym, but I am not sure that the North- 
African form identified by Marshall as fastidiator is really 
this species. Specimens in the British Museum are from the 
Gambia and Sierra Leone, from the latter of which localities 
some of the African species in the Banksian collection seem 
to have been received. | 
Iphiaulax plurimacula, Brullé. 
Bracon plurimacula, Brullé, Hist. Nat. Insect. Hymen. iv. p. 429 (1846). 
Iphiaulax coceineomaculatus, Cam. Ann. 8, Afric. Mus. y. p. 46 (1906). 
-Iphiaulax permutans, sp. n. 
Q. Fusco-rufa ; capite flavo, antennis, pedibus, terebraque nigris; 
alis nigris, dimidio apicali flavo late bivittatis; stigmate flavo, 
apice extremo nigro, 
Long. 13, terebra 9 mm, 
?. Front below the antenne punctured-rugulose, with a 
small, smooth, semicircular area above the clypeus. An- 
tenn as long as the whole insect, the scape less than twice 
as long as broad ; hind margin of the head widely emargi- 
nate. Thorax smooth, the parapsidal furrows distinct. First 
. tergite as broad at the apex as long; the elevated median 
portion longitudinally striated, with a strong median carina ; 
second tergite transverse, more than twice as broad at the 
apex as long, longitudinally striate, with three small smooth 
spaces on the anterior margin, but without a raised basal 
area. ‘Third and fourth tergites longitudinally striate-rugose, 
the anterior angles raised and smooth, the remaining tergites 
smooth. Recurrent nervure received a little before the first 
transverse cubital nervure; cubitus sharply bent near the 
base. 
Hab, Nyasaland, Mlanje (S. A. Neave), November to 
January. 
This is very near J. calopterus, Szép. (Sjistedt, Kilimand- 
jaro-Meru Exp. ii. p. 33), and will probably prove to be a 
subspecies ; but in that insect the fourth tergite is smooth 
and the sculpture of the third tergite confined to the middle. 
The two yellow bands of the fore wing are united in calo- 
_ pterus, but in some specimens of permutans the black area 
between the yellow bands is more or less broadly interrupted. 
