262 Mr. W. F. Kirby on 



Subfamily Conocefsalinjb. 



Pseudorhynchus sicarius. 

 Pseudoi-hynchus sicarius, Serville, Hist. Nat. Ins., Orth. p. 310 (1839). 

 One specimen. 



Subfamily Mecofobin^. 



Macroscirtes hanguroo. 



Macroscirtes Tcanqiiroo, Pictet, M^m. Soc. Geneve, xxx. (6) p. 14, 

 pi. iii. fig. 38 (1888). 



One specimen of this curious long-legged insect. 

 Family Locustidse. 



PCECILOCERA, Serv. 



A single immature specimen probably belonging to this 

 genus. 



Cyrtacanthacris ruficornis. 



Gryllus ruficornis, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. p. 54. n. 28 (1793), 



One of the great migratory locusts of Africa. The descrip- 

 tion of Fabricius seems to have been taken from an unusually 

 dark specimen. 



Order HYMENOPTERA. 



Section TEREBRANTIA. 



Subsection Entomophaga. 



Family Braconidae. 



Bracon plumosus, sp. n. (PI. XII. fig. 3.) 



Long. corp. 11 millim. ; long. ovip. 10 millim. 



Female. — Head, antennas, and abdomen (including the 

 petiole) black above ; head beneath and mouth-parts fulvous ; 

 mandibles bidentate and tipped with black ; thorax wholly 

 rufous. Front legs : coxae and base of femora rufous, the 

 rest wanting ; middle legs rufous, tarsi and tibiae above 



of spines on the four front tibife, and eight or nine rows of spines (not all 

 paired) on the hind tibiae. The female differs in having five pairs of 

 spines on the hind femora, but the legs are otherwise spined nearly as in 

 the male. 



Described from a single pair ( c? and 2 ) from the Cameroons. 



