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This very distinct species, the only Cryptid yet found here, is certainly related to 

 a remarkable degree with H. cingulator Grav. [cf. Mori., Ichn. Brit. ii. 134), but differs, 

 beyond its profuse colouration, in many salient structural characters. According to 

 Schmiedeknecht's table of palaearctic species, it is most closely allied to H. subannulatus, 

 Bridg. (Term. Fliz. 1897, p. 128). 



Twelve males and nine females were taken in Silhouette (low coconut-planted 

 country near the coast at Pointe Etienne, 17th Sept. 1908, etc.; Mare aux Cochons 

 mai'shy plateau and adjacent jungle, Aug. and Sept. 1908); and Praslin (Cotes d'Or 

 Estate, end of Nov. 1908). 



Subfamily Pimplinse. 

 EcHTHROMORPHA Holmgren, Eugen. Resa : Insect. (1868) 406. 



2. EchtJiromorphci variegata (BruU^). 



Pimpla variegata Brulle, Hist. Nat. Ins. iv. 91, ?. Polyamma continuum Kriechb., 

 Berl. Ent. Zeit. xxxix. 1894, p. 304, $. E. continua Krieg., Sitz. Nat. Ges. Leipzig, 1899, 

 p. 57, $. Echthromorpha rufo-maculata Cam., Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, ZooL, xii. 1907, 

 p. 79, ^?. E. variegata Krieg., Mitt. ZooL Mus. Berlin, 1909, p. 316, ^?. 



This species has not been taken in the Seychelles Islands since it was brought 

 forward under a new name by Cameron, upon the strength of a single pair, found by 

 Prof. J. Stanley Gardiner on Coetivy, which was not visited by the later expedition. The 

 fem.ale is entirely typical, but the male is paler than specimens I have seen from Nubia 

 and India. It occurs throughout tropical Africa and, though not so stated by Krieger, is 

 a common species in southern India. 



3. Echthromorpha notulatoria (Fabr.). 



Cryptus notuJatorius Fabr., Piez. 77, ?. Ichneumon notulatorius Thunb., M^m. 

 Acad. Petersb. 1822, p. 279, 1822, p. 362; Trentep., Isis, 1829, p. 849, ?. Pimpla 

 continua Brulle, Hist. Nat. Ins. iv. 92; VolL, Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1879, p. 149, ?. 

 ClirysopimpJa ornatipes Cam., Mem. Manchester Soc. 1899, p. 186; cf. Spolia Zeylanica, 

 1905, p. 135, ,?$. Echthromorpha Iceva Cam., Journ. Str. Br. R. Asiatic Soc. 1903, 

 p. 135, $. E. latibalteata Cam., Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Zool., xii. 1907, p. 81, $. 



It had struck me as strange, when writing my Fauna of India, that no one should 

 have noticed Chrysopimpla ornatipes before 1899; I am, consequently, delighted to find 

 that my friend Dr Krieger has been enabled to synonymise it with the above Fabrician 

 insect from Madras {cf. Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 1909, p. 311). 



Chagos : our claim to it in these Islands lies in the single typical male (described as 

 new by Cameron), captured on 25th June, 1905, on Peros Banhos Atoll. In India it is 

 a common species extending from Ceylon to Assam; and, in the form E. Iceva Cam., which 

 I consider distinct, or Krieger's var. insulana, it is found throughout the Malay Archipelago 

 to Batjan or Batchian, in the Moluccas. 



