BraconidfB in the British Museum. 24:3 



The type in tlie 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, 

 BruUe, as a synonym, but I am not sure that the North- 

 African form identified by Marshall as fasfidiator 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. 



Tphiaulax plm'i macula, Brulle. 



Bracon plurhnncula, Brulle, Hist. Nat. Insect. Hymen, iv. p. 429 (1846). 

 Iphicmlux coccineomaculatus, Cam. Ann. S. Afric. Mu3. v. p. 46 (1906). 



Iphiaulax perynutans, sp. n. 



5 . Fusco-riifa ; capita flavo, antennis, pedibus, terebraque nigris ; 



alia nigris, dimidio apieali flaro late bivittatis; stigmate liavo, 



apice extremo nigro. 

 Long. 13, terebra 9 mm. 



? . Front below the antennge punctured-rugulose, with a 

 small, smooth, semicircular area above the clypeus. An- 

 ttnuEe as long as the whole insect, the scape less tiian twice 

 as long as broad ; hind margin of the head widely emargi- 

 nate. Thorax smooth, the jmrapsidal 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 

 tiansverse cubital nervure; cubitus sharply bent near the 

 base. 



Hah. Nyasaland, Mlanje {S. A. JS'eave), November to 

 January. 



This is very near I. calopferus, Szep. (Sjostedt, Kilimand- 

 jaro-Meru Exp. ii. p. H3), 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. 

 Tiie two yellow bands of the fore wing are united in calo- 

 pteriis, but in some specimens of permutans the black area 

 between the yellow bands is more or less broadly interrupted. 



