46 - Mr. G. Meade-Waldo on 



ICARIA, Sauss. 



In the ' Genera Insectorum ' (family Vespidse) Dalla Torre 

 has given names to the sections of Saussure (Stettin, ent. 

 Zeit. vol. xiii. pp. 133 et seg., 18G2). In my paper on the 

 Iljnnenoptera collected by the British Ornithologists' Union's 

 Expedition to Dutch New Guinea (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 (8) vol. ix. p. 4-46, 1912) some new species of Icaria were 

 described to which subgeneric names were applied. It is 

 necessary for me to designate types for these subgenera, as 

 they must now be considered. In each case the first species 

 mentioned by Saussure in his sections has been selected. 



Subgenus Icari'astrum, D. T. (Section I., Sauss.). Type : 

 Icaria opulenta, Smith. 



Subgenus Icarielia, D. T. (Section II., Sauss.). Type: 

 lea ria jia vopicta, S m i th . 



Subgenus Icariola, D. T. (Section III., Sauss.). Type : 

 Icaria gregaria, Sauss. 



Stnagris, Latr. 



Synagris cornuta, L., var. ugandoe, var. nov. 



cJ . 8. cornutce similis, sed differt segmento secundo dorsali fascia 

 flava oruato. 



This fine insect, evidently an East-African variety of 

 S. cornuta, is rendered most conspicuous by the broad pale 

 yellow fascia at tlie base of the second abdominal tergite. 

 The typical form of S. cornida is subject to considerable 

 variation in colour, some specimens being much more rufous 

 than others ; the East-African variety iias the whole meso- 

 notum black, and the first abdominal segment is rufous at the 

 extreme base (Saussure's var. A) or else entirely black. 



The horns on the mandibles of the type are well developed. 



Length (to apex of second abdominal segment) 28 ram. 



2 (?c?,2 ? ?. 



Uganda: Entebbe {Oowdey), 18. viii. 1911 (type), ^ -, 

 banks of Nile, near Kakindu, 3400 feet, Aug. 1911, ^ (man- 

 dibular horns rudimentary) ; Upper Buddu, W. of Victoria 

 Nyanza, Sept. 1911, ? . British East Africa : Ilala, 

 Maramas District, 14 miles east of Mumias, 4500 feet, June 

 1911, ? {8. A. Neave). Presented by the Entomological 

 Kesearch Committee. 



The female is similar, differing only in the usual sexual 

 characters. 



