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Mr. W. F. Kiiby on 



Subfamily Conocjepsalinm. 



Pseudorhynchus sicarias. 

 Pseudorhynchus sicarius, Serville, Hist. Nat. Ins., Orth. p. 310 (1839). 

 One specimen. 



Subfamily 3Iecopodixje. 



Maci'oscirtes hanguroo. 



Macroscirtes kanquroo, Pictet, M(5m. Soc. Geneve, xxx. (6) p. 14, 

 pi. iii. fig. 38 (1888). 



One specimen of this curious long-legged insect. 



Family Locustidae. 



P(ECILOCEEA, Serv. 



A single immature specimen probably belonging to this 

 genus. 



Cyrtaca n thacris ruficornis. 

 Gryllus rtificornis, 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 phimosus, sp. n. (PI. XII. ^g. 3.) 



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



Female. — Head, antenna3, and abdomen (including the 

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

 mandibles bidentate and tipped with black ; thorax wholly 

 rufous. Front legs : coxte and base of femora rufous, tlie 

 rest wantinor ; middle legs rufous, tarsi and tibise above 



of spines on the four front tibiae, 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 ( cT and $ ) from the Cameroons. 



