212 Llcut.-C^oloncl C. T. Bingham on 



Genus GORYTES, Latr. 

 Gorytes natalensis, Smith. 



Gon/fcs nafaJctisis, Smith, Cat. Ilvm. B. M. iv. (I80G) p. 305, $, pi. xi. 



W'lX. ;5; Ilandl. Sitzber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, xcvii. (1888) p. 51o, $. 

 Lcstipliorus (ifricarms, Radosk. Jorn. Acad. Sc. math. Lisb. viii. (1881) 



p.L'07, 2- 



One female, Durban {A. Ross). 



Genus Nysson, Latr. 

 Nysson ahdominah's, Guer. 



Nysson (Paranysson) abdo?mnalis, Gu^r. Icon. Regn. anim. vii. (1845) 



p. 441. 

 Ni/sson ahclominalis, Gerst. Abh. Naturf. Ges. Ilalle, x. (1866) p. 122 j 



'llandl. Sitzber. Akad. Witis. Wien, xcv. (1887) p. 318. 



Five females and four males, Pretoria {Distant). 



Genus Philanthus, Fabr. 

 Philanthus triangulum, Fabr., var. diadema, Fabr. 



Crah-o diadema, Fabr. Spec. Ins. i. (1781) p. 471. 



rhilanilius diadema, Fabr. Skrivt. natiirh. Selsk. Copenhagen, i. pt. i. 



(1790) lip. 27 & 225; id. £nt. Svst. ii. (1793) p. 289 ; Latr. Geu. 



Cru.st. et Ins. iv. (1809) p. 95; Dhlb. Hym. Eur. i. (1845) p. 496 ; 



Smith, Cat. Hym. B. M. iv. (1856) p. 471. 

 Fhilanthvs trianyuhim, var. diadema,, Girard, Traite El^m. d'Ent. ii. 



1879, p. 928 ; Grib. Mem. Ins. Bolog. (5) iv. (1895) p. 129. 



Five females, three males, Pretoria (Distant) ; Durban 

 (Boss) ; Brak Kloof, Cape Colony {Mrs. White) ; Fort John- 

 ston, Nyasaland {Rendall). 



Philanthus innominatus, sp. n, 



? . Mandibles black, punctured, shining red in the middle, 

 with a yellow spot at base above ; clypeus, the sides of tlie 

 face, a crescentic maik between the base of the antennae, a 

 s] ot on the back of the scape at apex, and a spot on the 

 cheeks behind the eyes lemon-yellow, the rest of the head and 

 of the antennae black ; eyes reaching the base of the man- 

 dibles, the inner orbits emarginate above the base of the 

 antennse ; clypeus, sides of the face below the base of the 

 antenna, and the cheeks behind the eyes smooth, very 

 sparsely punctured, the rest of the head densely and somewhat 

 coarsely punctured and opaque. Thorax black, a line inter- 

 rupted in the middle on tlie pronotum, the anterior half of 

 the tegulffi, a large spot on the flanks beneath the base of the 

 wings, and an elongate lunate spot on the postscutoUuni 



