NEW GENUS OF HEMITELINI FKOM CAPE COLONY. 249 



I did not go high enough above the torrents which feed the 

 lovely lake, and beside which lycidas had been observed and 

 captured. But I turned up some interesting species all the 

 same — Pieris callidice, larger and more vividly marked with 

 green on the under side than Stelvio and Swiss specimens in my 

 collection ; L. eros ; and some fine M. dictynna, darker and 

 more intensely banded than any yet encountered. Unfortuuately 

 the next two days were wet, and on August 1st I was due in 

 Biarritz. 



(To be continued.) 



A NEW GENUS OF HEMITELINI (ICHNEUMONID.E) 

 FEOM CAPE COLONY. 



By p. Cameron. 



I HAVE had for some time under observation an ichneumon 

 whose systematic position was not at all clear to me. The recent 

 examination of some fresh material has enabled me to refer it 

 to a new genus of Hemitelini, allied to Lienella, Cam. It is 

 readily known from all Ichneumonidse by there being only three 

 abdominal segments, and by the last being stoutly spined 

 laterally. The form of the abdomen reminds one of the Braconid 

 genus Spinaria. The Hemitelini without an areolet (as in the 

 present genus and in Lienella) appear to be well represented in 

 Cape Colony. 



Acanthoprymnus, gen. nov. 



Abdomen with three segments of equal size, the apex of the last 

 transverse, the sides ending in a sharp spine ; the first segment broad 

 at the base, half the width of the apex ; there are two stout keels 

 down the centre. Wings without an areolet ; the recurrent nervure 

 is received distinctly beyond the transverse cubital ; the transverse 

 median received shortly beyond the transverse basal. Transverse basal 

 nervure in hind wings broken distinctly below the middle. Median 

 segment short, areolated, the areola large, 6-angled, obliquely narrowed 

 towards the base, the apex transverse ; there are two large areae on 

 either side of it ; the apex is bordered by a stout keel. The whole 

 segment is stoutly striated ; its spiracles are small, oval — its base is 

 deeply depressed. Scutellum keeled at the base. Parapsidal and 

 pleural furrows deep. There is a distinct malar space. Hinder ocelli 

 separated from the eyes by about the same distance as they are from 

 each other. Occiput margined. The clypeus is not separated from 

 the face; there is a distinct fovea on either side of it ; its apex trans- 

 verse. Mandibles with a minute subapical tooth. There is a broad 

 curved transverse furrow on the middle of the second, and a narrower 

 one on the third. Wings uniformly fuscous. Discoidal cellule closed 

 at apex. The antennfe unfortunately are broken ofi'. 



