ON AFRICAN ICHNEUMONIN^ IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 117 



11. On some Equatorial and other Species and Genera o£ 

 African Ichneumoninse contained in the Collection 

 of the British Museum. By Claude Morley, F.E.S., 

 F.Z.S., &c., Framlinghara, England. 



[Received April 11, 1919 : Read June 17, 1919.] 



Only a small part of the very numerous specimens now lying 

 idle and neglected in our National Museum is here treated of 

 — in fact, only species referable to the first (Ichneumoninse) 

 of the five known Subfamilies of Ichneumonidse have been 

 touched upon, and of that Subfamily no more probably than a 

 tithe. One of the interesting points of the present paper is the 

 discovery in Equatorial Africa of genera, though no new species 

 known hitherto only from Asia ; and this goes to strengthen a 

 possible former connection of the two faunas, by way of the 

 Chagos Archipelago and the Seychelle Islands, suggested by me 

 (Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. 2, 1912, p. 170). But, although identical 

 species are captui-ed at Lyndhurst and Simla, none of the African 

 ones to the south of the Sahai^a — except such stragglers as Bassus 

 Icetatorius — appear to be quite the same as upon the northern 

 coasts of the Mediteri'anean ; indeed, a few forms, e. g., the 

 genera Magwenga and Skiapus, are exclusively Ethiopian, while 

 the lai^ger Xoridides and Cryptides are among the finest and 

 most beautiful in the world. All, or nearly all, the insects of 

 the present paper are contained in the material collected by 

 S. A. Neave in East Central Africa during recent years ; 

 wherever there is reference to other ertomologists their names 

 are inserted in full. 



Classified Catalogue 

 of Species and Genera herein described. 



Xanthojoppa Cam. 



1. lutea Cam. 



2. debilitor, sp. n. 



3. rotundator, sp. n. 



4. truncator, sp. n. 



5. iuermis Mori. 



6. explanator, sp. n. 



7. gracilator, sp. n. 



8. striatov, sp. n. 



9. bipapillatov, sp. ii. 



10. collifer, sp. n. 



11. cothurnator, sp. n. 



12. geminator, sp. n. 



13. areolator, sp. u. 



HoPLiSMENUS Orav. 



1. fulvatoVj sp. n. 



2. cibdelus Tosq. 



CORTMBICHJTEUMON", g. n. 



1. cai'inifer, sp. n. 



ICHNEUMONID^. 



Ichneumon IN ^. 

 Joppides. 

 Epijoppa Mori. 



1. verecunda Tosq. 



2. fiimosa Mori. 



3. pygidifer, sp. n. 



4. dimidiata Mori. 



5. corrugata Tosq. 



6. eucoelea Mori. 



7. carinifer, sp. n. 



8. triangulifer, sp. ii. 



9. variabilis Mori. 



10. pilosa Cam. 



11. striatif rons, sp. n. 



12. rubricata Mori. 



Trogus Fanz. 

 1. gryps, sp. n. 



Catadelphus Wesm. 



1. anceyi Berth. 



2. nigrocj'aneus Tosq. 



3. rubricaput, sp. n. 



Erttheojoppa Cam. 



1. rufipedalis, sp. n. 



2. nigripedalis, sp. n. 



Leptophatnus Cam. 

 1. riificeps Cam. 



Ctenochares Forst. 



1. blandita Tosq. 



2. testacea SzSpl. 



3. microcephala, sp. n. 



4. gracileutor, sp. n. 



IscHNOjoppA Kriech. 

 1. luteator Fab. 



