128 MR. CLAUDE MORLEY ON AFRICAN 



1. LUTEATOR Fab. 



Ichneumon liiteator Fabrictius, Ent. B^'st. Snp))l. 1798, p. 222; 

 Bodargus rufus Cameron, Journ. Sti-. Br. li. Abiabic Soc. xxvii. 

 1902, p. 53. 



In Africa this species is already recorded from Sierra Leone, 

 Congo, Uganda, Nyasaland, British East Africa, Grernian (olini !) 

 East Africa, Rhodesia, and Zuhdand. Additional material is 

 from Kayena in Cape Colony during October 1916 (L. Perin- 

 guey) ; the east slopes of the Aberdare Mountains at 7000 to 

 8500 feet in British East Africa at the end of February 1911 ; 

 and a male (with the vertex black and external radius remark- 

 ably straight) from Western Busoga, between Kakindu and the 

 S.E. shore of Lake Kioga at 3500 feet on 22nd of the following 

 August, in Uganda. 



Neave also took a couple of males, which I shall here merely 

 term var. unicolor, no v., though they are pretty certainly of 

 specific rank, for their coloration is testaceous with nothing but 

 flagellum (excepting the normal white band) and mandibular 

 teeth black ; further, the abdomen is a little rounded laterally, a 

 good deal less parallel-sided than the typical form, the external 

 radius is nearly straight and the areolet much narrower, nearly 

 coalescent above. These occuri^ed near Kampala on the Kampala- 

 Jinja Road, which is partly forest, during July 1913 ; and in the 

 Durru Forest, Toro, at the end of October 1911, both at 4000 

 feet, in Uganda. With them, Neave sent home a single female, 

 which may or may not belong here, for (though the radius is 

 sinuate and abdomen linear) only the mandibular teeth, part of 

 flagellum, and the anus from base of fifth segment, are black. 

 This was found on the S.E. slopes of Mount Kenya early in 

 February 1911, at fully 6000 feet, in British East Africa. 



Xanthojoppa, 

 Zcmthojoppa Cameron, Ann. Nat. Hist. vii. 1901, p. 378. 



This genus of testaceous insects was erected for the reception 

 of a single Khasiaii species, and its author added five more in 

 the same Magazine during 1903 and 1907, all from eastern 

 India. In 1906 Cameron erected another name for a South 

 African species (Anisojoppa, Ann. S. Afr. Mus. v. p. 168), which 

 differs so little that I ventured to synonymise them, when bringing 

 forward a new kind {X. inermis Morley, lib. cit. xv. p. 358) in 

 1916 from Cape Colony. I now find the genus to be well repre- 

 sented in Central Africa by numerous specimens and a dozen 

 somewhat closely allied species, which may be recognised by: — 

 Head somewhat small, not broader than thorax and never 

 buccate ; posteriorly narrower than the internally entire eyes ; 

 ocelli always, but their intervening space rarely, black ; clypeus 

 neither short nor discreted from the deplanate face, apically sub- 

 truncate ; cheeks elongate. Antenme nearly always white- banded 



