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notauli, extending to scutellar fovea; sublinear and strongly 

 white-pilose basal segment ; large and black genital vah'ulse; and 

 in having the hind tarsi white, with only the metatarsal base 

 and very small claws black. Length, 15-17 mm. c? §. — The 

 typical female was taken at Masaka in Uganda early in 

 November 1913 (C. C. Goivcley). Ootypes a,re from the Tero 

 Forest of Uganda in July 1912, along with a couple of males; 

 another male at Mwera, near Entebbe, on 26th of the next month 

 {Gowdey). In the middle of August 1911, on the Siroko River 

 at the west foot of Mount Elgon at an altitude of 3600 feet, also 

 in Uganda. 



Stenichneumon. 



Vail Bargst has recorded three European species of this 

 Thomsonian genus from northern Africa, and Cameron has 

 attributed to it, with a query, another species from the south of 

 the Continent (Records Albany Mus. i. 1905, p. 229). It would 

 appear uncommon here, and I have seen but one species : — 



1, OCURACEATOR, Sp. 11. 



An extremely dull, pale ochraceous male with indefinite black 

 markings, and the hind legs dai'k-lined with white tarsi. Head 

 strongly transverse and abruptly declivous immediately behind 

 eyes ; occiput and centre of frons nigrescent ; face superficially 

 and clypeus very sparsely punctate, the latter not discreted and 

 apically truncate. Flagellum black, with joints 14 to 24 white; 

 reliqufe absent. Thorax dull and alutaceous, higher than broad ; 

 metanotum and mesonotum with basal marks, scutellar caiinse 

 and the postscutellum, indefinitely nigrescent ; ai'eola obsolete, 

 obliquely and irregularly striate, subhexagonal, emitting obsolete 

 costulse ; petiolar area shagreened, with no carinae ; spiracles 

 elongate, apophyses absent. Scutellum deplanate and punctate, 

 apically truncate, with an elevated carina throughout its margin. 

 Abdomen indefinitely black with apices of the segments narrowly, 

 valvular and venter, pale. Legs elongate ; hind ones with base 

 of tarsi, inner side of tibiae and a discal line on femora, sub- 

 Tiigreseent ; remainder of hind tarsi white. Wings hyaline ; 

 teguhe and radix pale, stigma and nervures black ; areolet small 

 and pentagonal, emitting the strongly sinuate recurrent before its 

 centre ; nervelet wanting ; basal nei^vure continuous through 

 the median. Length, 11 mm. S only. — Captured in Lagos, 

 Western Nigeria, on 13tli February, 1911, by W. A. Lamborn. 



Cratichneumon. 



No species of this Thomsonian genus have yet been reported 

 from Africa, apart from such as may be included in the main 

 genus Ichneumon, by Tosquinet, &c. I consider the following is 

 sutiiciently typical to be placed here, though several of its features 

 are abnormal. 



