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4. NEGATORIUS Fab. 



This is a very variable species, first described by Fabricius 

 (Entom. Syst. ii. 1798, p. 141), and the subtropical specimens I 

 have seen difter somewhat from the common European form, 

 which has not been recorded from Africn,. The female type of 

 Eristicus iridipennis Cameron (Records of the Albany Museum, 

 i. 1904, p. 142), from the Cape, exactly a.grees with the type, 

 which I have examined in the Calcutta Museum, of Pomjoilus 

 divisus Smith (2nd Yarkand Mission, Hym. 1878, p. 14; Water- 

 house, Aid to Ident. Ins. ii. 1885, pi. 169. fig. 2, $ ), from 

 Kashmir, and I have seen it also from Nepal. These I have no 

 hesitation in synonymising with ^4. negator ius var. nuhihis 

 Berthoumieu (Ann. Soc. Entom. France, 1895, p. 640); Smith's 

 name has priority for the varietal form. 



5. MACULICAUDIS Cam. 



The male type of Pseudavibly teles maculicaiulis Cameron (Ann. 

 S. Afr. Mus. v. 1906, p. 164) could be placed with equal propriety 

 in Ichneumon, s.str., or the present genus, from which Pseudam- 

 hlyteles Ashmead, difters solely in the instable chai'acter of lacking 

 apophyses. It is not a good genus and must be abandoned. The 

 type, recorded from Cape Colony, is labelled '' Kimberley." 



6. TESTACEATOR, sp. n. 



A clear testaceous and closely punctate species with only the 

 central flagellar band and all the oi-bits white, base of flagellum 

 red, its apex and the tarsal pulvilli alone black. Head posteriori}^ 

 as broad a,s eyes, with both the temples and cheeks buccate ; f rons 

 and face closely and evenly punctate ; clypeus glabrous with a 

 few large punctures, not discreted but foveate on either side 

 before its lateral margin, apically a little produced obtusely on 

 either side of centre ; mandibles bidentate, subparallel-sided, 

 apically rufescent. Antennas filiform and not apically attenuate, 

 with basal flagellar joints elongate. Thorax stout, dull and very 

 closely punctate; notauli obsolete, speculum convex and shining; 

 metanotal carinse fine and distinct; areola hexagonal, hardly 

 longer than broad, not quite extending to base and emitting 

 costulse before its centre; petiolar area discreted, centrally 

 parallel-sided and there transaciculate ; spiracles linear and 

 apophyses obsolete, obtuse. Scutelhim deplanate, glabrous, and 

 nitiduloiis with half a dozen deep punctures, latei-ally carinate 

 to its centre. Abdomen sublinear and immaculate, with anus 

 nitidulous; basal segment slender, centrally punctate, postpetiole 

 very finely aeiculate throughout with no carinse ; gastrocoeli 

 superficial and striate, their intervening space aeiculate ; venter 

 convex throughout, terebra black and hardly exserted. Legs 

 noi-mal, immaculate; hind coxpe simple. Wings silaceous-hyaline; 

 radix and tegulas testaceous, costa and nervures black, stigma 

 luteous ; areolet pentagonal and somewhat small, laterally 



