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ON TWO SPECIES OF ICHNEUMONIMJ PAEASITIC ON 

 THE CODLING MOTH IN CAPE COLONY. 



By P. Cameeon. 



(Bead June 27, 1906.) 



The two species of Ichneumonidae recorded below were sent me 

 by Mr. C. P. Lounsbury, the Cape Government Entomologist, as 

 having been reared from the destructive Codling Moth (Garpocapsa 

 pomonella, L.) 



PIMPLIN^. 



PIMPLA, Fab. 



PlMPLA HELIOPHILA, Cam. 



The $ of this species was described in the Zeits. fur Hymen, u. 

 Dipter. 1905, p. 343, from the Transvaal. Both sexes having been 

 reared from the Codling Moth, I now give a description of the ? . 



Length 8 mm. ; ovipositor nearly 2 mm. Eufous ; the antennae, 

 head, the greater part of the fourth, the whole of the following 

 abdominal segments, the sheath of the ovipositor and the greater 

 part of the legs, black ; the greater part of the anterior femora in 

 front ; their tibiae entirely in front and a broad band near the middle 

 behind ; the extreme apex of the middle femora in front, a broad 

 band shortly behind the middle of their tibiae, and a much broader 

 one on the basal half of the hinder tibiae, extending from shortly 

 behind the base to shortly beyond the middle, clear white ; the four 

 anterior tarsi rufo-testaceous ; wings clear hyaline ; the nervures and 

 stigma black ; the latter white at the base. 2 ■ 



Palpi white. The base of the four posterior coxae may be reddish, 

 as may be also the middle joints of the hinder tarsi. Front 

 punctured above, irregularly, more strongly transversely striated 



