(17) 2. — Descriptions of New Species of Parasitic Hymenoptera chiefly in the Collection of the South African Miiseitm, Cape Town. ■ — By P. Cameron. For the opportunity of describing the following species I am in-debted to Mr. L. Peringuey, the Keeper of Insects in the South African Museum. The present paper deals with the Cynipidce, Evaniidce, Stcphanida, Braconida, and the Ichneumonidce. Very little has been written on the South African species of these groups ; hence it is not surprising that the collection contains many new species and some new genera. Thanks to the labours of Tosquinet and others, the Ichneumonidce are better known. I have added the descriptions of a few species in my own collection. These are distinguished by being prefixed by an asterisk. Very few of the species are represented by more than one specimen. Fortunately most of them are females, which afford better specific characters than do the males — in, e.g., the length of the ovipositor. CYNIPID^. CYNIPIN.E. » EHOOPHILUS, Mayr. Ehoophilus loewi, Mayr. Die Genera der Gallenbewohnenden Cynipiden, 22. Cape. This species was reared from galls on BJius lucidum, L., collected at the Cape by the Naturalists of the Austrian frigate Novara. PYCNOSTIGMUSIN.E, Cam. PYCNOSTIGMUS, Cam. -Pijcnostigmus rostratus, Cam., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., July, 1905, p. 20. Described from specimens in the Cape Museum Collection. Cape Town. 2
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