(191) 8. On some South African Ichneumonidae in fhe Collection of the South African Muse-um. By CLAUDE MOKLEY, F.E.S., F.Z.S., Menib. Soc. Entom. de Franco, etc. Part II. I HAVE much pleasure in presenting a further account of the parasitic Hymenoptera of Africa, comprising a consignment sent for determina-tion by Dr. L. Peringuey of the Cape Town Museum and including a few additional species from other sources. It is issued in continuation of the former paper by me upon the same subject, which appeared in these Annals late in 191G. All the types of the species herein described as new are, unless otherwise stated, in the South African Museum at Cape Town. The number of new descriptions is by no means surprising, when the size of the area be considered, along with the paucity of collectors. The outstanding feature of the present contribution to our knowledge of these very beneficial insects is the discovery of a new and most extraordinary Tribe allied to the Bauchides. Also, be it noted, the more we investigate these parasites in all parts of the globe the wider is discovered to be the range of individual species. For at least one kind, recorded herein, no part of the equator seems too hot, though it is also of frequent occurrence so far north as Sweden ; another occurs with equal frequency in both Queensland and Assam ; and now we find Bengalese insects of this group occurring in Natal. All these are doubtless imported in or along with their Lepidopterous and other hosts' food-plants, shipped in the ordinary course of commerce. CLASSIFIED CATALOGUE. ICHNEUMONIDAE. XAIJTHOJOPPA., Cum. ICHNEUMONINAE. lutea, Cam. inermis, sp. n. Joppides. EPIJOPPA, Mori. LEPTOPHATNUS, Cam. variabilis, Mori, ruficcps, Cam. nigricoxata, Mori, bucephalus, sp. n. AGLAOJOPPA, Cam. ISCHNOJOPPA, Kriech. rubrithorax, sp. 11. uteator, Fab. COELICHNEUMON, Thorns, visibilis, sp. u. petiolaris, sp. n. 13
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