34 The Irish Naturalist. March, 



netted. But others were not so simply dealt with, for 

 they would crawl about on the leaves and twigs in the 

 heart of the bush, where it was very difficult to follow 

 their course, and quite impossible to get at them with the 

 net, so I had either to wait with whatever patience I could 

 muster for them to come out into the open or else try and 

 catch them with finger and thumb, a process by no means 

 always attended with success, for no matter how careful 

 I might be I was pretty sure to shake the leaf or twig and 

 then the insect was liable to drop suddenly into the 

 impenetrable jungle at the roots of the bush. 



In September my best locality was a little patch of 

 meadow on the edge of the cliff. When the sun shone here 

 I was sure of a good bag. The Ichneumons were either fly- 

 ing at the edge of the cliff or crawling about on the herbage 

 and especially on some patches of Common Vetch, which 

 seemed peculiarly attractive to them, though for what 

 reason I could not make out, as I did not see any of them 

 sucking at the flowers, nor did I see a larva of any sort 

 for them to prey on. This place I call " cliff." 



I regret to say that the insect I recorded^ as Spilocrvptus 

 mansuetor Tschek turns out to be only a female of 

 Pycnocrypttts pevegrinator L. 



I have once more to thank Mr. Claude Morley for kind 

 help with some critical species. 



ICHNEUMONIDAE. 



ICHNEUMON IN AE. 



Cratichneumon liostylus Thorns. — Portnoo, September, — var. with clypeus 



and face black. 

 C. fabricator Fab. — Portnoo, June and September. 



var. impugnator V^^esm. — Tempo, May ; Portnoo, September. 

 Melanichneumon sanguinator Rossi. — Portnoo, September, cliff. I took 



quite a number of this pretty species. 

 Barichneumon serairufus Gr. — Portnoo, June, bog road. 

 B. albicinctus Gr. — Portnoo, June and September, both sexes in number. 

 B. lepidus Gr. — Poyntzpass, August, on hill. 



^ Irish Naturalist, xxvii., p. io6. 



