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thirty wireworms parasitised by an ichneumon (possibly a Proctotrupid) 

 and Mr Fryer, as noted by Ford, has obtained Proctotrupids from 

 Agriotes larvae. 



In June, 1916, there emerged eleven larvae of a Proctotrupid from 

 a larval Athous haemorrhoidalis taken at Windermere in the preceding 

 April. A few days later the larvae were found to have pupated with 

 their heads distal to the body of the host and the eyes showing dark 



Fig. 2. Agriotp.-i sobrinus, Kies. : ovum. Magn. x 75 approx. 



Fig. 3. Agriotes sjnitator, L. : ovum. Magn. x 75 approx. 



Fig. 4. Agriotes obscurus, L. : ovum. Magn. x 75 approx. 



Fig. 5. Athous haernorrhoidnlis, F. : ovum. Magn. x 75 approx. 



through the creamy white integument. At this stage they resembled 

 the figure given by Sharp (2i) of pupal Proctotrupids, parasitic on an 

 unknown beetle larva. On July 9th nine imagines emerged, one larva 

 having been killed and one pupa having died without emerging. Five 

 of the imagines were submitted to Mr James Waterston, of the Imperial 

 Bureau of Entomology, who, with Dr R. C. L. Perkins, examined them 

 and reported that all were females of a species of the genus Phaeno- 

 serphus (KiefE., 1908), probably P.fuscipes (Haliday, 1839). To these 



