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only or.e British specimen from Galloway (Gol Brit. Isles, vol. iii, p. 246). Mr. 

 Newbery, in eonfirniing the identification, informs nie that it has occurred twice in 

 Devonshire (Knt. Mo. Mag., 1908, p. 6U). 



Among other Coleoptera recently taken in Cumberland and not hitherto 

 recorded, I may mention Bemhidium riparium, 01., from mudbanks on Rockcliffe 

 Marsh ; Jlt/drochtis brevis, Hbst., and Ochthebius pt/gmceux, F., in the tarn at Thur- 

 stonfield ; Aleochara hrecipennis, Gw, {rom OvXon ; A. ftimata, Gr., from Durdar; 

 Quedius fiih/idiis, F., Leptacbivs parumpunclatus. Gryll., Micropepius margaritse, 

 Duv., and Atomaria nigriventrin, Steph., from the ballast heaps at Sillotli ; Crypto- 

 cephalus pufiiUus, F., from birch at Orton ; and Bagous a/is-mafifi, Marsh., in pro- 

 fusion at Monkhill Lough, where the food-plant is abundant. 



In July 1907, I met with an extensive colony of Micralgmma hrevipenne, Gryll., 

 at the roots of sea lavender growing below high water mark at Anthorn, on the 

 Solway Firth, and in October, 1908, I noticed it again in the same habitat, and many 

 larvae were present. These specimens are much larger and finer I lian any others I 

 have seen, and almost look like another species. The differences, however, can only 

 be described as comparative. — F. H. Dav, 26, Currock Terrace, Carlisle : February 

 lOth, 1909. 



The parasites of Psyche pyreiueell a. — Dr. T. A. Chapman has recently given me 

 among other continental parasites, a most interesting little collection of species bred 

 by him from this moth at Gavarnie, near Luz, in the Hautes-Pyrenees, captured 

 between July 9th and 3(Jth, 1907, and bred during the following month. The old, 

 theory that each host has its particular parasite, and that each species of parasite is 

 restricted to its own host, has long been exploded, but it is certainly rare to breed 

 upon one occasion as many as eight different kinds from the same host.* There 

 emerged (1) four specimens of a J Phygadeiion, which I am unable to determine, 

 but it may be the true $ of the next species, associated upon Thomson's authority 

 with Eemiteles monozonius, Grav., in my Ichn. Brit, ii, 138 ; they are black, with 

 the anterior legs only partly and the abdomen centrally red, the petiolar spiracles 

 prominent, and areola hexagonal, though longer than broad, and well defined. 

 (2) One ? Hemiteles hemipterus. Fab., which species certainly has the facies of 

 Fhygadeuon, rather than of Hemiteles. (3) One ? Hemiteles bicolorimis, Grav., of 

 normal form. (4) Three ^ c? and two ? $ Spinolia macuh'pennis, Grav., a 

 common enemy of Psychids, as indicated at lib. cit. 115 (5) 1 <? and 2 $ ? Spilo- 

 cryptus migrator, Fab. (6) Five (J 3 and 1 $ Pimpla (Itoplectis) ovalis, Thorns. ; 

 the S of this species has but quite recently been described by Clemens Gehrs in his 

 " tjberein paar Ichneumonidenarten " (Deutsche Ent. Zeit., 1908, p. 467), where he 

 says both sexes were bred on August 16th, 1907, from Zygsena trifolii ; two of 

 Chapman's $ J emerged on 3rd and 5th of that month.f (7) One ? Homalopous 



* The protection which Psychid larva; are .supposed to derive froiu their eases, and this 

 multiple attack by parasites, illu.strates the tendency of attack and defence to proceed pari passu, 

 neither gaining a final victory. Though of course, when it does, we have httle available evidence 

 of the struggle.— T. A. C. 



t I should like to here put on record, with a view to obtaining further notes of the kind from 

 your readers, a communication which Mr. Fred. Merrifleld was so good as to send me {in Hit. 10, 

 viii, 07) : — " I wonder whether 1 can have been mistaken in what one day seemed to be a careful 

 tracking of a larva by an ichneumon fly ? I was seated in an open oak wood, when suddenly a 

 green larva scuttled from a folded leaf, and dropped lather quickly to the gi'ound ; almost im- 



