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\^ Some Hymenoptera Parasitica from the Highlands. — In August and December 

 last I did a little collecting on Deeside, between Banchory and Ballater, as in the 

 same months of 1909 {cf. Ent. Mo. Mag., 1910, Jan., p. 36). The two seasons were 

 very different ; this year the flowers were earlier and sooner over, there was 

 less heavy rain in those months, and there was a plague of wasps. Every head 

 of blossom was covered with them, and there was a corresponding scarcity of 

 other insects. The Ichneumonidx taken are worth recording, as so few records 

 are known from Scotland ; the predominance of males is due to the fact that 

 they were mostly taken by hand from Umhelliferse, only a small proportion 

 being taken by promiscuous sweeping. Ccelichneumon fuscipes, Gmel., ?, all 

 the previous records appear to be from London and the southern counties ; 

 Cratichneumon anmdator. Fab., S ; C. cor^iscator, L., <? , Mr. Claude Morley 

 (Ichn. Brit., i, 66) considers this to be a southern species, and not recorded north 

 of Suffolk ; Barichneumon vestigator, Wesm., <? ; Ichneumon latrator. Fab., ^ ? ; 

 I. atramentarius, Grav., ^ , rarely taken so far north ; I. extensorius, L., <J ; 

 I. confusorius, Grav., ^ ; Chasmias motatorius, F., S ; Ctenichneumon fossorius, 

 Grav., 9, first recorded (I.e.) from Scotland by me last year; Amhlyteles 

 oratorius, F., <? ; Platylabus pedatorius, F., ? ; Microcrxjptus nigrocinctus, Grav., 

 (? ; M. sperator, Miill., ^ ; Glyphicnemis profligator, F., ? ; G. erythrogastra, Grav., 

 ? (J ; Phygadeuon va.riabilis, Grav., S ; P- fumator, Grav., g ; Hemiteles fulvipes, 

 Grav., 9 ; Stilpnus gagates, Grav., 9 ; Atractodes bicolor, Grav., 9 ; ^- gilvipes, 

 Holmgr., (? , rare ; Exolytus scrutator, Hal., g , rare ; Pimpla detrita, Holmgr., 

 9 ; P. examinator. Fab., ^ ; Glypta sculpturata, Grav., 9 > not previously 

 recorded further north than Freshney Bog, Lines. ; Lissonota hellator, Grav., g ; 

 L. cylindrator, Vill., 9 c? ; -^- sulphurifera, Grav., ^ $ ; L. variabilis, Holmgr, 9 ; 

 Meniscus catenator, Panz., 9 ; Bassus biguttatus, Grav. 9 ; Bassus, sp. n., probably 

 undescribed ; * Exochus prosopius, Grav., one very small $ ; Tryphon elongator. 

 Fab., (J , I also took several 9 9 of this at Nairn in 1904 ; T. helophilus, Gr., g • 

 T. vulgaris, Holmgr., 9 ; T. brunniventris, Gi'av., $ 9 ; Cteniscus ustulatxis, 

 Holmgr., (J ; C. flavilabris, Holmgr., 9 ; C. dahlbomi, Holmgi'.,t S ; Mesoleptus 

 ruficornis, Grav., (? ; several specimens of Perilissus, Euryproctus, and Mesoleptxts 

 as yet vinidentified ; Plectiscus albipalpis, Gr&v., 9; Mesochor^is fulgurans, Cxxxt., 

 9 ; and M.\vitticollis, Holmgr., 9 • There was not anything worth noting among 

 the few Braconidm, Aculeata, and Tenthredinidse ; the latter were very scarce 

 this year, in strong contrast to the large numbers in 1909. — E. A. Elliott. 

 Hampstead: December, 1910. 



Mycetophila ornata, ? Steph., in the New Forest. — For some time I have, 

 withovit success, been trying to find the specific name of two specimens of a 

 Mycetophila taken at Lyndhixrst on April 13th, 1897, and November 4th, 1908, 

 respectively. A few days back however, quite by chance, I came across the 

 subject of this note figured and described in the Supplement to Stephens' 

 " Ilkistrations of British Entomology," and whether rightly or wrongly named, 



* This interesting insect, hitherto unknown to me, will he described in the forthcoming 

 volume (vol. iv) of my " Ichneumons of Great Britain."— Claude Morley. 



t I have just discovered that this species is synonymous with Tn/phon lineola, Stcjih. (Ulustr. 

 Mand., vii, 2oo), the type of which is a 9, still extant in tlic liritish Miisimhh Collcctinii ; 

 Holmgren's name must follow. — C. M. 



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