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[Murc-li, 



metathoraeic carinae, and lack of siil3>tignial infumescence on the wing?. 

 This is an intei'&sting addition, because tlie species does not appear to 

 have heen noticed since first described from Lund ; and the d is still 

 unknown. In our Catalogue it is No. 445 a. 



4. Cryptiis aJbatorius Vill. 



Vill. (Ichn. Brit, ii, p. 311), var. tituhator Thunb. 



Var. sjn. : — Ichneumon tituhator Thunberg, Mem. Acad. Sc. Petei-s- 

 bourg, viii, 1S22, p. 270, $ ; lib. c/t. ix, 1824, p. 336, 2 . I. armalor 

 Thunl)., I.e. 1822, p. 204, $ ; I.e. 1824, p. 314, $ (nee Fab.). Cn/ptns 

 infiimatus Thoms., Opusc. Ent. v, 1873, p. 481, 6 2 (nee C. dijficilis 

 Tschek.) ; Voll., Pinac. 1875, pi. 6, fig. 7, $ ; Holmgr., Ent. Tidskr. vii, 

 1886, p. 23; Thorns., I.e. xxi, p. 2352, S $; Schm., Opusc. Ichn. vi, 

 1904, p. 457. C. aIhafor/HS,\a,Y. infumata Roman, Nat. Unt. Sai-ek. iv, 

 3, 1909, p. 265. 6 $ ; Ent. Tidskr. xxxi, 1910, p. 155. C. titnhator 

 liom., Zool. Bidr. fr. Uppsala, i, 1912, pp. 233 and 283, $ $ . 



For the type form, which extends " Eiu'opa fere toto ; Britannia ; 

 Africa bor.," Villers's name of 1789 stands; titKhntorThnnh. is a small 

 race, not uncommon with us as it is in Denmark, Sweden, Lapland, and 

 Northern Fi-ance. 



5. Meso1eii(s vstiilatus Desv. 



Desv. (Ichn. Brit, iv, p. 141). 



Hitherto this species has rested upon tlie unique $ in the British 

 Museum. I Avas delighted to discover its J hi a box of Hymenoptera 

 recently sent me hj Prof. J. W. Carr for determination. From my 

 description, /. c, the S differs in having the mouth, chqjeus, whole face, 

 antennae except above, radices, radical callosities, tegulae, and whole legs 

 flavous ; the claws are ver}' large and not strongly curved ; and the 

 antennae peculiarh^ elongate (12 mm. in length to the 11 of the body), 

 stout and filiform to the sixth subapical joint, which is excised and 

 reflexed in a remarkable manner. It was taken at Martin Beck, near 

 Bawtry, in Notts, on June 19th, 1920, unfortunately b}' general sweeping, 

 and is in the JNottingiiam University Museum. 



6. Stenomacrus reptilis Marshall. 



Orthocentriis reptilis Marsh., Ent. Mo. Mag. xiii, 1877, p. 242, $ . 



Not noticed in literature since two mutilated $ $ w^ere first brought 

 forward ircm Loom Bay, m Spitsbergen, found on Julj^ 31st, 1873. 



On September 19th, 1920, I was so fortunate as to turn up a third 



