142 £ June > 



is here set forth exactly as I found it, though here and there the 

 ealigraphy was not of the easiest to decipher, being obviously jotted 

 down with one eye still to the microscope. 



So little has ever been done in Britain upon the Proctotrypidce 

 that it is well, I think, to add a few details of capture, &c, respecting 

 the other species of this genus in Mr. Chitty's collection, which had 

 recently been determined by himself, with the aid of the various 

 papers on the subject by Kieffer, Thomson, Ashmead, and Walker. 

 Nothing could be more regrettable than the loss rendered to British 

 entomological science by his death, except that created amongst; his 

 circle of friends. — Claude Morley, Monk's Soham House, Suffolk : 

 February 25th, 1908.] 



Antjcon babbatus, sp. n. 



$ . This species at once works down to No. 7 of Kieffer's table, and has the 

 wings hyaline. The question whether it has a raised or sunk line on the head 

 before the antennae was, however, not easy of solution, and I think it very easy to 

 make a mistake in this particular. The internal branch of the pincers is very 

 indistinct ; it has no plate unless two of the hairs at the end, which are a little 

 thicker, should be so termed. It has a few hairs along its length. It is soldeied 

 throughout its length to the tarsal fifth joint. The metatarsus is as long as the 

 next three joints, the fourth being short. The head, which is rather wide with the 

 base not strongly curved or margined, is strongly coriaceous, somewhat dull and 

 with short hairs. There are indistinct, rather irregular ridges along the inner 

 margins of the eyes. Mandibles testaceous. Mesothorax shining, but finely aluta- 

 ceous, with long whitish hairs. Metathorax with a cross ridge before the declivity, 

 and another at it ; base reticulate, declivity very finely rugose. Stigma except at 

 base, and radius, brown ; the other veins pale. Legs testaceous ; base of hind 

 coxae, hind femora except at extreme base and apex, the thickness of the front and 

 middle femora below, dark brown ; hind and middle tibiae, with fifth joint of their 

 tarsi, darkened. 



S . Follow Kieffer's table of (J (J to No. 7, distinguish from A.flavinerois, as 

 described, by the scape being decidedly longer than the third joint, the mesonotum 

 being punctured in front, the stigma and radius being brown, the other nervures 

 brownish-yellow, the antennas black ; the legs testaceous, with all the coxae in part, 

 the thickened part of the front four femora below, and the hind femora except their 

 base, blackish-brown ; the four hind tibiae darker, especially behind ; apex of inter- 

 mediate tarsi and the hind tarsi also darker ; tegulse brown. 



The type of this species was beaten from birch in the Bentley 

 Woods, near Ipswich, on May 25tb, 1902, by Mr. Claude Morley, 

 who has taken a second specimen by sweeping low herbage at 

 Wimbledon on June 21st, 1897 ; he noticed that this specimen had 

 the power of feigning death, curled, like a Chrysid, in a complete 

 ball. The Rev. T. A. Marshall considered it to be Antceon brcvicornis, 



