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was it merely hibernating in the heads or had it preyed upon the 

 Urophora also, as Giraud found P. arudinator to prey upon Lipara 

 lucens? Mr. Collin has also bred Bracon minutator from Trypeta 

 jacece in heads of the same plant in June, 1906 ; and I took both sexes 

 commonly at Tuddenham with the late Mr. Chitty in August of the 

 same year. 



Bracon fulvipes was common in the Isle of Wight in June, 1907 ; 

 I have also taken it ;it Southvvold in Suffolk, and Beaumont found it 

 at Plum stead. 



B. stabilis, B. exarator, B. fuscicoxis, B. auttiger, B. epitriptus, 

 B. larvicida and a <£ of B. prcetcrmissus all occurred to me with more 

 or less frequency in the Isle of Wight in June, 1907. 



B. roberti — One ? was bred at Tring in 1908 from Sesia andre- 

 niformis by the Hon. N. C. Rothschild ; this species, only known 

 from Belgium and England, has not before been bred. I am indebted 

 to Mr. Eothschild for this, the only specimen I have seen.* 



B. caudatus and B. longicaudis, Ratz. — Both these species have 

 been bred at Enfield in May, 1908, from the burrows of Hylesinus 

 fraxini The latter had not been noticed in Britain before, and is 

 brought forward as new to our fauna at Trans. Ent. Soc, 1907, p. 62. 



B. flavator, Fab. — Mr. Pool has given me three ? ? of this South 

 European species (which I also possess from Bucharest). Mr. Donis- 

 thorpe kindly sent them to me with the information that they were 

 bred from Bostrichus capucinus at the Millwall Docks, in London, in 

 the middle of July, 1908 ; it is a much larger and more handsome 

 insect than any of our indigenous species of the genus. Ratzeburg 

 says (Ich. d. Forst., i, 46) that it " lives on Cerambyccs in dry wood ;" 

 and he bred a $ of his synonymous B. flavulator from fir billets. It 

 has also been bred in France by Lichtenstein (Bull. Soc. Fr., 1873, 

 p. 22) from Hesperophanes mixtus, Fab., in dead fig trees (cf. Marsh., 

 Bracon d'Europe, i, 137). 



Monks Soham House, Suffolk : 

 November 10th, 1908. 



Additional localities for Aleochara crassiuscuia, Sahib. — Last week while 

 looking over some of Mr. J. J. Walker's Oxford captures, I detected an. example of 

 this species which was captured on his own doorstep on October 20th, 1906, and to- 



* Since writing the above, I have examined two more specimens of Bracon, bred from the 

 same host by Mr. E. A. Cockayne on June 1st, 19C8 ; they had constructed cocoods of their own 

 manufacture in tbc moth's borings. One of these is certainly referable to B. variator, Nees, 

 and the second appears to represent a form intermediate between it and B. roberti, Wesm. 

 Marshall could find no distinction between these species, but the sculpture of the second 

 segment ; and I am strongly of the opinion that the latter must sink as a mere form of B. 

 variator.— C. M. 



