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that, after obtaining ova from a female capt lived in ] 874, she, with her daughter's 

 assistance, continued to rear E. consignata until the time of her death, no fresh 

 blood being ever introduced." The accuracy of this statement having been 

 questioned by an esteemed friend, I wrote lo Miss Hutchinson, on whose authority 

 it had been made, and a long search through notes made at the time has shown that 

 her previous belief is, to her regret, not quite in accordance with (he facts, which 

 are as follows. In 1887 Mrs. Hutchinson received from Dr. J. H. Wood, of 

 Tarrington, a single larva, beaten from hawthorn, of E. consignata^ which yielded 

 a J imago in the following year : this J was paired with two ^ $ , and at least 

 13 eggs were obtained, which, however, were not kept separate from the many 

 fertile ova laid at the same time as the result of the unions of various inbred 

 moths. With this solitary exception, no fresh blood has ever been introduced, and 

 yet, in spite of this, the inbred race, dating originally from 1874, still continues to 

 flourish, and shows no signs of any deterioration ! — Eustace R Bankes, Norden, 

 Corfe Castle : November 1th, 1906. 



Apanteles forinosns, Wesm. — The late Rev. T, A, Marshall, in his Monograph 

 of the Braconldse, described a ? I bred from Tasniocampa stabills as the ? of 

 Apanteles formosus, but had his doubts about it at the time, because the cocoon 

 from which it was bred was " a lohite cocoon of the usual appearance," whereas the 

 cocoons from which I bred several c? J s were all pedunculated. Since then 

 Mr. R. C Bradley sent me both sexes of A. formosus bred from larvse of Ourapieryx 

 sambucaria: both cocoons were pedunculated, that of the $ of formosus being like 

 that of the ^ described by Marshall both in form and colour. How the foot stalk 

 (peduncle) is made is not recorded by Marshall ; he simply says : "This (the cocoon) 

 is entirely unlike anything constructed by a Braconid." The larva, after making at 

 the base a silken pad on the upper surface of the leaf, builds up the foot stalk in three 

 sections, which are so united that you cannot detect where one begins and the other 

 ends in the stem ; at the top, the cocoon is made a little on one side. It is worth 

 noting that all, so far as I have seen, have curres in the stem, which I believe are 

 caused by the weight of the larva on the newly-formed work, which at the time is 

 not sufficiently dry to carry it. Marshall says if the ? he described is not the ? of 

 formosus it may be " The unknown Ichneumon intercus, Schr. (Enum. ins. Austr., 

 764), as its description, agrees very closely with the ? of this insect." Should 

 it not be that insect, I propose the name of marshallii for it. — Gr. C. Bignell, 

 Saltash : November 2nd, 1906. 



Aculeate Hgmenoptera in the New Forest, Cornwall, Sfc. — Among my rarer 

 captures amongst the Aculeates this year in the New Forest, Cornwall, &c., the 

 following are perhaps worth recording : — 



New Forest, July. — Pompilus unicolor, P.bicolor, P.wesmaeli, Stygnus solskyi, 

 Pemphredon morio, Oxgbelus mandibularis, Nomada obtusifrons^ on the flowers of 

 bramble, Nomada roberjeotiana, visiting nests in bracken-covered sandy soil, Stelis 

 octomaculata, $ 's on Potentilla. 



At Par, Cornwall, in August. — Methoca ichneumonides, one J on wild parsnip, 

 and on the same plant Crabro saundersi^ one J . 



