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Larentia mridaria ; D. calceatus, Hal., common in tlie New Forest, 

 where it lias frequently been bred as a solitary parasite from caterpillars 

 of Thera variata and T. ohliscata in company with Apanteles pinicola ; 

 D. circumvectKS, sp. n., a solitary parasite bred from larvae of 

 Lobophora carpinata and hyj^erparasitised by Astiphrommus plagiahis 

 and Mesochorus confusus ; MicrogaMer alcearius, F., infesting Geometrid 

 larvae, a brood of 79 having been obtained from a larva of Hemerophila 

 abruptaria, as well as from Boarmia gemtnaria, B. repandata and Bumia 

 enteolata ; M. minutus, a gregarious species, bred from Cleora glabraria ; 

 M. connexus, Nees, the commonest species in the genus, large broods 

 being frequently obtained from larvae of Arctornis chrysorrhoea 

 {Porthesia similis) and Bombyx neustria, hyperparasitised by Pteromalus 

 sp. and Pezomachus agilis ; M. globatus, a gregarious species, bred 

 from Vanessa atalanta ; M. crassicornis, Ruth., a common solitary 

 parasite of the larvae of Eupithecia denotata {campanulata) ; 

 Microplitis ocelhiae, Bch., a common gsegarious parasite of Sphinx 

 (Smerinthus) ocellatus and S. populi : M. vidua; Ruth., the most 

 important parasite of Euclidia mi, which hibernates in the larval 

 state within its cocoon and is always a solitary parasite, the hyper- 

 parasite, Mesochorus jjectoralis, having been reared from its cocoons ; 

 M. rnricola, sp. n., bred as a sohtary parasite from half-grown larvae 

 of Anarfa myrtilli ; M. tristis, Nees, a very common gregarious parasite 

 of the larvae of Dianthoecia capsincola and D. cucubali, appearing 

 in broods of from 12 to 2(\ and constructing cocoons beneath the surface 

 of the ground ; M. sordipes, Nees, a solitary parasite from half-grown 

 larvae of Acronycta alni and A. 'psi ; M. spectabilis, Hal. , a brood 

 of 22 being reared from a larva of Dyschorista fissipuncta ; M. mediator, 

 Hal, gregarious in broods of from 10 to 22, reared from Noctuid 

 larvae that were probably attacked before hibernation and did not 

 die until about a fortnight after the parasitic larvae had emerged ; 

 and M. tuber culif era, Wesm., one of the commonest English species, 

 reared as a solitary parasite from young Noctuid larvae. 



Walsh (G. B.). Turnip-flea Beetles. — Entomologist, London, W, no. 661, 

 June 1918, pp. 141-142. 



The larvae of Phyllotreta undulata are reported from Jarrow-on- 

 Tyne as having occurred in the summer of 1917 in the leaf-stalks of 

 turnips ; these were hollowed for about half an inch, the roots 

 remaining untouched. P. nemorum has a more restricted range in 

 the north of Britain, being recorded as rare in the Hartlepool 

 district and having been found by the author only once in six years 

 in N. Yorkshire^ where P. undulata is very common, the same being 

 true of the Clyde district. 



Pantanelli (E.). Experiments in the Disinfection of Dwarf Beans 

 infested with Acanthoscelides obtectus and Spermophagus subfas- 

 ciatus.-^Mthly. Bull. Agric. Intell. & PI. Dis., Rome, ix, no. 5, 

 May 1918, pp. 639-640. (Abstract from Staz. sper. agrarie italiane, 

 Modena, 1, no. 11-12, pp. 591-609.). [Received 9th July 1918.] 



Dwarf beans arriving in Italy from Brazil were found to be infested 

 with Bruchus {Acanthoscelides) obtectus and, much more seriously. 



