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With us this species is certainly common enough, though I am inclined 

 to regard it as somewhat local, since it is found in marshy places both on 

 the coast and inland, but is very rarely seen in woods; unlike the majority 

 of Ichneumonidae, it is frequentl}- met with in dull weather and by sweep- 

 ing herbage after dusk. It has occurred to me, as it approximately does in 

 Belgium, from 27th June to 28th September, never appearing to extend 

 into October, and certainly commonest at the end of August, when it may 

 be picked between finger and thumb from the flowers of Angelica sylvtsttis 

 or swept from reeds; the flowers of Heradeiim and Aster tripolium on the 

 coast are also attractive to it. This refers to the females, for the males 

 are ver}- rare and 1 possess but some dozen of them to seventy of the 

 opposite sex. The males are, as far as I am aware, found exclusi\ely 

 upon the flowers of wild carrot, Angelica and Heracleum, only from the 

 end of July to that of August. This species has been several times bred 

 in England and is recorded from EupHhecia linariata (Entom. 1880, p. 68), 

 Gelechia intaininatella, Coleophora melilotella {Lc. 1881, p. 141), Tortrix 

 foniemna, Sericoris euphorbia na [I.e. 1883, p. 67), from the pupa of a 

 beetle {I.e. 1885, p. 152), and from Leueophasia sinapis (Ent. Ann. 1874, 

 p. 125). 



Bairstow says it has been captured at Acomb \\ ood, near \ ork, Mar- 

 quand in the Lands End district, Bridgman that it is common in Norfolk 

 and bred from Melanippe hastata and Eupaecilia flavieiliana, and Bignell 

 took it at Bickleigh late in June and bred it, early in August from Dian- 

 thaecia cucubali, in Devon. I have seen specimens captured at Humber 

 Bank in Lines, near Hull, by .Mason ; and at Peel by Cassal in the Isle of 

 Man, whence it is also recorded by Walker (Entom. 1873, p. 432). Proba- 

 bly most, if not all, of my records under P. gramiueUae refer to this species. 

 I possess specimens with pale stigma from (niestling, near Hastings 

 (Bloomfield); Shere (Capron); Kilmore, in Ireland and Colwyn, in Sep- 

 tember (Beaumont); Selby in Yorks (Ash); both sexes from Whiting Bay, 

 in the Isle of Arran (Waterston); Rookley Wilderness, in the Isle of Wight 

 (Morey); abundant on leaves of Popiilus tremula at (Galashiels, in Septem- 

 ber (Haggart); Bugbrook, in Xorthants i-Marshall); Delamcre Forest and 

 Carlisle (Tomlin); Botusfleming, in Cornwall (Marshall); Llandrindol, in 

 June ; Barnby Broad and Eriswell, in Suff"olk ; and Chippenham Fen, in 

 Cambs., in September (Elliott); (Greenings and Wimbledon (W. Saunders); 

 Tostock, Benacre Broad and Finborough Park, in Suftblk (Tuck); F^gryn 

 Lake, near Barmouth (W. Ellis); Wapley Hill, in Hereford (Verbury); 

 bred from some Lepidopteron at Lincoln (Musham); New Forest (iNIiss 

 Chawner); Felden, in Herts (Piffard); Cookston, Ravenscraig, Gourock 

 and both sexes at Giffnock (Dalglish). I have found it in Suffolk at 

 Barnby Broad, constantly at Foxhall and often abundantly on Angelica 

 flowers in August, Eye, Tuddenham Fen, South wold occasionally in pro- 

 fusion on reeds in salt marshes in September ; Reydon marshes, Easton 

 Broad, Freston Woods, Aldeburgh and Bentley. Elsewhere it has 

 occurred to me at (iosfield in Essex, Ringstead Downs near Hunstanton 

 and in Matley Bog, in the New Forest, where it is not imcommonly to be 

 seen gently hovering at flowers of Cnieus pahistris, on which I noted were 

 no Aphides. The form with dark stigma is \ery scarce ; I have it from 

 Surrey in Capron's collection, and have captured it on Angelica at Barnby 

 Broad, Gosfield, Foxhall, Tuddenham Fen and Matley Bog. Chapman 

 has bred two males, which I doubtfully refer to this species, at Cannes in 

 April from Luffia patiei/hnaua, in 1901. 



