Pimpla.] BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 95 



I possess specimens bred at Ipswich on ist April, 1893, from a pupa of 

 Taeniocampa sp.\i\ myself; at High Wycombe in Bucks., on 6th April, 

 1 90 1, from Ainphyddsis btiidaria by Peachell ; at Worcester from 

 Cymatophora octtlaris, by South ; at Hackney marshes from Siilpnotia 

 salicis by Image ; from i'Orgyn? antiqua at Finsbury Park, in August, b)- 

 Janson ; at Ashby near Doncaster from Dicranuni funula, by Cassal ; at 

 Rochester in the middle of June, from CucuUia -■erbasci, by Ash ; and 

 from Srucniilhtis popiilt Sit Leeds on 27th May, 1873, by Eagle Clarke. I 

 have seen others bred at Oxford in July, from Bomhyx neustria by Hamm; 

 in Scotland in April, from Acronycta myricae by Major A. Ficklin ; at 

 Selby in Yorks on 15th May from Odontopera hidaitata by Rev. C. D. Ash; 

 and it is doubtfully recorded from Noctua iiiipia by Jenyns in the Vict. 

 Hist. Cambs. I possess specimens taken at Knowle (Ellis), Birmingham 

 (Bradley), Ipswich (Morley), Deal (Donisthorpe), Suffolk (Dr. Garneys), 

 Tuddenham Fen (Sparke), South Leverton, Nottingham and Belton near 

 Grantham (Thornlev), P21y and Brockenhurst (Cross), Redland near 

 Bristol in ]\Iav, June, July, August and September, together with males of 

 the var. iniermedia both there and at Lynmouth in July (Charbonnier), 

 Avington ; Worthing (W. Saunders), Rossbeigh in Co. Kerr}^ (Donis- 

 thorpe), Woolwich (Bedwell), Lyndhurst in ]May, June, July and August 

 (Adams), New Forest (Miss Chawner and Gibbs), flying along a paddock 

 hedge at Newport, I.W. at the end of June (Morley), Hastings (Esam 

 and Butterfield), Shere in Surrey (Capron), Feldon, together with both 

 sexes of the var. intermedia (Piffard), Tostock and Bury St. Edmunds 

 (Tuck), Pannal near Harrogate (Roebuck) ; and Bedwell has given me a 

 female which he took at Westerham, on 4th Jxme, 1900, "sitting on a 

 post full of Callidiitm alni'" [ef. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1907, p. 25). 



I have seen others from Littlehampton (Elliott), Alderney (Luff), Sutton 

 near Bimiingham (liradley), Arnold near Nottingham (Carr), Shotover 

 and Cowley marsh near Oxford (Hamm), Nottington near Weymouth 

 (Richardson), Newton Abbot in North Devon (Hamm), Battle in Sussex 

 and Wymondley in Herts. (Butler), Ripley (Morice), St. Ives in Corn- 

 wall (S. Edwards), Selsley, Handsworth and bred in July from a pupa 

 beneath willow bark at Kenilworth (Martineau), Hucknall near Notting- 

 ham (Carr), Kings Lynn (Atmore) and Barton-on-Humber (Mason). It 

 is recorded as common at Ely, Swaffham Bulbeck and bred at Anglesey 

 Abbey by Jenyns; from Lastingham and Huddersficld in Yorks by 

 Marshall and Bairstow ; as common in Norfolk by Bridgman ; very 

 common in Devon by Bignell ; from the Lands End by Marquand ; and 

 from Glanvilles Wootton by Dale. It is bred, I believe invariably from 

 chrysalids, from early April to the end of October; but on the wing the 

 earliest date is 30th April, 1901, when Cross took it at Ely and the latest 

 the 30th Septi-mber, when Elliott found it on a house-window of Holland 

 Park, in London, in 1902. (iiraud saw a large female oviposit in a 

 chrysalis of Buinlyx dispar, and twenty days afterwards a female, as large 

 as its parent, emerged from it (WtIi. z.-b. Gcs. 1863, p. 1292). 



27. aethiops, Curl. 



PiDiphi actliiops. Curt. B. ]i. fol. ccxiv, ? . (?) /'. atcrrinui, Gr. 1. E. iii. 215 ; 

 Tascli. Zeits. Ges. Nat. 1863. pp. 62 et 262 ; Schrti. /.ool. jahrb. 1888, p. 473. ? . 



A large black species with dark wings and only the anterior legs partly 

 red. Head immaculate, distinctly transverse and not very broad behind the 

 somewhat strongly emarginate eyes; vertex coarsely punctate with piceous 



