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BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 



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and they add that Peter Inchbald bred it fruni a less than half groAvn 

 larva of Mania typicci, found feeding on fuschia in Hull ; its cocoon is oi 

 3 X il lines, brown, reticulated with black towards both extremities, and 

 surrounded by brown flossy silk. Dalla Torre says Bignell also bred it 

 from Dcpnssana nctTosc/la ; 1 cannot confirm tlie statement. It is appar- 

 ently rare with us, though I have both sexes in Capron's Surrey collection, 

 females in Piffard's from Felden in Herts and another of the same sex, 

 which was swept at Matley Bog in the New Forest on 15th June, 1907. 



Butler took it at Abinger Hammer in Surrey at the end of August, 1900 ; 

 and Nurse raised both sexes on zylh-zgth June, 19 12, from EnwulcsHi 

 alchemillala in West Suffolk. 



5. raptor, Zctt. 



Porizon raptor, Zett. I.L. i. 395, ? . Sagaritis raptor, Holmgr. Sv. Ak. Handl. 

 1858, p. 44; Brisch. Schr. Ges. Danz. 1880, p. 146; Tschek, Verb. z.-b. Ges. 

 1871, p. 46; Thorns. O.E. xi. 1093, i ? . 



Black with the centre of abdomen broadly, and most of the legs, red ; 

 head narrow and the acetabulae strongly ref^exed centrally. Length, 

 4 mm. 



Differs from the preceding kinds in having the head constricted behind 

 the eyes, tlie metanotal areola elongate and apically inc(jmplete ; the 



