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BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 



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records are not satisfactor}% but (at iii. 256 ct q) he gives iliis species 

 without query as parasitic on Tinea populclla and with query on both 

 Ncmahis vieduUarius and N. pcdunaili ; Boheman found the female in 

 Sweden; Brischke bred it from Ean'as c/orana, the "cocon im (iespinnste 

 der Raupe steckend ", in Prussia; Belgium, The Hague and France in 

 June and July. Indigenous examples were said to be in the British 

 "Museum in 1856; Fitch bred it from Alucitina polydaclyla (Entom. 1883, 

 d. 66) and Giraud from an Ahccita sur Eryngium campestre (1877, p. 404) ; 



but neither Bridgman nor Bignell record it and we have no subsequent 

 records, except that of Peter Cameron (Brit. Phyt. Hym. ii. 211), who 

 gives it as parasitic upon ^;/z//<7 /'(7//(7;/f/;w(. This is certainly a rare or 

 rarely met with species and, besides a full series of both sexes from 

 Shere, I have seen very few specimens: one female was bred en 5th July, 

 igo3, from a batch of larvae of Cohophora thcrinella, Tgst., collected near 

 Dartmouth during September, 1902, from which batch also emerged 

 during 22nd-29th June, 1903, six female Pczoinachns instabilis, Forst. (<•_/". 

 Ichn. Brit. ii. 228). 1 took several females and a male on Hcrackum 

 flowers about Lyndhurst in the New Forest during the first half of August, 

 1901 ; but have not seen it in Suffolk since taking a female on Angelica 

 floAver at Claydon Bridge in August, 1899. 



14. fasciata, Bridg. 

 Liiuticria (OjiiorgaJ fasciata, Bridg. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1889, p. 422, ^ ? . 



Head transverse and slightly constricted posteriorly, with the mandi- 

 bles and palpi more ur less j^ale. Antennae a little shorter than the 



