224 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. {Pristomerus 



is very rarely seen abroad and I have never found it wild myself; Bignell 

 took it at Budleigh Salterton in South Devon as early as 15th June ; and 

 I possess a few specimens captured on zgth July, 1900, at Tostock in 

 Suffolk (Tuck) ; at Chiswick (Sich) ; near Bristol during September 

 (Charbonnier); and by sweeping long grass about 7 p.m. at Eriswell in 

 Suffolk on 26th August, iqo6 (Elliott). In 1909 I saw this species in Col. 

 Nurse's collection from the last-named county, labelled as bred from 

 Sesia cynipifonnis ; this was so different a host from any previously 

 assigned it that I asked him for details of its breeding, and he replied " I 

 am positive, as far as one can be if not bred from larva. It certainly 

 came out of a cocoon of -5". cynipifonnis. I took a number of pupae of 

 this clearwing moth this spring and when I found one apparently ichneu- 

 moned, I put it in a small glass-topped box separately, labelled. There 

 was no orchard within a mile of where I got these pupae." 



