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doubtful, since the species is distinctly southern, as Pfankuch says (Abh. 

 Ver. Brem. 1Q04, p. 139), in recording a male from Bremen, bred on 24th 

 May from Bonihyx qiwrcus or riihi. Specimens in the Vienna Museum 

 were bred from the S.E. European form sparlii oi B. (]iiarus\ Taschen- 

 berg's female came from Spain; Dr. F. Rudow also thought a southern 

 exam{)lf to be new and described it (Knt. Nachr. 1SS2, p. 35) as Aiionialon 

 pktum ; it was bred at Corfu by Sir Sidney Saimders from a Bombyx 

 cocoon; Vollenhoven took a female in Holland, (JauUe records it from 

 France, Tosquinet says it is very rare in Belgium, where he found but two 

 examples at Beverloo and Calmpthout in June. Schm. gives it a range 

 from Hamburg to the ruins of Carthage, where In- discovered it on the 

 flowers of Fcni/a, the giant umbel ; and van Burgst (1 unisian Hymenop- 

 tera, 19 13) tells us it is " a parasite of the big Gas/ropaiha-CRWri)\\\er?,, 

 which are abundant on lower plants along the North-African coast, is not 

 rare in the environs of Tunis" in April; but Marshall had a male from 

 Kiel. 



