268 BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. [Ophion 



Chiswick (Sich), London (Newbery), Kew (hardens (G. Nicholson) ; 

 Suftblk (Garneys), Ipswich (Flatten), Oulton Broad (Jk^dwell), Tostock 

 and \\'icken Fen (Tuck), bred at Ely (Cross), bred from — .^ Sesia in — 

 reeds at Boxworth in Cambs (Thornhill) ; S. Leverton in Notts and 

 Ashby in Lines (Thornlcy) ; Barnsley in Yorks (Porritt) ; Barmouth 

 (Yerbury), Milford Haven (Andrews) ; Kilmore in Ireland (Beaumont) ; 

 Bonhill (Malloch) and Glenford Loch (Dalglish). My bred examples are 

 from G. W. Clutten, who raised it at Burnley from Taeniocainpa insiahilis 

 in 1899, at Southport from Dianthaecia capsincola in igoo, at Burnley from 

 Hadcna glauca and a brood from H.pisim 1901, and at Blackpool from 

 Agrotis praecox in 1907 ; Wigin dug up five cocoons at Methley near 

 Leeds in 1900, of which two contained hyperparasitic Chalcids that all 

 emerged through a single hole in the cocoon and in one of them the 

 Chalcids were healthy larvae on 5th April, 1902, one died of mould and 

 the last produced a male of the present species, which emerged before 

 10 a.m. on i8th May, 1901 ; of those bred from H. pisi, all that were 

 observed emerged before 10 a.m. Kaye sent me one ex Hecatera dvsodea 

 on 9th October, 1900. Personally I have met with O. lutciis frequently at 

 light — in incandescent street lamps in Ipswich, at oil lamps in Monks 

 Soham House and Tuddenham Hall in Suffolk, always in August and 

 between 8.30 and 10 p.m.; — at Bramford near Ipswich it was on flowers 

 of Clematis vitalba on 15th August, 1896, and at Covehithe on those of 

 ragwort on loth September, 19 12; I have swept it in the Brandon 

 marshes early in June and seen it flying along the shady side of hedges at 

 Market Rasen in Lines and Heacham in Norfolk, where it came to light 

 in Hunstanton ; it occurred on reeds in the Southwold salt-marshes early 

 in September, 19 10, and is abroad till the end of that month, though I 

 have no later records, and it is almost unknown in July. As a general 

 rule it comes to light only in August, and was unusually abundant in 1906, 

 when two or three would gyrate around the lamps every evening. 



How far the notices of the earlier hosts relate to the species as now 

 understood must remain uncertain. 



The few available records are from Holgate near York (Wilson, Yorks 

 Nat. 1880, p. 105), Bradford (Bradf. Sc. Journ. 1908, p. 71;, common in 

 Norfolk (Bridgman), S. Devon (Bignell), Lands f2nd (Marquand) ; Acton 

 Glebe, Co. Armagh (Johnson, Irish Nat. 1904, p. 256). It is recorded as 

 bred with us from. Dianlhaccia capsincola and D. cucubali (Marshall, Ent. 

 Ann. 1874.); Hadcna pisi {\\. Marsh, Entom. 1881, p. 139), Leiicania lith- 

 argyria (Butler, /.c), Misclia oxyacanthac'''' (Bignell, I.e. 1883, 65) in S. Devon 

 on 25th May (S.Devon List), Taeniocafnpa populcli hy Bignell and Bomhyx 

 qiierciis in Marshall coll. (Bridg. -Fitch, Ent. 1884, p. 179), De?)ias coryli,'^ 

 Paecilocampa popidi^^' Acronycta lepomia/'' Agroi is praecox*' on 1 8th July, 

 all in S. Devon (Bignell's List). On the Continent, Brischke is said to 

 have raised it from Sesia formicaefonnis, Demas coryli, Dicranura bifida, 

 Cvmatophora flarncornis, Acronycta aceris, Cuciillia scrophulariae, absynthii, 

 chamomillac, artiviisiac, argcntca, thapsiphaga, mixta, and abrotani ; Ratze- 

 burg from Lasiocampa pini, Trachea piniperda ; Grav., Curtis and De Geer 

 from Dicranura 7'inula ; Drewsen from Dipterygia pinastri, Dianthaecia 

 cucubali ; Gravenhorst from Agrotis praecox ; Giraud from Tacniocampa 

 inunda, Cucullia 7'erbasci, chamomillae and artemisiae ; and Mocsary from 



* By a careless misreading of Bignell's List, Schniiedeknecht ascribes these five hosts to Ophion 

 obsciinis, Fab. 



