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BRITISH ICHNEUMONS. 



Notes on Alterations in the Catalogue. 



HoPLiSMENUS MAURUS, Marsh. — 

 Mcsostcniis iiiaiinis. Marsh. Ent. Mo. 

 Mag. ix., 1873, p. 241, ?; (?) Hoplis- 

 inentts comix, Kriech. Ann. Nat. Hof- 

 mus. Wien, v., 1890, p. 481, j (cf. Ichn. 

 lirit. i. 220, ii. 259 c/ Entomologist, 1910, 

 p. 173). Probably a northern species 

 with us ; Marshall states that Heysham 

 took the British Museum specimens " in 

 the neighbourhood of Carlisle" and I 

 possess it from Courten, Ireland. 



HoPLisMENUs u.NiGUTTATUs is omitted 

 from our List, in which it was repre- 

 sented by a misnamed Platyhtbiis dc- 

 cipicns, Wesm. (cf. Entom. 1910, p. 

 168). 



Note 2 



COELICHNEUMON BoHEMAM, Hlgr., 



was included in our List solely on the 

 strength of Stephens' record of Icliiieu- 

 mon dcsignatoriiis, Grav. ; no such 

 species exists in Stephens' collection 

 and his reference must be ascribed to 

 some other insect (Entom. 1910, p. 168) 

 C. ALBiciLLus, Grav., is also omitted ; 

 its inclusion rested upon similar unsatis- 

 factory evidence, and the single example 

 under this name in Stephens' collection 

 proved to be a c? Cratichiieitinon fabri- 

 cator, Fab. 



Note 3 



Stenichneumon defraudator and 

 S. apricus are now omitted. The latter 

 was doubtless misnamed and is not to 

 be found in Stephens' collection ; the 

 former was included by Marshall from 

 Desvignes' record of Icliiicuiuou scdit- 

 liis, Gra\-., the cf of which is referable 

 to Baricliiiciiiiion iiicubitor, L. (Ichn. 

 Brit. i. 90 ; cf. Entom. 1910, p. 1(S8). 



I have also ventured to omit S. mul- 

 TiciKCTus, for nothing has been heard 

 of it here since 1835, and I have seen no 

 example in the cour.se of twenty years' 

 study. 



Note 4 



Stenichneumon scutellator is con- 

 firmed as British by a ? kindly pre- 

 sented to me by Mr. E. .\. Butler, who 

 captured it during 1882 at Battle in 

 Sussex. 



Note 5 



ICHNECMON memorator, Wesm. — I 

 have been enabled to confirm this species 



as indigenous [cf. Ichn. Brit, i., Adden- 

 da, p. 292 et Entom. 1910, p. 172), by 

 an examination of Marshall's Welsh ? , 

 and the capture of a s in Co. Mayo, 

 recorded in Proc. R. Irish Acad. 1911, 

 part xxiv., p. 9. 



Note 6 



Ichneumon albiger, Wesm. Nouv. 

 Mem. Ac. Brux. 1844, p. 56, ? ; Thoms. 

 Ann. Soc. Fr. 1886, p. 21 ; O.E. xviii., 

 1925, rf' ? . — I am not yet convinced that 

 the species referred to at Ichn. Brit. i. 

 138, footnote, is dc facto this species, 

 though it is co-specific with a so-named 

 ? acquired from Schmiedeknecht. In 

 any case /. albiger is widespread 

 through nearly all Europe, and it is con- 

 venient to have some name for this ex- 

 tremely abundant British species. 



Note 7 



The genus Proboloide.s, Mori. Ich©. 

 Brit, i., 160, is not British [cf. Entom. 

 1909, p. 119). 



Ctenichjiciinion rcpcntiinis is con- 

 firmed as British by the capture of a <? 

 at Colchester by Harwood, who has 

 generously presented me with the speci- 

 men. 



Note 9 



Ctenichneumon plicatus, Mori. 

 Ichn. Brit, i, 172 {lQm) = Spilichncu- 

 nioii occi.toriiis, Fab., var. nigrintis, 

 Berth. Ann. Soc. Fr. 1S95, p. 646 [cf. 

 Entom. 1910, p. 169). 



Hcpiopcliniis Iciicostigiiiiis, Gra\'. 

 (1820) = Ic/uwuiiion luacitlivcntris, 

 Desv. (1856), as shown at Entom. 1910, 

 p. 169 ; consequently Ctciiicltncimion 

 cacrulcator, Zett., is not indigenous. 



Note II 



Aiiiblytclcs atraforiiis, has been con- 

 firmed as British by Harwood, who has 

 allowed me to examine an immaculate 

 ? of the var. indccoratits, Berth., taken 

 in the neighbourhood of Colchester 

 during 1904. 



Amulvteles MiCRocEPHALUs, Stepli . ; 

 I fear this is a nom defantaisie — cf. Ent. 

 Mo. Mag. 1904, p. 239. 



