THE ENTOMOLOGIST 



Vol. XL.1 OCTOBER, 1907. TNo. 533 



PHALERA BUCEPHALA, Ab. 



In the above aberration of P. hucephala the general colour is 

 smoky-grey, the double cross lines are black, and the apical patch 

 is ashy-grey clouded with blackish. The head and thorax and 

 the fringes appear to be normal, but the latter are partly rubbed 

 off in the specimen. The hind wings are of the usual colour, but 

 have a dark grey patch, as shown in the figure. 



Mr. Esson, of Aberdeen, who kindly sent it for figuring, in- 

 forms me that the specimen was bred at Forres, and that he 

 saw it alive. 



EiCHARD South. 



NOTES ON THE HYMENOPTEROUS FAMILY 

 AGATHIDID^. 



By Claude Morley, F.E.S., &c. 



This family forms, with the Microgasteridfe, of which I have 

 already treated {cf. Eutom. 1906, p. 99), the Areolarious group 

 of the Braconidae, and is but sparsely represented by four small 

 genera in Britain. It is, however, very widely distributed 

 throughout the tropical regions of Africa and America, and its 

 species appear to be almost or quite exclusively lepidopterous 

 parasites. Our genera are very easily distinguished if the speci- 

 mens be not carded : — 



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