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THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Brauns has called my attention to this fact by determining a 

 male taken by the late Mr. C. J. Watkins of Painswick, Glos., 

 under the latter name. The two forms look very different 

 superficially, hence my error. 



Acolohus. — There is no representative of this genus in the 

 Collection ; the specimens recorded under this name by Stephens 

 consequently belong elsewhere : [cf. I. alhimanus, supra] . 



Genus and Species doubtfully new to Britain. — I dis- 

 covered a single specimen of Ctenochares {Joppites) instructor, 

 Fab., female, among the "Reputed British Species" in Stephens's 

 cabinet. Berthoumieu records it under the name J. xanthomelas, 

 Brulle (Ann. Soc. Fr. 1894, p. 511), from Greece, Italy, Southern 

 France, Spain, and Algeria ; Dalla Torre says it also occurs 

 throughout nearly the whole of Africa ; and there is a capital 

 figure of it by Gu^rin MenneAalle in TheophileLefebre's "Voyage 

 en Abyssinie," Paris, 1848, pi. vii, fig. 1, under the name 

 Ichneumon dimidiatum. In the General Collection in Brit. Mus. 

 are five other specimens thus : — Male from the Cape of Good 

 Hope, ex coll. F. Smith; female from Sicilia, ex coll. F. Smith; 

 two males from Spain, ex coll. Cameron; and a female " Joppa 

 apicalis, Brulle : Zante (Greece), May, 1889 : Dr. 0. Schmie- 

 deknecht," who, however, is certainly in error in placing it in 

 the Listrodromini ; I consider it should be placed in the Platyu- 

 rini, near Platylahus. No suggestion of an indigenous origin has 

 before been brought forward for this species, nor is such likely 

 to be the case. 



A New British Species. — Under Ichneumon, Desv. Cat. 

 No. 46 {pallidatorius), I found a female Platylahus mixed : a 

 black species with white-cinctured hind tibife, leaving no doubt 

 respecting its identity with P. histrio, Wesm. (Bull. Ac. Brux. 

 1855, p. 412 — P. variipedalis, Wesm. I. c. 1857, p. 408). It is 

 known to occur in Prussia, Bavaria, Belgium and Hungary, to 

 which must now be added Britain, since I never have reason to 

 doubt the native origin of Desvignes's insects, whence came this 

 individual. I find I possess three others, taken by Mr. E. C. 

 Bedwell at Boxhill on September 17, 1905, by Dr. Capron about 

 Shere some twenty years ago, and by the late Mr. J. A. Clark, 

 from whose collection I have but just acquired it. 



Phceogenes stipator, Wesm. — The two males of Ichneumon 

 Cambrensis, Desv., in his collection, are not the types of his 

 species, as I had very naturally supposed to be the case (E. M. M. 

 1902, p. 123 et Ichn. Brit. i. 249). These are on gilt pins; but 

 the types, also two males, were returned by Desvignes to 

 Marshall, and are carded in the latter's collection, which I 

 have merged with the other Britishers. 



Notosenius {Ischnidium) albibuccua, Kriech. — This may now be 



