110 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
as by sweeping reeds in Henstead Marsh early in July, 1906, im 
ditches at Barnby Broad in the middle of August, 1898, im 
Herringswell Fen early in July, 1903, and at Ipswich during 
1894; out of Suffolk, it has occurred to me in Cuckney Hay 
Wood, near Nether Langwith, in Notts., and at Huntingfield, in 
Kent, both in August. But it is very widely distributed, and I 
have received it from Ashby, in Lines. (Thornley) ; Crosland 
Hall, near Huddersfield, in 1896 (Porritt); Whitby towards the 
end of August, 1897 (Beaumont); Shere, in Surrey (Capron) ; 
Lamington during June, and Barr, in Ayrshire, during July 
(Dalglish) ; and Clunie, in Scotland, on August 16th, 1907 
(Elliott). Charbonnier has bred three specimens at Shepton 
Mallet, in Somerset, during May to July from four Lepidopterous 
larve indurated in the usual way, from the last of which there 
emerged a female Ichneumonid, Mesochorus vittator, Hlmer., 
doubtless hyperparasitic (as the genus is well known to be, 
especially upon the Braconidous genus Apanteles) upon this 
Rthogas. My. H. Bury found a similar larva beneath elm bark 
at High Lane, in Cheshire, during October, 1914, from which 
emerged the present species on the 19th of the following June. 
5. Rhogas gasterator, Jur. 
Apparently uncommon with us: Marshall knew only the 
male, which he took in Wales and Wilts during June; Bignell 
records it from Devon early in August. Elliott has presented 
me with a couple of females, captured by him on July 24th, 
1908, at North Berwick, and in September, 1910, at Banchory,. 
in Scotland. 
6. Rhogas dimidiatus, Spin. 
Bred in Devon from Agrotis tritici and other Noctue. It has 
occurred to me in Tuddenham Fen in early July and Staverton 
Thicks, where it was flying on June 22nd; I have two females 
from Edw. Saunders’ collection, probably from Bury St. 
Edmunds; Tomlin has sent it from Darley Dale, near Matlock,. 
where he took itin July, 1900; and Donisthorpe from Co. Kerry, 
in 1902. Atmore found the species at King’s Lynn in 1906. 
During August, 1908, Dr. Chapman bred a male and three 
females from Orgyia splendida in Spain. 
7. Rhogas modestus, Reinh. 
Introduced as British in 1888, from the nest of a wasp 
(Eumenes) near Bournemouth. It has also been bred from 
species of Hupithecia. Dr. H. A. Cockayne has kindly given me 
two females of this insect, which he bred in September, 1911, 
each from a larva—indurated in the usual manner—of Macaria 
litwrata, taken at Oxshott,in Surrey. Elsewhere it is known only 
from Sweden and Germany. 
