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interest to you? We have the species, I believe, but I would 
like to have your ipse dixit on the point.” As a matter of fact, 
they were of so great interest that I think a note upon their 
occurrence here worthy of publication. 
The insects are two females of Oneilella formosa, Brullé, one 
of the most striking and beautiful of African Ichneumonide ; 
and this, their first capture in Britain, is a noteworthy 
importation. The species, which is figured by both its author 
(‘ Hist. Nat. Ins. Hym.,’ iv, 1846, pl. xli, fig. 3) and Desmarest 
(in Chenu’s ‘ Encyel. Hist. Nat. Annalles,’ 1860, fig. 142), was 
originally. recorded from the Cape. Smith exhibited to the 
Entomological Society specimens from Mount Cameroons, West 
Africa, taken at 5000 feet above sea level (‘ Proc. Ent. Soc.,’ 
1878, p. xlii). Tosquinet first described the male, which was 
captured at Usambara in February, 1880 (‘ Ann. Soc. Ent. 
Belg.,’ v, 1896, p. 150); and the only subsequent mention of, 
the species is by Cameron, who, when erecting a new genus, 
Onetlella, for its reception, records it from Grahams Town 
(‘ Zeits. Hym.-Dip.,’ iv, 1904, p. 190), and from Durban in 
Natal (‘Ann. 8. Afr. Mus.,’ v, 1906, p. 142). The British 
Museum possesses a long series from South and Tropical Africa, 
where its range is at present but partially known and where it 
has occurred upon Fennel flowers. 
Probably some cocoons of Bombycid moths had become 
introduced into the above packages of skins and skulls, for 
the only intimation yet published respecting the host of O. 
formosa is Smith’s assertion (loc. cit.) that the species had been 
reared from Anaphe panda, Boisd., and A. reticulata, Walk., in 
West Africa. 
Monks Soham House, Suffolk, 
September Ist, 1916. 
CONTRIBUTIONS TO OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE 
BRITISH BRACONIDA. 
No. 3.—MicroGastrripm®. 
By G, T. Lyzz, F.E.S. 
(Continued from p. 208.) 
SEcrion 1. 
Glomeratus, L.* 
Undoubtedly the best known species in the genus, being a 
very common garden insect. It attacks larve of the species of 
* Linneus, F. S., 410. 
