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Description of Nymph op S. scoticum. (Plate VIII.) 

 General colour sepia, rather uniform in tint. Length, including 

 anal appendages, about 16 mm., greatest breadth about 5-5 mm. 

 Head transversely about 5 mm., less longitudinally, so that it appears 

 somewhat narrow as compared wnth that of S.flavcolum, for instance ; 

 surface fairly smooth, and colour nearly uniform. Eyes prominent 

 and well forward, somewhat conical in shape, and situated at the 

 fore corners of the head. Antennce of seven segments, basal one 

 globular, the next cylindrical, the rest hair-like. Labium (mask) 

 tapering backwards and reaching at the hinge to about the insertion 

 of the mid legs, narrow at hinge, spoon-shaped, covering the face ; 

 palpi subtriangular, margins nearly entire with about twenty-four 

 short spines at fairly regular intervals ; middle lobe produced in a 

 very obtuse angle, also bearing short spines ; mental setae about 

 fourteen in each comb, lateral about eleven in each comb ; moveable 

 hook rather short and slender. Prothorax collar-like, rather broad, 

 margined behind with a ring of hairs. Mesotlioracic sjjiracles large and 

 conspicuous. Mesothorax and metathorax fairly smooth and rather 

 uniform in colouring. Legs long and slender ; mid and fore tibiae 

 hairy, hind ones rather spiny than hairy ; femora ringed with a rather 

 indistinct distal darker band ; length of fore legs about 9 mm. ; of mid 

 legs about 11 mm.; of hind legs about 14*5 mm. Wing-cases about 

 5 mm. long. Abdomen practically unicolorous ; short mid-dorsal spines 

 on the distal margin of segments six and seven ; short lateral spines on 

 segment eight, and rather longer ones on segment nine ; ninth 

 segment truncated behind, tenth rather small. Anal appendages 

 small, pointed, surrounded by hairs; upper one triangular; laterals 

 shorter and more slender ; lower ones slender and longer than the 

 other three. 



Material. — Nymph-skins obtained while the insects were emerging 

 at Esher Common, Surrey, and in the New Forest. 



[Though it cannot be claimed as belonging to the British 

 fauna, I might mention that I received from Dr. R. N. Goodman 

 an example of Mschna a finis, which he took on board ship in the 

 North Sea on July 7th, 1914.] 

 28, Knight's Park, Kingston-on-Thames. 



NOTES ON A FEW ICHNEUMONID^ FROM FIJI. 



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



The following species were contained in a small collection of 

 insects from the west side of Viti-Levu, Fiji Islands, sent by Mr. 

 R. Veitch to the Imperial Bureau of Entomology. 



Hcnicospilus apicifamatus, sp. nov. 



This species differs somewhat materially from H. turyieri, Mori. 



(' Revision of the Ichneumonidae,' i. pp. 49 and 51, 1912), in the 



darker fiagellum, black ocellar region, immaculate anus, the lack of 



an apical alar corneous mark, the evidently more vertical (though 



