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Caudal margin at meson of segments 2-4 of abdomen slightly incised. 

 Shape of abdomen approaching a little that of Anastatus. Type 

 examined. 



Three females reared from dipterous larvae in the stem of 

 Anatherum hicorne, British Guiana, H. W. B. Moore, 1914. 



2. Baeiis auraticeps, n. sp. 



Female. — Length, 0-75 mm. 



Black, the head and tarsi dull honey yellow. Body finely 

 reticulated, scaly, the pubescence very minute and scattered. 

 Funicles 2-4 subequal, ring-like yet not annular, 1 larger, a little 

 longer than wide. Pedicel nearly as long as the funicle. Differs 

 from niger, Ashmead, in being larger, less pubescent, differently 

 coloured, the second of the two transverse sclerites between the 

 main thorax (scutum) and the abdomen longer (very transverse- 

 linear in niger) and the frons is broader. From piceics, Ashmead, in 

 the darker body coloration, the more distinctly scaly abdomen. 

 From americanus, Howard, in the general coloration of the body 

 and in the different colour of the male ; otherwise this species 

 (female) is very similar. From minutus, Ashmead, in general 

 coloration and the sparser, shorter pubescence. Types of the named 

 species compared. 



The male is black, the legs (except coxae) and the antennae honey 

 yellow, both lightly infuscated throughout ; antennae monihform, the 

 second or distal club joint as long as the pedicel, the other flagellar 

 joints subglobular yet funicle 1 somewhat longer, the joints widest 

 distad. Marginal cilia of the fore wing somewhat over a third of that 

 wing's greatest width. Scape compressed. Head and thorax densely, 

 finely scaly, the abdomen much less distinctly so. Segment 3 of 

 abdomen (the first distinct basal segment, counting the rather 

 obscure petioliform segment as 2) with short longitudinal caringe at 

 base, tliis segment occupying about a fifth of the surface, the next 

 segment (4) extending to distal two-thirds. Propodeum with a 

 semicircular carina across its face, the two horns disto-caudad, the 

 apex of the arch not quite touching the base at meson. 



Described from many females and two males reared from 

 the egg-sac of a spider, Anna Kegina, British Guiana, 

 H. W. B. Moore, 1914. 



Types. — Catalogue No. 19414, U. S. N. M., a pair on a slide 

 plus one male, eight females on two tags (the latter paratypes). 



SOME NOTES ON THE BUTTERFLIES OF THE COTS- 

 WOLDS (PAINSWICK DISTEICT). 



By J. H. Grant. 



I RECENTLY had the pleasure of spending four days (from 

 June 19fch to June 23rd) in the delightful country surrounding 



