96 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
NOTES ON BRACONIDA.—IX.: ON THE REMAINDER 
OF MARSHALL’S COLLECTION. 
By CuaupE Morey, F.E.S., &e. 
I rounp but little to note on going through the remainder of 
this valuable collection at the beginning of March. Such facts 
as are noteworthy relate to the synonymy and rectification of 
the British list. 
Meteorus brevipes, Wesm.: In the second volume of his 
‘Bracon. d’Kurope’ (André, 1891), Marshall inserts this as an 
insufficiently described species at the end of its genus, with the 
remark, ‘‘ Belgique (Bruxelles); un seul examplaire connu.” 
Subsequently he evidently succeeded in recognizing it, for in his 
collection are eight males from Botusfleming, St. Albans, and 
Cornworthy. It is somewhat similar superficially to M. jfilator, 
Hal., though of stouter conformation.—Calyptus ruficoxis, Wesm. : 
One female is from ‘‘ Darenth Wood”’; it was only previously 
recorded from Belgium and Holland. — Alloa contracta, Nees, 
male, is synonymous with Lamadatha testaceipes, Cam. !—Blacus 
humilis, Nees, is a very doubtful species, and is, at least tem- 
porarily, sunk to B. trivialis, Hal. — Blacus aptenodytes, Marsh., 
is a synonym of Blacus mamuillanus, Ruthe.— Aphereta major: 
Marshall erects a form he had previously (André, ‘ Bracon. 
d’Europ.’ ii. 401) considered a variety of A. cephalotes, Hal., to 
the dignity of specific rank under this name, and records it from 
‘‘ Angleterre.” The type is not in his collection.—Haliday’s two 
species of Prosapha, Forst., are now synonymised under the 
earlier name, speculum, Hal. — Aspilota distracta, Nees, is a 
variety of the same author’s earlier described ‘‘ Bassus”’ concolor. 
—The British Museum collection of British Aphidiine (Flexili- 
ventres) is peculiarly full; it contains many of Haliday’s original 
specimens, a large collection, together with the Aphididous hosts 
from Bignell, and all those in Marshall’s possession; others 
from Stephens’s and Desvignes’s collections have not yet been 
amalgamated, through lack of time to synonymise the old (and 
often MS.) names under which they at present stand. 
Ditherus ruficollis, Cameron, the male type of which was 
acquired by the Museum authorities in 1902, is nothing but a 
synonym of Cardiochiles saltator, Nees. It is here represented 
by both sexes, ex coll. Sir 8. S. Saunders, from Albania; 
ex coll. Ruthe, from Germany; and ex coll. Marshall, from 
‘* Caucase.” 
The National Collection of British Braconide is now re- 
arranged. 
Monk Soham House, Framlingham, Suffolk. 
