100 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



W. G. Cross, A. A. Dalglish, W. Evans, E. Goodwin, Selwyn 

 Image, G. W. Kirkaldy, A. M. Montgomery, G. Nicholson, H. 

 Parkes, F. H. Peaehell, Albert Piffard, E. \V. Platten, Hon. N. C. 

 Piotbschild, R. M. Prideaux, Mrs. Redmayne, A. Sich, W. H. 

 Tuck, F. J. Whittle, J. Wigin, and T. C. Woodforde. There are 

 two small genera, each with a single British species {Mirax 

 spartii and Acoelius suhfasciatus), of which I know nothing. The 

 remainder of the family consists of three somewhat extensive 

 genera, of which the first comprises ninety-one species, of which 

 seventy-three are (now) British ; of these I find I possess thirty- 

 seven : — 



Apanteles, Forst. 



1. salebrosus, Marsh. — Nine imagines and sixteen cocoons ex 

 Selenia sp., 1903, probably from Kent (Goodwin). — One and one 

 cocoon, bred from a coleopteron [Marshall thought the records 

 of all hosts, other than Lepidoptera, erroneous in this genus] at 

 Ely, August, 1901 (Cross). — Seventeen and six cocoons ex larvse 

 oi FAqnthecia helveticata, Milngavie, January, 1899 (Dalghsh). — 

 Only previously known from Scotland, in the female sex. The 

 male differs only in sexual features. 



2. tetricus, Reinh. — I captured a single specimen on flower of 

 Heracleum sphondyliuin at Lyndhurst, in August, 1901. 



3. congestus, Nees. — Seventeen imagines and ten cocoons ex 

 larva of Arctiafasciata, from Cannes ; emerged April 25th-May 

 5th, 1901 (Chapman). 



4. ferrnginens, Reinh. — Swept from sallow at Barton Mills 

 and Tuddenham Fen, Suffolk, June, 1901. Said to be a social 

 parasite of Chilo phragmitellus, which has been recorded from the 

 latter locality. 



5. Umbatus, Marsh. — I possess a single example, taken in the 

 Ipswich district in 1893. 



6. glomcratus, Linn. — Felden, in Herts (Piffard). — Sixteen 

 and seven cocoons ex one larva of Abraxas grossulariata, bred 

 June, 1899 (Peaehell). — Six and a bundle of cocoons ex Pieris 

 rapcB, Burnley, in October, 1899 ; emerged June, 1900 (Clutten). 

 — Two and cocoons, with A. callidus, ex Geometrides, Dart- 

 mouth, autumn, 1900 (Bankes). — I dug up four cocoons near 

 Ipswich, at the base of an elm, in December, 1898, which pro- 

 duced what I believe to be this species, on the 1st of the follow- 

 ing July. 



7. vanessce, Reinh. — Two and a bundle of cocoons ex Hadena 

 oleracea at Ely, in October, 1900 (Cross). — The species is new to 

 Britain, being recorded by Marshall only from Vienna and Ger- 

 many; it differs from A. glomeratus in having the mesopleurae 

 densely punctate almost throughout. It had previously been 

 bred only from Vanessa, Arggnnes, and Lhncnitis sibylla. 



8. spurius, Wesm. — Felden, in Herts (Piffard). — Six and 

 bundle of cocoons ex Agrotis pracox, bred June 26th, 1883 (Big- 



