102 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



were bred from a moribund larva of Notodonta ziczac, at Hasle- 

 mere, Sm-rey, in September, 1899 (Prideaux). 



20. decorus, Hal, — I have taken the female flying in Bentley 

 Woods, near Ipswich, early in May ; and Tuck has captured the 

 same sex at Benacre Broad, Suffolk, in late August. 



21. xanthostigmus, Hal. — Felden, in Herts (Piffard). 



22. prator, Marsh. — Two at Shiere, in Surrey (Capron). 



23. obscuriis, Nees. — Oulton Broad, Suffolk, September, 1900 

 (Bedwell). — Felden, in Herts (Piffard). — I have taken it on 

 flowers of Angelica at Lymington and Heracleum at Lyndhurst 

 in August, and beaten it from oaks at Brandon, in Suffolk, in 

 early June. 



24. tenehrosus, Wesm. — One and one cocoon ex Pterophoj'us 

 pterodactyhis, June, 1899 (Chapman). — Three ex Eumia cratce- 

 gata, Methley, Leeds (Wigin) ; received October, 1901.— Three, 

 received at the same time, ex Amphydasis hetularia. — Three and 

 four cocoons, November, 1899, ex Liparis auriflua, Eeigate 

 (Prideaux). Not before recorded from Britain. 



\/ 25. impurus, Nees. — One ex L. paucillmcma, bred at Cannes 

 in May, 1901 (Chapman). 



26. conifer(B, Hal. — One in Walberswick salt-marshes, Suffolk, 

 August, 1898. 



27. lineipes, Wesm. — Dr. Chapman has bred six specimens, 

 which I think must be referable to this species, whose hosts were 

 previously unknown, from eight cocoons ex Melitcea athalia, at 

 Cannes or Lacarno, in April, 1900. 



28. fuliginosus, Wesm.— I have found this species at Claydon, 

 in Suffolk, on Angelica flowers, in August, and swept it inEoydon 

 Fen, in Norfolk, in June. — One and one cocoon ex Sesia fiici- 

 formis, Wateringbury, Kent, July, 1903 (Goodwin). — Two and 

 eight cocoons ex larvfe of Platyptilia acanthodactyla, Dartmouth, 

 September, 1904 (Bankes). — Five and six cocoons ex larva of 

 Spilothyrus alcece, Cannes, May, 1901 (Chapman). 



29. octonarius, Eatz. — Three and bundle of cocoons ex live 

 larva of Pericallia syringaria, Surrey, June, 1899 (Prideaux). — 

 One and bundle of cocoons ex P . syringaria (Sich). — Sixteen and 

 cocoons. New Forest, June, 1902 (Cross). 



30. astrarches, Marsh. — I have captured this species by sweep- 

 ing hedge-bottoms at Lakenheath and Bentley Woods, in Suffolk, 

 in May and June. 



81. fratermis, Eeinh. — Shiere, in Surrey (Capron). — One ex 

 larva of Buccalatrix cristatella, bred at Chiswick, early in June, 

 1901 (Sich). — I have swept it at Ealing in June. 



32. triangidator, Wesm. -Felden, in Herts (Piffard). — One ex 

 Coleophora gryphipennella, Chiswick, June, 1901 (Sich). 



33. ^xdlidipes, Eeinh. — A common parasite of Plusia. — Three 

 and eight cocoons ex P. orichalcia, Ely, 1903 (Cross). 



34. hicolor, Nees. — I have swept it in the Southwold salt- 



