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and on the anal segment, being all that are noticeable. The 

 other form has the ground a dingier green, and there is a dis- 

 tinct purple dorsal strij)e, edged on each side with grayish ; the 

 abdominal divisions and the tip of the prolonged wing-cases also 

 purple. The pupa is capable of considerable movement, and, on 

 being disturbed, tm-ns up sharply the thorax and higher ab- 

 dominal segments, so as to bring them quite at right angles with 

 the several posterior segments. The first imago emerged on 

 June .29th, and was quickly followed by a good series, which 

 varied in size very much, some specimens being quite small. 

 Two species of parasites also emerged, one of them an ichneumon 

 with a long ovipositor, which Mr. Bridgman informs me seems 

 new to Science. — Geo. T. Porkitt ; Highroyd House, Hudders- 

 field, January 2, 1882. 



Pezomachi in Devon. — It may be interesting to some fellow - 

 workers at the Parasitic Hymenoptera to notify a few captures of 

 Pezomachi during the past year. Pezomachus carnifex I obtained 

 by beating a whitethorn hedge at Exminster on the 3rd Sep- 

 tember, and again at Bickleigh on the 16th September. P. 

 rufulus was common at Bickleigh on the 16th September. P. 

 corruptor. — A single specimen, on the 20tli August, at Bickleigh. 

 P. insidiosiLS. — A single example, on the 6th September, at Bick- 

 leigh. P. intermedius and P. incertus were beaten out of a white- 

 thorn hedge at Exminster, on the 3rd September : these two and 

 the two following were recorded as British, in a paper read by 

 Mr. Bridgman, before the Entomological Society of London, on 

 the 6th April last. P. Miilleri. — A single specimen, on the 6th 

 September, at Bickleigh. P. nlgritus. — This I received from 

 Liverpool from Mr. C. H. H. Walker, who bred it from galls 

 formed on Hieracium umhellatiim ; without doubt it is parasitic 

 on Aulax hieracii, the gall-maker. P. oxylochophilus. — This and 

 the next species are now recorded for the first time as new to 

 Britain. I obtained this species by beating whitethorn at Ex- 

 minster, on the 3rd September. Mr. Bridgman has taken it at 

 Norwich this year. P. aiialis. — Tliis has also been taken by him 

 for some time past, but not recorded from the difficulty of identi- 

 fication; it did not fall under my beating-stick until the 6th Sep- 

 tember last, and then at Bickleigh. Hemimachus fasciatiis I 

 obtained at Exminster on the 3rd September, and at Bickleigh 

 on the 6th. H. liistahilis, Forst (nifocinctus, Gr.). — A single 



