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Mr. Moncreaff, which are now in the British Museum. Loew 

 says M. inulce is not ^-are on Inula and Puliearia in Central 

 Europe. Schiner bred his M. Frcmenfeldi from Inula crithmoides, 

 but ours is not that species (Fauna Austriaca, Die Fliegen, ii. 142). 

 Also in the National Collection are four specimens of Urophora 

 macrura, Loew (oj). cit., p. 69; pi. xi,, fig. 1), labelled in 

 F. Smith's handwriting, "Bred from galls in the flowers of the 

 common groundsel." Mr. Smith showed me these specimens 

 himself a few years ago, and asked me if I had bred the species ; 

 but I quite fail to remember the locality whence they came, if he 

 told me. I am sure, however, they are British. Whether the 

 specimens bred by Frauenfeld from the swollen flower -heads of 

 Onopordon illyricum and Centaurea calcitrapa are U. macrura 

 requires confirmation. Loew says this species is only certainly 

 known from Greece. — Edward A. Fitch ; Maldon, Essex, 

 March, 1882. 



Ichneumon erythr^us. — In the April number of the ' Ento- 

 mologist' (Entom. XV. 92) Mr. Billups noted the peculiar 

 propensity of an Ichneumon for selecting ant-hills to hybernate 

 in. The insect is I. sanguinator, Rossi, not I. erythrceus, Gr., as 

 there stated. I am responsible for the mistake. Mr. Billups, I 

 think the year before last, sent me an Ichneumon to name, and 

 which I believed was a variety of erythrceus ; last year he took 

 another, which he very kindly gave me : and so matters stood, till 

 Mr. Billups made the above discovery this year, I am indebted 

 to my friend Mr. Fitch for the suggestion that Mr. Billups' 

 insects might be Ichneumon sanguinator, Rossi, and distinct from 

 I. erythrceus : a series of the former Mr. Fitch had seen in the 

 British Museum collection, — seven from Desvignes' collection, 

 two from Heysham's, and one from Dr. Power's. Mr. Billups 

 sent me six more of this beautiful little insect, which I found did 

 not vary at all ; none had the yellow marks of erythrceus ; and, on 

 referring to the various authors, I believe there is no doubt but 

 that /. ruficollls, Stephens, which certainly is Mr. Billups' insect, 

 is the same species which Wesmael described in his ' Tentamen ' 

 (p. 102) as I. discrepator. I am the more strongly convinced of 

 this because Dr. Capron last week sent me a male Ichneumon for 

 my opinion, and which without doubt is the male of /. discrepator, 

 Wesm. ; and in his letter he said, " Headly Lane is not far from 

 here " (Shere). These two descriptions agree very well with the 



