P. ATER BRED FROM LARVA OF C. MAXILLOSUS. 22% 
pale stalks and black knobs. Wings clear, only tenderly haired; 
veins brown, tinged with pink; cubital straight in its whole 
course, and terminating a little before the apex of the wing; 
anal vein bent in the middle where the lower branch is given off, 
which extends in a gentle and even curve to the lower border. 
The wing closely resembles that of Cecidomyia iteophila, figured 
by Winnertz in Tafel ii., No. 8, but the anal vein is less bent. 
Legs pale brown, thickly clothed beneath with white hairs; 
joints and ends of tarsi pink. 
R. H. Meane. 
PROCTOTRYPES ATER, Nees, BRED FROM LARVA OF 
CREOPHILUS MAXILLOSUS. 
By F. W. FRowaAwk. 
On October 15th, 1888, I found a larva of Creophilus maxil- 
losus lying on a gravel-path, which on closer examination proved 
to be just dead, and with nine pupx of Proctotrypes ater 
protruding from its under surface. I then made a sketch of the 
somewhat unusual-looking mass of insects, from which the 
accompanying drawing is taken. 
PROCTOTRYPES ATER AND HOST. 
The nine Proctotrypes ater pupee were affixed to their host 
in the curious position shown in the figure, apparently attached 
only by their anal extremity, and without any cocoon whatever. 
They were pale ochreous-brown in colour, with the head and 
thorax dark brown. Some time after, on looking into the box in 
which I kept them, I found they had all emerged and the perfect 
insects were dead. ‘Two or three were wingless, but as I did not 
notice at the time any loose wings in the box, it would be 
interesting to know from what cause the wings were missing. 
The perfect insect has the head, thorax, body and antenne of a 
deep shining black, and the eyes bright sienna-brown. 
Park Place, Eltham, August, 1886 
ENTOM.—SEPT., 1886. 26 
