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It is very interesting to find that it has been bred in England 

 from the same host. Kumenes is a rare insect in this country, 

 and consequently the parasite is probably rarer. Tlie cells of the 

 wasp were taken by Master Fred. Wolamore at Bournemouth 

 early in May last; they were attached to charred twigs of heath, 

 which had been burnt down in February, 1886, so that the cells 

 were formed in the spring. Each cell was kept in a separate 

 glass-topped box, and from each issued a male Linoceras, — one 

 on June 14th, and the other on June 20th; but, singular to 

 relate, the former of the two had two companions, for on May 

 28th a Bracon issued from the same cell. This has been sent to 

 the Rev. T. A. Marshall, who, from the examination of a single 

 specimen only, does not like to be positive, but believes it to be 

 RJiogas modestiis, Rhein., a species new to Britain, and very like 

 the common R. conscriptus ; and on June I4tli a specimen of 

 Cavwoplex suhreptus, Tst., was bred. The fact of these latter 

 being bred from the same cell as a Linoceras looks very like 

 being a case of instinct at fault ; both the Bracon and the 

 Campoplex have an aculeus too short to pierce the cell and sting 

 the Eumenes larva. The only other way I imagine the parasites 

 could get into the cell is that the female Eumenes must have 

 taken larvae for lier young which had previously had the 

 ichneumon egg deposited in them, and the parasites were the 

 first to suck the juices from the deposited larvfe, and were 

 protected by the dr}^ skins from the Eumenes larva. These two 

 small cocoons, Mr. McRae says, laid between Eumenes pupa and 

 the wall of the cell. Master Wolamore has very kindly given me 

 one of these very rare ichneumons. — J. B. Bridgman ; Norwich. 



Henicospulus merdarius bred. — Mr. B. A. Bower very kindly 

 sent me Henicospilus merdarius, which he had bred from 

 Hecatera serena, on the 12th October last. As this latter is a 

 new victim for H. merdarius, I think it is worth recording. This 

 species, at first sight, looks very much like a testaceous Ophion, 

 so often seen on the gas lamps in rural districts, but can be very 

 easily separated from it by the fore wing having two horny spots 

 in the first cubital cell. — G. C. Bignell ; Stonehouse, Nov. 29. 



Errata. — Entom. xix., page 302, line 4 from bottom, for 

 "variation" read "variations" ; 1. 7 from bottom, for "experiment" 

 read " specimen." P. 305, 1. 22, for "April" read " May." 



