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have considered this genus a good one ; we have removed them, 

 as did Marshall in his 1870 Catalogue. H. varlegatorius, Panz. 

 (= Jiavoguttatas, Gr.), is spoken of by Stephens as the most 

 beautiful species of the genus [Ichneumon). Panzer figured the 

 two sexes as distinct species {variegatorms, male ; notatorius, 

 female). Both this and H. leucostigmus, Gr., are well figured by 

 Vollenhoven in ' Pinacographia ' (pi. 27, figs. 5, 6). Last year 

 Mr. Bignell bred a female H. leucostigmus from the cocoon of 

 Odonestis i)otatoria. 



AcoLOBus, Wesm. 



Scutellum and abdomen black ; head pale-marked ; 4th and 



5th joints of hind tarsi red. 

 All the tibiee red ; antennae white-ringed ; (female) 3|- lines. 

 Front legs, the tibiae, part of the femora and coxae, white ; 



(male) 4 lines, - - - - - 1. alhimanus. 



Apparently the only known British specimen of this species 

 is the single male captured near Netley, and sent by the Rev. F. 

 W. Hope to Gravenhorst, from which the original description 

 was taken. Wesmael captured two females near Brussels in July. 

 A capital coloured figure of the equally rare, but not British, 

 Acolobus sericeus, Wesm., is given in the plate illustrating his 

 'Ichneumones amblypj'gi Europsei' (figs. 11, 12). 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTURES, &c. 



The New Forest at Easter. — After the long and severe 

 past winter and the weeks of continued easterly winds, the balmy 

 change in the weather which came over London during the week 

 preceding Good Friday tempted many to risk the fickleness of an 

 English spring by leaving this great city for the country. Among 

 the crowded exodus there were those, of course, who went net in 

 hand to seek for the early summer insects, but only to find the 

 season a fortnight or more late, and most of the spring species 

 still in good condition, even in the full freshness of recent emer- 

 gence. Accompanied by Mr. E. G. Meek, I started on Thursday 

 afternoon, April 14th, for Brockenhurst, New Forest. Our 

 object was to capture Eupithecia irriguata and such other good 

 things as might come in our way. After the long and tiresome 

 journey from London, we arrived the inevitable three-quarters of 



