18 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
allied new species as M. subovalis. There are also five specimens 
of a distinct n.s. in the Museum British Collection. There is 
much yet to be learned on the parasites of the closely allied 
Zygenide. Mr. J. B. Bridgman has Casinaria orbitalis, Gr., 
bred from Zygena trifolii; Herr Brischke bred Cryptus migrator, 
Fab., from Zygena ephialtes, L. (= Peucedani, Esp.) ; while 
Rogenhofer bred Cryptus fumipennis, Gr., probably only a variety 
of C. migrator, from Z. Leta; and Dr. Giraud bred Cryptus 
zygene, Gir., as well as this species (M. obnoxws), from Z. 
Carniolica, Sc. (= Onobrychis, W. V.). In Giraud’s record of 
parasitism it is also stated that Campoplex decipiens, Gr., was 
bred from Z. jilipendule, and that M. Fallou bred Anomalon 
zygene, Gir., from the larve of Z. occitanica, taken at Celles-les- 
Bains (Ardéche) in May, 1869, upon Doryeniwm subfruticosum. 
F. Boie has also recorded in the ‘ Stettiner Entomologische 
Zeitung’ that he bred Cryptus zygenarum, Ratz (= obscurus, Gr.), 
on May 29th, from Z. trifolii and Cryptus jfilipendule, Boie; on 
5th July, from Z. jfilipendule. ‘Thomson has also lately (1873) 
described a Cryptus (Spilocryptus) zygenarum, n.s., which was 
bred in Zealand (Denmark), by Drewsen, from Z. jfilipendule. 
Speaking of the Braconid genus Rogas, Haliday tells us, “De 
vita et indole nil fere traditum est. Species queedam e larva 
Zygene filipendule Neesio prodibat.’ Lastly, we must state that 
two or three Chalcidide, especially Chalcis intermedia, Ns., and 
Monodontomerus obsoletus, Fab., have been bred from Zygena 
cocoons.—Epwarp A. Fircu. 
Mz&sosTENUS OBNOxIuS, Gr.—The male of M. obnoxius appears 
to be variable. I have, through the kindness of Mr. Fitch, been 
enabled to examine several specimens of this insect from different 
quarters, and I find that the areolet varies considerably in width ; 
sometimes the sides are very close together, and the outer nervure 
is so fine that it almost appears to be wanting; the abdomen also | 
varies much in width, the normal form being elongate-ovate; the 
3rd segment being the widest and the same breadth at the base as 
at the apex, the Ist and 2nd tapering from this; whilst in one 
specimen, also received from Mr. Fitch, and one in my own 
collection, the Ist, 2nd, and 8rd segments are in one instance 
nearly, and in the other quite, of equal width, and the sides almost 
parallel. Taschenberg says that the lst segment is without 
tubercles; this feature is not constant, as in a small specimen I 
