‘NOTES, CAPTURES, ETC. 67 
INSECTS AND THEIR Foop-pLants.—It is singular with what 
instinct insects find out certain plants and shrubs not common in 
cultivation to feed on. I have, in my garden at Wotton-under- 
Edge, a find old shrub of Buddlea globosa. This, when its 
beautiful globular orange-coloured blossoms are well out, is 
deliciously sweet with a strong honey-like perfume, and con- 
sequently very attractive to a great variety of insects both by day 
and night—Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, Hymenoptera,. and Diptera 
in more or less abundance; and many an hour have I spent 
catching insects at it. Among the Coleoptera which were so 
attracted was the little Cionus scrophularie ; it was always to 
be found diving its beak into the very centre of the flowers. 
Little did I dream how a little later on the young shoots and 
suckers, which spring abundantly round the old stock, would be 
so dreadfully disfigured by this insect, but there it was in 
the larva state in abundance. I had to make use of the knife 
very extensively to get rid of the pest and keep the shrub in. 
a decent state. I believe this is the only shrub of the kind in 
the town, and being so centrally situate, and far removed from any 
pond or brook, it is certainly a marvel how the insect could have 
found it out in so different a situation to its usual habitat. The 
Buddlea is an American shrub belonging to the natural order 
Scrophulariacee, which includes the figworts of our pond banks, 
the ordinary food of this insect.—V. R. Perkins; 54, Gloucester 
Street, S.W., December, 1879. ; 
Hymernoprerous Parasites or Leriporrera.—The following 
meagre list of parasites on various Lepidoptera is composed from 
materials which have lately passed through my hands. Its 
publication will be useful for future reference. The parasites 
were bred by the gentlemen whose names are attached, mostly in 
1879. In many instances I am indebted either to Mr. Bridgman 
or Dr. Capron for the identification of the Ichneumons :— 
Chasmodes motatorius, F'., from Nonagria geminipuncta (W. P. Weston). 
Ichneumon bilineatus, Gmel., from Bryophila glandifera (G. C. Bignell). 
I, lineator, F., from Nonagria geminipuncta (Weston). 
I. trilineatus, Gmel., from Abraaas grossulariata (C. G. Barrett). 
Amblyteles Proteus, Chr., from Cherocampa Elpenor (Bignell). 
Trogus lutorius, F., from Smerinthus ocellatus (Ki. A. F’.), S.populi(H. A. F.), 
and Sphinx ligustri (Bignell). 
Pheogenes stimulator, Gr., from Yponomeuta padella (i. A. Butler). 
