178 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



the 'Ent. Mo. Mag.' German intimacy with British topography 

 was, perhaps, not so precise in 1895 as in 1914. 



Mr. Clutterbuck informs me tbat " micros" observed by him 

 on the 29th included AcrUepia sabhaiunanniana amongst or near 

 Scotch firs, Caloptria hypericana amongst Hypericum, Coleophora 

 lariciella amongst larches, Prays ciirtisellus at ash, and Glyphip- 

 teryx Jischeriella, with Alncit'i tetradactyla on thyme, and 

 Pterophorus pterodactylus (= fascus) : the latter also I found 

 commonly all over the hills in suitable localities, while I may 

 add that the leaves of the Black Mullein {Verbascam nigrum) had 

 been riddled by the larvae of Cacidlia verbasci, several of which, 

 full-fed, were brought back in our tins. 



Harrow Weald, 



July 13th, 1919. 



CONTRIBUTIONS TO OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE 

 BRITISH BRACONID.E. 



No. 4. — Rhooadid.^. 

 By G. T. Lyle, F.E.S. 



(Continued from p. 155.) 



Genus 4. — Petcdodei^, Wesm.* 



Like Clinocentrns, Hal., the suture of the 2nd-3rd abdominal 

 segment is obsolete, in which the two genera differ from other 

 Jlhogadidce. Although agreeing in this they differ widely in other 

 respects ; Clinoceutrtis has the abdomen not longer than the head 

 and thorax combined, while in Petalodes it is considerably longer. 

 A single species only is known, the male of which might easily 

 be passed over as a pale lilwgas ; the female, however, is readily 

 recognised by the strongly compressed abdomen. 



I'tiicolor, Wesm.t 

 A rather pale testaceous insect with short antennae. Marshall 

 says there is a fuscous patch on the raetathorax, but this does 

 not agree with my specimens, all being entirely testaceous 

 excepting the antennae towards the apices, eyes, stemmaticum, 

 claws, valves of the terebra and a dot above each radix. 

 Antennae of female 31-34-jointed, of the only male I have seen, 

 B7-jointed. In Britain only recorded so far from the New Forest, 

 where it seems to be not uncommon, for I have several times reared 

 it from half-grown larvae of Hydriomena furcata, June 4th to 12th, 

 once from a Xauthia larva, June 7th, 1911, and from Pygcera 

 pigra, July 22nd, 1916. Norgate also bred it from the last- 

 named. It will be noticed that all these widely separated hosts 

 are sallow-feeding species. In all I have bred a dozen or so 



* Lib. cit., p. 123. 



t ' Nouv. Mem. Ac. Brux.,' 1838, p. 123. 



