98 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



uppermost spots of the discal band. The remainder of the discal 

 band is represented very obscurely by the outer edges of the spots 

 only, forming a very much broken wavy semicircular row of short 

 curved dark lines. There is the outline of a long oval spot across 

 cell end, and indications of three or four small spots between it and 

 the inner margin. A small black spot is present at the anal angle, 

 and another just to side of base of tail iu area 2, both bordered 

 proximally with metallic blue scaling, which is also present marginally 

 in two small patches between these spots. 



Head dark brown with a small white spot between the antennjE ; 

 the eyes, except dorsally, ringed with white ; palpi white, the third 

 joint and half the second dorsally and laterally onlj^ brown. Thorax, 

 above, covered with longish bronze-green hairs ; below, white. Body 

 dark brown, ventrally pale-butiish. 



9 . Both wings above uniformly dark smoky brown, with no 

 trace of blue or bluish reflections. Otherwise exactly similar to 

 the S- 



Length of fore wing, ^ 2-0 cm., 9 1"9 cm. 



B.M. Types No. Eh. 061 ( c? ) and 062 ( 2 ) from Nakiadeniya, 

 16 miles from Galle, S. Ceylon, iv, 17, W. Ormiston. 



Several other specimens in Coll. Ormiston. 



This species seems to be nearest to A. alitceas, Hew., and A. 

 ■mirahella, Doherty, but it can at once be separated from any 

 Indian Arhopala known to me by its ashy-grey underside and 

 plain brown female. 



Natural History Museum, 

 South Kensington ; 



March 12th, 1920. 



A CHALCID PARASITE OF ENDOMYCHUS COCCI- 



NEUS, Linn. 



By C. T. Gimingham, F.I.C, F.E.S. 



In view of the comparatively few records of Hymenopteroiis 

 parasites of Coleoptera, the following notes may be of interest. 



On June 3rd, 1919, in a wood at Long Ashton, near Bristol, 

 I came across a small mass of rather dry and shrivelled fungus 

 at the base of a dead beech-tree, in which were crowded con- 

 siderable numbers of the pupce of a beetle, afterwards found to 

 be Eiidomychiis coccineus. These pupae were a strikingly bright 

 pink colour, with white limbs and black eyes, the whole body 

 being covered with short, stout hairs, each with a glistening 

 white knob at the end. There were two mushroom-shaped cerci 

 at the apex of the abdomen, to which, in many cases, the black 

 shrivelled remnants of the larval skin were attached. The 

 average size was 6 mm. long and 3'5 mm. broad. 



A portion of the fungus, containing about sixty of these pupae, 



