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band is almost obsolete. The left fore wing is normal except 

 that the outer marginal band is very light brown. From the 

 Champion Collection, labelled " Woking," is a remarkably 

 dwarfed male. 



Aphantopus hyperanihus. — Series of 95. Two undersides, one 

 from near Bude, the other from the New Forest, are asymmetrical 

 on the undersides, having three ocelli on one fore wing and only 

 two on the other. A fine specimen of ab. arete, j\Iiill,, was taken 

 by Mr. F. A. Dixey in Darenth Wood, July 17th, 1876. Two 

 •other specimens of ab. arete, one from the Hope, the other from 

 the Spilsbury Collection, are without data. 



Coiiwnympha tipJion. — A series of over 50 Scotch specimens 

 and 54 English = ab. rothliebii, with 18 unlabelled, mostly 

 English, from the Hope and Spilsbury Collections. The English 

 specimens show a very great range of variation of the size of 

 the ocelli on the underside. 



C. pamphilus. — Series of over 80, with no remarkable aberra- 

 tion. 



Nemeohius liicina. — Series of 80. 



(To be continued.) 



CONTRIBUTIONS TO OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE 

 BRITISH BRACONID^. 



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



No. 6. — Agathid^. 



In the * Genera Insectorum ' Szeplegiti catalogues twenty-eight 

 genera belonging to this sub-family containing 222 species. The 

 very great majority are exotic, for undoubtedly the true home 

 of the group is in the tropics, but few representatives having 

 strayed to northern latitudes. Five genera only are known 

 to be British, and of these Neoneurus, Hal., was classed by Ash- 

 mead* with the Microgasteridae, while he placed Orriilus, Hal., 

 in a distinct tribe between his Blacini and Calyptini. In ad- 

 dition he followed Forster in making a separate sub-family of 

 Microdiis and Earinus, as distinct from Agatkis, merely on 

 account of the difference in the length of the face, but, as 

 Marshall truly remarks, " this in our opinion is not a sufficient 

 reason for the establishment of a sub-family, the rest of the 

 structure in both groups being similar." It is perhaps fortunate 

 that Szeplegiti has re-united the various genera, although such 

 ■classification is not without difficulty. 



Marshall gives the following characters : 



* 'Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus.' 



