NOTES, CAPTURES, ETC. 69 
M. collaris, Spin., from Noctua triangulum (Bignell). 
Eulophus ramicornis, Geof., from Clostera curtula (Raynor). 
Eulophus sp.? from Teniocampa stabilis (Bignell). 
E. sp.? from Dianthwcia cucubali (Bignell). 
Pteromalus puparum, Swed., from Pieris rape ; Vanessa c-album (Bignell) ; 
Vanessa urtica (Sotheby). 
Copidosoma chalconotum, Dalm., from Depressaria heracliana (Hellins, 
Bignell). 
—Epwarp A. Frreu; Maldon, Essex, February, 1883. 
Nore on Limyerra rura, Brdg., L. priscuxer, Brdg., anD 
RuoGas RETICULATOR, Nees. — The season having arrived for 
obtaining ZL. rufa and the two following Ichneumons, a few 
remarks on their economy may be interesting to some of the 
readers of ‘The Entomologist.’ To obtain Limneria rufa, which 
is a new species bred by the writer last year, it is necessary to 
obtain the larva of Bombyx quercus this month (March); for this 
reason, the ichneumon larva leaves its victim before it moults for 
the fourth time. When it does leave it, it forms an oval, black, 
rough cocoon under the unfortunate caterpillar on the inside of 
which it had been feeding. The writer obtained the first infested 
larva when at Torquay on the 14th March, and bred the parasite 
on the 5th April, 1882. Limneria brischkei, Brdg., is also a new 
species, bred last year. The parasitic larva came out of a small 
larva (about one-third grown) of Noctua triangulum, which was 
obtained during the first week in March at Penzance. After 
leaving its victim it formed a long oval, dirty white, rough cocoon, 
without zones; the empty skin of the Noctua larva remained 
attached to its side; the imago appeared on the 5th April. 
Rhogas reticulator, Nees, infests the larva of Odonestis potatoria 
before the fourth moult, and emerges in its imago state from its 
victim. The infested larva remains on its food-plant, and has the 
appearance of preparing to moult, but it gradually shrinks and 
appears to dry up; the imago ultimately making its appearance 
through the back of the wretched caterpillar.—G. C. B1IGNELL ; 
Stonehouse, Plymouth, February 20, 1883. 
PaRASITE ON THE Larva or AcRonycra psi.—On August 
24th, 1882, whilst walking under some lime trees, I picked up the 
larva of an Acronycta pst. On examining it the next day I found 
two chocolate-brown coloured eggs on its left side, between its 
head and the horn, which this caterpillar has on its back; both 
