10 Mr. Ernest A. Elliott and Mr. Claude Morley on the 
all died—probably through lack of moisture—in the 
position and situation indicated below.' 
Third segment (between the intermediate and hind-legs) three 
protruded ; two from the centre and one a little to the right side ; 
two with head and half thorax discovered, and one—the hinder 
central—with only half its head showing. 
Fourth segment (well behind the hind-legs) three ; two from the 
centre and one a little to the left side ; all with head and thorax, and 
the hindmost slightly more, protruded. 
Fifth segment, four ; two from the centre, a third slightly before 
and to the right of the first central one, and the fourth level with 
and to the left of the second central; the foremost central is the 
furthest protruded and most fully developed of all, being held in situ 
only by its fifth abdominal segment and anus, the right-hand one is 
next fully developed with its fourth segment and anus still encased, 
the hinder central has little more than its basal seement protruded 
and the left-hand one has exserted only its head and fore part of 
thorax. 
Six to tenth segments all bear one equally developed parasite, 
exposed to about the base of the mesothorax. 
Eleventh segment, two; the basal considerably to the right and 
the apical exactly in the centre and so close to the anus as to have 
nearly severed the host’s conical anal proleg, which is thrust obliquely 
aside. 
Even the most advanced specimen is much too immature 
to guess specifically. The only reliable feature discernible 
is a distinct central longitudinal carina throughout the 
metathorax ; this at once precludes the parasites from the 
Ichneumonide and, combined with their general facies, 
lends strong probability to their appertaining to the 
Braconid genus Apanteles, many of whose species (A. 
salebrosus, Marsh., etc.) possess such a central carina. But 
they did not evacuate their host, nor spin the least trace of 
cocoons—simply protruded in their larval, subsequently 
pupal, skins.” 
1 The body of the host from the fifth segment to the anus is so 
distorted by the parasites that it is only the manner in which they 
themselves are grouped which enables the distinction of the segments 
to be surmised. 
2 “Many years ago, I found under a stone a shrunken beetle 
larva, which undoubtedly belonged to the Staphylinx, dead, In it 
were several parasites in naked pupal state: these proved to be 
Codrus pallipes,?* Jur.” (Kawall, Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1855, p. 260). 
