Hymenopterous Parasites of Coleoptera. 11 
12. Cafius cantholoma, Grav. 
12a, Micralymma brevipenne, Gyll. 
Mr. E. A. Newbery has found Platymischus dilatatus, 
Westw., to be parasitic upon this Cafius at Plymouth, in 
May 1895. And at Berl. Ent. Zeit. 1859, p. 98, we find 
that “Mr. George Wailer undoubtedly observed, at New- 
castle, that Platymischus was parasitic on Micralymma 
brevipenne, Gyll.”; attention is also there drawn to the 
occurrence of such a parasite on an at times submarine 
host. 
13. Teretrius picipes, Fab. 
Westwood (Mod. Class. i, 182) writes: “Paromalus 
prcipes, according to Dalman, is parasitically attacked by 
Pieromalus micans”*°> and refers to the Swed. Trans. 1822. 
At lib. cit. 11, 159, he adds: “ Pertlampus micans was 
always observed upon posts perforated by ... Hister 
preipes by Dalman.” 
14. Anatis ocellata, Linn. 
On 10th August, Ratzeburg (Ichn. d. Forst. i, 211) 
boxed a larva of Coccinella ocellata, which he thought un- 
usually large and sluggish, and probably parasited. It 
devoured a larva of Lophyrus, but would subsequently eat 
nothing. Soon it affixed its anus to a leaf and became 
motionless, but without pupating. In the following spring 
he found his Lupelmus Hytelweinii?® dead in the box and 
a small hole in the side of the larva’s back ; it may have 
emerged the preceding autumn. The larva had retained 
its natural form, and had only lost its red and white spots. 
Five years later (Jib. cit. ii, 145) he discovered two more 
specimens of the same parasite in the box, in which the 
larva had been left; a second hole was then found in the 
larva’s skin. He thought these later specimens could have 
but recently emerged, since he had often examined the 
box in which they had been kept. 
15. Coccinella quinquepunctata, Linn. 
Marshall (Bracon. d’Europ. ii, 45), writing of Perilitus 
termimatus, says: “ Audouin, dans son mémoire ‘Sur le 
Parasitisme des Insectes,’ nous a laissé une indication des 
habitudes de cette espece. Il s’est assuré qu’un individu 
