12 Mr. Ernest A. Elliott and Mr. Claude Morley on the 
était sorti d’un coléoptere du genre Coccinella, soit septem- 
punctata soit quinquepunctata, L. Des expériences ultéri- 
eures faites par Ratzeburg ont démonstré l’exactitude de 
Yobservation d’Audouin.” Bignell (Trans. Devon. Assoc. 
1901, p. 662) adds that whea full-fed the larva of the 
Perilitus issues from the sutures of the perfect ladybird’s 
ventral segments and that the latter afterwards coalesce, 
leaving no visible aperture. On emerging the parasitic 
larva spins a pyriform cocoon, interlacing the dead beetle’s 
legs and so holding its body as an additional rampart 
against possible enemies. 
16. Coccinella septempunctata, Linn. 
“M. V. Audouin... has informed me that he had observed 
that C. 7-punctata is subject to the parasitic attacks of 
Microctonus terminalis,? Wesm., and Lneyrtus flaminius, 
Dalm.” (Westw. 1,397 et 11,159). “ Audouin has obtained 
M. terminalis from the perfect Coccinella 7-punctata, the 
larva of the former bursting forth and spinning its cocoon 
beneath the body of the latter” (did. cit. 11, 142). Also 
referred to by Kirby and Spence [misprinted C. 17-punctata 
in 7th Ed. 1859, p. 155]; Marshall (Bracon. d’ Europ. 11, 45) 
and Ratzeburg (Ichn. d. Forst. 1, 61), who tells us that 
Bouché (iid. cit. 1, 122) several times bred Bassus exultans,™ 
Grav., from this host. Morley (Ichn. Brit. 11, 235) also bred 
a couple of 2 2 Pezomachus fasciatus from a single pupa of 
this beetle at Ipswich in 1894. 
17. Megilla maculata, DeG.* 
“Tl est maintenant bien constaté que la M. maculata des 
Etats-Unis ... est infesté par des parasites du genre 
Perilitus” (Marsh., Bracon. d’Europ. ii, 45). Cf. also 
Centistes americana, Riley, Insect Life, 1888, p. 101. 
18. Endomychus coccineus, Linn. 
Referring to Curtis’ discovery of this species’ larvee, 
Westwood (Mod. Class. i, 8394) says, “some were attacked 
by a Chalcidideous parasite.” Cf also lib. cit. 11, 159, et 
Ratz., Ichn. d. Forst. ii, 187. Of these larvee, Curtis (B. E 
pl. 570) simply says, “some of the largest seemed as if they 
were either dead or in a torpid state, but these proved to 
have been punctured by a little parasite allied to Gnatho 
dispar (Colax, pl. 166), a great number of which afterwards 
