38 Mr. Ernest A. Elliott and Mr. Claude Morley on the 
144, Mycetochares axillaris, Payk.* 
This species was thought by Ratzeburg (Ichn. d. 
Forst. ii, 69 et 215) to be preyed upon by Aspigonus 
diversicornis,> since the latter was bred in Germany 
by Herr Wissmann from dead wood containing M, linearis 
and other Coleoptera. Marshall (Bracon. d’Europ. ii, 252) 
quotes this, but synonymises the host with JJycetochures 
barbata, Latr. 
145. Orchesia minor, Walk. 
From the pupa of this species, which is probably 
synonymous with the next, Marshall says Hwphorus 
pallidipes, Curt., has once been bred in England. 
146. Orchesia micans, Panz. 
The pink larvee of this beetle, so abundant in dry Loletz, 
are very extensively parasitised, though it is difficult to 
understand how their foes come at them when so embedded 
in their pabulum. Westwood (Mod. Class. 1, 309 et u, 
143) says M. V. Adouin has ascertained that it was attacked 
by Perilitus similator,'8 which he himself had also reared 
fromit. Curtis instances Huphorus orchesiv?” and Meteorus 
orchesiv.7  Ratzeburg (Ichn. d. Forst. ii, 215) gives 
Microdus abcissus®”™ (p. 46), Porizon moderator of which 
Tischbein bred both sexes (p. 86), Perilitus obfuscatus,™ 
bred by Reissig, Tischbein and Wissmann, and P. longi- 
caudis, also bred by Wissmann along with the last species, 
as its parasites; and MMeteorus longicaudis is also referred 
to in this connection by Brischke. Giraud bred JJeteorus 
obfuscatus, Ratz., from “ Orchestes micans, dans Boletus 
igniarius” (Ann. Soc. Fr. 1877, p. 411). Marshall records 
(Ent. Ann. 1874, p. 126) Perilitus obfuscatus, Nees, bred 
from this beetle and (Bracon. d’Europ. ii, 91) says of JZ, 
obfuscatus: “Ce Meteorus est bien connu comme parasite 
solitaire et commun des coléoptéres fungicoles, Orchesia 
micans, Panz., etc. On ignore si la femelle confie son ceuf 
a la larve de /’Orchesia ou & Vinsecte adulte; quoi quil en 
soit, j'ai vu plusieurs fois des Orchesia & l'état parfaits, 
trouvés mort, et ayant leurs membres enchevétrés dans le 
lainage de la coque blanchitre du parasite, qui s’était 
attaché & leur ventre.” Bignell (Trans. Devon. Assoc. 
1901, p. 681) also notices the attachment of the parasites’ 
thin and whitish cocoon to their host in Bolt Head speci- 
