44 Mr. Ernest A. Elliott and Mr. Claude Morley on the 
175. Otiorhynchus maurus, Gyll. 
Oresbius castancus was conjectured by Marshall (E.M.M. 
ii, p. 194) to possibly be parasitic upon this weevil (cf. 
Morley, Ichn. Brit. ii. 109). 
176. Trachyphleus scabriculus, Linn. 
An instance—our only one—of oviposition in a perfect 
beetle was witnessed by M. Boudier, who says (Ann. 
Soc. Fr. 1834, p. 332) that he saw a small, unspecified 
Ichneumon-fly “cramponné sur le dos de Zrachyphleus 
scabriculus, I] avait introduit sa tarriére entre les elytres 
et l’abdomen par l’anus” (Westwood, Mod. Class. ii, 144). 
177. Phyllobius urtice, DeG. 
Under his Dolops aculeator, Marshall (Bracon. d’Europ. ii, 
269) says that, in default of direct proof, he suspects it to 
be parasitic upon this common weevil. The only herbage 
where he took the Braconid, near Teignmouth, was a single 
clump of Urtica dioica, whereon was Phyllobius alneti in 
profusion. 
178. Barynotus elevatus, Marsh. 
[Cf Otcorhynchus ligneus, above. | 
179. Hypera. 
In 1902, Rev. T. A. Marshall was so good as to send 
me, from Corsica, a specimen of some Pimplinze (possibly 
Pimpla abdominalis, Grav.), which he had bred from an 
unspecified Phytonomus [C.M.]. Cf also Prasocuris 
phellandrii, ante. 
180. Hypera rumicis, Linn. 
From a larva of Phytonomus rumicis, Kawall bred 
(Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1855, p. 230) at end of July, both sexes 
of Phygadenon rufulus, Gmel. 
181. Hypera polygoni, Linn. 
Herr Dahlbom bred Campoplex subcinctus}™ Grav., from 
larvee of Phytonomus polygont, which were feeding upon 
Silene in the Botanical Gardens at Lund, 8th August, 1837 
(Ichn. d. Forst. 11, 82.) Jacobi bred Mesochorus nigripes, 
Ratz., out of the same beetle in Prussia; he found the 
