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yellow, translucent cocoons adhering to leaves; towards 
the end of July the ichneumon emerged and left in the 
coleopterous cocoon a brown, thick-walled cocoon of its 
own; the beetle itself emerged from its adjacent cocoons 
(lib, cit. iii, 118—referred to by Kirchner, Cat. 97). 
182. Hypera plantaginis, DeG. 
Curtis mentions (B. E. pl. dxxxvi) that a species of the 
Cryptid genus Pezomachus has -been bred from Cwreulio 
plantaginis. 
183. Rhinocyllus latirostris, Latr. 
Goureau gives an interesting account of Bracon urinator, 
Fab., which is parasitic upon this species in Cardwus 
nutans. He says it is full-fed and has demolished its host- 
larva by about the middle of August, when it spins a 
cocoon which occupies that of the beetle. Therein it 
passes the winter and does not assume the pupal condition 
till the end of the following March ; the imago emerges at 
the beginning of April, but is commonest during June 
(cf. Bracon. d’Europ. i, 156-7). 
184, Ziaus algirus, Linn. 
In the ancient and badly neglected collection of British 
Ichneumonide in the British Museum is an unnamed 
2 Pimpla (Epirus), a stout insect, as large as P. graminelle, 
Schr., black with totally flavous legs and terebra half 
length of body—labelled “ Ichneumon of Lixus angustatus, 
Fairlight, Aug. 3lst; F. Smith.” In August 1902 Mr. 
Donisthorpe took at Rye, in the same neighbourhood of 
Sussex, a 2 of the ubiquitous Ophion luteus, Linn., which 
he says ‘‘ settled on a larva of Livus algirus.” 
185. Lixvus iridis, Oliv.* 
Prof. Dr. Otto Schmiedeknecht gives (Opuse. Ichn. 544) 
Hoplocryptus insectator, Tschek, as parasitic upon JZ. 
turbatus, Schh. 
186. Larinus carline, Oliv. 
Pieromalus elevatus, Walk., is said by Dr. Giraud (Ann. 
Soc. Fr. 1877, p. 428) to have been bred from this species 
by Perris in France. 
