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firs in the Neunkirchen district ; from fir cones containing 
larves of C. notatus, B. firmus and B. robustus 31 (1, 54 et 
ii, 27) were bred; at Borutin one specimen of Microdus 
abcissus °°" (i, 57) was bred from fir wood, filled with a 
brood of these larve ; a few specimens of Spathius brevi- 
caudis (ii, 43) were bred from fir containing this weevil at 
Neunkirchen and from the Mark. urytoma ischioranthus 
is referred to (11, 221), though the identification appears 
not quite established, as bred by Nordlinger with Pimpla 
laticeps out of C. notatus in fir cones; a single specimen of 
Hadrocerus wnispinosa ®® (11, 183) was bred, with a mass 
of B. palpebrator, Pteromalus guttatus and a few Diptera, 
from a great number of young dead fir trees from the 
Ostree coast, which had been killed by this weevil, though 
the parasitism is doubtful. Péteromalus guttatus is said 
(i, 188 et 11, 193) to be one of the commonest parasites of 
this beetle ; P. clavatus (11, 202) emerged from Trier firs, 
infested by C. notatus, from which also P. Dahlbomi 
(i, 202 et 11, 201) was raised in fir billets from several 
places in the Mark; several 2 2 P. /wnula (ii, 193) were 
bred from fir plants full of these larvae at Neunkirchen ; 
P. suspensus (/.¢.) was bred from this weevil at Trier and 
by Nordlinger from Pinus pinaster in which C. notatus and 
Hylesinus piniperda had bored; P. virescens®™ (ii, 204) 
was also raised from the same host at Trier. Brischke gives 
(Schr. Nat. Ges. Danz. 1880, p. 113) Pimpla brevicornis, 
Grav, var. 3, Holmer.,as well as Péeromalus guttatus, “ Aus 
Pissodes notatus erzogen”; and Giraud adds (Ann. Soc. 
Fr. 1877, p. 414) Bracon initiator Fab. and B. palpebrator, 
Ratz., as having been bred from it in France. 
189. Pissodes pint, Linn. 
I have had in my collection for some years (says Ratz., 
Ichn. d. Forst. 1. 193) a genuine Pteromalus pint which, 
from the attached number, appears to have been bred from 
Pissodes pint. 
190. Pissodes hercynie, Herbst.* 
Curiously distinct parasites from those of P. notatus were 
recorded from Curculio hercynix by Ratzeburg (I. ¢. ii, 214) 
who instances Pimpla terebrans, bred from it by Wissmann 
(ii, 89); Xorides crassipes and X. hercynianus, which two 
doubtfully distinct species were bred by Hartig from spruce 
