INSECTS 



Phaeogenes stimulator (Grav.) Wesm. Retford, Ichneumon annulator, Fabr. (I. curvinervis, Holmgr.). 



Treswell (Carr) S. Leverton (Thornley) 



Mevesia argutus (Wesm.) Holmgr. Clumber (Miss bilineatus, Gmel. S. Leverton (Thornley) 



Alderson) confusorius, Grav. Hucknall Torkard, Edtolnstowe 



Herpestomus bruneicornis (Grav.) Wesm. Treswell (Carr) 



Wood (Thornley) deliratorius, Linn. (I. multiannulatus, Grav.). 



Alomyia debellator (Fabr.) Panz. Worksop (Miss Treswell Wood (Thornley) 



Alderson) ; S. Leverton and Tresviell Wood extensorius, Linn. (I. luctatorius, Linn.). S. 



(Thornley) Leverton and Treswell Wood (Thornley) ; 



Eurylabus dirus, Wesm. S. Leverton (Thornley) ; Wigsley, Bulwell Forest (Carr) 



Treswell (Carr) fabricator, Fabr. S. Leverton and Treswell Wood 



Probolus alticola (Grav.) Wesm. S. Leverton (Thornley) ; Southwell, Strelley (Carr) 



(Thornley) fuscipes, Gmel. Langford Moor, bred from larva 



Epiopelmus leucostigmus (Grav.) Wesm. Treswell of Acronycta leporina (Carr) 



Wood (Thornley) gracilentus, Wesm. Treswell Wood (Thornley) 



Amblyteles armatorius (Forst.) Holmgr. Worksop lanius, Grav. Strelley (Carr) 



(Miss Alderson and J. T. Houghton) ; S. latrator, Fabr. S. Leverton (Thornley) 



Leverton and Treswell Wood (Thornley) lineator, Fab. Clumber (Miss Alderson) 



negatorius (Fabr.) Wesm. S. Leverton (Carr) nigritarius, Grav. Treswell Wood (Thornley) 



occisor (Fabr.) Wesm. Arnold (Carr) ochropis, Gmel. Worksop (Houghton) 



palliatorius (Grav.) Wesm. S. Leverton (Thorn- sarcitorius, Linn. (I. vaginatorius, Linn.) Retford 



ley) ; Nottingham, Retford, Creswell Crags (Carr) (Pegler) ; S. Leverton (Thornley) ; Widmerfool 



Var. erythropygus (Grav.) Berth. Arnold (Carr) 



(Carr) terminatorius, Grav. Retford (S. Pegler) ; S. 



septemguttatus (Grav.) Thorns. S. Leverton Leverton (Thornley) ; Winkburn (Carr) 



(Thornley) ; Treswell (Carr) trilineatus, Gmel. S. Leverton (Thornley) ; 



Ichneumon anator, Fab. Worksop (Miss Alderson) Hucknall Torkard (Carr) 



BRACONIDAE 



The Braconidae form another very extensive family of parasitic Hymenoptera. They are 

 closely allied to the Ichneumonidae both in structure and habits, the larvae inhabiting the bodies of 

 larvae or pupae of other insects, especially butterflies and moths. 



Scarcely anything is known of these insects in Nottinghamshire. Several species of Bracon 

 have been identified, including B. caudatus, Ratz., bred by Mr. G. B. Rothera from oak-apple galls. 

 Apanteles glomeratus is as abundant here as elsewhere, and may be bred in hundreds from the larvae 

 of the cabbage white butterflies. A year or two ago, wishing to obtain some pupae of Pieris brassicae 

 for experimental purposes, I procured three dozen of the larvae, from which I only succeeded in 

 rearing two pupae ; all the rest yielded an abundance of the tiny yellow cocoons of the Apanteles ! 

 Macrocentrus col/arts, M. marginator and other species have been bred from Tortrix larvae, and 

 Microdus tumidulus from the larva of Catoptria bypericana at Worksop by Miss Alderson, who has 

 also taken Meteorus ictericus at Worksop. Chaenon circulator and Zele testaceator have occurred at 

 Treswell Wood and other places, and a large number of unknown Braconids in the writer's and 

 the Rev. A. Thornley's collections still await identification. 



TUBULIFERA OR CHRYSIDIDAE 



Ruby-Wasps 



The members of this comparatively small family are distinguished by the gorgeous coloration of 

 their exceedingly hard, coarsely-sculptured integument, the prevailing hues being brilliant metallic 

 green, blue, - and crimson. In spite of their rather small size they are therefore conspicuous 

 objects as they fly rapidly about in the hot sunshine. The eggs are laid in the nests of bees and 

 wasps and the resulting larvae feed on the bee- or wasp-grubs, and in some cases also on the food 

 stored up in the nest for the sustenance of its rightful occupants. Of the twenty-one British species 

 the following eight have so far been detected in the county by the Rev. A. Thornley and myself : 



Ellampus auratus, Linn. S. Leverton; Treswell Wood Chrysis ignita, Linn. Widely distributed and common. 



Hedychridium minutum, Lep. Langford Moor, New- At Bagthorpe, 'Nottingham, it occurs about the 



ark burrows of Colletes daviesana, and at Treswell 



Chrysis neglecta, Shuck. Treswell, about the burrows Wood it accompanies C. viridula about the nests 



of Odynerus spinipes of Odynerus spinipes. The Rev. A. Thornley 



pustulosa, Ab. S. Leverton captured some very large females at Elksley on 



cyanea, Linn. Thorney; Budby 1 6 July, 1900, which appeared to be parasitic 



viridula, Linn. ( = bidentata, Linn.). Treswell and on Odynerus antilope, and suggests that this 



Treswell Wood ; in some numbers about the may possibly account for their large size 



burrows of Odynerus spinipes ruddii, Shuck. S. Leverton 



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