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which I erroneously stated (E. M. M. 1908, p. 269) to have been 

 hitherto not bred, is said (Andr6, xv. 1897, 80) to have been 

 raised by Bignell, in Devon, from Coccyx strobilella, Linn. There 

 are specimens of Bracon abscissor, first noted as indigenous by 

 me (E. M. M. 1906, p. 109), from Swanage, Nunton in Wilts, 

 Cornworthy, Botusfleming, and Niton, in Isle of Wight; it is 

 probably not rare. Of B. piger, Wesm,, previously only noted 

 from Belgium, there are examples from both Cornworthy, in 

 Devonshire, and Nantes, in France. B. intercessor is not re- 

 corded as British ; there is a male bred " by W. H. B. Fletcher 

 from Gelechia obsoletella ; Bridgman has three more," presumably 

 contained in his collection, now in the Castle Museum at 

 Norwich. A female Bracon scutellaris, Wesm., also new to 

 Britain, is labelled " Plumstead, Ist June, 1893." B. subcylin- 

 dricus, Wesm., is represented as indigenous by a single female, 

 captured by Marshall in the "Isle of Wight." I have just 

 examined a female B.fulvipes, Nees, bred by H. M. Edelsten on 

 July 15th, 1908, from Ccenobia riifa. 



Exothecus incertus, Wesm., must be added to our fauna on 

 the strength of a single male in Marshall's collection, captured 

 by him at Botusfleming, in Cornwall. In like manner we must 

 include Clinocentrus stigmaticus,M.?iX^\i., next to our C. vcsilgator, 

 on the strength of an example (not in the collection), recorded 

 by him (Andre, xv. 131). Allodorus semirugosus, Nees, has not 

 been found with us before. There are three examples in the 

 collection, two labelled "Aviemore, 23, 76," by Champion, and 

 one from " Kannoch," in Marshall's handwriting; it is one of 

 the Sigalphkles. It is very remarkable how few of each species 

 Marshall possessed in the Areolarii ; nearly all are represented 

 by one, two, or three specimens only. The most populous is 

 Apanteles fidvipes, Hal., of which there are eighteen. Nearly all 

 the bred examples are from Bignell's collection, and one can but 

 wonder that, with such a paucity of material, Marshall arrived 

 at so full a knowledge of the group ; how full it is can only be 

 shown by subsequent work upon it, though personally I have 

 found but few specimens which could not be assigned to one or 

 other of his excellent descriptions. Of Agathis there are but 

 two males of A. brevisetis, Nees, and a single female of his 

 A. angelica from Britain ; though A.malvacearum is represented 

 from Corsica, A. nigra from Nantua, in the Jura Mountains, and 

 A. tibialis, ex coll. Konow, from Mecklenberg. Marshall had 

 already taken Apanteles tenebrosus, brought forward by me from 

 Britain (Entom. May, 1906), at Nunton, in Wilts. Microdus 

 pinnilu!^, Katz., also new to our fauna, is represented by a female 

 found by him at Cornworthy, near Totnes. 



