96 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



NOTES ON BRACONID^.— IX. : ON THE REMAINDER 

 OF MARSHALL'S COLLECTION. 



By Claude Morley, F.E.S., &c. 



I FOUND but little to note on going through the remainder of 

 this valuable collection at the beginning of March. Such facts 

 as are noteworthy relate to the synonymy and rectification of 

 the British list. 



Meteorus hrevipes, Wesm. : In the second volume of his 

 ' Bracon. d'Europe ' (Andr6, 1891), Marshall inserts this as an 

 insufficiently described species at the end of its genus, with the 

 remark, " Belgique (Bruxelles) ; un seul examplaire connu." 

 Subsequently he evidently succeeded in recognizing it, for in his 

 collection are eight males from Botusfleming, St. Albans, and 

 Cornworthy. It is somewhat similar superficially to M.filator, 

 Hal., though of stouter conformation. — Calyptus nificoxis, Wesm. : 

 One female is from " Darenth Wood " ; it was only previously 

 recorded from Belgium and Holland. — Alloa contracta, Nees, 

 male, is synonymous with Lamadatha testaceij^es, Cam. ! — Blacus 

 humilis, Nees, is a very doubtful species, and is, at least tem- 

 porarily, sunk to B. trivialis, Hal. — Blacus aptenodytes, Marsh., 

 is a synonym of Blacus mamillanus, Ruthe. — AplicEveta major : 

 Marshall erects a form he had previously (Andre, ' Bracon. 

 d'Europ.' ii. 401) considered a variety of A. cephalotes, Hal., to 

 the dignity of specific rank under this name, and records it from 

 " Angleterre." The type is not in his collection. — Haliday's two 

 species of Prosapha, Forst., are now synonymised under the 

 earlier name, speculum, Hal. — Aspilota distracta, Nees, is a 

 variety of the same author's earlier described " Baxsus'' concolor. 

 — The British Museum collection of British Aphidiinse (Flexili- 

 ventres) is peculiarly full ; it contains many of Haliday's original 

 specimens, a large collection, together with the Aphididous hosts 

 from Bignell, and all those in Marshall's possession ; others 

 from Stephens's and Desvignes's collections have not yet been 

 amalgamated, through lack of time to synonymise the old (and 

 often MS.) names under which they at present stand. 



Ditherus rujicollis, Cameron, the male type of which was 

 acquired by the Museum authorities in 1902, is nothing but a 

 synonym of Cardiochiles saltator, Nees. It is here represented 

 by both sexes, ex coll. Sir S. S. Saunders, from Albania ; 

 ex coll. Ruthe, from Germany ; and ex coll. Marshall, from 

 ** Caucase." 



The National Collection of British Braconidse is now re- 

 arranged. 



Monk Soliam House, Framlingham, Suffolk. 



