136 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



description (Hist. Ins. Hym. iv. 81) is accurate as far as it goes. 

 The economy of this species is outHned by F. H. Chittenden 

 (' Insect Life,' v. (1893), p. 247 ; cf. iii. p. 461). It is said to be 

 ektoparasitic upon larvse of the Longicorn beetle, Leiopus vaiie- 

 gatus, Hald. No male has yet been assigned to it ; the female, 

 as is usual in the genus, is probably much the commoner sex. 



104. punctatus.* — 1 <? ; " Habitat in Coromandel." This is 

 quite certainly the Pimpla ceylonica of Peter Cameron (Manch. 

 Mem. 1899, p. 165), for I have compared the types inter se and 

 find them to agree ad amussim. The latter author is incorrect 

 in supposing Krieger's description of Xaiithopimpla punctata (Ber. 

 Nat. Ges. Leipzig, 1899, p. 101) to appertain to a distinct species. 

 The fault lies entirely in the Fabrician diagnosis. 



74. extensor. — 1. Glypta sculpturata, Grav., ?. Fabricius 

 refers the species to Linnfeus and Geoffroy, but it is impossible 

 to read any meaning into the old descriptions, such as Fourcroy 

 (Ent. Paris. 1785, p. 423), Schrank (Fauna Boica, 1802, p. 270), 

 Walckenaer (Fauna Paris. 1802, p. 60), or Latreille (Hist. Crust, 

 et Ins. 1805, p. 180 ; cf. Grav. Ichn. Europ. 1829, iii. pp. 980-1). 

 And the name has hitherto been, and still should continue to be, 

 applied to Ephialtes extensor, Tasch. (Zeits. Ges. Nat. 1863, 

 p. 255), which I have recently been enabled to add to the British 

 fauna through the kindness of E. A. Cockayne, Esq., who took 

 it in Kensington Gardens in 1908 {cf. also Marsham, Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. 1797, p. 23). 



77. strobilellfe (labelled " Ichn. strobionellae ? Fabr. Sp. Ins. 

 No. 77")- — This is a typical Lissonota cylinclrator, Vill., $; by 

 no means representing its description, which is simply copied 

 from Linnaeus (Syst. Nat. ii. p. 935). " Habitat in Larva Pha- 

 laenas Strobilella3 & Turionellse." 



[" Ichn. Fuscator, Sw. MSS. Ex Ins. Sandwich." — An en- 

 tirely black, red-legged Ephialtes, differing in no appreciable way 

 from E. extensor, Tasch. I suspect some unfortunate transposi- 

 tion has here taken place, for Fabricius describes this species in 

 his 'Piezata' of 1804, p. 85, under the name Cryptus fuscator, as 

 having only the front pair of legs red, with a black mark before 

 the apices of the wings, both of which points diverge from this 

 specimen.] 



65. compunctor. — 1. A large female PwipZa (Apechtis) brassi- 

 earice, Poda. 



MS. Genekic Label :— OPHION. 



96. luteus. — 2 $ ? : (1) Ophion luteus, Linn. 



(2) Paniscus ? testaceus, Grav. 



100. Morio.*— 1 ? . " Habitat in America boreali." This 

 is a rather broken specimen, and was correctly placed in his 

 genus Thyreodon by Brulle in 1846. It is quite common through- 

 out Northern and Central America ; specimens in British Museum 



