iSOO THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Miresa vulpina, sp. n. 



g' . Head and thorax bright reddish brown, abdomen rather 

 duller. Fore wings reddish brown, flecked with glossy whitish 

 scales ; postmedial line blackish, incurved before the inner margin. 

 Hind wings paler. 



Expanse, 42 millim. 



Collection number, 726. 



One male specimen from Kanshirei (1000 ft.), June 17th, 1908. 



Near M. inornata, Walk. 



(To be continued.) 



ICHNEUMONID^ TAKEN IN CORNWALL, 1910. 



By W. a. Rollason, F.E.S. 



In contributing this report of my past season's captures, I 

 have first to deplore, in common with most brother entomolo- 

 gists I presume, the extremely bad climatic conditions which 

 prevailed throughout the year, and with such short periods of 

 what the entomologist would call favourable weather for collect- 

 ing. Following as it did the bad season of 1909, it proved parti- 

 cularly disastrous for Lepidoptera ; consequently I was rather 

 agreeably surprised to find ichneumons almost as plentiful as in 

 the previous year, when I took nearly two hundred and thirty 

 insects, the more important species of which I recorded in last 

 year's volume of this Journal (pp. 53 and 54) ; this year my 

 total was about one hundred and seventy, the decrease being 

 due to absence from the county for a fortnight and a further 

 period of nearly three weeks, when the pressure of some special 

 work prevented my taking any excursions. I have again to 

 express my indebtedness to Mr. Claude Morley, F.E.S. , F.Z.S., 

 for the encouragement and generous assistance he has rendered 

 in the determination of all the following species, the record of 

 which will, I trust, prove of interest and value : — 



Nine Species New to Cornwall. 



Barichneumon lepiclus, Grav. — One male, July 2nd, near Scaws- 

 water ; one male, September 12th, Lizard district. 



Microcrypkis sericans, Grav. — One male, July 2nd, near Truro ; 

 there is no British record instanced in Morley's vol. ii., but in MS. 

 from him, dated November 21st, 1910, he says, " I have now a single 

 male from Scotland." [There are two males in Mus. Brit, from Bug- 

 brooke, in Northants (Marshall), and Stephens's coll. — C. M.] 



Panargijrops pellucidator , Grav. — One male, June 4th, Devoran. 



Pycnocryptus peregrinator, Linn. — Three males and two females, 

 July 8th and 9th, near Scaws water and Calenick, on Heracleum 

 flowers. 



