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Species of Tenthredinidae, Iclmeumonidae, Chrysididfe, Formi- 

 cidae, &c., of Japan" {loc. cit.), which is in the General Collection. 

 Smith gives but a very short description, which is, however, 

 I'endered sufficient by his remark that "this species very closely 

 resembles the Plmpla (stliiops of Europe " ; this is perfectly true 

 and a comparison of the new specimen with the type and the 

 latter species in the British Collection proves its identity with 

 the former. The female in question was bred on June 27th, 

 1901, from a larva of Attacus {Philosamia) walkeri, Feld., at 

 Kobe, in Central Japan. 



Mr. Wileman has also presented two males of Protichneumon 

 laminatorius, Fab,, bred by him at Kobe, in Central Japan, from 

 the cosmopolitan Spbingid, Macroglossa stellataruw , Linn. Its 

 occurrence in Asia is remarkable, though it has been known to 

 occur at Yokohama, whence Kriechbaumer records three females 

 (Sitzb. Nat. Ges. Leipzig, 1895, p. 127). These Japanese males, 

 both of which have very faint traces of a flagellar band, differ 

 from the European form only in their darker wings (as noticed, 

 loc. cit.), with incrassate nervures, the basal nervure slightly 

 more continuous through the median and the flavidous angles of 

 the postpetiole. P. laminatorius has nowhere before been bred 

 from this host, though the closely allied P. fuscipeimis, Wesm., 

 is known to prey upon it {cf. my * British Ichneumons,' i. 19). 



Fred. Smith says in his above-quoted paper that " it would 

 be difficult to point out a specific difference " between Ichneumon 

 laminatorius and his /. cognatorius, and does not attempt to do 

 so, relying solely upon the different habitat to distinguish them. 

 He gives three male and one female varieties, besides the type 

 form, all of which are preserved in the General Collection. 

 Their synonymy needs rectifying thus : — 



I. COGNATORIUS, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1874, p. 387, male 

 and female. — The single type is a large male with infumate 

 wings, exactly resembling Wileman's specimens, except that the 

 apical angles of the second segment are also narrowly pale. 

 Taken by Lewis at Hiogo. 



Var. i. — A single large male, differing from the type only in 

 having the wings less infumate, the face black with its orbits 

 alone narrowly pale, and the flagellum broadly pale-banded. 

 Captured with the type. 



Var. ii. — Three large females, undoubtedly those of the type 

 form, and agreeing well with Kriechbaumer's description. One 

 labelled "Hiogo. Var. 2; male," and all collected by Mr. E. 

 Fortune in Japan." 



Var. iii.— This is an entirely distinct species from the above, 

 belonging to the genus Stenichneumon, with its metanotal areola 

 distinctly longer than broad but not rectangular. 



Ichneumon flavitarsis, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1874, 

 p. 389. — This must be added to the above varieties, since it is a 



