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highest development in imagines of that genus. Morphology and 

 anotomy are closely studied, while wing neuration and markings are 

 discussed in even greater detail. Miyake concludes that the Japanese 

 Panorpids may, generally speaking, be grouped in two categories as 

 regards wing-marking : — (i.) apical dark part incompletely developed 

 and pterostigmatic fascia rather narrow ; (ii.) apical dark part com- 

 pletely developed and pterostigmatic fascia rather broad. 



Species of Panorpa frequent shady places, often resting on a leaf ; 

 they are dull insects, easily captured. They live chiefly on animal 

 matter, preferring dead or dying insects or other small animals, and 

 probably but seldom capturing living prey. Occasionally, at any rate, 

 they will feed on vegetable juices, &c. It seems doubtful if the 

 weaker and less active insects, comprising the genus Panorpodes, are 

 carnivorous at all. They are more mountain-loving insects, and are 

 sometimes attracted by light. Species of Bittacus prefer places 

 more shady than those affected by Panorpa. They suspend them- 

 selves from a branch or leaf by the legs (usually the fore ones). 

 Generally, but not entirely, their food is living insects which they 

 capture, k life-history given is that of Panorpa klugi, already 

 noticed in ' Entomologist,' vol. xlvi. p. 271. 



Miyake is inclined to reduce the number of genera and species of 

 Japanese Mecoptera, but he describes four new species : — Panor])a 

 arakava, Panorpa hahtsanensis, Bittacus takaoensis, and B. margi- 

 natus, and five new subspecies. Besides six figures in the text there 

 are ten excellent plates. W T T ttpas 



A Bevision of the Ichncumonidce. Based on the Collection in the 

 British Museum {Natural History). With Descriptions of New 

 Genera and Species. Part II. — Tribes Ehyssides, Echthro- 

 morphides, Anomalides, and Paniscides. By Claude Morley, 

 E.Z.S., F.E.S. Pp. i-xii and 1-140. Printed by Order of the 

 Trustees of the British Museum. 1913. 



The two hundred and ninety-eight species here dealt with belong 

 to the subfamilies (1) Pimplinas and (2) Ophioninae, each of which 

 comprise two tribes as follows : — (1) Rhyssides, numbering six genera 

 and seventy-two species (ten new), and Echthromorphides, two 

 genera and thirty-two species (six new). Pyramishyssa, Mocs., is 

 also mentioned in the table of genera, but is not otherwise referred 

 to. (2) Anomalides, sixteen genera (five new), and one hundred and 

 eighteen species (thirty-eight new) ; Paniscides, six genera (one new), 

 and seventy-six species (seventeen new). Lahrorychus, Forst., and 

 Erigorgus, Forst., are also given in the table of genera. 



In preparing this valuable revision, the author had the advantage 

 of ready access to Museum types, without which labour of this kind 

 would have been almost futile. 



The plate, which is in colour, represents a male specimen (much 

 enlarged) of Certonotus geniculatus, Morley, reproduced from a 

 coloured drawing by Mr. Rupert Stenton, who presented it to the 

 British Museum. 



