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Argynnis cydippe, L., race clarens, Vrty., June 21st-27th. A. aglaia, 

 L., race appenninicola, Vrty., May 24th-June 20th. A. niobe, L., race 

 not identified, June lst-July 5th. 



Pyrameis cardui, L., race universa, Vrty., I. gen. uriiversa, May 24th- 

 June 4th. P. atalanta L., race atalanta, May 24th. 



Aglais urticae, L., race turcica, Stgr., May 24th. 



Polygonia egea, Cr.. race egea, I. gen. egea, May 24th. P. c-album, 

 L., race c-album, II. gen. hutchinsoni, Robson, June 17th. 



Dr. Verity will publish an account of the races not yet identified. 

 The number of species collected in the brief period of residence in 

 Calabria is remarkable, but the number of individuals is very small ; 

 of many species only one or two specimens were collected. The 

 aberrations found in Calabria are also very few : — 



A female of Z. meliloti wanting the dark pigment on body and wings. 



A male of the same species in which the dark band of the hind- 

 wings is so much extended as to leave only a small red point in the 

 ■centre. 



A male of Z. scabiosae with a red ring on the abdomen. 



A male of Z. ragazzii with the white spaces much reduced in 

 number and dimensions and the hindwings quite dark. 



A male of P. argus with extensive fulvous marks on the upperside 

 of the hindwings. 



A female of A. crataegi with the transparent space at the end of 

 the cell of the forewings extremely broad. 



A male of M. athalia very dark. 



(To be continued.) 



New Species of Myrmecophilous Hymenoptera — Proctotrypoidea. 



By L. A. BOX, F.Z.S., F.E.S. 

 The types of the species here described are in Mr. Donisthorpe's 

 ■collection of myrmecophiles and were taken by him in the nests of the 

 ants mentioned. 



CERAPHRONIDiE. 



Lagy nodes niger. Kief., aterior, var. n. 



Male. Length 1* 2mm. Alar expanse 2 "7mm. Besembles niger in the colour 

 being entirely black, the tegument being smooth and shining, the detail of the 

 head and antennae, the shape and detail of the abdomen, the dividing sutures of 

 the scutellum reaching at their junction in the centre to the posterior edge of the 

 mesonotum, and the radius being distant from the extremity of the wing by two- 

 thirds of its length. It differs in having the wings distinctly blackish or smoky, 

 "the scape red only at the base, the rest dark brown, the femora black or fuscous 

 ■ except at the knees, the tibiae fuscous in the centre and the abdomen without trace 

 of reddish colour. 



From nest of L. fuliginnsus at Woking on September 27th, 1920. 



Ceraphron fuliginosi, sp. n. 



Female. Length 1mm. Alar expanse l'8mm. Entirely black. "Wings 

 normal, forewings fuscous except at the base and having a somewhat clearer area 

 below the radius, hindwings slightly fuscous. Marginal nervure straight, not 

 thickened so as to form a stigma, the radius half as long again as the marginal 

 nervure. Abdomen not compressed, ovoid and acuminate at the tip, very smooth 

 and shining, devoid of striation at the base. Head and thorax smooth and shining 

 tbut finely acupunctate and clothed with short fine whitish hairs. Antennee 

 •entirely black, except the scape at the apex and the second joint piceous, with ten 



