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genus of Ichneumonidae contains nearly our largest species, 

 being only eclipsed by the genus Rhyssa. It seems some- 

 what remarkable that both these species, which, until just 

 lately, were the only recorded species in Marshall's List of 

 British Hymenoptera, should be bred from larvae taken in the 

 same locality. The third species, Tragus exaltatoritts, Panz., 

 was described by Mr. Bridgman in a paper read before the 

 Fellows of the Entomological Society of London, July 7th, 

 1886, from a specimen given to him by Mr. G. E. Bignell, 

 of Plymouth. 



Mr. Billups also exhibited a fine series ol Apanteles jitcim- 

 dus^ Marsh (PI. i, Fig. 12), both sexes being represented, as 

 well as the cluster of cocoons from which they emerged. These 

 little MicrogasteT-ides were bred from the larvse of Pieris bras- 

 siccE, L., received by Mr. South from Ireland. This exhibit 

 was especially interesting from the fact that there is no record 

 of the insect having been reared previously, and in describ- 

 ing it last year, the Rev. T. A. Marshall, in his Monograph 

 of the British BraconidcE, had but one specimen to work from, 

 that being a female, taken by sweeping in Northamptonshire, 

 the male being then unknown. 



Mr. C. H. Watson exhibited Acherontia atropos, L., (bred) 

 and Catocala sponsa, L., and C. promissa, Esp., from the New 

 Forest. 



Mr, Levett also exhibited A. atropos, taken on a fence in 

 the neighbourhood of Greenwich. 



Mr. E. Joy exhibited Cidaria sagittata, Fb., bred from 

 larvse taken in Wicken Fen, Cambridge. 



Mr. Helps exhibited Lasiocampa quercifolia, L. 



Mr. W. West (Streatham) exhibited two xanthic forms of 

 Bryophila perla, Fb., from Margate. 



Mr. W. G. Sheldon exhibited Phisia chryson, Esp., P. 

 festuccE, P. pidcJirina, Haw., Amblyptilia acanthodactyla, Hb., 

 and Tortrix ribeana, Hb. 



