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ICHNEUMONID^ BRED DURING THE YEARS 

 1887 AND 1888 BY MEMBERS OF THE SOUTH 

 LONDON ENTOMOLOGICAL AND NATURAL 

 HISTORY SOCIETY. 



Read 27th December, 1888, by Mr. T. R. Billups, F.E.S. 



I propose taking the species alphabetically, simply making 

 a note of any that may be uncommon ; and I should add that 

 I am compelled to keep back for a future paper many species 

 which, at the present moment, are undetermined. 



Apanteles iinpurus, Nees, bred by Mr. South from CncEmido- 

 phorus rJiododactyliis, Fb. Apanteles fidvipes^ Hal., Mr. South 

 reared in some numbers from Toxocampa craccce, Fb. This 

 appears to be a new host for this species. Apanteles vimene- 

 torum, Wesm., was bred in some numbers by myself from 

 the lilac leaf-miner, Gracilaria syringella, Fb. This is also a 

 new host for this species. Apanteles spurius, Wesm., was 

 reared by Mr. South from Halia vauaria, L. ; by Mr. Adkin 

 from Arctia caia, L. ; and by myself from a cluster of cocoons 

 found attached to a leaf of plum tree. Apanteles xantJw- 

 stignius, Hal., was bred by Mr. South from Gracilaria stigina- 

 tella, Fb. ; while Mr. Elisha bred Apanteles bicolor, Nees, from 

 Lithocolletis lantanella, Schr. Apanteles pallidipes, Reinh., 

 was reared by myself from a cluster of cocoons found on a 

 thistle growing on the railway bank, East Dulwich. Apan- 

 teles nothus, Reinh., was bred by Mr. Elisha from Lithocolletis 

 lantanella, Schr. This species is the smallest of the family of 

 Apanteles, and Mr. Elisha has found it a new host. Apan- 

 teles congestiis, Nees, was bred by Mr. South from the larvae 

 of Hadena pisi, L.; Apanteles tetriais, Reinh., was also bred by 

 Mr. South. This species has hitherto only been observed in 

 Devonshire, Mr. South has not only succeeded in rearing it 

 from an unknown larva feeding on Anneria maritima, Willd. 

 but has found it in a new locality, The Warren, Folkestone. 

 Apajiteles zygcBnarmn, Marsh. This insect is one of the 

 Rev. T. A. Marshal's new species, and hitherto only known 

 from five specimens being bred by Mr. Bignell from Zygcena 



