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ditarsus. Cur. ; of this solitary parasite a female only was 

 bred by Mr. Hall from the larva oi Abraxas grossulariata^'L,. ; 

 this very uncommon parasite was also bred by Mr. Adkin from 

 Melitcsa aurinia, Rott., a male and two females being the 

 result. According to the Rev. T. A. Marshall this species 

 has not been noticed by any writer but Haliday, who dis- 

 covered it in North Ireland and the Hebrides ; four specimens 

 have, however, since been bred by Messrs. Bignell and Fletcher, 

 its host being Eupithecia expallidata, Guenee. Meteorus icteri- 

 cus, Nees, the commonest of the British species, has been 

 bred by Mr. Adkin from Pcsdisca sordidana, Hb., type form, 

 and both sexes ; while from 1 ortrix piceana, L. he has reared 

 2 males and a female, \ arieties of the same species. Mr. Well- 

 man has also bred it from Hyponomeuta plumbelluSy Schiff. 

 Meteorus pallidipes, Wesm., both sexes of this apparently 

 rare species have been bred by Mr. Adkin from larvae of 

 Pcedisca sordidana, Hb. ; while from Tortrix piceana, L. Mr. 

 Adkin has bred both sexes of Meteorus punctiventris, Ruthe ; 

 and a single male of Meteorus unicolor, Wesm., was bred b>' 

 Mr. South from the larva of TetJiea retusa, L. Amongst the 

 Macrocentrides, we have that very delicate and fragile-looking 

 parasite, Macrocentrus ihoracicus, Nees, two females and one 

 male, bred by Mr. C. Fenn, from larvae of Tortrix bran- 

 deriana, St. ; while from Pcsdisca sordidana, Hb., Mr. Adkin 

 bred a single female of Macrocentrus marginator, Nees, Mr. 

 Waller breeding two females from Sesia culiciformis, L. The 

 very abundant and gregarious species, Macrocentrus abdomin- 

 alis, Fab., was bred by Mr. C. Fenn from Tortrix bran- 

 deriana, St., in some numbers, but females only. Mr. Turner 

 bred Macrocentrus infirmus, Nees, from the larva of Zeuzeva 

 pyrina, L., both sexes, and in great numbers, no less than 157 

 specimens emerging from one larva ; large as this number 

 may seem, it has been outdone by Mr. Bignell, who once bred 

 no less than 172 from a single caterpillar of Hydrcecia peta- 

 sitis, Dbl. Zele discolor, Wesm., this exceeding rare Bracon 

 was bred by Mr. Barker from the larva of Boarmia abietaria, 

 Hb. — one of each sex. Copidosonia cidaria, Th., this 

 minute parasite was bred in immense numbers by Mr. 

 Short from Thera finnata, Hb., no less than 472 being bred 

 from one larva ; it was also bred from Emmelesia unifasciata, 

 Haw., by Mr. Adkin. From the ova of Lepidoptera I suc- 

 ceeded in rearing two small forms of OxyuridcB in Telenomus 

 nitidulum, Walk., from ova found attached to sallow at 

 Horsley, parent unknown, and Telenomus phalcsnarum, Nees, 

 from the ova of Fygcera curtnla, L. This concludes the list 



