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France. Not very common in English woods (Walker) ; once 

 taken abundantly during September in Ireland (Halidav) ; two 

 at Burgess Hill in Sussex on May 3rd, 1911 (Lyle) ; Scotland in 

 September (Cameron). Very rare in my experience. I have 

 swept it from long grass near Coniferse, at Bourne Bridge, in 

 Ipswich, during May, and near Killarney, in Ireland, during 

 early June. It once occurred among half a dozen P. fuscipes 

 during May on lime leaves in my Monks Soham garden." 



3. Proctotrypes longitarsis, Thorns. 



Proctotrupes longitarsis, Thorns., Ofv. Sv. Ak. Forh., xiv, 

 1857, p. 415 ; Vollenhoven, Pinacographia, iv, p. 30, pi. xviii, 

 fig. 8, 2 . Serphits longitarsis, Andre, I.e., p. 340, 3 2 . 



Algeria, south coast of France, Lapland. Not hitherto 

 recorded from Britain. I possess a female, correctly named by 

 both Marshall and Chitty, which was captured by Alfred 

 Beaumont on October 13th, 1894, at Boxhill, in Surrey. Chitty 

 himself took one at Dodington, in Kent, on October 2nd, 1903, 

 and I have found it singly at Tuddenham Fen in early June, 

 and on Southwold beach during late and mid-September, in 

 Suffolk. 



4. Proctotrypes aculeator, Hah 



Proctotrupes aculeator, Hal., I.e., p. 14, <$ 2 ; Blanch. Cuvier, 

 Begne Anim., 1849, pi. cxv, lig. 4 ; Voll., I.e., iv, 1876, p. 30, 

 pi. xix, fig. 3, 2 . Serphus aculeator, Andre, I.e., p. 219, 3 ? . 



France and Finmark. "A parasite of Mycetophila nigra," 

 Mg. (Voll., who figures the female with entirely rosy and deeply 

 notaulate mesothorax !). Not infrequent in woods (Haliday 

 and Walker) ; Niton, in Isle of Wight (Marshall). Not very 

 common with us. It doubtless hibernates, for my dates range 

 from November 4th, 1897, when I swept it in a marsh at 

 Bramford, in Suffolk, through mid-April, when it was beaten from 

 Pinus sylvestris at Bentley, near Ipswich, to May 3rd and 4th r 

 1907, when Chitty and I found several on spruce fir at Elveden ; 

 Southwold, on salt-marsh rushes in mid-September, on the 

 Suffolk coast ; Felden, in Herts (Albert Piffard) ; Attenborough, 

 Gedling, Mapperley Plains and Teversall, in Notts, during May 

 (Notts Museum) ; Coventry on July 10th, 1920 (Saunt) ; several 

 at Bubwith, near Selbv, in Yorks (Dr. Fordham) ; Ballater on 

 August 8th, 1910, in Scotland (Elliott). 



(To be continued.) 



