108 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



cides nigra, Linn., Agraylea multipunctata, Curt., and Micropterna 

 sequax, McLach. But as the common S. permistus is not recorded 

 at all, it suggests that this species is meant. I have reckoned Dale's 

 Hydroplila tineoides as sparsa, not femoralis, Eaton. L. vittatus,. 

 S. pallipes and M. nigra seem curious omissions from my list. 

 Neuronia ruficrus, Scop., is recorded from Holnest, and Apatania 

 muliebris, McLach., from Blandford, bringing the Dorset total to 

 83. I have a list of 39, most of which, judging from their habits 

 and distribution elsewhere, would probably be found were the 

 county thoroughly worked throughout. This would give Dorset 

 121 species. The remaining 53 species are probably too northern 

 or alpine in habit, or require haunts of a kind not developed in 

 Dorset, such as wide-spread fen country and broads on the one 

 hand or mountain torrents on the other. 



Brookside, 



Winfrith, 



Dorset. 



A SYNOPSIS OF BEITISH PROCTOTBYPID^ 

 (OXYUBA). 



By Claude Morley, F.E.S., F.Z.S., etc. 



(Continued from p. 83.) 



5. Pkoctotrypes parvulus, Nees. 



Codrus parvidus, Nees, Hym. Mon., ii, 1834, p. 360, $ ? . 

 Proctotrupes parvulus, Hal., I.e., p. 14, $ $ . Serphus parvulus, 

 Andre, I.e., p. 315. 



A little-known species. Germany "in Fungis, praesertim in 

 Boleto circinante, Mycetophillarum larvis infestato, gregarius ; 

 Septeinbre et Octobre mensibus in memoribus " (Nees); and 

 JFinmark in July. Not common in woods during autumn 

 (Haliday) ; females gregarious in Boleti (Walker). I bave bred 

 this species in some numbers from Boletus-fungi on old elm- 

 trees about Ipswich ; but, as I have already remarked (' Trans. 

 Entom. Soc.,' 1907, p. 39), it is impossible to determine if these 

 were parasitic upon the dipterous genus Cecidomyia, the beetles 

 Orchesia micans and Phalacrus corruscus, which were also bred 

 therefrom, or upon Meteorus obfuscatus and Thersilochus orchesia, 

 Mori., which were themselves parasitic upon the above Orchesia ; 

 judging solely by the comparative bulk of these various insects, 

 it is probable that the Proctotrupes was a direct parasite upon 

 this Heteromeron. Felden, in Herts, doubtless bred (Piffard) ; 

 bred from Orchesia micans at Luccombe Chine, in Isle of Wight, 

 on May 7th, 1914 (J. C. Pool) ; several bred from Diphyllas 

 lunatus in Sphacria concentrica at Oxford (Lyle), who has proved 



