HO THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



I.e., p. 29, pi. xviii, fig. 4, 2 . Eriodorus bimaculatus, Walck., 

 Faun. Paris, ii, 1802, p. 47. Godrus campanulator, Nees, I.e., 

 p. 353, excl. <?•• Serphus divagator {sic), Andre, I.e., p. 292. ? . 



Modern authors have seen fit to regard this female as distinct 

 from P. gladiator ; personally I am convinced that it is no more 

 than a brachypterous form thereof, for the entire structure is 

 identical throughout. Chitty fully concurred in this opinion. 



Italy, Hungary, Germany and France (Kieffer) ; it has 

 recently been bred in some numbers in southern Europe from 

 galls of the Dipteron, Lonchcea lasiophtlialma, on Dactylon ; 

 Vollenhoven, however, records it from the fungus-gnat, Sciophila 

 Urn., none of which are British ; it is said to occur in September, 

 sometimes under stones on the ground. Unknown to Haliday, 

 and Westwood's 1840 figure obviously refers to P. gladiator,- 

 apparently hitherto not found in Britain, and erroneously 

 recorded hence. I am glad to be able to definitely reinstate this 

 name in our fauna by the capture of a typical specimen running 

 on the bare sand during the afternoon of July 26th, 1904, on 

 Foxhall Plateau, near Ipswich, in Suffolk. 



8. Proctotrypes gladiator, Hal. 



Proctotrupes gladiator, Hal., I.e., p. 10, 2 . Vollenh., I.e., 

 p. 30, fig. 7, ? . P. bicolor, Hal. I.e., <$ . P. brevipemiis, West- 

 wood, Introd., ii, 1840, p. 169, fig. lxxviii, 2 . Serphus gladiator, 

 Andre, I.e., p. 294, $ 2 . 



Very rare in northern Ireland. Haliday took a female running 

 among grass roots on a sunny sandy cliff; near Dublin (E. 

 Ball) ; southern France (Walker) ; Sweden, Switzerland, Kussia, 

 Hungary (Kieffer). In my experience it is less frequent than 

 P. gravidator, but not rare by sweeping short herbage in the 

 most arid and sandy places, though not confined thereto ; some- 

 times on flowers of Composite, and by beating bushes in woods. 

 It has occurred to me only during September at Ipswich, in 1897 ; 

 Depden, Frostenden, Covehithe Broad on Tanacetum vidgare and 

 Senecio Jacobcea, and Baylham, except once, when a male was 

 swept as early as June 22nd at Brandon. These Suffolk dates 

 are connected by two other males found at Devonport during 

 July (P. de la Garde) and Southampton on July 25th (H. S. 

 Gorham) ; it has also occurred at Felden, in Herts (Piffard), and 

 during 1900 at Westleton, in Suffolk (Elliott). 



