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12. Pkoctotrypes curtipennis, Hal. 

 Proctotrupes curtipennis, Hal., I.e., p. 12. Serphus curtipennis, 



Andre, I.e., p. 300, 2 . 



Instantly known by its brachypterous condition ; but the 

 structure, and. especially that of the metathorax and terebra 

 leaves little doubt that it is a mere form of P. calcar. Two 

 specimens alone are recorded, both fromEngland,but unlocalised; 

 one was taken by John Curtis long before 1839, as mentioned in 

 his Guide of that year (Haliday), and the other is in Marshall's 

 collection, which is in the Vienna Museum. It has not been 

 found in Ireland, pace Kieffer. I am the fortunate possessor 

 of a third specimen, kindly given me by Eev. H. S. Gorham, who 

 captured it during 1907 at Malvern, in Worcester ; and Dr. W. J. 

 Fordhain found another in 1917 at Bubwith, near Selby, in Yorks. 



13. Proctotrypes seticornis, Thorns. 



Proctotrupes seticornis, Thorns., I.e., p. 419, $ 2 . Serphus 

 seticornis, Andre, I.e., p. 304. 



Hitherto known only from Sweden. A single female was 

 swept by me so long ago as October 7th, 1899, in a very swampy 

 alder wood in the Bramford marshes, near Ipswich ; and another 

 on June 14th, 1907, from bracken in the particularly dry Wilverley 

 Inclosure of the New Forest. But actually I expect it to be one 

 of our commonest, though overlooked, species, for fully a dozen 

 were sitting quiescently below lime-leaves on June 20th, 1919, 

 in my Monks Soham garden after a thunderstorm. 



14. Proctotrypes fuscipes, Hal., $ ? . 



Proctrotrupes fuscipes, Hal., I.e., p. 13, ?. Serphus fuscipes, 

 Andre, I.e., p. 307, ? . 



Taken near Edinburgh during September ; also very rarely 

 in northern Ireland (Haliday). Not rediscovered since first 

 described, and the male is hitherto unknown, though it differs 

 only sexually from the female, and the species is really one of 

 our commonest. It is on the wing from May 18th, when it 

 emerged with the above Disogmus areolator, to September ; usually 

 swept from reeds and rushes in marshy places, but it also occurs 

 in some numbers on honey-dew on lime leaves in my garden 

 here, especially during thundery weather late in the day. Felden 

 in Herts (Piffard) ; Sherwood Forest in June (Carr) ; in a wicker 

 beehive at Bury St. Edmunds (Tuck) ; Kookley Wildnerness in 

 Isle of Wight (Morey) ; and Banchory in the Kincardine high- 

 lands of Scotland (Elliott). My numerous examples are from 

 Brandon Staunch, Monks Soham, Henham Park, Barton Mills, 

 Ousden on banks of the Biver Kennet, Easton Broad, Southwold, 

 Beydon, Westleton, in Suffolk, Louth in Lines, and Chippenham 

 Fen in Cambs. 



