February, 1916. The Irish Naturalist. 
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ICHNEUMONIDAE AND BRACONIDAE FROM 
COUNTIES ARMAGH AND DONEGAL. 
BY REV. W. F. JOHNSON, M.A., F.E.S., M.R.I. A. 
These insects continue to engage my attention, and I find 
them increasingly interesting as I become better acquainted 
with them. The pubhcation of the fifth volume of Morley's 
" British Ichneumons," dealing with the Ophioninae has been 
a great help to me, and I am able m consequence to bring 
forward a number of these insects. The species enumerated 
in the present list were all captured in the neighbourhood of 
Poyntzpass and Coolmore. My captures at the latter 
locality were all made in the month of September, which I 
spent at that delightful spot. I am much gratified at being 
able to record the occurrence of several rare and interesting 
species, showing that Ireland possesses in this group of 
insects many remarkable forms. Thus the specimens of 
Chasniias motatorius which I took at Coolmore are remarkable 
for their pale coloration, a form which has not so far 
been observed elsewhere. Other remarkable variations will 
be referred to under the separate species. In the case of 
Ichneumon militaris a point is cleared up by my specimen 
which had long been in doubt. 
I find Lissonota variipes very abundant, and the male 
form with pale face quite frequent. They abounded es- 
pecially on thistles both here and on the sandhills at Cool- 
more. L. sulphurifera I have met with very frequently here; 
in October I caught one in a railway carriage at Goraghwood. 
I was fortunate enough to capture a pair of this species 
in cop. They were on bramble leaves in the ditch in one 
of my fields. This is a most unusual circumstance with the 
ichneumons, and is the source of much difficulty, as very 
often it is quite an open question what male should be 
referred to what female, especially as in many cases they 
are quite different in appearance. Curiously enough I had 
a few days before observed another pair on the same place 
but did not succeed in capturing them ; as far as I could 
judge they were a species of Pimpla. 
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