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glomeratus. Bred from Pieris brassicce. I have found 142 cocoons 

 from one larva ; the usual numbers vary from forty to eighty. ] t 

 also infests P. rapce and Abraxas grossulariata. 



sericeus. A solitary parasite. Bred from Tethea retusa, 28th June ; 

 Dianthcecia cucubali, 15th May; Eupithecia pulchellata, 13th July. 



spurius. A gregarious parasite. Bred from Vanessa urticce, 1st Sep- 

 tember; Melitaa artemis (aurinia), 15th May ; Leucania liltor- 

 alis, 31st May; and Agrolis pmcox, 26th June. 



zygcenarum. Bred from Zygcena jilipendulm, 21st July. 



caia. Bred from Arctia caia, 21st April and 30th June. 



juniperatce. Bred from Odontoptera bideniata, 2nd April ; Selenia 

 illunaria (bilunaria), 12th July; Crocallis elinguaria, 3rd April; 

 Rimera pennaria, 19th June. 



nothus. Bred from Anticlea badiala, 26th June ; Epiuephcle Janira, 

 1st August ; Melanippe galiata, Tetkea return, Spilosoma menthastri, 

 1st August. 



difficilis. Bred from Zygana filipendulce, 26th July; Euchelia jacobcea, 



Bombyx rubi 3 17th August; Agrotis prcecox, Radena pisi. 

 punctiger. Bickleigh, 24th June. 



falcatus. Bred from Xylophasia polyodon (monoglypAa), 24th July. 

 dUecius. Bred from Gracilaria syringella, 16th July. 

 xanthostigmus. A solitary parasite. Bred from Biurnea fagella, 11th 



September. 

 prator. Oreston Quarry, 1st August. 

 emarginatus. Bred from Depressaria nervosa, 2nd August. 

 obscurus. A solitary parasite. Bred from Ebulea crocealis, 12th and 

 30th July. 



viminetorum. Bred from Elachista magnificella, 30th June. 

 albipennis. A solitary parasite. Bred from Lioptilus microdactylus, 



22nd June; found in March in the dead stems of Eupatorium 



cannabinum. 



impurus. Bred from Tortrix Forsterana, 2nd August. 



g agates. Bickleigh, 21st and 29 th August. 



fuliginosus. Bred from Gracilaria syringella, 16th July. 



sicarius. Bred from Sericoris littorana, 19th June. 



octonarius. Bred from Notodonta ziczac, 23rd July. 



abjectus. Bred from Lophopteryx camelina, 27th May. 



immunis. Bred from Pseudoterpna cylisaria (pruinata) , 20th July; 



Eybernia progemmaria (marginaria), 12th June ; and H. leuco- 



phcearia, 23rd June. 



cabem. A solitary parasite. Bred from Cabera pusaria, 5th April; 

 Iodis lactearia, 4th May ; Selenia illunaria (bilunaria), 14th April, 



