THE yOUNG 



NATURALIST. 



403 



MISTAKES. 



Elder Growing on Yew. — I should have 

 answered Mr. Gregson's remarks before, but 

 have been out of town. With all due defer- 

 ence to him I am still inclined to believe 

 that the two elders I saw were parasitical, 

 for I think they derived their nourishment 

 from the yew, as no soil or dead leaves 

 could have lodged there — they appeared to 

 be growing out of a rift in the bark of two 

 perfectly bare horizontal boughs, and those 

 not very large ones either. The next time 

 I go to Clieve, which I am afraid will not 

 be this year, I will try and pull one up, as 

 suggested by Mr. G. I was with the party 

 of naturalists mentioned in Mr. Deakin's 

 paper — and amongst whom was a very good 

 botanist — and called their attention to the 

 above, and the question as to their mode of 

 growth was discussed amongst them. 



I think attention should be called to the 

 following : — On page 43 Mr. Bath mentions 

 Helix ericetoruni as "having not yet hyber- 

 nated " — at Sutton, I take it. Now this 

 mollusc does not occur at Sutton, and is not 

 found nearer Birmingham than Dudley, in 

 quite another direction, and there very 

 sparingly.— G. F. Wheeldon, Birmingham. 



CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARDS 

 THE FAUNA OP PLYMOUTH. 



{By permission of the Author.) 



By Mr. G. C. Bignell, M.E.S. 



[Keprinted from the Transactions of the Plymouth 

 Instituti n and Devon and Cornwall Natural History 

 Society, 1881-82.] 



HYMENOPTERA; ICHNEUMONID.E. 



Arranged according to the Eev. T. A. Marshall's Cata- 

 logue, published by the Entomological Society of 

 London, 1872. 



{Continued from page 396.) 

 Apanteles solitarius. Bred from Toenio- 

 oampa stabUis and Orgyia antiqua A 

 new British species. 

 Q'ujici'us . Bred from Flusia iota and 

 cJiin/sitis 



congestus (Ns.) {^intricatus, Hal.) Bred 



from Tryphcena lyronuba 

 ruhripes. Bred from Geometra pajnlio- 



naria, Cabera, ptisaria, and Notodonta 



ziGzac 



glomeratus. Bred from Pieris brassiccs 

 spuritis (Wesm.; Bred from Ampliydasis 



betularia. A new British species 

 juniperatce. Bred from Zygcena filijjen- 



dulcB, Selenia illujiaria, Eybernia defoli- 



aria, Ejpliyra ^^mictaria, and Cidaria 



fulvata 



difficilis (Ns.) {=vestaUs, Hal.) Bred from 

 Euchelia Jacobece and Amjphydasis pro- 

 dromaria. 



tejiebrosus (Wesm.). Bred from Acrolepia 



pygmce ma. A new British species 

 formostis (Wesm.). Bred from OurajJterijx 



sambucaria. A new British species 

 fulvipes. Bred from Tryphcena orbom 



and NoctiLa xantTiographa 

 no'Jius (Rhd.). Bred from Melanijppc gali- 



ata and Cidaria jiyraliata. A new 



species 



MiCROPLiTis ocellates (Be.) {=ingratus, Hal.) 

 Bred from Smerinthus pop)uli 

 UibercuVifer (Wesm.). Bred from Polia 



fijvocincta. A new British species 

 Jlavijjes. Bred from Boarmia rejjandata 

 Microgaster subcomjjlet'us (Ns.) {aimuUpeSf 

 Curt.). Bred from Vanessa Atalanta 

 jjubesceiis (Ratz.). Bred from TJiera obe- 

 liscata 



Perilitus deceptor. Bred from Crocallis 

 elinguaria 



pulcliricoo'nis (Wesm.). Bred from Chei- 



matobia brumata 

 scutellator. Bred from Tcemocampa stabilis 

 xmicolor. Bred from Orthosia lota 

 Zele testaceator. Bred from a very thin, 



smooth, white cocoon. 

 CoPiDOSOMA chalconotmi. Dred from Be- 

 2?ressaria norvosa. 



7, Carence Place, Stonehouse, 

 i6th March, 1882. 



