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scribed by Forster is 72. These are tabulated on pp. 771-776, and after- 
wards fully described. The characteristic parts of the insects (wings and 
metanotum) are figured on plate 10. Besides the 72 species described by 
and known to Forster, among which are included C. cultrator, sugillator^ 
and mixtus of Gravenhorst, the following are recorded as described species 
unknown to him: — C.Jloricola (Gray.) and C. cannifro?is, hucculentus, niti- 
dulaior^ onelanarius, lappotiicua, and leptogaster (Ilolmgr.). 
Wesmael (Bull. Acad. Boy. Belg. 2® s6r. xxiv. pp. 441-482) remarks 
upon the synonymy and characters of numerous species of this family. 
Under his subgenus Eupalamus, he corrects Taschenberg’s description of 
the orbits of E. oscillator {^eBm..)^deliratorius-{-pallipes (Gray.). Under 
Chasmodes, he states that in C. motatorius $ the sixth abdominal segment 
has the back wliite, and notices the cf of C. higens. Under Ickneumon 
the following species are referred to : — I. fahricator (Gray.), yars. of S ) 
I. nigritarius and fabricator $ , the distinctiye character deriyed from the 
closure of the superomedial t^reole of the metathorax is insufficient ; I fagi- 
tivus (Gray.), distinctiye characters indicated ; I, rujifrons and pallidatorius 
are c5' and $ of the same species=rz^rows (Wesm.) ; I. midtiguttatus 
(Gray.) and centummacidatus (Christ.) are (5' and $ of one species, which is de- 
scribed j I. leucocerus (Gray.) cS —sinister (Wesm.)— soniorbitalis (Gray.) cf 
yar. 1 ex parte j I. luteiventris (Gray.), yariation ; I. fatmus (Gray.), notes on 
the ascription of the name and on the course to be adopted in selecting the 
name of a species formed by the conjunction of two nominal species founded 
on different sexes j I. inquinatus (W esm.) \ I. sarcitorius (Gray.), yarieties j 
I. gemellus (Gray.), characters and yariation. Under Amblyteles : A. ca- 
tnelinus (Wesm.), characters and yarieties j A. uniguttatus (Gray.), characters 
of S discussed at great length and tabulated; A.panzeri (Gray.), correction 
of character of J ; A. occisorius (Gray.), yarieties ; A. crisqmtomis (Fab.), 
yarieties; A. natatorius (Gray.), of which I. xanthozosmus (Gray.) is the c?, 
yariations indicated and illustrated by figures (figs. 1-4, $ , 5-6, ^ abdomen) ; 
A. inspector (Wesm.), yar. IIeresiarciies eudoxius (Wesm.), correction 
of character of mandibles. Oronotus coarctatus (Wesm.) = hinotatus 
(Gray.). In the additional note (/. c. pp. 637-543) Wesmael notices two 
species which haye been referred to aboye, and furnishes alphabetical indices 
to his memoirs on the European Ichneumones Platyuri, Amblypygf Oxypygi, 
and Pneustici. 
Ichneumon crassipes and latrator (Gray.) are $ and S of the same species, 
and include, as a short- winged yariety, Brachypterus means (G ray.) =P^ero- 
cormus means (Forst.). T. A. Marshall, Ent. M. Mag. y. p. 155. 
Aptesis. Marshall remarks that in order that it may include Grayenhorst’s 
Pezomachus hemipterus the character giyen by Forster for this genus must 
be modified by the omission of the statement that the first segment is 
punctate, not longitudinally wrinkled.” This segment is distinctly wrinkled 
in A. hemiptera and in one of Marshall’s new species. Ent. M. Mag. y. 
p. 155. 
Pimpla nucum (Batz.). Tschek (Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. in Wien, xyiii. 
pp. 446-448) describes the two sexes of an Ichneumon which he identifies 
with this species, and of which he thinks the d may be one of the forms of 
Grayenhorst’s Ephialtes inanis. 
Smith records the breeding of Ophion macrurus (Drury), a parasite of 
