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and describes the species, of which he enumerates 17, or 19 including A, Umi- 
(Wesm.) and hisulcatus (H.-Sch.), with which he is unacquainted. The 
known species are as follows : — A. excmis (H.-Sch.), armatus (W esm.) 
= luteicom%8 (H.-Sch.), imtahilis (Wesm.)=^a//iV?a (Ruthe)=/mora^is-f-»’w- 
Jivmtrk (H.-Sch.), canifrons (Wesm.), ri(fipes (L^i.):=.huhntulus (Wesm.) 
=^pallipes {K.-^(Ai.)=^muUiarticiilatus ?),rujidms (Wesm.)=rtf/?jJ6's (H.- 
Sch.) (Ratz.), gonocephalus (Wesm.), elegans (Nees), varipes 
(W&sm.')=:atriceps (Ratz.), qiiadridentatus (y^QSX![i,')=impressiis-\-quadridens 
(H.-Sch.) =s^m^7^s (Ratz.), similis (Nees) = (Wesm.)=mon/- 
licornis (H.-Sch.), hicarinatus (H.-Sch.), ruficeps (Nees), [and anmdaris (Nees). 
Calyptus (^=iBrachistes^ Wesm.). Reinhard (l.c. pp. 369-370) remarks 
upon the characters by which this genus may be distinguished from Sigal- 
phm and Euhadizon, — from the former by the margination of the abdomen 
being confined to the base \ from the latter by the first segment being dis- 
tinctly narrowed towards the base, and scarcely longer than the breadth of its 
apical margin. Reinhard tabulates 20 species of this genus (/. c. pp. 370, 
371), 10 of which are described as new. The known species are : — C. nasuius 
(Wesm.),uneigenis (Wesm.), (Wesm.), minutus (Ratz.), 
(Wesm.), fmcipalpk (Wesm.), longicaudis (Ratz.), rohustua (Ratz.), rugosiis 
(Ratz.), atricornis (Ratz.). Sigalphus fasciatus (Nees) belongs to this genus, 
but is unknown to the author. C. ptiber (Hal.) is probably identical with C. 
unoigenk. C, tihialk (Hal.) is unlniowii to Reinhard. 
Marshall describes (Ent. M. Mag. iii. pp. 190-191) a short- winged Cryp-- 
tus found by him in the Isle of Wight, which was supposed to be a specimen 
of C. incubitor (Strom) with abnormally reduced wings, or perhaps a new 
species, for which Desvignes proposed the name of C. brevipennk. Marshall 
describes the wings, which are perfectly symmetrical. He suggests that 
Brachypterus means {(XmY. ^^Ptet'ocornms means (Forst.) is probably a similar 
short-winged form of Ichn, crassipes (Linn.). 
The habits of Ophion macrurum (Linn.) as a parasite of Telea polyphemus 
are describe^, by Trouvelot, who also gives a woodcut of the insect (Amer. 
Nat. i. p. 89). 
Taschenberg communicates some observations on the development of the 
parasites of Ncenia typica. Zeitschr. ges. Naturw. xxvii. p. 188. 
F. Smith refers to instances in which Ichneumonidse with long ovipositors 
pass those organs through solid wood in search of the larvm in which they 
are parasitic. Proc. Ent. Soc. 1867, p. Ixxxv. 
Platygaster boscii and P. niger ? (Nees) are noticed by A. Forel as para- 
sitic on Cecidomyia brassicce (Winn.). Bull. Soc. Vaud. Sci. Nat. ix. p. 83. 
Plmpla sagax and Qlypta resinance have been bred by Kawall from Coccyx 
resinana. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1867, p. 122 . 
Oresbius, g. n., Marshall, Ent. M. Mag. iii. p. 193. Allied to Aptesk j an- 
tennea unicolorous, twice as long as head and thorax 3 metathorax not areated. 
Sp. O. castaneusy sp. n., Marsh. 1. c. p. 194 (fig. p. 193), Perthshire. Also 
captured by Sharp on Goatfell (Ent. M. Mag. iv. p. 18). 
New species 1 --^ 
Ichneumon cambriensk, Desvignes, Ent. M. Mag. iv. p. 130, Wales. 
Phygadeuon reinhardiiy Jaennicke, Berl. ent. Zoitschr. 1867, p. 154, and P. 
gracihy Jnenn. 1. c. p. 166, near Frankfort. 
