122 Ins. 
HYMENOPTEEA. 
Cryptus tricolor and obscurus, Grav, Food noticed, and pupa-case of 
the latter described ; Parfitt, Tr. Devon. Ass. xiii. p. 258. 
Hemiteles tenerrimus^ Grav., mass of cocoons mentioned, and H. are- 
atoi\ Panz., variety described ; id. 1. c. pp. 261 & 263. H. melanarius, 
Grav. (parasitic on Vanessa c-album), redescribed ; Holmgren & Zetter- 
lund, Ent. Tidskr. ii. pp. 48-50, 68 & 59. 
A grothereutes batavus, YoW., recorded as new to Britain; Bloomfield, 
Ent. M. M. xvii. p. 258. 
Pezomachus distinctiis (Billups, P. E, Soc. 1881, p. ii.), geochares^ and 
xylochophilus, Forst. (id. 1. c. p. xxii.), and micrurus, Forst., recorded as 
new to Britain ; Pickard Cambridge, Ent. xiv. p. 137. 
Brachycyrtus, g. n., Kriechbaumer, CB. Ver. Regensb. xxxiv. p. 161. 
Allied to Hemiteles ; type, B. armatus, sp. n., 1. c. p. 163, Munich. 
New species : — 
Phygadeiion tarsatus^ Bridgman, Tr. E. Soc. 1881, p. 150, pi. viii. fig. 9 
& 9ci, Arran. 
Cryptus antennatus^ id. 1. c. p. 153, pi. viii. figs. 10 & 10a, Norwich. 
C. gallarmriy Budow, Ent. Nachr. vii. p. 79. Parasitic on Nematus 
viminalis, Linn. 
Hemiteles gallarum, id. 1. c., parasitic on Nematus viminaliSy Linn. 
II. gyriniy Parfitt, Rep. Devon. Ass. xiii. p. 261, and Ent. M. M. xviii. 
p. 79 (bred by J. Hellins from pupa of Gyrinus natator ; cf. Ent. M. M. 
xviii. pp. 88 & 89), Exeter. 
Aptesis nordenshiceldi and palanderiy Holmgren, Nov. Spec. Ins. 
pp. 15 & 16, Novaya Zemlya. 
Ophionides. 
Osprynchotus JlavipeSy Brulle ($ &. var. $ ), and Paniscus capensisy 
Holmgr., noticed ; Gribodo, Ann. Mus. Genov, xvi. p. 260. 
Limneria albida, Gmel., cocoon described, and tristis, variety described ; 
Parfitt, Tr. Devon. Ass. xiii. pp. 268 & 269. L. littoralis, Holmgr., re- 
corded as new to Britain ; Billups, P. E. Soc. 1881, p. xxii. L. mcestay 
Grav., redescribed ; Bridgman, Tr. E. Soc. 1881, p. 158. 
Exetastes osculatoriusy Fabr., variation described; Parfitt, 1. c. p. 272. 
New species : — 
Ophion sJcelloni and insUlaris, Kirby, Tr. E. Soc. 1881, p. 46, New 
Zealand. 0. tityri, Packard, P. Post. Soc. xxi. p. 19, United States 
(bred from Eudamus tityrus). 
Campoplex pieridicolay id. 1. c. p. 20, United States (bred from Pieris 
rapce). 
Limneria fitchiy fig. 13, barretti, fig. 14, and monticolana \ Bridgman, 
Tr. E. Soc. 1881, pp. 157-159, pi. viii., Britain. 
Cremastus retinicCy Cresson, Rep. Dep. Agric. 1879, p. 238, New York. 
Mesochorus aciculatus, Bridgman, 1. c. p. 162, pi. viii. fig. 11, Plymouth. 
Tryphonides . 
Mesoleptus ventralis, Curt., cocoon, and Polyblastus hilarisy Holmgr., 
pupa-case described ; Parfitt, Rep. Devon. Ass. xiii. pp. 274 & 276. 
