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INSECTA, HYMENOPTERA.
COUPER (Canad. Ent. ii. p. 113) makes observations upon the economy
of an unknown Ichneumon, of which about 40 specimens were bred by him
out of a spider's cocoon found at Montreal.
The larval stages of a parasite (presumed to be an Ichneumon) upon a
black spider are detailed by Lichtenstein (Ann. Soc. Ent. Er. 4 e stir. x. Bull.
p. lxxii).
KAWALL (S. E. Z. xxxi. p. 108) mentions large individuals of Pimpla examinatov
(Grav.) bred from Hyponomeuta padella. He also records a curious
5 specimen of Xylonomus rufipes (Grav.); suggests that Mesostenus niveatus
(Gr.) is the cf and M.pyyostolus (Gr.) the 5 of the same species; and describes
the cf of Rhyssa curripes (Gr.), and a queried 9. var. of Cryptus abiominator
(Gr.).
Ichneumonides.
TASCHENBERG (Z. ges. Naturw. 1870, Bd. ii. pp. 209-272, 309-416,
449-470) tabulates the species of Ichneumon, Gr, with linear or linear-elliptic
spiracles to the abdomen, consisting of Chasmod.es (p. 213), Exophanes (ibid.),
Ichneumon (p. 214 et seq.), Amblytel.es (p. 252 et seq.), Catadelphus (p. 205),
Acolobus and Hepiopelmus (p. 266), Anisobas and Listrodromus (p. 2G7), Probolus
and Eiivylabus (p. 268), Platylabus (p. 269 et seq.). Diagnoses of and
observations upon the various known spp. of these genera are given (p. 369
to end), and two new species are described, some synonymy (especially of
WesmaeTs spp.) also being given. Chasmodes motatatorius (Gr.) is mentioned
as bred from Caradvina aivee (p. 369) ; C. paludicola (Wesm.) and
Exephunes occupator (Grav.) from pupas of Nonagvia iyphce (p. 370); Ichn.
satiivatovius, Gr, from Calamia phragmitidis (p. 395) ; I. exornatus, Gv,
from Geometra junipevata (p. 402) ; Amblyteles fasciatorius (Gr.) from Brotolomia
meticulosa, and A. infractorius (Gr.) from Agrotis corticea (p. 414);
A. oratovius (Gr.) from Noctua bitumen (p. 416); A. unilineatus (Gr.)
from Nonagvia paludicola (p. 449) ; A. culpatovius (Gr.) from Meliteea matuvna
(p. 450); A. sputator (Gr.) from Plusia gamma (p. 454) ; A. camelimis
(Wesm.) from Vanessa cardui, antiopa, io, 'polychloros, and Sphinx clpcnor
(p. 455); A. mesocastanus (Gr.) from Caradvina cubicularis (p. 458); Eurylabus
lavvatus (Gr.) from Ilavpyia vinula (p. 463).
HOLMGREN (Eugenies Resa, Insecta, i. pp. 395) describes the males of
Ichneumon ledandei, St.-F, from C. of Good Hope.
TASCHENBERG (B. E. Z. xiv. p. 425) describes an hermaphrodite example
of a new species of Amblyteles (cf. Z. ges. Naturw. 1870, Bd. ii. p. 450).
Ichneumon binotatus, Steph. nee F>eav.,=lencomelas, Gm.; Amblyteles vubvirentvis
( \Vesm.) = castanopygus (Steph.) : Marshall, I. c. pp. 6 & 8.
Matava, g. n, Holmgren, I. c. p. 395 (no comparative diagnosis given). Sp.
M. niyripennis, sp. n, Holmgr. ibid., Buenos Ayres and Montevideo, Taf. viii.
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New species:—
Ichneumon. Holmgren, I. e, describes the following spp.:—1. Icevifrons,
p. 302, erijthvogastev and cimspevsns, p. 393, unieinctus, p. 394, C. of Good
Hope; astutus, p. 394, California.
Phceogenes me/anogaster, Holmgr. /. e-„ p. 396, Patagonia.