INSECTS ICHNEUMONIDES Chasmodes motatorius, Fab. Hastings, Guest- ling, Mountfield, Brede, Beaufort Park ; in tufts of Aira casspitosa ; doubtless common during the winter Ichneumon bilineatus, Gmel. Hastings — lineator, Fab. Fairlight in 1884 — impressor, Zett. A female at Guestling in August, 1886 — castaneiventris, Grav. Guestling — scutellator, Grav. Hastings district — computatorius, Mull. Battle, Guestling, Hastings — sarcitorius, L. (vaginatorius, L.) Little- hampton (Elliott), Shipley (Gorham), Guestling, Hastings ; on flowers in August ; doubtless common — xanthorius, Forst. Hollington — confusorius, Grav. Hastings district ; Brede, Battle, etc., in March (Morley) — gracilentus, VVesm. Hastings district — bisignatus, Grav. Mr. Bignell has named this as taken at Hastings by L. B. Hall — extensorius, L. (luctatorius, L.). Guest- ling ; Hastings (Esam) ; common at roots of grass about Hastings in April (Morley) — latrator, Fab. Hastings, Fairlight, Battle, Brede, etc.; abundant. I have taken the brachypterous variety means at Pep- pering (Morley) — gracilicornis, Grav. Guestling in 1889 — quadrialbatus, Grav. Guestling — analis, Grav. A female at Battle in grass tufts in March, 1900 (Morley) — saturatorius, L. Hastings — nigritarius, Grav. Guestling in 1888 ; it occurs in woods in May — fabricator, Fab. Battle and several times at Guestling ; a common species ; I. maculifrons, Ste., is the male of this species — annulator, Fab. (curvinervis, Holmgr.) Guestling in 1 8 80 and 1 891 — coruscator, L. Guestling — luteiventris, Grav. Hollington (Theobald) — lanius, Grav. Hastings ; occurs among oaks in May — albilarvatus, Grav. Hastings district — vacillatorius, Grav. Not uncommon at Guestling — dumeticola, Grav. Hollington ; Hastings in 1897 — leucomelas, Gmel. Hastings ; probably not uncommon — sanguinator, Rossi (discrepator, Wesm.) Eccleshourne (Theobald), Hastings dis- trict (Bennett) ; said to occur in ants' nests in winter Ichnuemon albicinctus, Grav. Fairlight, Guestling ; Brede in March (Morley) ; a common species Exophanes hilaris, Grav. (exulans, Grav.) Hastings in 1887 (Bennett) Amblyteles palliatorius, Grav. Hollington ; Hastings (Connold) ; an abundant species in August — armatorius, Forst. Hastings (Collett and Connold) ; Hollington, Guestling ; a somewhat common species in the neighbourhood of Bodiam (Esam) — oratorius, Fab. Powder Mill Ponds near Battle. I. cingulipes, Ste., is a variety of this species which Mr. Connold has taken at Hastings — flavocinctus, Desv. Hastings district — quadripunctorius. Mull, (notatorius, Tren- tep.) — subsericans, Grav. Guestling, probably common ; Hastings in August (Beau- mont) — gravenhorsti, Wesm. Guestling — castigator. Fab. St. Leonards — fuscipennis, Wesm. (fusorius, Brit. Cat.) Both sexes bred from larva; of Chaero- campa porcellus. Beachy Head, 1892 (Esam) ; also bred from Rye Probolus alticola, Grav. Several females at Hastings (Esam) Trogus lutorius. Fab. An example, perhaps not from Sussex, in the Hastings Museum Platylabus pumilio, Holmgr. Hastings dis- trict — dimidiatus, Grav. Hastings district Colpognathus celerator, Grav. Harting [Beau- mont) ; Battle, and common at Brede in March (Morley) Dicoelotus pumilus, Grav. Fairlight — pusillator, Grav. Hastings district Phaogenes semivulpinus, Grav. Guestling in 1888 — planifrons, Wesm. A doubtful example at Guestling in 1877 — melanogonus, Gmel. Guestling — stimulator, Grav. Hastings — fulvitarsis, Wesm. Hastings district — cephalotes, Wesm. Dallington — jucundus, Wesm. Hastings — trepidus, Wesm. Hastings district — impiger, Wesm. „ „ Alomyia debellator, Fab. Eastbourne, Hastings (Esam) ; Guestling ; doubtless common in the autumn CRYPTIDES Stilpnus gagates, Grav. Fairlight — deplanatus, Grav. „ 25
