INSECTS Ophion minutus, Kriechb. First taken in Britain at Fairlight in 1880 (cf. Savage, E.M.M. 1 88 1, p. 236) Schizoloma amicta, Fab. A female, perhaps not from Sussex, in the Hastings Museum Anomalon ruficorne, Grav. Guestling — bellicosum, Wesm. Guest/ing in 1888 — clandestinum, Grav. Dallington Agrypon flaveolatum, Grav. Guest/ing in 1888 — tenuicorne, Grav. Guest/ing in 1880 Trichomma enecator, Rossi. Guest/ing in 1889 Opheltes glaucopterus, L. An example, without locality, in Hastings Museum ; preys upon sawflies Paniscus cephalotes, Holmgr. Bred from Dicranura vinula at Guest/ing — virgatus, Fourc. Guest/ing, etc. ; probably common — testaceus, Grav. Hastings, Fair/ighit, etc. — fuscicornis, Holmgr. Guest/ing, Fair/ight (Bennett) — latungula, Thoms. First taken in Britain near Hastings Campoplex pugillator, L. Hastings, Ore — cultrator, Grav. Hastings district — rugulosus, Forst. Guest/ing
1889
— femorator, Bridg. „ „ „ — foveolatus, Forst. „ „ 1890 — angustatus, Thoms. „ ,,1888 — erythrogaster, Forst. „ „ 1889 Cymodusa leucocera, Holmgr. Ho//ington — cruentata, Grav. Hastings district Casinaria orbi talis, Grav. Hastings — vidua, Grav. Ore ; doubtless abundant ; it preys upon Abraxas grossulariata — tenuiventris, Grav. Fair/ighit Limneria annulata, Grav. Hastings district — difformis, Gmel. „ „ — erucator, Zett. Pett, Fair/ig/>t — distincta, Bridg. Bred by Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher from Gelechia lentiginosella, Abbots JVood (Bridgman) — fenestralis, Holmgr. Fair/ig/it — majalis, Grav. Hastings — mutabilis, Holmgr. Fair/ig/jt — nana, Grav. A doubtful specimen at Hastings — obscurella, Holmgr. Hastings — rapax, Grav. Hastings district — rufipes, Grav. An example, queried by Bridgman, at Guest/ing — tristis, Grav. Batt/e — brischkei, Bridg. Hastings district — cursitans, Holmgr. Ecc/esbourne — dumeticola, Holmgr. Hastings district — kriechbaumeri, Bridg. Ho//ington (Esam) — lugubrina, Holmgr. A specimen, of which Fitch was doubtful, in the Hastings district Limneria ovata, Brisch. — volubilis, Holmgr. Batt/e Nemeritis macrocentra, Grav. Fitch could not quite determine an example from Peppering Powder Mi//s Atractodes gravidus, Grav. Hastings district Exolytus lasvigatus, Grav. Harting (Beau- mont), Guest/ing Mesochorus confusus, Holmgr. Hastings — pectoralis, Ratz. Ore — pictilis, Holmgr. All the species of this genus are hyperparasitic — tetricus, Holmgr. Two at Harting in August by Beaumont (fide Marshall) Plectiscus zonatus, Grav. Hastings district Collyria calcitrator, Grav. Hastings and St. Leonards in June, 1 900 (Esam) ; Guest- /ing Exetastes osculatorius. Fab. Hastings (Ben- nett), Guest/ing ; doubtless common — guttatorius, Grav. Hors/ey in August (Beaumont), Guest/ing — illusor, Grav. A doubtful specimen taken near Hastings by Bennett — albitarsus, Grav. Guest/ing in 1889 Banchus variegator. Fab. „ „ 1887 — falcator. Fab. St. Leonards TRYPHONIDES Mesoleptus melanocephalus, Grav. Guest/ing — testaceus. Fab. Guest/ing in 1889 — typhae, Grav. ,, „ 1879, etc. — sulphuratus, Grav. Hastings district Catoglyptus fuscicornis, Gmel. Guest/ing in Euryproctus geniculosus, Grav. Guest/ing in 1880 — notatus, Grav. The only British record is that of a doubtful example at Fair- /ig/}t Perilissus filicornis, Grav. Guest/ing, etc. ; probably common — prxrogator, Grav. Abundant throughout Britain on Heracleum flowers in autumn — bucculentus, Holmgr. The only British example was taken at Peppering Powder Mi//s Megastylus erythrostomus, Grav. Fair/ig/it Mesoleius aulicus, Grav. Hastings — sanguinicoUis, Grav. Guest/ing in 1 89 1 — sylvestris, Grav. Guest/ing in 1 880 — armillatorius, Grav. A doubtful example at Guest/ing in 1889 — formosus, Grav. Guest/ing — multicolor, Grav. Guest/ing in 1879 — semicaligatus, Grav. Fair/igljt [27
