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 INSECTS electric light in Ipswich ; sometimes too they are attracted by sugar in the Bentley Woods, and Paget says that the latter was frequently met with in Yarmouth in 1834. Anomalon ruficorne and A. penpicuum have been found about Ipswich, Agrypon JIaveolatum at Lavcnham, and A. tenuicorne at Alderton. Paget once bred Opheltts glaucopterus from the chrysalis of Cimbex varians, which he instances at Lound Wood, and I possess an example taken near Bury St. Edmunds by Mr. Wratislaw, probably in Tuddenham Fen, where I have myself beaten it from birch bushes. Paniscus cephalotes, the well-known parasite of the puss-moth, was not uncommon here in 1894 ; P, virgatus has been bred by Ransom at Sudbury from Melanippe fluctuata ; P. testaceus is often attracted to light at night ; in the Bentley Woods I have once found P. tarsatus, and at Leiston P. cristatus once. Several kinds of Campoplex are common, but I can only refer to C. angustatus and C. tenuis with any degree of certainty ; and in the extensive, though at present inadequately worked, genus Limneria but few species have been satisfactorily determined. I have met with L. annulata about Lowestoft in August ; L. chrysosticta at Bramford and Claydon Bridge ; L. crasskirnis not uncommonly at Oulton and Barnby Broads, and Henstead ; L. exareolata and L. Faunus also in the marshes at Henstead ; L. fulvivmtris at Dunwich and Brandon ; L. fenestralis at Barnby Broad and in a fungus at Ipswich ; L, horealis at Burgh Castle and on the banks of the Orwell ; L. claviptnnh not uncom- monly in the Lowestoft district : L. iitoralis at Barnby Broad ; L. rufipa at Burgh Castle, and L. rufiventr'ti on the banks of the Gipping. I have, however, over seven hundred specimens of this genus from which most of the British species may with all probability be recorded. Cremastus interruptus has occurred to me at Claydon bridge and the Felixstowe cliffs upon flowers. Porixon hostilii and P. harpurus are common upon Angelica flowers in the autumn. Plectiscus zanatus has been found by Tuck at Tostock. Mesechorus pectoralii has been swept from thistles in the Bentley Woods in November ; M. confusus found on fennel flowers at Alderton ; M. vittator in Barnby Broad in August, and Tuck has found M. tetricus at Bury St. Edmunds. Thersilochus virsutus has been taken at Ipswich, where T. moderator is often bred from the pink larvae of Orchesia micam in Boleti on trees. Curtis took both sexes of Collyria calcitrador in Suffolk,'* and it is still abundant at Tostock, Bentley, Lavenham, &c., doubtless doing much good since it preys upon the Cephus pygmaeus, which is so injurious to wheat. Exetastes dnctipes is common in Ipswich and Woodbridge gardens, devouring the caterpillars of the cabbage moths ; I have captured E. il/usor on the banks of the Orwell in July ; E. guttatorius has been observed in Finborough Park, and is doubtless widely dis- tributed. Smith found the very rare Arotes albicinctus near Lowestoft," and both Wratislaw and Curtis '° have noticed Banchus pictus, which occasionally turns up in Bentley Woods, in the county. I have found B. variegatus sparingly about Ipswich, and B. fakator in the greatest profusion on Heracleum sphondylium flowers by the sea at Easton Bavents.'' The Tryphoninae are by no means well represented in our list, though we can instance over eighty kinds, and a great deal of heterogeneous material awaits elucidation. The pretty Mesoleptus cingulator is common on Screphularia in the Bramford marshes, Tuddenham Fen, and at Tostock ;. M. typhae has occurred in Bentley Woods, where M. testaceous is uncommon ; M. melanocephala occasionally falls to the beating stick in Tuddenham Fen in August ; M. paludicola and M. sulphu- ratus, together with what I believe to be M. furax, have been taken in Oulton Broad, whence Bedwell has given me Euryproctus geniculosus. E. nemaralis has turned up upon Angelica flowers at Barton Mills, and Tuck has found E. atomator in Finborough Park. Catoglyptus fortipes is common, and I have once captured C. fuscicornis in the Bentley Woods. Perilissus praertgater is abundant everywhere on flowers in the late autumn, with P. fiUcornis in Tuddenham Fen. Priinopoda glabra lives at Southwold in July, and Thymaris compressus at Tuddenham. Megastylus cruentator has been noted about Tostock and Lowestoft ; M. mediator at Wherstead in the end of October, and M. horealis in Staverton Thicks in June. Mesoleius sanguinicollis and M. virgultorum are found in the Bentley Woods ; M. caligatus in Herringswell Fen, M. aulicus at Foxhall, M. armillatorius with M. insolens at Brandon, and M. semicaligatus not rarely in the marshes about Beccles. Of the typical genus Tryphon, T. elongattr is common at Ipswich, Tostock, Lowestoft, and Dodnash ; T. rutilator at Bentley Woods and Felixstowe ; T. vulgaris at Ipswich ; T. trochanteratus on Heracleum at Moulton ; T. signator at Tostock by Tuck ; T. assimilis in Barnby Broad ; T. bicornutus at Claydon, Tostock, and Foxhall ; and I once swept the handsome T. scotopterus in some numbers in Stanstead Wood, where also has occurred an example of Grypocentrus lativentris, G. albipes has been found at Barton Mills, and G. basalis is very abundant in our woods in the spring. Trematopygus albipes has occurred to Tuck at Benacre Broad, and in the Bentley Woods Eumesius crassicornis is. found sparingly in May. The larviparous Polyblastus varitarsus and P. cothurnatus are not rare on flowers in the autumn ; and I have once found P. mutabilis in Tuddenham Fen in June, and P. pinguis once upon the Southwold cliff's. P. calcar is attracted to fennel-flowers at Alderton, P. JVestringi inhabits Barton Mills, and P. carinator is not uncommon. Erromenus hrunnicornis is. '« Cf. Farm Insects, 257. " Cf. Ent. Ann. 1859, p. liz. " Brit. Ent. 588. " Cf. Ent. Mo. Mag. 1903, p. 157. "5