Utah State University DigitalCommons@USU Co Bee Lab 5-1-1911 The Entomologist: An Illustrated Journal of General Entomology No. 576 Claude Morley S. H. Leigh C. J. Gahan A. E. Gibbs A. E. Wileman T. D. A. Cockerell See next page for additional authors Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/bee_lab_co Recommended Citation Morley, Claude; Leigh, S. H.; Gahan, C. J.; Gibbs, A. E.; Wileman, A. E.; Cockerell, T. D. A.; Girault, A. A.; and Strickland, E. H., "The Entomologist: An Illustrated Journal of General Entomology No. 576" (1911). Co. Paper 290. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/bee_lab_co/290 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Bee Lab at DigitalCommons@USU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Co by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@USU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Authors Claude Morley, S. H. Leigh, C. J. Gahan, A. E. Gibbs, A. E. Wileman, T. D. A. Cockerell, A. A. Girault, and E. H. Strickland This article is available at DigitalCommons@USU: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/bee_lab_co/290 WATKINS & DONCASTER Naturalists and Manufacturer of Entomologic~• Apparatus and ' Cabinets, P!tdu Hiug Nets, wire or cane, iuclt1ding Stick, ls. Bd., 2s., 2s. 6d. Folding }l et6, 3s. 6,l., ¼6, Owbrella Nets (self-acting), ';b. Pocket Boxes, 6d., 9d., ls., ls. 6d. Ziuc llelaxiug Boxes, 9d., ls., ls. 6d., 2s. Nested O1.iipBoxes, 7d. per four dozer,. !Dntomologioal Pius, assortecl or mixed, ls., ls. 6d. per oz. Pocket Lanterns, 2R. 6d. to 86. 811a11rine 'fin, with brush, ls. 6d., 2s. Sugaring Mixture, ready for use, ls. 9,l. per tin. Store Boxes, with camphor cells, 2s. 6d., 4s., 5s., 6s. Settin11 Boards, fiat or oval, 1 in., 6d.; l ½ in., 8d.; 2 in., 10d.; 2½in., ls.; B! in., ls. 4d.; -i in., ls. 0cl.; 5 in., ls. 10d.; Oomolete Set of fourteen Boards, 10s. Hd. Setting Houses, !ls. 6d., lls. 0d.; corked b·aok, 14s. Zinc Larva Boxes, 9d., ls., ls. 6d. Breecliug Gage, 2s. 6d., 4s., 5s., 7s. 6d. Ooleopterist's Oolleoting Bottle, with tnbr,, ls. 6cl., ls. Bel. Botanical Oases, japanned, double tin, ls. 6d., 2s. 9d., Bs. 6d., 4s. 6d. Botanical Paper, ls. Id., ls. 4d., ls. 9d., 2s. 2d., per quire. Insect Glazed O11seE, 2s. <icl. to lls. Oemont for rllplil.cinl!' Antennre, 4d. per bottle. _Steel Forceps, ls. 6d., 2s., 2s. 6d. per pair. Oabinet Oork, 7 by BL best quality, ls. 6d. per dozen sheets. Brass O1.iloroform Bottle, 2s. 6d. Insect Lens, ls. to 8s. Gla!!s-top and Glass-bottoml\d Boxes from ls. per dozen. Zinc Killing Box, 9,1., ls. Pnpa Digger, in leather sheath, ls. 9d. Taxidermist's Oompauion, containing moRt necessary implements for skinning, lOs. 6,l. Scalpels, ls. Btl.; Scissors, 2a. per pair; Egg.,lrills, 2d., 3d., 9,1.; Blowpipes, 4d., 0d.; Artificial Eyes for Birds nn,l Animals; Label-lists of British Butterflies, 2d.; ditto of Birds' Eggs, 2d., Bd., 6d., • ditto of Lnnd and FreRh-wnter Sltells. 2d.: U sefnl Books on Insects, Eggs, &c. SIL VER PINS for collectors oI Micro-Lepidoptera, &c., as well as minute insects of all other families. \Ve stock various sizes nml lengths of these Silver Pins, which h[tve certaiu advantages over the ordinary pins, whether euamellecl, black, or Rilvered or gilt. For instance, inRec-s liable to become greasy, t1nd verdigriRy like Sesiid;e, &c.. are best pinned on Silver Pins, which will last much longer. \Ye shall be pleased. to send patterns on application. SHOW ROOM FOR CABINETS Of ~Vel'y ,lesoription for lNSEUl'S, BIRDS' EGGS, COINS, MwROSOOPWAL OBJECTS, Fossu.s, &c. Or1talogue (100 pp.) sem on application, post free. A I. A lW I~ S 'f O CK O I? IN SEC '.l' S AND BIRDS' E G 0 S \IIRl'l'ISH, KOROPEAN 1 ANO KXUTIO). Bird~, M1111w11il1,.Jo., Pre,erved a11£l Mounted by Fir,t-ola•• Worim•M'- 36, STRAND, W.C. , LONDON, ENGLAND. NEWMAN'SNEW BREEDINGJARS. UI'rE a ucw bree,ling-cnge complete, most excellent for rearing young lnrv:e Q and small species . Sand and moss may be placed in them (especially q1rnrt size) for larvoo to pupate in; I can thoroughly recommend. Instructions printeil on siue of jars; strong and cheap, made in three sizes: !Jalf-piut, 3d. each, 2s. !ld. per dnzen; piut, 4d. ea\h, 3s. 6cl. per dozen; quart, 5d. each, 4s. 6d. per dozeu. !'ncking aud postage Bd. extra on few, one dozen post free. Try one of each size; yoii will want a tlozen. Remember my WONDERFUL HELAXING Trns are still as good as ever, 2s. 4d. and 3s. lld. post free; they keep insects in lovely setting condition for weeks: also relax to perfection old dry insects. If you want well-set, reliable insects, fine healthy ova, larvte, and pupw, I have the finest to offer you. Send for latest pri'lle-lists. L. W. NEWMAN, F.E.S., BEXLEY, KENT. LIFE=HISTORIES of British Lepidoptera, mo1mted on food-plant in neat ghtzed cases, selections on approval. British Lepidoptera, 1500 species, preserved larvre. British Coleopter:1, 2000 species. Tropical Butterflies, 2500 species. Tropical Coleoptera, 6000 species. Ilymenoptera, Diptera, Hemiptera, British and Tropical. A htrge number of good second-hand Store-boxes, neat glazed Cases, and a few Cabinets. A. FORD, South View, Irving Road, Bournemcuth . The Entomologist, Ma y, 1911. PLATE VI. A o ■ • G, 1 P H OTO• 0• A B• LTD• , IMP , FROM THE WALLS OF TLEMCEN. ? Mosque of Sidi,e l-Haloui in foreground . THE ENrfOM OLOG IST VoL. XLIV.] MAY, 1911. [No. 576 A NEW SPECIES OF PIMPLIN.iE. BY OLA.UDEMoRLEY, F.Z.S., F.E.S. IN May, 1908, Mr. G. T. Lyle noticed that many aborted flower-heads of gorse near Brockenhurst, in the New Forest, contained larva:i, and from these he bred the Oecidomyiid, Aspondylia ulicis, Trail, together with severa l Ohalcid parasites. During the following September the seeds of the gorse were much galled, and he collected a good many affected pods, breeding from them the same Oecidomyiid and two species of Ohalcidida:i. On September 20th two Ichneumonids emerged from the galled seed-pods, and some three or four hours after emergence were seen to be in cop. During 1909 Mr. Lyle failed in attempts to breed more of thi s Ichneumonid, but in the autumn of 1910 he was rewardecl by the presence of five mal es and one female of the same species from the pods. He has been so good as to allow me to examine these, and, since they have certain ly not been previously brought forward, I propo se to call them P impla ulicicida, sp. nov. Head black, with only the palpi pale; mandibles slender, with teeth of equal length. Antennrn slender, filiform, and hardly longer than half body. Thorax nitidulous, and finely punctate throughout, with notauli short but deeply impressed ; mesonotum entirely or broadly at sides ancl base, mesopleurrn and sternum more or less broadly, and metapleurrn always, with metanotum often, bright red; tegulrn and a circular callosity beneath them stramineous ; meta­ notum longitud inally bicarinate, with no dis·cal arern, and the petiolar very short; spiracles quite circular and not very small. Scutellum ancl postscutellum always entirely red. Abdomen linear, strongly punctate and white-pilose, with the tubercles obsolete as in Scarnbits ; entir ely black above, with the segments longer than broad, and be­ coming quadrate at fourth in female and sixth in male; basal segment parallel-sided, of male twice and of female but very slightly longer than broad, punctate throughout, male with discally parallel carinai . ' extending nearly to its apex ; terebra exactly as long as abdomen. Anterior legs strami neous, with only the onychii infuscate; front ENTOM .- MA.Y, 1911. N 162 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. femora not emarginate beneath ; hind coxre and femora fulvous, with apices of former whitish, and the trochanters subinfuscate; hind tibire dull white, infuscate at both base and apex, and subincrassate before the former; apical hind tarsal joint at most thrice longer than penultimate; claws of female basally lobate. Areolet small, sub­ sessile, and strongly transverse; stigma pale piceou s or luteou s ; nervellus subgeniculate, though but obsoletely interc epted, a third below its centre. Length, 4-6 mm. J' , '? . The elongate segments and rufescent thorax lend this species much the facies of Ephialt es, to which genus I was at first inclined to refer it; it is, however, a true Pi1npla of the Epiurus group, and very distinct among our indigenous species, where it should stand between P. p01noruni, Ratz., and P. gallicola, Morl. I have been at some pains to place it in the pah:earctic fauna, and find its closest allies to be the black P. vesica1·ia, Ratz. (lchn. d. Forst. i. 115), and the pale-faced P. pictifrons, Thom s. (Opusc. Ent. viii. 757) ; but it appears to most closely approach the Mallorcan P. erythronota, Kriech. (An. Soc. Espan . Nat. Hist. 1894, p. 248), a larger and stoute r insect with the abdomen much less cylindrical. Mr. Lyle has been so good as to present me with the type of both sexes. Pimpla has very rarely been raised from Diptera, and I am aware of but two instances of the kind: Rondani once bred in Italy what he called P. altemans from Asphondylia genistce, Lw., and I have quoted at some length (Ichn. Brit. iii. 88) Giraud's observations on P. detrita, bred from the galls of Ochtiphila polystigma, Mg., on Triticwn repens in Austria. fWith reference to the two species of Chalcididre mentioned in the foregoing note, M.