THE ENTOMOLOGIST Vol. XL.1 OCTOBER, 1907. TNo. 533 PHALERA BUCEPHALA, Ab. In the above aberration of P. hucephala the general colour is smoky-grey, the double cross lines are black, and the apical patch is ashy-grey clouded with blackish. The head and thorax and the fringes appear to be normal, but the latter are partly rubbed off in the specimen. The hind wings are of the usual colour, but have a dark grey patch, as shown in the figure. Mr. Esson, of Aberdeen, who kindly sent it for figuring, in-forms me that the specimen was bred at Forres, and that he saw it alive. EiCHARD South. NOTES ON THE HYMENOPTEROUS FAMILY AGATHIDID^. By Claude Morley, F.E.S., &c. This family forms, with the Microgasteridfe, of which I have already treated {cf. Eutom. 1906, p. 99), the Areolarious group of the Braconidae, and is but sparsely represented by four small genera in Britain. It is, however, very widely distributed throughout the tropical regions of Africa and America, and its species appear to be almost or quite exclusively lepidopterous parasites. Our genera are very easily distinguished if the speci-mens be not carded : — ENTOM. — OCTOBER, 1907-U
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