Handbook to the natural history of Cambridgeshire / edited by J.E. Marr and A.E. Shipley.

Date:
1904
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Credit: Handbook to the natural history of Cambridgeshire / edited by J.E. Marr and A.E. Shipley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Kirb., Osmia pilicornis, Sm., 0. hicolor, Sclik. C/irysis ignita, Linn, is common, and C. viridula, Linn, has been seen nesting in the wall of Swaffham Prior church. Of the parasites, 58 belong to the Ichneumonidae and include such things as Dinotomus lap)idator, Fab., which I recently brought forward as British; Ichneumon dispar, Poda, from Whittlesea by Curtis; tlie rare /. lactatorius, Desv., of which I found a specimen in the British Museum from the same locality; the fine I. primatorius, Forst., from Chatteris and Ely; and Amhlyteles microcephalus, Steph., which appears to be quite unknown on the Continent and very rare in Britain. Jenyns bred Cryptus ornatus, Grav. from Odonestis potatoria in 1825, and Donisthorpe has sent me Aptesis nigrocincta, Grav. from an ant’s nest at Wicken. Several species were first found here in Britain, such as Ophion distans, Thoms., Sagaritis punctata, Bridg., three Alesochori, &c. Thornhill has sent Meniscus setosus, Fourc. from Boxworth, and I have found Xylonomus pilicornis, Grav. at Wicken. Only seven species, including a Bracon epitriptus, Marsh., which I found at Wicken, of Braconidae are recorded, and the Oxyura and Chalcids fare worse with but two apiece, the latter being Epi- copterus choreiformis, taken by Westwood at Gcgmagog Hills, and Cerapterocerus mirabilis, Westw., from Cambridge ; the Evaniidae is represented by Foenus assectator, Linn., which Thornhill has found at Boxworth, and which, with a great number of unnoticed species, is probably quite common.