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rington, Trans. Roy. Soc. Can. sec. 4, 1893, p. 138; Konow, 

 Syst. Zusam. Chalas, p. 313. 



The type of this species is a unique male and is in the Brit- 

 ish Museum of Natural History. It is, as Harrington sug- 

 gested, probably closely allied to provancheri Cresson, but the 

 antennae have fewer joints, there are two pale spots on the 

 scutum (a variable character), and the description infers the 

 mesepisternum is black. My notes from the type are inade- 

 quate, they are in part ; head behind supraorbital line smooth 

 and shining ; postocellar area parted by an impressed line ; 

 venation in general very like fig. 85 of MacGillivray, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus. vol. 29, pi. 41. It seems to the author that 

 this is a species of Xifh\dria and it is possible that it is pro- 

 rancher i Cresson. 



List of Xcarctic Species. 



abdominalis Say. erythrogastra Ashmead. 



albicornis Harris =maculata Say. maculata Say. 

 atfenuata Norton = : abdominalis ntcUipcs Harris=maculata Say. 



Say. provancheri Cresson. 



basalis Say. ntfircntris Cresson=abdomiivxlis 



canadensis Prpvancher Say. 



canadcnsis (Provancher) pro- tibialis Say. 



vancheri Cresson. \valshii \\"est\vood. 



The Rippon Collections go to the National Museum of Wales. 



The collections of the late Robert H. F. Rippon, author of the 

 superbly illustrated I cones Ornithopterorum, have been presented tr 

 the National Museum of Wales by Lord Rhondda. according to the 

 London Times, as reported in Science for February 15, 1918. The 

 majority of the specimens are said to be exotic, the insects to number 

 over 100,000. including over 3,000 Papilionidae. over 5,000 Nymphalidae 

 and over 40,000 Coleoptera, while dragonflies, mayflies, crickets, grass- 

 hoppers, stick- and leaf-insects, Diptera and Hymenoptera are ex- 

 pressly mentioned. 



British Museum not to be used for Government Purposes. 



It is stated by Xiitife that the British Government has abandoned 

 the intention of using the British Museum building at Bloninshury and 

 the Natural History building at South Kensington for government de- 

 partments, a decision which will meet with approval throughout the 

 civilized world. 



