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otherwise of this transitional position sugge.sted by Mr. Oberthiir, but I have 

 now come to the conclusion that Mr. Oberthiir is right in his opinion as to the 

 specific distinction of theryi and lavaiidulae. The rounded wings and different 

 relative proportions of the red spots are characters which strike one at first sight 

 as well as the longer antennae. 



I have not been able to find any record of the capture of Z. theryi except the 

 type captured by Mr. A. Thery as above, 1 single specimen captured by Mr. 

 Dayrem at Hammam R'ihra, and the 400 or 500 specimens captured by ourselves, 

 Faroult, and Dr. Nissen also at Hammam R'ihra. I have given or exchanged 

 6 with Mr. Dziurzynski, 6 with Mr. Burgeff, 2 with the British Museum, 4 with 

 Mr. Joicey, and 2 with Mr. Oberthiir. Dr. Nissen may have sent some to Count 

 Turati, but beyond this none have been distributed. 



300 Hammam R'ihra, May 1908-1916, W. R., E. H., K. J., and Faroult. 



We captured the bulk of the 430 specimens taken by us, when sitting on the 

 open flowers of Cistus, and on a species of Lavendula, round about and in the 

 pine wood near " La petite Suisse," and mostly on the pink flowers of Cistvs 

 albidus. The British Museum has 2 from this series. To show that I did not 

 change my opinion as to the specific distinctness of Z. theryi without good 

 reason, the material of lavandiilae I compared with the 300 picked specimens 

 of theryi consists of 110 specimens from the Riviera and the neighbourhood of 

 Marseille. 



[FBOCBIS. 



Dr. Jordan has divided Procrw into three sections : I. antennae pointed, the 

 last joint only without a free tooth ; II. antennae blunt or less pointed, at least 

 three joints besides the end one without free teeth ; III. antennae ending in 

 a knob. 



There appear to be at least four if not five species in Mauretania of which 

 the largest and smallest belong to the first group, and their nomenclature is com- 

 paratively easy. But one at least of the others is very perplexing.] 



40. Procris globulariae notata (Zell.). 



Atychia notata Zeller, Isis, vol. xl. col. 294. No. 64 (2) (1847) (Syracuse, Sicily). 



Mr. Charles Oberthiir has mixed up cognata and notata ; the former is, so far as 

 we know at present, not found in North Africa, and has quite distinct genitaUa. 

 However, there are several more Procris as yet unrecorded from Mauretania, and 

 I believe some further discoveries are still to be made. 



Mr. Oberthiir has confused cognata and notata because he, as he has stated, 

 has ignored descriptions without figures. As Mr. Oberthiir rightlj' sajs, Boisdu- 

 val's name ccgnata of 1840 is a nomen nudum, but Mr. Oberthiir docs not even 

 allude to ZeUer's notata of 1847 and Herrich-Schaeffer's cognata of 1856. Zeller's 

 notata has priority over Rambur's soror of 1858, while the latter's cognaia cannot 

 stand as Herrich-Schaeffer gave that name two years previously to a different 

 species. We have taken this insect in numbers at light at Khenchela, but I have 

 otherw ise a very poor Mauretanian series ; moreover, so far as I can make out, 

 there is only 1 Mauretanian 5 in the Tring Museum. . 



