74 [April, 



Astatus Jur. nee Knw. (z=Gephns auctt.) pilosulu^ Th. Dr. Perkins 

 has taken, last summer, in S. Devon a number oi ^ ,^ and J 5 

 which he refers (I believe quite rightly) to this species. Owing to 

 their unusually dark coloration, I was inclined at tirst to identify them 

 with brachycerctis Th., but the $ ? certainly have not the very short 

 terebra which seems to be a conspicuous character in that species. 

 Some of the (J (^ ha.ve the bases of the hind-legs immaculate, and 

 Thomson uses this character to separate hrachycercus from pilosulus ; 

 but in others they are distinctly spotted with yellow. Again, one $ 

 has no entire yellow bands on the abdomen, only small lateral spots as 

 in hrachycercus ; but in another (and, in fact, in most of the speci- 

 mens both tS S '^^^ ? ? ) the bands are well developed. It seems 

 just possible that they may belong to a " new species," but I think it 

 is safer at present to treat them as a form of pilos^d^^s, to which, 

 according to my Tables, they should belong, 



Janus cynosbati. Following, or possibly misunderstanding, a MS. 

 communication from Konow, I referred this species to " F. nee L.," 

 but later Konow definitely accredited the species to Linne. (In 

 V. Dalla Torre's Catalogue it is called cynosbati F. with cynosbati L. as 

 a doubtful synonym). In any case cynosbati F. 'is either a later 

 equivalent of cynosbati L., or a "homonym" of it and consequently 

 invalid. Therefore, for " F. nee L." read " L." simply ! 



J. luteipes, according to Konow's latest view, is a " good species," 

 vide Ent. Mo. Mag., May, 1908. 



No. 7 (February, 1903). 

 Page 34, line 6. Besides gigas and noctiiio a third form of Sirex, 

 the true juvencus, occurs, though rarely, in this coiuitry (c/. Ent Mo. 

 Mag., May, 1908). In this insect the antennae are more or less widely 

 rufescent at the base. Both noctiiio and juvencus differ from gigas, 

 besides the characters given by me, in an important point of ueuration, 

 the two former having the brachial area in the forewing crossed by two 

 nervures, while in Sirex it is only crossed by one. On this ground 

 Konow removes noctiiio and juvencus into a new genus, Paururus, 

 which contains one other Palaearctic (but not British) species, and 

 several from America. One of the latter (viz., Paururus cyaneus F.) 

 has been taken in several specimens ( ? ? ) by Mr. Harwood at Col- 

 chester, no doubt imported in timber. It looks like a remarkably 

 large and brilliant form of noctiiio, but can be readily separated from 

 that species by its long ovipositor — hardly shorter than that of gigas, 

 and much longer than those of noctiiio und juvericus. 



