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have yet had any progeny, for how would she have taken them 

 with her? but in case of her destruction, they would in all 

 probability have died ; yet as she seldom leaves the nest when 

 once she has assistants, I therefore think the present is a case 

 of solitary and voluntary desertion. 



Note H. — I have no doubt your correspondent has the 

 PhilantJms triangulum; the nervure he speaks of differs slightly 

 in individuals, yet is never, perhaps, quite so oblique as it is 

 represented in the figure. He, however, puzzles me where he 

 says he has three species banded with yellow, and above that, he 

 s,^eaks oi fite species ; therefore two must be differently marked, 

 or not marked at all, and as he distinguishes between indi- 

 viduals and species at the end, where he speaks of several indi- 

 viduals of the smallest species, after speaking above of his 

 having five species, I am uncertain whether he uses the terms 

 species and individuals synonymously or not. He either mis- 

 takes small differences in colour or markings, for specific, or 

 else he has made some error in the genus ; yet the only wings 

 that much approach it are Mimesa and Psen., but these are 

 sufl[iciently different, independent of the different form of the 

 abdomen, and it is not likely that we have six species of Phi- 

 lanthus, when two only, as yet, are known to inhabit Europe. 



W. E. Shuckard. 



31, Robert Street, Chelsea, 

 September 22, 1838. 



Art. L. — Entomological Notes. By Edward Newman. 



(Concluded from page 402. j 



In concluding this series of Entomological Notes, I feel dis- 

 posed to make an observation or two on those which have 

 preceded. Projyoinacrus Arbaces, in Vol. IV. p. 256, has 

 been previously published and figured by Pallas, under the 

 name of Scarahccus himucronatus ; the generic name, however, 

 will stand, as it is widely different from any described division 

 of Scarabceus. Mantoida nitida. Vol. V. p. 179, has, I fear, 

 been published by Perty, in his descriptive list of the Brazilian 

 insects, collected by Spix and Martius. Libellida prcenuhila, 



