264i [November, 



I had little opportunity of collecting the moths, but I noticed 

 the following : — 



Sphinx convolviiH, at Chateau de la Gaze, at rest, and at Le Rozier. 



Saturnia pyri, at Lc Rozier. 



Callimorpha Hera, occasionally. 



Acidalia rusticata, Mende. 



Mamestra chrysozona fdt/sodea) not uncommon on Lactiica virosa, Mende, &c. 



Leucania lithargyria, two at rest on flowers, Mende. 



Ortholitha moeniaia, Mende. 



Shrublands, Eltliam, Kent : 



Septemler 23rd, 1901. 



NOTES ON HAWAIIAN ACULEATE HT3IEN0PTERA. 

 EY R. C. L. PERKINS, B.A. 



In my descriptions of the Aculeate Hymenopfera in vol. i, pt. 1, 

 of the " Fauna Hawaiiensis " there are several errors of identifica- 

 tion, &c., which it seems advisable to correct at once, as it may be a 

 considerable time before these corrections can be made in that work. 

 A good many of these errors are due to the very incomplete collection 

 of Oabuan species that had then been made, but now that this defi- 

 ciency has been made good by my recent collections, the species 

 frequenting Oahu are as well known as those from the other islands. 



Pison iridipennh, Sm. — I stated in op. ci^., p. 14, that this species was unknown 

 to me. In this I was in error, as it is very common ; I had confused it with I', 

 hospes, Sm., from which it is very distinct. Smith's description of the wings as 

 " beautifully iridescent " misled me, as there is little difference between the two 

 species in this respect, in most of the examples. Asa matter of fact, P. hospes 

 belongs to the genus Pisonitus, Shuck., if that be valid, hut the Hawaiian species 

 varies extremely in neuration, frequently having only two cubital cells either on one 

 or both sides, and is otherwise unstable, and I see no characters to separate it from 

 Pison, except the neuration. 



Crahro distinctiis, Smith, Cat. Hym. Ins., iv, p. 422. — I omitted all reference to 

 this species, the type of which should be in the British Museum, but which, like 

 other of the Beeeby expedition specimens, is apparently lost. I now find it to be a 

 highly coloured form of the 9 of my C. notostictiis, which becomes a synonym. 

 The commoner form of C. distinctiis is very unlike that of the Beechy specimen, 

 having much less conspicuous yellow markings, sometimes none at all on the 

 abdomen, and is often much larger, but I have taken intermedial e forms, and there 

 is no doubt as to the identity. 



Polistes hebreevs, Fab. — There are two common species included under this 

 name, which I considered to represent a dark and light form of one sjiecies. They 

 are abundant.ly distinct by the J characters ; the sixth ventral segment in each is 



