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exemplified in this case. The short abstract of the paper printed by the 

 British Association, concludes by stating that no female varJeyafa 

 showing tlie white radii had been bred. Yet in the very next sentence 

 in Mr. Onslow's paper, from which this observation was taken, we read : 

 "llecently, however, this observer" (myself) '-has bred from radiated 

 stock a leucosficin 5 ." As a point of fact, two seasons ago I bred 

 several females with the male white radiate markings as strongly 

 developed as Mr. Onslow's figure 9 labelled acfinota. Of course, if 

 these ordinar}^ forms of the male are not to be regarded as varleyala, a 

 radiated female varleijata never could be bred ! I have also bred a 

 number of specimens of varleyata having broad black rings around the 

 bodv, and one or two with the body almost completely black, which 

 Mr. Onslow states has never l)een done. Lastly, there must be some 

 mistake about the figures 11 and 12 on Mr. Onslow's plate, which 

 are referred to as var. hazeleif/hensis. The}^ certainly do not represent 

 that well-known form, nor have they the least resemblance to it. They 

 come near to being good representations of two of the Aberdeen forms 

 of fjrossuhiriafa, but have nothing whatever to do with liazeJeiyliensis. 



VAm I.ea, Dalton, Hudderstield. 

 May &h, 1922. 



SOME NOTES ON PONE R A PUNCTATISSTMA Eogeb. 

 J3Y' HORACE DOXISTIIORI'E, F.Z.S., F.E.S., ETC. 



In 1021, Dr. r. Santschi redescribed and figured the worker of 

 Poiura 2>>ii>cfatissniia Roger, for which he gave the following ex- 

 planation : — 



In August 1920 he cai)tured some 17 ^5 of a Poiiera at 

 Hammamet, Tunisia, at the bottom of an old well, which was damp 

 but without water. These were identical with a specimen taken l)y 

 Thery at Rabat in Morocco, and an example in his collection from 

 Jyvoskyla (Sahlberg) received from Mons. Forel. On referring to the 

 descriptions and figures of P. punctatissima given by Emery and 

 Bonhoit, he found that they a]:)peared to have a much shorter scape 

 to the antennae than that of his examples, and he therefore came to the 

 conclusion that he had discovered a new species. He sent a specimen to 

 Mons. Emery, who identified it with P. piiiicfafiss/ma Rog. He next 

 sent an example to Mons. L. Borland, of the Paris Museum, and asked 



