202 THE entomologist's record. 



E. Meyrick. On the Classification of the Pyralidina of the European 

 Fauna. Trans. Eni. Soc. Lond., Sept., 1890, 429-492. 



Certainly a very useful paper, though there will be some differ- 

 ence of opinion about the generic nomenclature. Those who are 

 specially interested in the group will read the original paper, but 

 it will be convenient to note here some of the deviations from our 

 present nomenclature. Phlydcenia Hb. includes our Scopula 

 prunalis, etc., and is the Scapula of Meyrick, olim. Loxostege Hb. 

 includes Spilodes stidicalis and verticalis- In the Crambidce, alpin- 

 ellus Hb, appears as a Plaiytes. The Pterophori present several 

 changes, so that we get Trichoptilus Wlsm., with T. paludum 

 (Zell. ) ; Stenoptilia Hb., for pterodaciyla (L.) and others ; Abicita 

 L. has no longer any connection with hexadactyla, but is used for 

 inonodactyla (L.), lithodactyla (Tr.), etc. Orneodes is used for 

 hexadactyla. Crasiinetts n.g. includes Leiopiilus brachydadylus 

 (Tr.), which has been elsewhere referred to Psehwphorus^ Wallgr. 

 Pterophorus Geoff, includes galadodadyliis, spilodadylus, etc. 



HVMENOPTERA. 



Cameron's Monograph of the British Phytophagous Hytnefioptera, vol. iii., 

 1890, contains much that is new or interesting. Cimbex sylvarujn 

 is described with three varieties, tristis (Fb.), sylvarum ( = the type), 

 and varians Leach. 



PSEUDONEUROPTERA. 



Mr. W. F. Kirby's Synonymic Catalogue of Neuroptera Odonata 

 (1890, p. 202) will be of immense service to all students of these 

 insects, whether they accept his nomenclature or not. So far as the 

 British species go, the tabulation of their synonyms and varieties is 

 very useful, and there are several alterations in generic names to 

 be noticed. Thus, we get Agrion virgo (L.), Alicronympha pumilio 

 (Charp.), Ccenagrioti puella (L.), and C pukhelhuji (Lind.) 



There is a genus of Pompilidce, by the way, called Priocnemis 

 Schio .te. Mr. Ashmead, in his catalogue of the Hymenoptera of 

 Colorado (Bull, i., Colo. Biol. Assn.) spells this Prio?iocnemis. Now is 

 this correct? If so, which will have to give way, the amended 

 Prioc?iemis, or the dragonfly genus Prionocnemis Selys, 1886, mentioned 

 in Mr. Kirby's catalogue ? 



HOMOPTERA. 



Idiocerus nubilis n. sp., Buckton. Mon. Brit. Cicad., Pt. iv. Oct. 

 1890, p. 118. PI. XXV. figs. 4, 4a. Haslemere. Bronzy or olive- 

 green is the general colour. Abdomen greyish-black. 



— T. D. A. C. 



Scientific notes. 



Hybrids between Smerinthus ocellatus and S. populi. — In the 

 Record., p. 95, I recorded that I obtained ova from a pairing of 

 these two species. These ova proved fertile, and the larvce fed up 

 rapidly on willow in my garden. The birds must have taken a good 

 many, but those I took in turned to pup.^ from July 20th to July 27th. 

 Strange to say, instead of going over the winter, as 6". ocellatus and S. 

 populi pupae generally do, I bred the imagines (ten in number) in three 



1 Psdnophorus will take precedence. — Ed. 



