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its apical portion strongly marked in pale golden-yellow, and the pale spots in 

 this region ai*e much enlarged and confluent, forming a clear subrectangidar 

 patch extending from the costa to between the 4th and 5th nervures. The 

 fringe is very rosy, with a well-defined series of small yellow spots at the 

 extremity of each nervure. The suffusion of black scales on the disc of the 

 hind-wings is much less than usual, and the deep orange discoidal spot is clear 

 and well defined ; the hind-margins are broadly golden-yellow, clearly defined 

 on the inner edge, with the usual dark border almost entirely absent ; it being 

 reduced to a small blackish suffused subcostal spot, and three similar small 

 spots at the ends of nervures 4, 5, and 6, these being slightly larger and more 

 pronounced on the left side ; the inner margins are very clear and pale. 

 Beneath, the specimen is quite normal. The general effect of the insect is very 

 light and brilliant, but I did not notice it as different on the wing from ordinary 

 examples of the species. It is hoped that a figure of this beautiful aberration 

 may be given at some future time in this Magazine. - James J. Walker, 

 Oxford : December 9th, 1913. 



Hemianax ephippiger, Burm., in Ireland. -Mr. J. N. Halbert, of the National 

 Museum, Dublin, has just sent to me for determination a beautiful female 

 example of Hemianax ephippiger, Burm., taken in Herbert Park, Dublin, on 

 October 12th last ; its captor, Mr. Albert Douglas, reporting that he found it at 

 rest on the grass. This is the second example of this interesting species which 

 has found its way to the British Isles. It will be remembered that the late 

 Mr. McLachlan, after careful inquiry into the details connected with its capture, 

 recorded (Ent. Mo. Mag., XXXIX, p. 96) the first example, which was taken at 

 Devonport in February, 1903. Mr. McLachlan's note gives some information as 

 to the migratory habits of the species and about its distribution. Swarms 

 appearing in the South of Europe are usually supposed to be of African origin, 

 and, as Mr. McLachlan mentions, it has occurred singly at Zurich, where it was 

 taken by Dr. Eis, and even as far north as Brussels. The only two European 

 specimens in my collection were given to me by Miss Fountaine, who took them 

 in Corsica. Lt.-Col. Nurse once saw it at Quetta, in thousands. It will be very 

 interesting to hear whether the species has occurred elsewhere in Europe during 

 the past season. —Kenneth J. Morton, 13, Blackford Eoad, Edinburgh : 

 November 17th, 1913. 



Synonymy of Euphorus bistigmaticus, Mori., and Neoneurus halidaii, 

 Marsh. — In this Magazine (1909, p. 212) I described "an undoubted Euphorid " 

 (Braconidx) , from examples captured at Wey bridge, hovering over ant's nests, 

 and I am still of the opinion that the species belongs to the Euphorinse. 

 So little are these parasites worked that — except in Entom. Eec. 1913, p. 93 — I 

 am not aware that it has since been mentioned in literature; and it has been 

 my lot to discover that the same species was described by the Eev. T. A. 

 Marshall under the above name in Andre's Species des Hymenopteres d'Europe, 

 Vol. XVbis, 1897, p. 199, at the end of the " Areolaires," with a very fair figure 

 (pi. x, fig. 3). Even then it was anything but new, for the genus had been 

 enunciated by Haliday in the old Entom. Mag., V, 1838, p. 213, " areola radiali 



