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no doubt it lias been hitherto generally overlooked, or considered as 

 only a large form of P. germanica. 



Fig. 1 represents the greater portion of the abdomen of P. hyhrida, 

 (^ , from side ; fig. 2, appendages of the cheliferous segment of P. 

 hjjhrida; fig. 3, same of P. germanica ; fig. 4, same of P. communis. 



N.B. — I wish it were as easy to define any structural differences 

 between the large typical form of P. communis and the (usually) 

 smaller, more marked form known as P. vulgaris, ImhofE (= var. 

 diffinis, McLach., olim.). I still iucline to consider them distinct ; but 

 in a series of neaidy 100 examples before me, there are several that 

 might apparently be placed in either communis or vulgaris, as defined 

 only by size and markings. 



Lewishani; London : 



l^th September, 1882. 



P.S.- — In my paper on the species of Panorpa occurring in Europe, 

 in the Trans. Ent. Soc. Lend., 18G9, I identified with P.picta, Hag., a 

 ? specimeu from South Eussia, which is figured on pi. iv, fig. 11. 

 Having since received many examples of the true picta from Asia 

 Minor and Persia, I am now by no means certain that the South 

 Russian insect is specifically identical, and it may be well to retain for 

 it the name nigrirostris, under which it was received from Zeller. In 

 the true picta the wings are in no way tinged with yellow, and the 

 black bands and markings are broader and more distinct. Perhaps a 

 smaller $ from Transcaucasia is identical with nigrirostris. — E,. McL. 



NOTES ON TENTERI:DINID2E. 



BY P. CAMEKON. 



{Continued from Vol. xv'm, paffe 67). 



Tentliredo coxalis, Smith, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool., ii, p. 116, As 

 there is nothing in the description of this species to show that it is 

 not a true Tenthredo, I may state that it is a Strongylogaster, with 

 pilose antennae and truncated chq^eus. The type I examined in the 

 Hope Museum, Oxford. 



Ancyloneura, Cameron, Trans. Ent. Soc, 1877, p. 91, = ? of 

 Cladomacra, Smith, Ann. Nat. Hist. (3), vi, p. 25G. 



Lophyrus tropiciis, iS^orton, and L. eordoviensis, Norton, belong to 



