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the field the next day to obtain some more." In tlie same volume 

 (p. 2i), after stating that 0. hirdella was first described by Curtis iu 

 1831, he says: "It is probable that Hawoi'th intended this insect by 

 his Ypsolophus mediopedinelbis, and Y. taurellus, but the descriptions 

 are too meagre to be of more than antiquarian interest." Yet twenty- 

 eight years before wanting this, Stainton and others knew the moth 

 by the name of mediopectineJIa, although Curtis' name for the insect, 

 hirdella, was then fourteen years old. I think it has now been shown 

 that Haworth's name for the insect under discussion has priority 

 over that of Curtis ; that the mediopertineUns of Haworth, and the 

 hirdella of Curtis, are one and the same species, and that the name 

 mediopectinellus was formerly made use of by entomologists for 

 this species. 



Tlie following correction should be made in our Lists : - 



(1) Ochsenheimeria mediopectinella Hw. Ypsolophus mediopecti- 

 nellvs Hw , Lp., Br., 545-6 sp. 25 (1828), = Lepldocera hirdella, Crt., 

 Br. Eut. VIII, PI. 344 (II, 1831). Ochsenheimeria hirdella Stgr.-Rbl., 

 Cat. Lp. Pal. II, 232 sp. 4469 (1901). 



(2) Ochsenhehneria hisontella Z. = Ypsolophus *iaurellus Hw., 

 Lp. Br. 546 sp. 26 (1828) [nee taurella (Schift'.)' Hb.]. Ochsenheimeria 

 hisontella Z., Isis 3, XXXIX: 1846, 274 (1846) ; Stgr.-Rbl., Cat. Lp. 

 Pal. II, 232 sp. 4468 (1901). 



December 12th, 1914. 



ADDENDUM TO OBSEEVATIONS ON THE LIFE-HISTOEY OF 



METHOCA ICHNEUMONIDES Latr. 



BY H. G. CHAMPION, B.A., F.E.S. 



In the paper recently written by my brother and myself in this 

 Magazine (Ent. Mo. Mag., 1914, pp. 266-270) was recorded what we 

 had been able to observe of the habits of Methoca. We remark in the 

 course of it on the work of " two Swedish investigators, Adlerz and 

 Bouwman," referring to their papers as written in Swedish and thus 

 unattainable to us. Dr. Bergroth has drawn my attention to the fact 

 that Bouwman is of Dutch nationality, his paper [Tijdschrift voor 

 Entomologie, 52, p. 284, 1909] being written in German, whilst 

 Adlerz, a Swede, has given a resume of his work in German, as well 

 as a preliminary note in Pi-ench [Arkiv for Zoologi, Bd. 1, pp. 265-8 

 (1904)]. These papers I have now been able to consult, and through 



