106 THE entomologist's RECORD. 



compai'ison with specimens from the localities, whence those from 

 which the original descriptions were made came. Staudinger seems 

 rarely to have referred to the original description to determine the 

 typical forms of the various species described by the older European 

 authors, and it would be interesting to know which is the typical form 

 described by Knoch. When dealing with the Central Asiatic forms, Staud- 

 inger possibly rarely goes wrong, as many were described by himself, or 

 the specimens described by other collectors passed through his hands. 

 One doubts, too, whether the real Ural race, named aetherea by Evers- 

 mann, also recorded from Switzerland, occurs there. We appear to be 

 wrongly using certain racial names, which is inadvisable, and will 

 cause trouble to later workers. The variation of the group really 

 wants carefully, not superficially, working out, and those collecting 

 butterflies in Central Europe should be careful how they apply, from 

 some catalogue or other, the names given to extreme eastern and 

 western forms, to those coming from the Swiss Alps or other parts of 

 Central Europe. The application of such names is almost sure to be 

 erroneous. 



Some new British Myrmecopiiilous Proctotrupidae. 



By H. St. J. K. DONISTHORPE, F.Z.S., F.E.S. 



Ptdijnema albitarxe, Kieffer. — I took this little species in a nest of 

 Formica rufa, at Eannoch, July 18th, 1907. 



Ceraphron formicavKui, Kieffer. — Dr. Kieffer tells me this is the 

 name of the species recorded by me last year with F. rufa at Corbridge. 



Ceraphron sp. ?- — Taken in a nest of Myrnrica riuiinodis, at Buddon 

 Wood, Leicestershire, x^ugust 3rd, 1907. 



L'onosti<iwus sp. ? — Taken in a nest of Formica rtifa, at We^'bridge, 

 July 8th, 1907. 



Plati/i/afiter sp. '?- — Taken in a nest of Formica rufa, at Rannoch, 

 July 19th, 1907. 



La(j!jnodes pallidas, Boh. — Mr. H. Willoughby Ellis has taken this 

 species in a nest of Formica rufa, at Knowle, July 19th, 1907. It will 

 be remembered that I have taken it with Lasius fuli(/inosas, at Oxshott. 



Eivallonyx famipennis. Kief., var. donisthorpei, Kief., n. var. — Two 

 specimens were taken in a nest of Mijrnnca scabrinodis, at Wallasey, in 

 October, by Mr. Arnold. 



/ E.vallonijx irasiiianni. Kief., var. sociabilis, Kief., n. var. — I took 

 this little species in a nest of Latins fidi(/inosits, at Wellington College, 

 September 27th, 1907. 



I have to thank Dr. Kieffer for kindly naming most of the above. 



Tlie Lepidoptera of Ticino — The St. Gothard Pass. 



By J. W. TUTT, F.E.S. 



In line weather go up the mountains, my friend had said, so I cast 

 about, and the next morning, August i3rd, being gloriously sunny, I 

 started in the opposite direction, this time across the fields to the foot of 

 the St. Gothard Pass. Crossing the fields in as straight a line as possible, 

 I wondered what the gods would send, but the first mile produced 

 nothing better than a few Pyralidson the cats' mint flowers, together with 

 an occasional Aijlais urticae and I'aranjc maera, but once on the main 



