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LEPIDOPrERA-IIETEROCERA FROM MAJORCA, COLLECTED BY 

 A. H. JONES, ESQ, 1905. 



BY LOUIS B. PROUT, F . P: . S . 



Mr. Jones has kindly given me the opportunity of studying the 

 Heterocera which he collected and has asked me to contribute a note 

 on them. I find that they fully support the conclusion to which the 

 BhopaJocera led him, that the island, unlike that of Corsica, does not 

 produce any endemic forms. All the species obtained are widely 

 distributed, two {Ac/j^otis [Feri(^romn'\ saucin^ Hb., and Nomophila 

 noctuella, Hb.) being, indeed, cosmopolitan. The rest (Acidalia 

 ockrata, !Scop., A. der/enerarla, Hb., A. marqinepunctata, Goeze, and 

 Stenia punctalis, Schiif.) occur over a wide area in the Palaearctic 

 region, and are well known in Britain. 



I may add regarding the Geometrids, which Mr. Jones has been 

 kind enough to add to my collection, that the Acidnlia ochrata (two 

 (^) and marginepunctata (one ^) are fine large specimens, but not 

 differing appreciably from some others from the South of Europe 

 (Italy, &c.). The A. degeneraria (also a single specimen) is very 

 interesting, being uniformly of the fine rufous colour which one finds 

 in the central area only of our brightest normal specimens (e.g., the 

 form figured by Milliere, Icon., 100, 15, as var. meridiaria) with the 

 black " central shade " rather thick and heavy. There is no similar 

 specimen in my collection, or in that of the British Museum ; nor am 

 I acquainted with any reference to it in literature, and it is very 

 possible that further material would show it to form a local race, but 

 the species is known to be decidedly aberrant. The specimen is per- 

 haps slightly below the average size. 



October 10th, 1905. 



ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS TO THE LIST OF 

 BRITISH RYMENOPTERA SINCE 1896. 



BY EDWARD SAUNDERS, F.R.S. 



{Continued from page 155). 



Crabro cavifrons, Thorns. = ceplialotes auct. {pars.). 



As ceplialotes, Fab., Panz., &c., appears to be an admixture of 



probably several species, txnd there seems to be no probability of 



settling the question by reference to the types, I think we shall do 



well to follow the continental Entomologists and to call our common 



