THELEPROCTOPHYLLA BARBARA AND VARIEOATA. 95 



NOTE III. 



THELEPROCTOPHYLLA VARIEGATA KLUG AND 

 BARBARA L. ARE DISTINCT SPECIES 



H. W, VAN DER WEELE. 



(With 2 figures). 



Dressing up the Catalogue of the Neuropterous Insects 

 in the collections of the Leyden Museum, I found in the 

 collection of the late Mr. H. Albarda six specimens of a 

 Theleproctophylla from Asia minor (Lycia, Makri). They 

 were placed beyond a label bearing the name »Bubo agri- 

 oides Rambur", but as this name is not written by Mr. Al- 

 barda on the underside of the label of origin, I think these 

 specimens were placed there only provisionally. 



I have in my own collection one specimen of the same 

 species from Mardin, Mesopotamia, purchased from Dr. Stau- 

 dinger under the name Theleproctophylla barbara L. Not 

 being in the possession of the true barbara I had compared 

 my specimen with the figure in Costa's » Fauna Napoli", 

 but as most of the figures in this work are incorrect I 

 thought my species was indeed barbara L. This opinion 

 was much strengthened when I saw the exact figure of 

 Th. variegata Klug in the »Symbolae physicae"; moreover 

 Hagen and also Mac Lachlan mention variegata Klug 

 = barbara L. 



In Albarda's collection, however, the true barbara L. is 

 also represented, and so I could compare both species with 



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