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THE ENTO^rOLOGIST. 



Eefen-ing to my original notes, I find under Hijpena clamnc 

 salis : — "Type. The specimens are in part perangulalis, h 

 part deceptalis. The typical specimen is perangulalis." I an 

 entirely familiar with caducaUs, which is a common species witl 

 us ; and also with perangulalis in all its forms, and am no 

 ready to admit that my note is an error. Mr. Butler is probabl} 

 right in suggesting the identity of perangulalis and deceptalis 

 and I stated this same opinion in my Catalogue as follows :— 

 "As a matter of fact, I believe that the two names refer to one 

 species only." 



Perangulalis is an exceedingly variable form in size, in 

 colour, and to an extent in wing form. It occasionally becomes 

 fully as dark as caducalis, which it then resembles quite strongly. 

 I was myself misled at first, and referring to a series of figures 

 which I had with me, I find that I had written dauinosalis on 

 one of them and had crossed it out, and had labelled another 

 ''deceptalis, perangulalis, danmosalis," which accords with my 

 written notes. I cannot accept Mr. Butler's excuse that I was 

 hurried, for in the Deltoid series I was especially well provided 

 with figures to assist me in recognising species, and I was 

 particularly anxious to clear up the synonymy. There is the 

 possibility that I mistook the type specimens ; but I am hardly 

 ready to admit it as very likely. 



No one who has not seen large series, can have any idea of 

 the extent of the variation in some of our American Deltoids, and 

 I have puzzled over the species of some genera for hours before 

 I was able to decide on the essential characters useful for tabular 

 synopses. 



Rutger's College, New Jersey, U.S.A. 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



Notes on Chalcidid^.— Schletterer (Berl. Ent. Zeit. xxxv., 1890, 

 p. 208) gives Leucospis rufumtata, West wood, as a synonym of L. gigas, 

 Fabr. This is evvoneows,, rufunotata, Westw., being identical with 

 miniata, Khig (Symb. Pbys. xxxvii. f. 1). By the rule of priority, 

 rvfumtata is, therefore, a synonym of King's insect. In the same 

 work, Schletterer (p. 175) gives a reference to L. biqnetina, Jurine, as 

 'Ent. Monthly Mag.'; this should be ' Ent. Mag.' Leucospis qibha, 

 King, IS a variety of biguetina, Jur., the characters said to distinguish 

 it not being of sufficient importance to justify the species. Leucospis 

 may be divided into two sections, founded on the length of the 

 ovipositor; brevicauda, Fabr., ornata, Westw., cupreoviridis, Westw., 

 and iynota, Walker, are types of the section in which the ovipositor 

 only extends to the apex of the first segment of abdomen.— John W. 

 Shipp ; Oxford University Museum. 



Catalogue of Irish Lepidoptera. — My friend Mr. Johnson, of 

 Armagh, who kindly supphed me with a list of his captures in Ireland, 



