14 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Lond,, 1881, p. 146, pi. viii., fig. 3 ; one female being taken 

 at Norwich and another in Scotland by Mr. Cameron. Nees 

 bred D. inisillator from Cossus Ugniperda (teste Gravenhorst) ; 

 and Koudani says it is parasitic on a species of Notodonta. 



Centeteeus, Wesm. 



A. Antennge of female tricoloured. 



Abdominal segments 1st to 4th in female, 2nd to 4th in male, and 

 legs red ; apex of hind femora, base and apex of hind tibiae, black. 



a. Antennae of female black at the base; coxae, trochanters and thorax 



entirely black in the female ; collar of male white in the middle. 



1. major, 3 — 4 lines. 



b. Antennae of female at the base and upper part of the collar, sometimes 



the sides also, red ; legs like major, only the male has the hind 

 femora black. - - - - 3. confector, 2J — 3^ lines. 



B. Antennae between the base and middle, abdominal segments 2nd to 



4th, and legs, red ; apex of hind femora, or nearly all of it, base 

 and apex of hind tibiae, black (female). 

 Segments 2nd to 4th red-edged, or red marked with black; legs 

 red ; all the coxae, trochanters, hind femora, base and apex of 

 hind tibiae, black (male). - - 2. opprimator, 2^ — 3J lines. 



Brischke gives the hosts of two species of Centeterus — 

 C. major from Bembecia hylceifoi'mis* and C. confector from 

 Nonagria geminipuncta. C. opprimator is badly figured in VoUen- 

 hoven's ' Schetsen ' (pt. i., pi. iii., fig. 15). The species are not 

 rare in Britain. 



Nematomicrus, Wesm. 



Extreme apical margin of abdominal segments reddish ; orbits of eyes 

 and a line before the wings yellow ; legs red ; hind coxae and 

 trochanters black: apex pale (male and female). 



1. tenellus, 2-| lines. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTURES, &c. 



Notes on Irish Ehopalocera. — In reference to Dr. F. 

 Buchanan White's very interesting paper on the " Distribution 

 of British Butterflies" (Entom. xiv. 266), I think, as far as my 

 information goes, he is mistaken when he includes Vanessa 

 C-alhum in the Irish list. The insect is not mentioned either in 

 the Rev. J. Greene's "List of Lepidoptera hitherto taken in 

 Ireland" (Nat. Hist. Review, 1854, p. 165), or in my friend 

 Mr. Birchall's " Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Ireland," 1866; 

 and the only observer, as far as I am aware, who has noticed it in 



