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gist, whose opinion (although founded upon other considerations than 

 my own) is a tower of strength upon such a subject. I may however 

 be allowed to add that in the Royal Museum of Berlin, under the ar- 

 rangement of Drs. King and Erichson* (both eminent Hymenopter- 

 ologists), and in the cabinets of M. Serville and the British Museum, 

 I found the genus arranged amongst the aculeated Hymenoptera, 

 amongst which (as we find other anomalies, such as flabellated anten- 

 nae, antennae with a decreased number of joints, and male antennae 

 with twelve joints) there is no reason why we should not find them 

 with an increased, number of articulations. As to the biarticulated 

 trochanters, they are not exclusively confined to Latreille's Pupivora, 

 as Mr. Shuckard asserts. 



As an abstract of my memoir, which contains long generic details 

 of Evania (with 24 species), Pelecinus (9 species), Monomachus (7 spe- 

 cies), Foenus (16 species), Aulacus (15 species), Megalyra (1 species), 

 Trigonalys (4 species) and Stephanus (10 species), will appear in due 

 course with the 'Journal of the Proceedings of the Entomological Soci- 

 ety,' so soon as space can be given to it in the 'Annals of Natural His- 

 tory,' (in which periodical the Journal of Proceedings is published). 

 I regret that in the interim Mr. Shuckard should have published a 

 memoir containing many of the same genera and species, some of 

 the latter of which will thus be burdened with synonymical names. 



Yours very sincerely, 



Jno. O. Westwood. 



To the Editor of the 'Entomologist.' 



Art. XXVIII. — Varieties hy Various Contributors. 



20. Larentia mvltistrigata. On the 4th of April, at the bottom 

 of palings in Richmond Park : this moth is designated in books as 

 being rare, but Mr, Lambert tells me he has taken it in the above lo- 



* The Marquis Spinola, one of the most accomplished Hymenopterists, who has 

 puMished two articles on this genus (which Mr. Shuckard appears to be unacquainted 

 with, although in one of them he evidently predescribes Trigonalys anglicana under 

 the name of T. Hahnii), thus speaks of it. " II appartient aux Tchneumonides par le 

 nombre des articles de ses antennes, aux Formicaires par quelques traits de la tete, 

 aux Mutillaires par la forme de I'abdomen, son premier anneau abdominal, et ses 

 teintes de couleurs le rapprochent des Labidus ; les trochanters lui donnent des rap- 

 ports avec un grand nombre de Terebranls." Is it astonishing that without having 

 minutely examined and dissected the insect, I should have failed in ascertaining the 

 Icjritiniate situation of so anomalous a form ? 



