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could see the pubescence on the antennæ, the possibility. 
that he has also seen the anellus is not excluded. If this is 
the case the matter becomes a simple one at once. The 
antennæ will thus consist of shaft (1st joint) pedicellus 
(2nd joint) anellus (3rd joint) and 4 jointed club (joint 
4to7), the anellus being counted as belonging to the club 
(3rd to 7th joints). If this is right we would have a good 
and characteristic specimen of the genus Lathromeris For- 
ster, the black colour also pointing in the same direction. 
If the species had 2 anelli, it would after the description 
belong to the genus Poropoea Forster (scapus, pedicellus, 
2 anelli, 5 jointed club). If on the other hand Walker 
has not observed the anellus, the club must be five jointed 
and the species then belong to a genus quite different to 
all the other European genera (Poropoea). 
From Mr. C. J. Gahan, Keeper af Entomology, Bri- 
tish Museum (Natural History) with whom I have corre- 
sponded about the matter, I have received the following: 
Septbr. 1918. 
Dear Sir, 
I have made a search for the type af 7richogramma 
carina Walk. (1843) in the collections here, but I regret 
to say that I have failed to find it, and I am inclined to 
believe that it had never been in possession of the Bri- 
tish Museum. It was probably in the Entomological Club 
collection at the time it was described. Types of all the 
non-British species in that collection were presented to 
the British Museum in 1844; but as Walker in his List 
of Chalcidites in the British Museum (1846) omits all men- 
tion of Trichogramma carina, it appears that that species was 
not in the British Museum at that date. Other types de- 
scribed by Walker in the same paper (Ann. Mag. N. H. 1843) 
are in this Museum, having been presented by Walker him- 
self or by the Entomological Club. The fact that the type of 
carina is not in British Museum collection, leads to the 
