248 Rev. F. D. Morice's Notes on Australian Sawflies. 



Soc. N.S. Wales, (1900), and S. A. Rohwer* in Ent. 

 News, Philadelphia (1910). The B.M. Coll. contains also 

 specimens of the remarkable genera Philomastix and 

 Phylacteophaga, Froggatt (Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, 

 1890 and 1899). These are not actually Types, but 

 were all either determined by the author, or received 

 from the same source as his Types. f Other interesting 

 material which I have examined in B.M. includes many 

 specimens of new or little-known Australian forms presented 

 by Mr. Rowland Turner, and a Pterygophorus received early 

 in the present year (1918) from Mr. Froggatt, which is 

 evidently the bifasciatus of Brulle, and the only example 

 of that remarkable species that has occurred since the 

 original Type was described more than seventy years ago. 

 In spite of Konow's a priori reasonings to the contrary, 

 this species is most certainly a Pterygophorus and one of 

 the most beautiful representatives of that beautiful genus. J 



Besides the above Australian materia] I have been able 

 to examine in the B.M. and Oxford Collections many 

 Types of exotic genera and species described by Westwood, 

 F. Smith. W. F. Kirby, Cameron, etc., some of which, 

 though not belonging to the Australian Fauna, seem allied 

 to certain of its genera by the possession of several very 

 abnormal and even paradoxical characters. Most of these 

 insects are from South or Central America, a circumstance 

 which will require consideration presently. 



Apart from this great advantage of access to so many 



* Mr. Rohwer kindly communicated to me, while these Notes 

 were still in MS., a type-written copy of a Paper which has since 

 appeared in Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (Nov. L918), containing 

 descriptions of a new genus (Zenarge) and three new species. The 

 Types of these are still in America, having been sent there from 

 B.M. for determination by Mr. Rohwer in 1915. Duplicates, how- 

 ever, except in one or possibly (?) two cases, were retained in the 

 .Museum ; and I had already dealt with these in my Tables, and given 

 them names for which I now substitute those published by Mr. 

 Itohw er. 



t The Type-species of Philomastix (glabra) is figured and described 

 by Westwood as " Perga (sic) maCleayi," from two y specimens 

 at Oxford, both of which had lost their antennae before Westwood 

 saw them. Otherwise he would, of course, have seen that the 

 species could not be a Perga. This insect must in future, I suppose, 

 be called Philomastix macleayi, Westw. 



1 The vessel conveying this precious specimen was torpedoed 

 en rouU I Bu1 the insect, though literally drenched with a mixture 



qf sea-water and naphthaline, is still perfectly recognisable, and for 

 practical purposes little the worse tor its adventures. 



