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THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



In proposing new names for preoccupied generic ones, Mr. 

 Kirkaldy seems to be unfamiliar with his subject. Thus he 

 proposes the name Bceria for Panda. It is quite true that in 

 1898 I used the preoccupied name Panda. But it is equally 

 well known to most serious students that in 1899 the late Dr. 

 C. Berg substituted for it the name Tripanda. Mr. Kirkaldy's 

 Boeria is thus an unnecessary synonym. As he writes that he 

 has a "Catalogue of the Hemiptera now in the press," it may 

 perhaps be too late for him to accept an anticipatory correction, 

 but the following is the synonymy : — 



Genus Tripanda. 



Panda, Dist. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (vii). ii. p. 299 (1898) 



nom. praeocc. 

 Tripanda, Berg, Comun. Mus. Buenos Aires, i. p. 78 (1899), 



nom. n. 

 Boeria, Kirk. ' Entomologist,' 1908, p. 124. 



NOTES ON BRITISH BRACONID^.— VI. 

 By Claude Morley, F.E.S., &c. 



(Concluded from p. 129.) 



7. pallidipes. — This species has occurred to me on bushes in 

 woods at Wherstead and Assington in the middle of July, and at 

 Monks Soham, on a willow-leaf, in the middle of August, in 

 Suffolk; Shere (Capron) and Greenings (W. Saunders), in 

 Surrey ; bred during the same year from a larva of some micro- 

 lepidopteron collected on oak at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, on 

 June 10th, 1905 (Bankes). The cocoon is not described. It is 

 cylindrical, white, quite transparent, 5^ mm. long, and appa- 

 rently pendent. Miss Chawner has given it me from the New 

 Forest, together with the female, which had entirely removed 

 one end in emerging. 



8. ictericus. — This abundant species has never occurred to 

 me in Suffolk, though I have found it in June at Carisbrooke, 

 Isle of Wight ; and possess many captured by Piffard at Felden, 

 in Herts, and W. Saunders at Greenings and Eeigate, in Surrey, 

 from June to August. 



9. confinis. — As I understand it, this differs very little from 

 the last species. My four females were taken by Beaumont at 

 Kilmore, in Ireland, in August, and Capron at Shere. 



11. obfuscatus. — There is little to add to the summary of 

 what is known of this species' economy given in Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 1907, p. 38. Since writing it I have taken many females walking 

 over a large Boletus, doubtless tenanted by Orchesia micans, and 



