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structure, and, excepting the density of alar infumescence, the 

 colours are very constant ; I have seen examples varying from : 

 body 14 and terebra 35 mm. in length, to others with body, 

 19 mm. and terebra fully 60 mm. in length. The National 

 Collection is somewhat rich in this South American species : — • 

 Chili (Bartlett Calvert ; in 1856 by T. Edmonds ; and in 1875 

 by Edwyn C. Reed) ; Valdivia, Corral or Conal in 1898 (Cameron) ; 

 South Chili, Maquehue, Temuco, January, 1906 (R. M. Middle- 

 ton) ; Santiago in 1869 (Reed) ; Patagonia, Volcan del Lago 

 Xanco, two in 1903 (Chubut) ; Terra del Fuego, Rio McClelland 

 on December 30th, 1904, and Nose Peak on January 15th and 

 18th, 1905 (R. Crawshay) ; and Haliday's type, labelled "Cryptiis 

 bellicosus" by him, presented by the Linnean Society in 1863. 



8. JOPPIDIUM ANNULICORNE, Ashm. 



Proc. Californ. Acad. v. 1895, p. 549, male. 

 I have not seen this Californian species. 



NOTES ON EUROPEAN HESPERIDS. 

 By W. G. Sheldon, F.E.S. 



A YEAR or two ago, until the researches of Dr. Reverdin 

 threw a flood of light on certain species in this group, those of 

 us who were interested in the genus labelled our specimens with 

 doubt and trembling, and described them, if we said anything 

 about them in print, as examples of species which they almost 

 invariably had no pretence to belong to. Consequently, rehable 

 data for these species are at present non-existent, except those 

 contained in Dr. Reverdin's papers on the subject in the Bulletin 

 of the Geneva Society. 



My friend Mr. A. L. Rayward has most kindly, recently, 

 made preparations of all the doubtful specimens of the alveus 

 group which I have met with in my various wanderings in 

 different parts of Europe during the past twelve years, and as 

 the species those specimens belong to can now be with certainty 

 determined, I append a list of localities in which they were 

 found, in the case of each species, and the actual dates on which 

 the specimens were taken : — 



Hesperia alveus. — I have specimens from Simplon Kulm, 

 July 24th and 25th, 1903. Berisal, July 22nd and 23rd, 1903. 

 The Laquinthal, July 26th, 1903. 



H. serratul(s.—Bnd3i, Pest, May 22nd, 1910. Berisal, July 

 7th, 1902. Albarracin, June 18th and 19th, 1913. 



H. ojiopordi. — Albarracin, May 26th to June 6th, 1913. 

 Ronda, April 19th, 1908. Hyeres, April 11th, 1904, and May 

 13th, 1905. Digne, July 13th, 1904. 



