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described by Haliday from South America in 1836 have already 

 been referred to by me (Entom. 1911, p. 212) and are in the 

 Natural History Museum, London. The specimens at Dublin 

 may be divided into ten collections of varying size and import- 

 ance, thus : — (1) a general museum collection, nearly entirely of 

 Irish origin, many with no data, extending to Ichneumoninae 186 

 specimens, plus Cryptinse 345, plus Ophioninse 446, plus Trypho- 

 ninse 626, to which the Pimplinae bring a total of 869 specimens. 

 (2) a small British collection made by Mr. Brown of quite small 

 Hymenoptera, of which 76 are "Ichneumonidse. (3) 181 German 

 specimens, named by and acquired from Dr. Sigismund Brauns, 

 of Mecklenburg. (4) a small collection of 91 exotic specimens, 

 many of much interest as belonging to species not or but 

 meagrely represented in Britain, with but some half-dozen of 

 them given by Francis Walker to Haliday. (5) Haliday's 

 Japanese (?) collection of sixteen specimens, set in a similar 

 manner to that referred to by me at Entom. 1913, p. 131. (6) 

 Haliday's Sicilian collection of sixty Mediterranean specimens, 

 so littie represented in Britain. (7) Haliday's Norwegian 

 collection, a small one of a hundred or two specimens, evidently 

 not taken by himself, for the mounting is extremely careless and 

 much too bad to admit of determination ; with ten specimens 

 from Britain and, probably, West Africa. (8) Haliday's English 

 collection, mounted and more or less correctly named by Francis 

 Walker : 321 specimens. (9) 173 specimens captured and localized 

 by Walker from Broadstairs, Southampton, Lizard, Isle of Wight, 

 Land's End, Lyme Kegis, and North Wales. (10) Haliday's 

 personal British (mainly Irish) collection, consisting of Ichneu- 

 moninse 127 specimens, plus Cryptinae 769, plus Pimplinae 1011, 

 plus Tryphoninse 1684, plus Ophioninse with total 1936 speci- 

 mens, mainly in excellent condition, though few with definite 

 locality, the Irish often marked by green sealing-wax on the pin- 

 head, and the English sometimes similarly indicated by red. 

 The total number in the Dublin Museum is about 3713 speci- 

 mens. 



In this last collection were, as has several times been 

 supposed in my ' British Ichneumons,' the types of Haliday's 

 species, described in his " New British Insects Indicated in Mr. 

 Curtis's Guide" (Ann. Nat. Hist. ii. 1839, pp. 112-121), and 

 though none were labelled as such and many misplaced by Cane, 

 Westwood and others, I was enabled to fix the great majority. 

 They are as follows : — 



Ichneumon phaleratus (Platylabus phaleratus, Hal.) = P. leuco- 

 grammus, Wesm. (1853). — A solitary female. 



Tryphon hcemosternus. — Type not found ; it was placed in the 

 genus Polyblastus in 1872, by Rev. T. A. Marshall, I know not 

 upon what grounds. 



T. (Cteniscus) curtisii. — A solitary, unlabelled specimen. 



