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•well to draw attention to the possibility of identity, as M. Thom- 

 son's name would have priority if the insects are not distinct. 



ANILARA. 



M. Thomson, in his Typ. Bupr. App. L, describes two new 

 .species of this genus — i^latessa and Deyrollei — from Adelaide 

 neither of which is known to me. Judging from the description 

 of the latter, I should say that A. planifrons, Blackb., is very 

 near it, but M. Thomson's statement of his insect " corpus subtus 

 "^ ^ * "^ sat grosse rugoso-punctatum " is quite conclusive as to 

 their being specifically distinct. The description of A. platessa 

 is much too short, but it reads very like a description of the 

 insect which I take to be A. Adelaid(P, Hope; unfortunately, 

 however, M. Thomson does not mention whether the vertex bears 

 an impressed line, and in the absence of information on that 

 point it is inrpossible to decide the matter. Mr. E. Saunders 

 {Tr. E.S., 1868, p. 19) published an enlarged but still brief de- 

 scription of the type of A. Adelaidce, accompanied by a figure 

 which makes it appear a wider species than the measurements 

 annexed to the description would show it to be. The types which 

 I refer to it agree with the figure. 



STIGMODERA. 



I have received by the courtesy of M. Kerremans a copy of a 

 valuable memoir recently published by him containing notes on 

 ■certain species of this genus, together with some ably-written 

 descriptions of new species. The following remarks on the 

 memoir will perhaps be of interest : — 



>S'. picea, Kerrs. This species is very probably identical with 

 S. pubicoUis, Waterh. (var. major). If so, M. Kerremans seems 

 right in considering it a good species. 



S. fusca, Saund. The author points out very rightly that Mr. 

 'Saunders' substitution of this name for Parryi, Hope (a substi- 

 tution adopted in Masters' Catalogue) is quite unjustifiable. 



S. Castelnaudi, Thorns, (nee Saund.). The author proposes for 

 this name (which is preoccupied) the substitution of " Laporfei." 

 But Laportei is itself preoccupied, having been used for a Stig- 

 tnodera by M. Boheman, and also Mr. Masters had already sub- 

 stituted ^^ Thomsoniana^^ for Castelnaudi, Thoms. (Proc. L. S., 

 N.S.W., XIL). 



S. apicalis (White, ms.) Kerrs. The author furnishes a des- 

 cription of this previously undescribed insect, but he seems to 

 have overlooked the fact that the name has been previously used 

 l)y Rev. F. W. Hope and accepted and published by Laporte and 

 Oory for a different insect. I propose, therefore, for the present 

 species the name Kerremansi. 



