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being in Bomo as obsolete as in the above-mentioned larger insect, and in othera 

 (though always abbreviated) very well marked and distinct. It seems to me, 

 therefore, that Gyllenhal was probably right in ascribing the insect characterized 

 by him as " longe minor, elytrorum apice pedihusque piceis " as a variety of I'o- 

 tundatus. He evidently knew both forms; and, referring to the striae in his 

 diagnosis including both, says " suturali nulla." Thomson is, curiously enough, 

 quite silent as to Gyllenhal's note on the smaller form. Yet for rotundatus he 

 quotes him (converting the " suturali nulla " into " suturali ahhreviatd") , and also 

 quotes Erichson, who by the sizes given (1 — 1^ lin.) clearly includes both forms, 

 and who says in his diagnosis " stria suturali ohsoleta/* and in his description " der 

 Nathstreif fehlt gewonlich ganz, hochstens ist hinter der Mitte eine geringe Spur vor- 

 Jianden." After seeing Mr. Chappell's insect, I am inclined to think Gyllenhal and 

 Erichson more likely to be right in ascribing considerable variations to rotundatus 

 than Thomson {more suo) in splitting it into two species. — Id. 



Note on Neuronia clathrata in England. — I have two specimens of this caddis- 

 fly, captured many miles from Mr. Chappell's locality, but still in Staffordshire. I 

 thought at the time that they pertained to the above species ; and the illustration 

 in the last "Annual" places the matter beyond a doubt. They were taken on a 

 " moss " where there is scarcely a rill of running water and no pool, but it is never- 

 theless very wet. — E. Brown, Burton-on-Trent, 7th February, 1869 



Note on British examples of Chrysopa tenella, Schneider, — On re-arrranging my 

 collection of Neuroptera-Planipennia according to Mr. McLachlan's lately published 

 "Monograph" of the British species of that group, I found that four specimens of 

 Chrysopa which I had labelled as tenella, Schneider, did not appear to be referable 

 to any of the species described by him. I therefore submitted them to him for his 

 opinion, and he pronounces them to.be truly that species. Three of the examples 

 have been in my possession under that name since 1862, having been captured by 

 myself, in the neighbourhood of Hampstead, in June and July of that year ; 

 and a record of their capture wiU be found in the " Zoologist," at p. 8311 (1862). — 

 Percy 0. Woemald, 35, Bolton Koad, St. John's Wood, 1st February, 1869. 



[I had overlooked Mr. Wormald's record of this species. A short description 

 of the species is to be found in Dr. Hagen's Synopsis in the " Annual " for 1858, p. 

 22 J where it is noticed as British on the authority of *' a doubtful specimen in the 

 collection of the British Museum," which I have been unable to find. It is the 

 smallest native species. — R. McLachlan.] 



Capture in England of the true Hypermecia augustana of Hiibner ; and correction 

 of synonymy. — In August, 1866, I took one specimen of a Tortrix, which in July of 

 the following year I sent to Mr. Doubleday, for his opinion upon it. He kindly 

 informed me in a letter dated July 4th that " he believed it was the true H. 

 augustana of Hiibner, of which he did not possess a specimen ; he had, however, 

 carefully compared it with Herrich Schaffer's figure, with which it agreed very 

 ■well.'* In a second letter, dated July 9th, he adds, " The species which has been 



