I92I. 



Irish Societies, 



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ROYAL ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Recent gifts include a Mandrill from the President, a Leopard, a Puma, 

 and two Brown Bear cubs from the Royal Scottish Zoological Society ; 

 Rabbits from Mrs. Brooks, Miss A. McCabe, and Dr. Leeper, Alexander 

 Parrakeets from Mr. J. P. Fox, a Golden Pheasant from Dr. Bell, a Silver 

 Pheasant from Mr. A. K. Sheridan, a pair of Ring doves from Miss Trench, 

 and 10,000 Brown Trout ova from the Earl of Dunraven. 



Three Rhesus Monkeys, a Sooty Mangabey, two Grey Lemurs, a Mute 

 Swan, and 12,000 Brown Trout ova have been purchased. A Lesser 

 White-nosed Monkey, a Grey Parrot, Stanley, Rosella, and Grass Parra- 

 keets, Peach-faced Love-birds, Diamond, Doves, Cormorants, and a Yuca- 

 tan Jay have been received on deposit. 



NOTES, 



ZOOLOGY. 



Irish Hymenoptera Aculeata: some Corrections. 



I submitted specimens belonging to the difficult genera Sphecodes, 

 Halictus and Andrena to Dr. R. C. L. Perkins, F.R.S., who has named 

 them for me. and I am deeply indebted to him ; as a result I have to 

 make the following corrections of records in the Irish Naturalist : — 



1907, p. 245 . . Sphecodes gibbus h. =subquadratus Smith, and ferruginatus 

 Schk. 



Andrena rosae Psinz. = trimmer ana auct., var. scotica 

 Perkins. 



1916, p. 62 . . Halictus malachurus K., Poyntzpass = a/5z/?g5 K. ; Cool- 

 more =cy/zw(incMS Fab., and =freygessneri Alfk. 

 H. longulus Smith = cylindricus Fab. 

 H. pauxillus Schk. =albipes K. 

 p. 172 .. H. longulus Smith. = albipes K. 



1918, p. 3 .. Sphecodes dimidiatus, v Hsl^. z= ferruginatus Schk., and 



= hyalinaius Schk. 

 Halictus longulus Smith =cylindricus Fab. 

 H. pauxillus Schk.. =freygessneri Alfk. 

 H. minutus K.=^albipes K. 



1919, p. 7. .. Sphecodes gibbus 'L.^affinis, v. Hag., large . female, or, 



variegatus, v. Hag. 

 5. subquadratus Smith—- affinis, v. Hag. 

 Halictus leucozonius Schv. ^albipes K. 

 H subfasciatus, Nyl. =freygessneri Alfk. 

 p. 133 . . H. malachurus K.=albipes K. 



H. subfasciatus Nyl. =freygessneri Alfk. 



1 should explain that Sphecodes affinis in the female is practically 

 impossible to distinguish satisfactorily from the same sex of 5. variegatus. 



Poyntzpass W. F. Johnson. 



