1889.] 



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dactylus, Tesseradactylus happily being not yet drawn into the vortex 

 of speculative theorisation. 



The synonymy of this group being supposed to be clear and 

 scientific, we may now arrange our cabinets accordingly, until a few 

 fresh continental types occasion the next bouleversement. 



53, Lincolns Inn Fields. 



Notes and Observations. 



Deilephila galii in Ireland. — I observe in an article on " The 

 Blown-over v. the Climatic Influence Theories," Dr. Corbett says with 

 respect to D. galii that " a few were taken in Ireland." {Young Natura- 

 list, Vol. X., p. 32. I was under the impression that the only speci- 

 men of D. galii ever taken in Ireland was caught last summer at 

 Howth, and I would feel greatly obliged if you can ascertain from Dr. 

 Corbett what others he refers to in this observation. — Geo. C. Hart, 

 14, Lower Pembroke Street, Dublin. 



Abnormal Hybernia progemmaria. — I have a specimen of Hyber- 

 nia progemmaria with male wings and female antennae on one side, 

 and female wings and male antennae on the other side ; it was found 

 near Stalybridge. — Joseph Chappell, 29, Welbeck Street, Man- 

 chester. 



Abnormal Coleoptera. — Imperfect coleoptera are often very in- 

 teresting to me when found in that state in their haunts, minus a 

 portion of a leg or antennae. In the former case they are easily detected 

 in active species, as they describe a curve in running, in fact it is al- 

 most impossible to run otherwise. I have often captured specimens 

 which had evidently emerged from the pupa minus a tibia or tarsi ; 

 in species with red or testaceus femora or tibiae, the femur, when 

 minus the tibia, are invariably tipped with black or pitchy, also when 

 several joints of the antennae are minus in species with red or testa- 

 ceus antennae the tip of joint of the imperfect antennae is often 

 tipped with black or pitchy, from that I infer that the specimen has 

 acquired the dark colour to the apex of the imperfect one in the pupa 

 state. I have also a specimen of Pterostichus vulgaris, which was 

 picked up in Cumberland by a friend of mine, who requested me to 

 supply him with a bottle of laurel into which he would put any speci- 

 mens he met with in his rambles. It has the intermediate trochanter 

 on the left side not so fully developed as on the right, the femur is 



