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being in some aa obsolete as in the above-mentioned larger insect, and in others 
(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 pedibusque piceis " as a variety of ro- 
tundatus. He evidently knew both forms ; and, referring to the stri^ 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 dbhreviata") , 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 Muter der Mitte eine geringe Spur vcr- 
Jianden." After seeing Mr. Chappell's insect, I am inclined to think Gyllenhal and 
Erichson more likely to be right in asci-ibing 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 will be found in the "Zoologist," at p. 8311 (1862). — 
Percy C. Wormald, 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 ; 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 Eypermecia augustana of Eiibner ; 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. 
lugustana of Hiibner, of which he did not possess a specimen ; he had, however, 
3arefully compared it with Herrich Schiiffcr's figure, with which it agreed very 
(veil." In a second letter, dated July 9th, he adds, " The species which has been 
