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Notes and Comments. 
but the author’s observations on living animals place it beyond 
doubt that the cephalothoracic glands are the organs concerned. 
Contrary to previous statements, the ‘ combs ’ of the chelicerae 
have nothing to do with the silk. The manner in which the 
nests are built and spun was described in detail. 
NOMENCLATURE AGAIN. 
In the Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine for April. Mr. E. A. 
Newbury writes on Scopceus rubidus of British Collections. 
He states that the species stood as S. ryei, Woll., in our 
catalogues down to 1883. in 1888. Fowler (Col. Brit., vol. 
ii . , 311) gives the synonymy as : — ‘ S. rubidus (subcylindricus. 
Scriba ; ryei. Woll.),’ presumably having copied the European 
Catalogue of 1883. which work, strange to say, omits S. 
minimus. Er., altogether. In the last European catalogue 
(1906), S. ryei is given as a synonym of minutus, Er. As long 
ago as 1873, Rye (Ent. Mo. Mag., x. 138) states that-'S. rubidus 
Muls.. is at all events quite distinct from S. ryei, Woll.’ Captain 
Deville compared the specimens with several 5 . minimus 
Er., from France and opined that they were identical. The 
synonymy therefore appears to be Scopaeus minimus Er., ryei 
Woll.. rubidus Brit. Cat., nec Rev ! ! 
MORE SYNONYMY. 
On the same page. Mr. G. C. Champion states that he has 
long been suspicious that Aradus lawsoni Saund., described in 
1877 from a single specimen caught near Scarborough, was 
not British. He communicated with Dr. Bergroth who writes 
Saunders’s description and good coloured figure of A. lawsoni 
agree perfectly well with Finnish specimens of A. truncatus, 
Fieb. There can be no doubt that the two insects are synony- 
mous, and this is also the opinion of Professor Sahlberg and 
Dr. Poppius. A . truncatus occurs in Germany and four or five 
places in France, as well as in Finland, but it has not yet been 
found in Sweden or Norway. It appears to be very rare 
everywhere.’ 
STILL MORE MIXES. 
Mr. Claude Morley, in the very next note writes, ‘ Synonymy 
of Neoneurus halidaii Marsh., with Elasmosoma berolinense, 
Ruthe. Hardly was my note on the former of the above names 
published (Ent. Mo. Mag., 1914, pi. 6), before I discovered 
Ruthe’s species to be identical with that of Marshall, a female 
which I believe to be the type specimen of the latter, having 
been found in his collection in the British Museum. This 
ignorance on the part of the British Hymenopterists is en- 
tirely accounted for by the incorrect position assigned to the 
genus Elasmosoma by the Continental authors, accentuated 
by the supposed ignorance of the Rev. T. A. Marshall in 1888 
(Bracon. d’Europ. ii., 551), and the immature condition of the 
Naturalist, 
