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Utah State University DigitalCommons@USU Co Bee Lab 3-1-1911 The Entomologist: An Illustrated Journal of General Entomology No. 574 Kenneth J. Morton Rupert Stenton T. Miyake C. G. Nurse W. J. Lucas Richard South See next page for additional authors Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/bee_lab_co Part of the Entomology Commons Recommended Citation enus) This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Bee Lab at DigitalCommons@USU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Co by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@USU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Authors Kenneth J. Morton, Rupert Stenton, T. Miyake, C. G. Nurse, W. J. Lucas, Richard South, L. W. Newman, T. D. A. Cockerell, W. J. Lucas, W. L. Distant, and A. E. 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The species of the genus were, however, at that time very imperfectly understood, and in the light of what is now known it is almost certain that what I had then before me as T . trifasciata did not all belong to the same species. The material is not now available for re-examination . Quite a number of species belonging to the genus have since been satis factorily separated. At the same time, I am not sure that unanimity of opinion yet prevails as to what constitutes the tme T. trifasciata of Pictet. In the paper above-men tioned, the insects from Scotland were certainly what I then regarded as typical T. t1·ifasciata. This determination was, I admit, to a great extent due to the fact that both McLachlan (' Catalogue of British Neuroptera,' 1870) and Albarda (' Catalogue des Nevropt eres observees dans les Pays Bas,' &c., 1889) had referred Newman's N emoiwa putata (the type of which was from Scotland) to T . trifasciata, Pict. Klapalek, on the other hand, has since put forward the view that the tme T. trifasciata is to be found in an insect which he took at Vienna, in which the wings of the male are very much more reduced. I have not seen the female of this Vienna insect, but the male is a very different thing from the Scottish representa tive of the trifasciata group. Certainly, on the whole, Klapalek's insect comes nearer to Pictet's figure than does the Scottish insect, to which, as far as I am able to judge at present, the ENTOM.-MARCH,1911 . G j 82 THE ENTOMOLOGIST, name of putata, Newman, must be applied, if Klapalek's view proves to be right. The final solution of the question will probably rest with the Swiss entomologists, when materials have been obtained from Geneva. Newman's description of his "Nemoura putata" appeared in the 'Entomological Magazine,' vol. v. p. 401 (1838), and his diagnosis (for a copy of which I am indebted to Mr. Herbert Campion) is as follows :- " Nemo. putata.-Fusca, nitida ; antenn~ monilijorm es, alis Jere longiores, et cum pedibus, concolores: al~ fusco-tinct~, brevis sim~, metatibias sedentis haud dimidio exporrigent es. (Corp. long. ·3 unc. ; alar. dilat. ·55 unc.) "Inhabits Scotland. Taken by Mr. Walker at New Lanark: will form a genus of future authors." This diagnosis, without material change, is repeated in the 'British Museum Catalogue of Neuropterous Insects,' Part I, 1852, p. 190, but there is nothing there to indicate that the Museum possessed an example. Nevertheless, the presumption is strong that Newman's type went to the British Museum.