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PAGE Abdera bifasciata, Notes on the ceconomy of 259 Abnormal appearances of Lepidoptera, More 217 30 habits observed in Ennomos lunaria 165 a second brood of Selenia illustraria . 190 Abundance in 1868 of the winged form of Velia currens 10 5 of Pieris rape, Great 171 3 » Thrips, Great . i ; : 171 op », Vanessa cardui in 1868, &c., Great . 40 Acidalia herbariata in London, Occurrence of 14 Acronycta alni at Derby . 142 Bs »» » Cymatophora ridens and 4 Ceasers Lambdella near Seren 113 on »» » Notes on the larva of 189 4Htorhinus bilineatus, Note on . 6 5 6 5 9 Agabus tarsatus taken in Northumberland . 0 : : 281 Agrotis saucia at Edgware, Occurrence of 114, AS » &c.,in the New Forest . : 6 5 : 6 142 Aleocharidz from Britain, Characters of a new genus and descriptions of new species of : 3 a 6 é 279 Amara Quenseli, Schén., Occurrence in Aberdeenshire of ; a species new to the British List of Gieonen : : : 3 (i 0 212 Amphidasis betularia, Note on the black Ot of 9 . 40 Anax formosus, &c., at Lee, Note on . 61 Anisoxya fuscula, Gyll., Capture of 162 Anthonomus, Note on the British species of . 87 Anthrocera filipendule, Note on . . 5 : C : C 2614, * Aphodius porcus, Further note on the parasitism of . 230 Aplecta occulta at Edgware 142 3 - » Lee, Capture of 114 Pp a , Harly breeding of 217 Aporophila australis, Description of the larva of 13 Argynnis Selene, Remarkable variety of C 95 Argyra leucocephala, Note on 8 Argyrolepia zeneana, New locality for 15 Asiraca clavicornis, Fab., Note on . 162 Astinomus eedilis, A new locality for . : : : ; : 89 Australian genera and species of Curculionide belonging to the Otio- rhynchinew, On some new ql : 99 Autalia puncticollis taken in Northumberland 168 Bagous inceratus, New localities for 61 Balaninus brassice, Fab., an inquiline, not a gall-maker 137 ll. Bembidium anglicanum, Sharp, Note on : c 0 : 5 . 213 3 obliquum at Manchester, Occurrence of ? é 2 i 5 162 Black variety of Amphidasis betularia, Note on the : - 40 Bledius fuscipes, Rye, Note on 0 : 0 : 9 9 . 0 88 spectabilis, Ktz., Occurrence in Britain of . : 0 : 0 . 158 Blemus longicornis, Sturm, taken in Cumberland 6 : : 0 9 213 Bombyx querctis will eat heather, The larva of . 9 : : : 5 ail Braconidz belonging to a genus new to Britain, Description of a new species of 228 British Hemiptera: additions and corrections . : : é : 9 241 », Uepidopterists as viewed by a German ; Sess" s . 238 Butterflies found near Paris, Notes on : 5 - 0 ‘ 3 5 146 Calodera rubens, Er., Occurrence in Britain of ; ‘ 6 6 Fi . 229 Calopterygina, Diagnoses of 3 new species of . ; 5 0 : 5 27 Catoptria aspidiscana, Capture of . 0 : 0 3 . Ad Cecidomyia salicina, Schrk., marginemtorquens, Bremi, and salicis, Schrk., On the habits of . : 6 4 0 é ‘ ‘ 0 109 = taxi, Inchbald, Observations on . 6 6 0 : 2 - 61 i urticas, Perris, On the habits of 5 ; : 4 6 : 137 Centroptilum, A new genus of the Ephemeridsa, On . a : : 5 dept Ceuthorhynchus distinctus, Bris., Observations on . 9 : 0 : 229 viduatus, Food-plant of . a . : ¢ 0 - 33 Charaxes from Africa, Description of a fine new 3 0 4 0 AB Chilo phragmitellus, Description of the larva of . 5 5 : ¢ 188 Chilosia, Notes on the British species of 0 : : 0 9 5 . 203 Cheerocampa Celerio at Weston-super-Mare 0 : 3 a : . 142 Chrysides parasitic on Odynerus spinipes, On the ceconomy of . 9 ; 153 Chrysopa vulgaris hybernating in a hornets’ nest : : c . 383 Cidaria reticulata, Note on : , 3 : : : : 5 238 Cirreedia xerampelina, Remarks on, ie with regard to its winter condition 0 ‘ : : : : . 265 3 3 On the egg-state of 0 284 Cleonus sulcirostris, Note on 0 é : . 6 : » 284 Clisiocampa castrensis, Mamestra abjecta, &c., at Gravesend, Noteson . 114 Coleoptera, Additions, &c., to the List of British . j ; 2, 183, 257, 282 % at Folkestone . 0 é 9 : : Si lk : 3 58 < Captures of . 5 : : : - 4 : 0 . 186, 231 5 3 in Devonshire 5 : 6 5 a : . 162 Colias Hdusa in Lancashire : : " 115 te », near Manchester : : : : : : : . 143 », Hyale, Note on the young larva of 6 : : 6 : : 0 232 5 » Yellow female of 0 : : 0 : : 6 : o | tilt Coniopteryx psociformis, The sexes of 0 : 6 : : 238 Coptodera and the allied genera, On 3 : : . 0 oj) @ Corixa flying by night, A . . : 3 4 ° 0 6 0 5 1388 Cossus ligniperda at sugar : : : ° : . . 0 0 95 Crambus fascelinellus, Captures at Yarmouth, with notes on the earlier stages of : . 144 Cryptocephalus bipustulatus a good species Ctenophora atrata and Tipula flavolineata, Note on Cucullia? Do birds eat the larve of . : . Curculionids, Notes on ; 6 Curious habit in a Noctua-larva . : » occurrence of the Wood-leopard : 4 «gins : Cymatophora ocularis, Xylomyges conspicillaris, &c., near Worcester Cynipidz, On some British . : : : 6 9 Death of Benjamin D. Walsh 33 Mr. Abraham Edmunds Deilephila lineata at Folkestone, Capture of 99 3») Lewes C : 5 . j D » in Gloucestershire Deiopeia pulchella at Folkestone 0 0 : Depraved appetite in Lepidopterous larva . : 0 Depressaria pallorella at Witherslack 6 Weirella, Note on Diantheecia Barrettii, Note on the occurrence of . : ; 3 oF compta and D. Barrettiiat Howth . 5 : Dicrorampha new to Britain; D. plumbana, Sc., Occurrence of a . Diptera, Two new species of (Scatopse platyscelis and Thripticus bellus, Loew) inhabiting Hngland . 0 c : c 9 . Dorcidz, Description of a new species of the Coleopterous family Drycecetes alni, Georg . 9 6 : : c 5 5 . 145 178 218 42 16 40 16 141 238 285 285 Dyschirius angustatus, Ahr. (jejunus, Daws.) on the South Coast, Occurrence of 213 Harly appearance of Hupithecia albipunctata » breeding of Aplecta occulta . : : a : Edmunds, Death of Mr. Abraham . Egg-state, A list of British Lepidoptera ain phoma in ae Emmelesia unifasciata, Life history of Ennomos lunaria, Abnormal habits observed in. 5 . Enoicyla pusilla, Note on . ; ¢ : 3 : 5 . 237 217 42 221 186 165 61 Entomological Society of London, Proceedings of the . 19, 42, 68, 171, 193, 219, 239, 266, 285, 286 ” ” ” The 55 5 Haggerstone Hy 1) Newcastle-on-Tyne Ephemeridz, On Centroptilum, anew genusof . Epitola (Lyczenide), Description of a new species of c Epunda lutulenta, Description of the larva of . EKpurzea silacea, Hbst., Occurrence in Britain of Eriogaster lanestris, Note on : Eros affinis bred : 0 : : : 0 0 Erycinide from Chontales, Nicaragua, Descriptions of new species of Hupithecia albipunctata, Early appearance of . : : S 9 ss nM Note on a food-plant of . a 4 117 220 iv. Eupithecia consignata bred 3 fraxinata at Hdinburgh ‘ * 5 55 helveticata, Note on . 0 3 6 lariciata, New locality for . 6 : Eupeecilia ambiguana, Notes on the earlier stages of ° Excursions near Meseritz, in the Prussian Province Posen, Three Lepi- ° dopterological “ Faune Gallo-Rhénane ” Review “ Fireflies in Kent” 0 : . 0 : Food of the larvee of Scoparia and Crambus, Note on the » -plant of Lycena Corydon and Coenonympha Davus Fulgora, Note on the luminosity of Gall-midges, On the examination of living Gelechia atrella, Haw., Strange pupation of the larva of Gracilaria populetorum at Witherslack : 9 ° Hadena assimilis, Capture of Hemerobiina, New species, &c., of ; with synonymic notes (First Series) (Second Series) Hemiptera British-: additions and corrections 0 : Ap at Folkestone 5; Description of a new species of (Nysins Scotti), occurring in Britain 5 -Hemiptera- Be Ste anetile 1869, wageines of Henestaris laticeps, Curt. : Hepialus velleda, Habits of the larva of . 5 . Heteromera, Descriptions of new genera and species of Heteromerous genus Platesthes, G. R. Waterh., Note on the Hints on preserving larvee Homalota, Localities for 55 Note on the identity of Speniein and English species of Hopley, The late Edward William John : . Hiibner’s Works, The date of publication of 6 5 Hydradephaga, Notes on British; with descriptions of new species of Haliplus and Hydroporus Hydrelia unca, sa 4 a Hydrilla palustris near Norwich i » » Note on Hydrobius and allied genera, On Hydrecia micacea, Description of the larva of Hydropori recently brought forward by Dr. Sharp, None on certain British Hydroporus discretus, Capture in Britain of . : 5 an minutissimus, Germ., Aubé, Capture in Devonshire of i Hylastes obscurus and Phlceophthorus rhododactylus, Note on the habits of . Hypenodes costestrigalis, Description of the larva of PAGE Tassus cruentatus, Capture of i : 109 45 » Notes on the habits of 6 138 Imhoff’s Works, Manuscripts and collections, The late Dr. L. 17 Irish Lepidoptera, Additions to the list of 66 x be Corrections in notes on 99 ie x in April, 1869 39 Larva of Acronycta alni, Notes on the . : 189 » », Aporophila australis, Description of the 13 »» », Bombyx quercis will eat heather . 5 , ; ‘ : : 117 » 9, Chilo phragmitellus, Description of the . ; : 188 » »9 Colias Hyale, Note on the young . : 0 : c 6 232 » 9 Hpunda lutulenta, Description of the 235 » ») Hepialus velleda, Habits of the Al » 9 Hydrelia unca, Description of the é . : : * 232 » 9» Hydroecia micacea, Description of the . . : 164 »» 9, Hypenodes costestrigalis, Description of the . 9 : 6 . 216 »» >, Lycena Arion, Note on the . ; 3 : : 9 62 » » Nephopteryx angustella, Description of the . : 0 : - 143 » », Noctua Dahlii, Description of the ; : 261 » 9» Peronea rufana, W. V. (autumnana, Hiib.) Note onthe . : . 148 » 9», Plusia interrogationis, Description of the . : . 65 » 9 Polia nigrocincta, Life history and description of . 3 . 64 » » Pyralis glaucinalis,Onthe . : : : ot pis 111 »» 9) Sesia ichneumoniformis, Discovery of the 89 » »; Lhanaos Tages, Description of the : : - : 233 Lemiodes pulveralis, Hb., a genus and species of Lepidoptera new to Britain, Occurrence of : : : . 141 Lepidoptera, Captures of 192 5 FF » at Darlington 5 5 : 170 oF 5 » 99 Holkestone : 94 3s iy) ») 5, Glanville’s Wootton 146 35 S » », Guestling in 1869 : : : : 218 3 BN » 5, Witherslack P ; i e ; so GR Te r6) Ph 99 59) Yarmouth 144 5 3 » &¢., in 1869 191 5 5 » in Gloucestershire in 1869 é 191 ” » >> », the New Forest 170 a9 - >» >, Westmoreland 115 cs nr >> »» Worcestershire in 1868 5 : 15 65 Description of an undescribed species of Diurnal, from Tropical Africa 5 é . : . 0 C 278 % © », new species of Diurnal . . 55, 97, 117, 224, 226 ” ” Prey o » 9.» from Madagascar 224 55 found on the chalk near Norwich, On some 237 . Trish, Addition to the list of 66 ,, Corrections in notes on Vi. PAGE Lepidoptera, Irish, in April, 1869 0 . 0 5 3 0 3 - 39 p Morayshire : : : 5 : : a : 190, 214 "5 new to the Scottish lists . : 9 9 190 » Note on the leet of the larva in the hybomating, ovum in 0 . 0 166 . Scarcity of, in 1869 6 6 5 : e 5 alii % observed at light at Norwich, Notes on i 9 : d 236 5 On some new or recently described species of Diurnal . . 200 op which hybernate in the egg-siate, A list of British ° c 221 * -Rhopalocera, Description of new species of, from Old Calabar and Ecuador . ‘ : : : ; ; - é é : 97 op 3 5 », two new species of 3 3 olay 35 ue from South America, New , 6 : c 96 Lepidopterological excursions near Meseritz, in the Prussian Province Posen, Three 4 ‘ 6 9 : : : q 3 : . - 43 Leptalis, Description of a new species of .. ° : 9 0 5 > 68 Leptinus in bee’s-nests : : 0 : 5 : ; : ; é 89 Lepyrus binotatus, a genus and species new to our lists, Occurrence in Britain of c . ; : : : : : c : : 5 ele) Leucania extranea, Heliothis peltigera and Sterrha sacraria at Neath 0 141 Light at Norwich, Notes on Lepidoptera observed at . C - . 236 Liparis salicis, Remarks on the habits of . 4 : : ‘ 9 : 264 Lithosia caniola, Note on ; ' ; 9 : 3 GT: Lundy Island, A few additions to the abissseaere vie of. : : - 134 Lyczena Arion, Hints for finding eggs and larve of . . 0 : 0 10 os », Noteoneggsof . : : f : é : : Be eh 5 », Note onthe larvaof . : ; x : 5 ‘ 62 99 Argiolus, Early occurrence of . 9 ; ! A 3 6 . 284 3 Artaxerxes,On . : 6 i : 4 ‘ 4 ‘ . 63 0 Corydon, Food-plant of 0 : : ° é , . eel: % Medon and Artaxerxes distinct species ? Are 5 E ‘ : 62 Lythria purpuraria near York : 5 : : “ 0 0 3 - 238 Microptinus (Nitpus) gonospermi, Note on 5 9 : 0 ° 0 182 Monohammus sutor, Linn., in Scotland, Capture of ° a . 0 LOS Morayshire Lepidoptera . 0 . . 0 A - : 0 190, 214 Mordellistena brevicauda, Boh., in Britain, Occurrence of . 9 5 She Mycetophagus fulvicollis, Fab., Occurrence in Britain of . : 5 : 107 Myllena glauca, Aubé, Occurrence in Britain of . 6 : ; 5 USS) Necrophorus microcephalus, Thoms., Observations on 0 : 0 182 Nematus pedunculi, Hartig, Noteson . , 3 ‘ 6 6 : . 184 » Saliceti, Fallén, Note on the ceconomy of . a 0 : 3 29 Nephopteryx angustella, Description of the larva of . . 0 . . 143 Neuroptera-planipennia, Capture of rare species of . . . 6 : 139 New order of Hexapod Insects, Notice of a 9 5 : . 6 5 118 Noctua Dahlii, Description of the larva of . . : : : 4 » ZL extrema of Htibner, On the . : ; 5 ; : : ; 34 ” Vii. PAGE Noctuids observed in Perthshire and Morayshire in 1869, List of . 166 Nothris verbascella, Notes on the earlier stages of 163 Nyssia hispidaria at Hampstead 16 Odour of Sphinx conyolvuli, Note on the 166 Odynerus spinipes, Note on the pairing of : é : 214 Otiorhynchinz, On some new Australian genera and species of Curculionide, belonging te the 99 Otiorhynchus fuscipes, Walton, On 107, 135 Peedisca oppressana at Norwich 190 Pairing of Odynerus spinipes, Note on the 214 Pandellé’s Monograph of the European Tachyporide, Notes on M. 209 Papilio Merope, The sexes of 148, 171 Parasites on the Pterophori 0 : 138 Parasitism of Aphodius porcus, Further note on the . 230 Paucity of insects, Note on . : : : 40 Perla bicaudata of Linné, and P. maxima of Scopoli? What are 265 Peronea rufana, W. V. (autumnana, Hiib.), Note on the larva of 143 “ Petites nouvelles Hntomologiques :’’ Review : 96 Phlceophthorus rhododactylus and Hylastes obscurus, Note on the habits of © 6 Phyllotoma melitta, Newman=Fenusa betula, Zaddach 213 Phytonomus Julinii, Sahlberg, Note on . : . 9 160 Pieris rape, Great abundance of 171 Plicatze, Note on names and food of some species of 116 Plusia interrogationis, Description of the larva of . 65 » Ni, Observations on 12 Polia nigrocincta, Life history of, sal abeeription of its inte 2 NGA: Rs D9 Note on periods of appearance of larva of - 90, 117 Procris globularia, &., at Folkestone 93 Psychidee, Notes on : : j 186 5 m », Some of the British species of 94 Psylliodes nigricollis, Note on 88 Pterophori, Parasites on the . 138 Pterophorus hieracii : 14 pp Strange pupation of a larva of 36 Pterostichus madidus a vegetable-feeder 162 Pyralis glaucinalis, On the larva of 11t Ranworth, Two days’ collecting at 275 Rhizophagus cribratus in quantity, Capture of 259 Saperda scalaris and other Coleoptera at Sherwood Forest, Note on 60 a; Note on 33 Saturnia carpini, Note on . 284 Scarcity of insects in 1869 117 55) Lepidoptera in 1869, Note on ie, 191 Scoparia ulmella, Note on 41 3 Zelleri in South Devon 14 Scolytus, Observations on the ceconomy of ene British species of . . 126 Vili. PAGE Selenia illustraria, Abnormal second brood of . é ‘ i § 190 Semasia obscurana, a gall inquiline : ° 185 Sericoris euphorbiana bred 0 : 16 Sesia chrysidiformis bred : ‘ : 94 5, ichneumoniformis, Discovery of the larva of 2 3 89 “5 a Note on the earlier stages of . e 5 id) » tipuliformis in New Zealand : 146 Sexes of Coniopteryx psociformis, The 5 : : 5 c - 238 » Papilio Merope, The . : 148, 171 Skandinaviens Fjidermott of H. D. J. Watton ont in ileeied of ‘tie . 119, 149 Solenobia pomone and Xysmatodoma melanella, Notes on : 91 Sphingide in Japan : 4 0 5 8 Sphinx convolvuli, Note on ae Bao of : : ; 5 166 Syrphide, List of British 9 173 Tachyporide, Notes on M. Pandellé’s Monograph of the European 209 Tapinostola elymi at Cleethorpes > ve Thanaos Tages, Description of the larva of 0 233 ‘‘The Animal World :” Review 9 0 . 3 - 193 “The Insect World,” by Louis Miouiers ; second edition, sevided and cor- rected by H. W. Janson : Review : 0 18 The late Dr. L. Imhoff’s Works, Manuscripts and Gotiecnenet . 17 “The Lepidopterist’s Register: Review 0 : : : 0 c 42 Thecla rubi, Notes on the earlier stages of i 6 : ; 6 . 387, 38 Thera juniperata near Hdinburgh 0 170 Thrips, Great abundance of 171 Thripticus bellus, Correction of an error @: 2) 34 Tinea pellionella feeding on cobwebs . : c : 41 Tipula flavolineata and Ctenophora atrata, Note on a : 31 Tomicus nigritus, Gyll. and Hapicee ies ae Becie: Note on ite occurrence in Britain of : : ¢ . 256 Trichius fasciatus in South Wales 60 Unnatural union : 95 Vanessa cardui in 1868, &c., Great abundance of 40 Variation in Zygzena filipendulz . c : 117 Variety of Argynnis Selene, Remarkable . . : 95 Velia currens, Abundance in 1868 of the winged form of 10 Walsh, Death of Benjamin D. . : : . : : 218 Willow-galls, Queries respecting a few 5 8 Xanthia cerago and silago, Comparative notes on the larvee of . : . 262 Xylina conformis and Dasycampa rubiginea in Monmouthshire, Occurrence of 190 a semibrunnea and Agrotis saucia at Dover . 4 A - 6 . 166 Xylomyges conspicillaris at Worcester . : : : : : 41 # *) Captures of . : : ; é 41 Xysmatodoma melanella, Notes on Solenobia pomones and 91 Yellow female of Colias Hyale lil Zyweona filipendule, Variation in 117 1x, INDEX OF SUBJECTS NOTICED IN THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. PAGE WorrparalleluspVaricty Of Wye wes eo, sd \ dss Jae Seah devsl eesti gee Seen 220 Acrydium peregrinum in England... ... 12 see eee eae vee we LQ, 219, 240 POMVOMIALVAMIGCLINGNA say did dss Sot asd See cae cee eee ea sem cee BOO Anthocharis cardamines, Variety of Sees HOCH) Mange iet0G G00. GG: Maori aABe Le). F210) Aphodius said to be vomited by Hottentots 663. | 080, /B00- Pa Load Goon Gob. AD) MumyrmiseNiopeand Adippe oc. 0. ess 4 ses vee ees tee tas tony 00 280, 286 EPSMEVECURTOME SHAN ONAL snc gear ces) fos oi MO-ceP meee Seek Maka taneml Poste 172 Bombyx Yamai-mai and B. Pernyi =... «.. ste) a.0 ete eee en 240/267 pook-worm, Query respecting the ... 1... 11. ses see vee tne cee oe 220 EA OBO MSP NOLO SY OT H59 oles g pusisis cy ceiisibes vwienjy «aslocis’ a vsis'siey Koisios cRNA a) ATA SRM, ALLOA, BMUbeLMIOS LOM GOMNO) _. ase). osoe—-, ese, , tes, . ayes 257 VIHA VEL Gosoagoocobocco0d 00s 283 obscurus, Crotch Cat..,... 283 OChropusi=nes-coeeeeeeeer 282 ovatus) Sn eienceeeenes 283 palmatus iecncceeeureeerr 283 pedicularius) ecesatecere 283 rotundicollis ......... soo DA VAG ENR. G65 605 5500000000000 283 Microptinus (Nitpus) gonospermi ... 182 Monohammus sutor in Scotland ...... 108 Mordellistena brevicauda ............... 86 Mycetophagus fulvicollis ............... 107 Mylleona glauca .........c.ceceeee ee eeeeee 159 Myllocerts ......-..seceeeeeseeeeee ven seeeee 103 aphbhosus accuser 105 aurifex (ot eee acemeccee te 103 CINEFABCENS .......2s eee eee 104 deenetus)s.cesceeceree reer .. 104 Plaucimus) Voeeeeceedeereet 104 herbaceus ..........2s0..0 103 NASULUS. ...¢:ccede ee PUGICUS) Ahsan 104 TAUESLALGLIS! Goo sti cacd0doc0ca0000 105 Nautes 2neusi.n..cconcssses csestemnest ooo AO) elepansieermcetucteeenceeties sou capi Cy: baaH tS wan dooouanen000d40000 000 soo CHL OVALS" pce eee: Necrophorus microcephalus ............ 182 Ocalea latipennis .........ceceeeeee een nee 280 Ochthebius Powertia. ca: eceseeere tee ee Oligota ruficornis .........6. cesses eens .. 282 Otiorhynchus fuscipes, Walton ,..107, 135 Waltoni, Smith ...... 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Soh ooo DES herbaceus, _,, . ec & se: Davdke Rosen Sean ae ieeneemeL Oe nasutus, Vo Atistn eC )st A005 ee vsclhhssth cent Recetas Mmmm pudicus, yy (Nicol Bay) cs. ken eve ek eee rusticus, 9» Champion Bay) » 216, ,, 22, 5, “pinicolana,”’ ,, “bimaculana.” ,», 224, ,, 80, invert the ¢ and 2 signs; and in last line, dele ?. 5, 225, line 18, for the first 2, read 6; and in line 29, dele ?. » 231, ,, 16, for “ Polistichus,’ read ‘ Polystichus.” nD » 20, ,, “margipellens,” ,, “margipallens.” ED On an AEB URUSLUL ATU Sse “ BIPUSTULATA.” » 268, ,, 10, instead of “last reine “of labial palpi broadly securiform” read ‘ last [joint of mawillary palpi broadly securiform.”’ VOLUME VI. DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF HEMIFTERA (NYSIUS SCOTTI) OCCURRING IN BRITAIN. BY EDWARD SAUNDERS, F.L.S Nysius Scorti, 2. s. Pale ochreous-brown. Head with a fuscous spot on each side on the inner mar- gin of the eye, and extending to the base. Antenne: Ist joint with a narrow brown ring near its middle; 2nd joint at its apex, and 4th joint slightly, darker than the rest. Thorax very largely and deeply punctured, with a raised pale central keel; posterior angles produced and rounded, flavous, with a brown spot above and below them. Scutellwm fuscous near its base, deeply and largely punctured, with a strongly marked flavous central keel. Clavus and coriwm covered with short, fine, adpressed golden hairs; their junction with the membrane narrowly fuscous; apex of corium with a sntall brown spot. Membrane purely transparent. Beneath: the first abdominal seg- ment black in the middle; 2nd segment also black in the middle, but with two spots of the ground-colour on each side; 3rd with two brown stripes on each side; 4th and 5th ochreous. Thighs with round brown spots: inter- mediate and posterior tibiee slightly fuscous at the apex: tarsi with the end of the first joint, and the two apical ones wholly, fuscous. Length 24 lines. I took three examples of this very distinct species by sweeping heather on Reigate Heath, in August of last year. Of the continental species it appears nearest allied to WV. senecionts, from which it may be se- parated by the narrower membrane, the differently coloured antennae, and other structural characters. I have named it after Mr. J. Scott, who has so long devoted himself to the British insects of this group, and to whom I am greatly indebted for much valuable information and assistance. Hillfield, Reigate: 8th May, 1869. TWO NEW SPECIES OF DIPTERA (SCATOPSE PLATYSCELIS AND THRIPTICUS BELLUS, LOEW) INHABITING ENGLAND. BY G. H. VERRALL. The above two species having just been described by Loew, in his Supplement to Meigen, from a specimen of each taken by me in England, I think a few notes on them may have some interest. JUNE, 1869. 2 [June, 1, ScaToOPsr PLATYSCELIS is described as “a trifle larger than 8. bifilata, Hal., consequently one of the largest species of this genus, and easily recognised by its affinity to the much smaller S. clavipes, Lw. It is shining black, with only the last segment of the abdomen dull ; hind tibiz flat, exceedingly enlarged toward the tip ; halteres blackish.” I captured one specimen near Lewes in 1867, crawling on a bare piece of ground on a steep bank under bushes. 2. The other species belongs to the Dolichopide, and is described by Loew as “'THRIPTIOUS BELLUS, 2. Front and upper half of the face bluish-green, lower half more steel-blue ; antenne and palpi black ; cilia of lower orbit setiform, yellowish-white ; vertex with tawny bristles; thorax shining violet with yellowish hairs, which are numerous and short on the anterior part, scanty, long, and setiform on the posterior ; scutellum steel-blue with two yellow bristles; abdomen shining bluish- green, without bristles, but with short yellowish-white hairs; coxe bluish-green, front pair with short pale yellowish hairs, trochanters yellow, front pair partly brown; femora shining blackish-brown, the base being pale yellowish to a small extent ; halteres whitish ; tegule (alule) with white cilia; wings limpid, hardly greyish, with the veins brownish-black, third and fourth longitudinal veins totally obliterated.” This is one of the most brilliant species of the whole of this brightly- coloured family, though it is one of the smallest. I have taken it between Kew and Richmond, but itis most difficult to capture from its smallness and activity. The genus Thripticus was only erected in 1864, in the Stettiner Ent. Zeit., by Gersticker, from a single male specimen caught near Berlin. Denmark Hill, London, 8.: May, 1869. ADDITIONS, &c., TO THE LIST OF BRITISH COLEOPTERA, WITH DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF OCHTHEBIUS. BY E. C. RYE. Having recently communicated certain of our Brachelytra, con- cerning which I entertained doubts, to M. Albert Fauvel of Caen, who is making an especial study of that group, and who has courteously given me the benefit of his opinion upon my difficulties, I am enabled to publish a few remarks tending, as I hope, towards that reconciliation of British and Continental species which is so much needed by us. Oxypoda exigua, of my collection at least, is, as I had anticipated, O. investigatorum, Kraatz, Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1864, p. 130. I have not 1869.1 33 seen the true exigua, which is stated to resemble Homalota pygmea, and to have the apex of the abdomen almost entirely unpunctured and shining. Oxypoda glabriventris, mihi (Ent. Mon. Mag., lst Feb., 1865), is the Calodera (Ilyobates) Bonnairei of Fauvel (Bull. Soc. Normand., ix, 1865, p. 287). The generic diagnosis of Liyobates appears to differ from that of Oxypoda solely as follows (the ligula, palpi, and tarsal formula being in each identical) :—ItyropatsEs, “ maxille mala interiore intus summo apice spinulis 12 longioribus ciliata ;” Oxypopa, “maaille mala interiore intus apice spinulis ciliata :’—the latter of which proposi- tions would logically include the former. Not feeling inclined to de- stroy my solitary example by dissection, I referred it to the latter genus, on account of its great structural resemblance to O. lucens and certain other of the small yellow species, and also on account of not observing in it the characteristic coarse punctuation of Llyobates. Oxypoda rufula, Wat. Cat., appears to be identical with O. riparia, Fairm., Soc. Ent. de Fr., 1859, 38. Oxypoda Waterhousei, mihi (nigrofusca, Waterh., nec Steph.), ac- cording to M. Fauvel, is O. amena, Fairm., Faune Ent. Fr., 436. Ozxypoda annularis, Wat. Cat., appears to be pallidula, Sahlb. Oxypoda misella, Waterh. (nec Kraatz), according to M. Fauvel, who has examined one of my specimens from Shirley, on which the Species was introduced as British, is O. ferruginea, Er. The latter has hitherto been considered by us as synonymical with O. brachyptera, Steph.; but the long antenne of that insect render such a conjunction impossible. Oxypoda nigrina and aterrima of Waterhouse are, as already re- corded, respectively to be referred to O. sericea, Heer, and O. incras- sata, Muls. In the last edition of de Marseul’s Catalogue, O. aterrima is, however, reinstated, and O. nigrina is separated from O. sericea by 14 species,—O. exigua, moreover,as has been before observed, being given as a synonym of the latter. Bryoporus Hardyi, a good species, closely allied to Bolitobius pygmaeus, is, according to M. Fauvel, who has seen other examples from the Pyrenees, to be referred to Mycetoporus. Tachyporus scitulus of our collections is Z. pusillus, dark var. True sci¢ulus is more convex, deeper black, and with more widely punc- tured elytra. Plilonthus temporalis, judging from a type kindly communicated to me by M. Fauvel, has certainly not yet been correctly recorded as British. A (June, Lathrobium Janson, Crotch, according to M. Fauvel, who has seen the original type, is most decidedly only LZ. pallidum of a rather darker colour than usual; variations in that respect being found on the con- tinent. M. Fauvel does not, however, make any remark as to the discrepancy in the length of the elytra. LInthocharis ruficollis, Crotch Cat. (tricolor, Marsh., Steph.), is £. vicina, Brisout, 1859, according to M. Fauvel. Stenus annulatus, Crotch, is referred to S. aceris, Boisd. et Lac., by M. Fauvel, who states that species to be erroneously considered as identical with impressus, Germ. (annulipes, Heer). They are given as distinct by de Marseul (1866). M. Fauvel states that our S. impressus is his pyreneus, M.S. Homalium crassicorne, Matthews (of which the unique type has been most kindly lent to me by that gentleman), is, in my opinion, certainly a depauperised immature example of the rare O. salicis. In this view I am corroborated by M. Fauvel. Homatium brevicorne, Matthews, nee Er., is vile var., according to M. Fauvel. HOMALIUM GRACILICORNE, Fairm., Faune Ent. Fr.,642. I have long had a single, highly-coloured (possibly immature) example of this species set aside as new toour lists ; and I now possess typical specimens given me by Dr. Power, who has recently taken several. It is closely allied to vile. M. Fauvel has corroborated this species for me. OcuTHEBIvS PoweERI, 2. sp. Elongato-ovatus, leviter convexus, fere opacus, obscure e@neo-piceus, pedibus fuscis, geniculis tarsis palpisque nigrescentibus ; prothorace sub- transverso, antice valde dilatato, angulis anticis prominentibus, grossé creberrimeque punctato, canalicula mediana, foveolis quatuor discalibus (quarum duo basales, majores, insecto & posteriori viso, Frogophleorum thoracis signaturam simulant), sulcisque lateralibus (irregularibus, antice profundius impressis foveolasque discales anticas invadentibus) insculpto ; elytris “nitidulis, setis brevissimis, albidis, sat evidenter striatis instructis, creberrime fortiterque punctato-striatis, punctis primo vist fere transversim confluentibus. Long. corp. vie % lin. (Angl.). T am unable to refer this well-marked little species satisfactorily to any published description; and M. C. Brisout de Barneville has re- turned it as utterly unknown to him. A single example was originally taken in brackish water on the south coast by Dr. Power in 1866; and it has recently been found in some numbers by Drs. Sharpe and Crotch under similar conditions near the Chesil Bank. 1869.} 5 Tts small size prevents it from being confounded with any of our species but O. exaratus; from which its duller appearance, closer punc- tuation, posteriorly more contracted thorax, &c., at once distinguish it ; but it cannot be satisfactorily compared with any of our recorded Ochthebii, suggesting, as it does, some of the characteristics of ruji- marginatus and others of the giant punctatus. Cis vestirus, Mellié, Soc. Ent. de Fr., 1848, p. 354. I possess a single example of this species, given to me by Mr. T. Morley, who took it in the neighbourhood of Manchester. It is about the size of medium festivus, but is narrower and flatter than that insect. Its thorax is narrower and more contracted in front than in any of our species, and is dull, being very closely punctured. The elytra are rather shining, irregularly and closely punctured, and clothed with pile, as in hispidus. Bagous inceratvus, Gyll. (encaustus, Boh.), Schén., 76. Mr.Douglas took a single specimen of this exotic-looking beetle whilst hunting for Corive in a brackish ditch near Gravesend, and I bring it forward on M. Brisout’s authority. It appears to occur in Austria and the meridional parts of France in salt and brackish waters ; also in Germany and South Russia, and in the Caucasus and Pyrenees. It is larger than any of our recorded species, except binodulus, but is utterly unlike any of them, owing to its comparatively short legs, broad flat build, shining appear- ance, &e. Mr. Douglas’ specimen is of an olive-grey colour, with more or less distinct brownish markings on the elytra, an irregular transverse band on the dise being the most conspicuous. The funiculus of its antenne is 6-jointed. CEUTHORHYNCHUS ARCUATUS, Herbst,Gyll.(Schon., 154). This hand- some species (which I also bring forward on the authority of M. Brisout) was taken some years ago (and also recently) by Mr. J. Kidson Taylor of Manchester ; it has also been found by Mr. J. Chappell of the same place, at Cleethorpes, and on the Lancashire coast. I am indebted to each of those gentlemen for a specimen of it. According to M. Brisout it is rare in the north but more abundant in the centre and south of France. It differs from chrysanthemi, Wat. Cat., amongst other things, in not having the lateral white marking carried on to the scutellar patch, and from aspertfoliarum in having the lateral marking originating nearer the shoulder, &c. Cronus otens, Fab., Redt. I have detected a single example of this fine species among some British Rhynchophora taken by Mr. Douglas, and sent tome for names. It appears to be spread over the whole of Europe, and is not rare in the environs of Paris, on Verbascum, 6 {June, during the early spring months. It is about the sizeof C. thapsus, but, unlike any of our other species, is uniformly set with greenish-grey hairs, with a black discal and smaller sub-apical spot on the suture of the elytra. Tomicvs aUTOGRAPHUS, Ratz., Forst., i.,160,7. My friend, Mr. T. Wilkinson, of Scarborough, has sent this fine species to me to be named. It was taken by Mr. Lawson, of the same place, about five weeks ago, in tolerable plenty, in some young larch trees in a fir plan- tation about a mile and a half from Scarborough, where, from the appearance of the trees, it must have been very abundant last year. Tt belongs to the sub-genus Dryocetes, Hich., and is allied to villosus, being larger and especially broader than that common insect, with the hairs not so stout or long, the thorax broader and shorter, the sutural stria not so well defined, the apex of the elytra less abruptly retuse, &c. 7, Park Field, Putney, S.W. 13th May, 1869. Note on the habits of Phleophthorus rhododactylus and Hylastes obscurus.—In May, and earlier or later, according to the season, Phleophthorus rhododactylus makes the galleries in which its eggs are deposited, in the bark of Furze (Ulex europeus). That the furze be dying, or recently dead, seems the only requisite to its attack. I have found it in farze killed by being cut, and in that which appeared to have died of old age; and, though preferring branches about or under an inch in diameter, it is found in all—from the largest to the smallest. As branches of old and sickly plants die from year to year it attacks them, and probably accelerates the death of the plant. It is equally abundant in Broom (Cytisus scoparius). The only apparently suitable materials in which I have not found it were a number of furze bushes smothered out of existence by the rapid growth of some fir trees, larch, and spruce. The gallery is formed directly upwards for nearly a quarter of an inch, and then divides into two branches, at first at right angles to each other, but, as they go upward, tending to become parallel. They are usually of unequal length, and one is sometimes absent. The longest I have seen was less than an inch in length, and half-an-inch would be a fair average. I always find in them a pair of beetles during their construction, and would note here the analogy with Hylesinus, where a two-branched burrow is also associated with the habit of both beetles being engaged in its construction. The entrance of the gallery is placed out of sight behind a loose scale of bark, or some slight projection. The ejected frass, which all appears to have been eaten, lies loosely agglutinated together outside, but no operculum covers the opening. I have several times met with an inverted gallery— that is, one going downwards instead of upwards from its entrance. The eggs are laid along both sides of the branches, twenty-five being a maximum for one side of one branch, and the total rarely exceeding forty. The time occupied in their con- 1869.] 7 struction I do not know; in some kepi under observation, about a dozen eggs had been laid in three weeks from the date of commencement of a burrow. The eggs are situated rather closely together, each in alittle hollow scooped out of the bark ; and they, as weil as the insterspaces between them, are covered over with a layer of fine frass, which does not appear to have been eaten; so that the sides of a completed burrow are formed of this frass, behind which are the eggs. The larvze start in every direction from the parent gallery, but tend to travel vertically ; so that, when full grown, most of them do so. The greater part of the broods become perfect beetles in late autumn, and pass the winter at the ends of the larval burrows, slowly eating a gallery upwards or downwards, according to the direction the larval gallery had assumed. I have seen galleries so eaten for winter sustenance more than an inch long ; the majority, however, eat very little. What becomes of those beetles that escape in autumn I do not know; their number is not great. Others, also few in number, remain as larvee throughout the winter; and I have found edd beetles, and even larvee, under bark from which the broods had apparently gone during the previous year. - Hylastes obscurus also attacks furze, but is more particular as to its pabulum than P. rhododactylus ; it rarely attacks stems of less than an inch in diameter, and rarely, almost never, cut-down sticks; it is partial, however, to the stumps that remain in the ground, and stems of plants dying of age. The latter frequently die on one side first, and this first-dying side is the favourite habitat of H. obscurus. The sticks that it has abandoned for one or more years are very numerous, as compared with those that still contain it ; whereas, with P. rhododactylus, abandoned sticks arerare. This probably arises from rhododactylus more completely separating the bark (leaving a very beautiful “ typograph ”), and from the smaller size of the branches affected by it causing them much sooner to assume the aspect of dead and rotten wood; whereas those long abandoned by obscwrus often continue to look as if they might contain the beetle, until they are quite rotten. I have found few likely stems of furze without traces of obscurus, but only a small proportion with hat beetle still present. I have also found it, though not abundautly, in broom. The parent gallery of obscurus has only one branch, which is very straight, accurately transverse to the stem, and $ of an inch to an inch in length. I usually find only one beetle in it, but I have several times found a second, which I believe to have been the male, and in these cases there was usually an abortive branch of the burrow in the opposite direction from the main one, about the length of the beetle; apparently eaten by the male for food, and containing no eggs. The eggs are laid at the bottom of little cavities on either side of the burrow, and covered by frass, which fills the cavities to the level of the wall of the burrow, of which there is usually a small unoccupied portion between each cavity, often of such a length that it looks as if four or five eggs had been omitted. I have sup- posed that the male, or several different males, came and went during the con- struction of the burrow; and that these blanks represented periods when the male was too long absent, as I have found them also in other species where the male is sometimes absent, but very rarely in any species in which the male is always present or always absent. I have found eggs laid so near the advancing extremity of the burrow that the beetle must have come out and gone in again backwards to have laid it, though I have never seen a beetle in this position. The number of eggs 8 {June, laid is small; a dozen on either side would be above the average, though I have Seen more. The larve burrow upwards and downwards. Many of the beetles assume the perfect state in autumn, and either continue the larval burrow until spring, after the manner of rhododactylus, or, escaping, make a fresh longitudinal burrow in a higher portion of the same stick in which they hybernate, apparently eating a little all the winter. I was much puzzled by finding, during the winter, one or more beetles in longitudinal burrows branching from -parent galleries, of which the young brood were already for the most part perfect. I believe these were beetles of the young brood which had used the openings of the old galleries to enter the bark, just as they instinctively go to the bottom of a crevice to begin burrowing. Some assume the perfect state during the winter, and not a small proportion pass the winter as larvae ; even now (May 14th) I have some still in the larval state. The period of oviposition is rather later than in rhododactylus, and occupies nearly a month. The full-grown larvae of Scolytus almost invariably burrow into the wood to form a hybernaculum ; IT have frequently noticed a similar habit in rhododactylus, and more rarely in obscurus; and, as throwing light on the use of this habit, I may note that in furze they rarely do so, but that those passing the winter as larvee in broom almost invariably do, the bark of broom being thinner, and when mined by these beetles much more easily separated, a mere touch removing it when soaked with rain. Obscurus, under the name of trifolit, is said to occur in the roots of clover, which is its recognised habitat ; and as clover belongs to the same natural order as furze and broom, it seems by no means unlikely that it would eat clover in default of them, but I am inclined to doubt its ovipositing in them. These beetles seem very free from parasites, a predaceous-looking larva, with a double-hooked tail (very like a miniature Pyrochrow larva), and from which I have bred Rhinosimus planirostris, is the only one I have found. It is more abundant in old burrows than in those still containing larve; so that, if it is carnivorous, and is not satisfied with the damp frass, it probably eats Acari, a Thrips which is common in old burrows, and other such creatures, more frequently than the larvee of Phleophthorus or H. obscwrus.—T. ALGERNON CHapMaN, M.D., Abergavenny, May, 1869. Note on Argyra leucocephala.—Mr. Scott told me lately of an interesting habit he has observed in this Dipteron. He met with it in considerable abundance near Morpeth, and says it resembled snow falling and melting immediately it touched the ground; for, when on the wing, the silvery gloss on the body appeared white, but, when the insect settled, the closed wings at once obscured it. This is probably an instance of an obscure colour protecting an insect when at rest, like the brown underside of the common ¢ “ ghost’? moth.—G. H. VERRALL, London, April, 1869. Queries respecting a few willow galls.—Thanks to a botanical friend, I shall be enabled to give all my willow galls, except a few, their true botanical position in the descriptive list of galls upon which Mr. Miiller and myself are now ergaged for this Magazine. I therefore take the liberty of making a few remarks on these galls, but before I commence so doing, I may observe that my collection is indebted 1869.) 9 for all of them to the kindness of friends, none of whom, however, sent a specimen of the willow fit for identification. I shall therefore be much obliged to anyone who can send me any of the galls I have briefly described below, accompanied by a specimen of the willow from which the gall was obtained; and Imay add that I shall be much obliged if any other willow galls, sent to myself or to Mr. Miller, be similarly accompanied. The first gall to which I will draw attention was found in Hare Wood, about seven miles from Leeds. It is the form and size of a pea—yellow, with brown spots. The leaf of the willow is lanceolate, and finely serrate towards the tip. The second is a flattish, bag-like gall, orbicular or lobed. The willow is a very small leaved species, and is probably very closely allied to Salix repens. I also wish to know the species of the willow upon which the Cambridge rose gall occurs, which Mr. Bond exhibited at the Meeting of the Entomological Society in March, the leaves of which are broadly lanceolate, serrate, and white beneath. I have received a leaf which I imagine to be that of Salix cinerea, bearing a large reniform gall on its underside, from Cornwall, and I believe also from the North. In con- clusion I may add, that I am much in want of the gall Andricus noduli, which Mr. Marshall (vol. iv, p. 102) states, on the authority of Hartig, is the young shoot of the oak, distorted, and loaded with excrescences, said to be common in England.— Henry Warine Kinp, Godalming, May 7th, 1869. Note on Htorhinus bilineatus, Fallen.—Very few collectors of British Hemiptera have, I fancy, met with this little bug, so that a few notes on its distribution here may be interesting. The first record, and probably the only one, of its capture in Britain, is in vol ii, p. 246, of this Magazine, where, after describing the species, Mr. Douglas mentions that three specimens had been taken by the Rev. T. A. Marshall in Leicestershire. When at Rannoch, in 1867, I collected a few Hemiptera, and among them four or five specimens of the Htorhinus, which I did not recognise at the time, nor until Mr. Douglas, in looking over my specimens, named it for me. Moreover I did not know the exact spot where I had taken it. My visit to Ross-shire not only revealed the metropolis of the species, but gave me a hint as to the locality at Rannoch. At Achilty there are numerous small groves of aspens (Populus tremula) here and there along the hill-sides, and almost every one of these groves appeared to be dedicated to Mtorhinus bilineatus. Now at Rannoch the aspen is not a common tree, and I only remember one off which I got any bugs, and these I have no doubt were this species. For the benefit of Hemipterists who may visit Rannoch I will give precise directions. About three miles from Kinloch on the road to Dall, the first cultivated field (bounded by a wall) appears, lying between the road and loch. On the left side of the road is a small wood; near a very small barn that runs through the wood and crosses the road, stand the aspens. At Achilty the bug was very common, but the male was much rarer than the female, in the proportion of about 1 in 10. They were most abundant at the end of July. Some other rare bugs occurred at Achilty. Among them were Sigara minu- tissima and Hydrometra odontogaster, &c. Aslam collecting materials for a list of Scottish Hemiptera-Heteroptera, I would be greatly obliged for any (even the shortest) notices of the bugs of any 10 ; [J a place in Scotland. Coleopterists probably often come across these insects; so if they could find room for them in their laurel-bottles, and, at the end of the season, send them to me, I should be very grateful.—F. Buchanan WHITE, Perth, May 10th, 1869. Abundance in 1868 of the winged form of Velia cuwrrens.—Of this insect, so common on running water, I had for many years sought in vain for a winged individual ; the hundreds I had taken for examination were all apterous, and I had known only of two or three winged examples being found over a wide area within the period. I was therefore greatly pleased when, in April last year, one of my boys caught, on one of our streams, a fully developed example, and, I having incited him to further search, he soon brought 20 or 30, and above 100 were taken in April and May by others. What was the cause of the acquisition of wings by so many individuals? ‘There was nothing exceptional in the weather of 1867 to favour development—the insects appeared before the heat of 1868—and there have been no winged ones since, as might have been expected if heat influences full develop- ment; sol apprehend the cause must be sought in other than external circum- stances. At present, and perhaps for ever, if this be true, the cause of such irregular development must be hypothetical. In Nature there is always a reserve of power—a capability of replenishing exhausted force and renewing action in one way or another. In insects we see this, for instance, in undeveloped bees and ants, the stage to which the ordinary workers attain being sufficient for the race ; but if occasion arrive which requires a different condition of life, development is not arrested in so many individuals as usual—the reserve is brought forward. So it may be as to the development of wings in Velia—and doubtless in other insects— that the law of Infinite Wisdom, under which the creatures ordinarily exist without wings, has latent power for the production of these members when they are to become necessary for the welfare of the race, either in removing the individuals to better localities, or in taking them to mingle with other stocks and so prevent deterioration. I say when the wings are to become necessary, for they must be prepared in the penultimate state, and the creatures can have no prescience or will of their own in providing for their unknown future.—J. W. Douanas, Lee: 14th April, 1869. Hints for finding eggs and larve of Lycena Arion.—My observations on the habits of the larvee of Chrosis ewphorbiana seem to have contributed to finding that species in Hngland. Perhaps a suggestion with reference to Lycena Arion may enable English entomologists to be the first to unravel the Natural History of the “ Large Blue,” rare as it is with them. I may mention, in the first place, that I was astonished to find that in the mountainous parts of Silesia this species had different haunts from those which I hitherto observed it to frequent in the plains ; for, when at Salzbrunn, in 1838, I saw it plentifully in the moist open meadows at the foot of Mount Hochwald, whereas near Glogau, as well as at Frankfort and Meseritz, it frequents dry fir-forests, on the most barren and sandy ground. My astonishment would probably have been less had I been then acquainted with the food-plant of Lycena Arion, for I well recol- lect that in those moist meadows Thymus serpyllwm was very abundant. 1869. i With us this butterfly haunts the lofty fir-forests, where the ground is clothed with bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus), mosses, and straggling plants of wild thyme (Thymus serpyllum). It is to be met with throughout the month of July. In order to obtain food, it generally resorts to the open places where T. serpyllum grows more freely, and displays plenty of blossoms. There we may often meet with this butterfly in company with hosts of Hipparchia Semele and Alcyone, Epinephele Lycaon (Eudora), Cenonympha Arcania, all quenching their thirst in the nectar of the flowers of large patches of thyme. At night it reposes between the needle- leaves of some fir-bush, where it may be rather easily seen. Spending a day (July 28th, 1857) in the Glogau Stadtforst (a locality visited by Mr. Stainton two years previously, as recorded in the Entomologist’s Annual for 1856, p. 128), I took the opportunity in the morning, before the heat of the day, to watch closely the females of Arion, which were flying slowly, and to observe their doings, I saw them sit down on the stems of Thymus serpyllwm, and, after sipping from a few flowers, bend their abdomens between the flower-stalks, on which they deposited a pale green egg, sometimes not without some apparent pains. I gathered a score or so of twigs, each with a single egg. In the afternoon I noticed them proceeding in the same manner, but ‘as it was then too hot in the sunshine, the oviposition was only performed under the shade of the trees. Now what became of these eggs? I totally neglected them! Having found it so easy to obtain them, I postponed breeding the larvae for some other year when I should be less busy! But from that day to this I have never obtained any more eggs, and here at Meseritz the species is so scarce that I have had no oppor- tunity of observing the interesting history of our largest Blue. I may mention, in conclusion, that, as the larve appear to pass the winter when about half-grown, it will probably be no easy work to rear them to maturity.— P. C. ZELLER, Meseritz, March 29th, 1869. Notes on the food-plant of Lycena Corydon and Cenonympha Davus.—With respect to the notices given in this periodical (vol. iii, p. 70 and 91) on this subject, I beg to make the following remarks .— In the Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung for 1852, p. 125, I published a detailed natural history of L. Corydon, and stated that its food-plant is Coronilla varia. This is most certainly the case in the neighbourhood of Frankfort-on-the- Oder, Glogau, and Meseritz, where there is neither chalk nor Hippocrepis comosa. In the higher parts of Carinthia the latter plant is likely to be fed upon by L. Corydon, for there the Hippocrepis grows in the greatest profusion in all the meadows where the butterfly occurs, and no Coronilla (excepting, I believe, O. Emerus). During the first years of my residence at Meseritz I saw no Corydon, and few plants of C. varia; but as the northern roadway became older, the plant became more frequent, thus last year, not far from the town, I was gladdened with the sight of a few Corydon, which no doubt had followed the spread of its food-plant. I add a few words on the food-plant of C. Davus. In England it is stated to be Rhynchospora alba; I indicated a Carex with long and narrow leaves. It is possible that with us the larva may feed on the Rhynchospora, but this plant I have not as yet found only on one peat-swamp, which I have never visited in summer, 12 |June, when the true C. Davus occurs in all our peaty moors and meadows. I imagine that in Britain the larva will feed freely on Carex, and it certainly will not die of hunger when supplied with any of the sharp grasses that grow on moors.—ID. Observations on Plusia Ni (by Professor Zeller), translated from the Isis, 1847, p. 449.—As Treitschke correctly observes, Plusia Ni, when on the wing, has a great resemblance to P. Gamma, and it requires very sharp powers of observation to recognise the buzzing Noctua, by its grey colour, as Plusia Ni. Near Syracuse, on the 30th May, I took a wasted male in a fallow-field, where, when started up, it settled again to sleep on a vine-leaf, instead of buzzing at flowers, as is usual. Gamma sometimes settles again in the same way, and, indeed, I had almost passed this specimen for Gamma. In the neighbourhood of Catania I found specimens of the second brood, on the 8rd of July, in a moist meadow overgrown with rushes ; they flew in the forenoon, and when I revisited the meadow a second time, I found them flying readily towards evening, and settling deep in the tufts of rushes, with the head downwards. At Messina I again observed this species, in the second half of August, where they were flying in the dry grass, andamongst Nepeta calamintha, on the heights of Castellaccio. One beautiful specimen I took from a small Asilus, which had already killed it. Plusia Ni was, however, most plentiful on the border of a road near Naples, on the 20th of August ; they were on this day particularly shy, more like Gamma, and whenever I approached them they went over a wall into a vineyard. I also noticed this species in the Campagna to the South of Rome, on the 28th August. This species, at any rate, seems no rarity in the southern part of Italy. Its most characteristic markings are furnished by the sub-terminal line of the anterior wings and the central markings: the former shows between the 2nd and 8rd branches of the median vein, and between the last branches of the sub- dorsal vein two acute angles, which are open towards the base, and filled with black-brown, and it always bears on its anterior edge, in the interval between the branches of the sub-costal vein and between the 1st and 2nd branches of the median vein, short black-brown longitudinal streaks. The central marking is not silvery, but simply white with a faint gloss, and at the part which hangs on to the median nervure it is filled up with pale grey; the free part is oval, and more or less distinctly separated. It is very remarkable, but in three male specimens this part is quite distinctly separated on the left wing, but not on the right: on the other hand, in one female the contrary takes place, and in no one specimen is there this separation on both wings. The male is distinguished from every other species of Plusia, except circwm- scripta, by the abdomen. On each side of the 5th segment is a long, almost straight, pale reddish tuft of hairs, which projects but little from the abdomen, but strikes the eye very readily, so that one cannot help wondering how it was not mentioned by Treitschke: below this tuft on the 6th segment is a longer and thinner tuft, of which the tips of the hairs are black; usually these black tips are concealed in the anal tuft, but may be easily fished out with the setting-needle. As I had not observed these appendages, the object of which I am ata loss to conceive, in the fresh specimens, I am not confident that they are really attached 1869. ] 13 to the above-named segments. Probably other species possess this character in the male sex, and it might furnish a clue to a more natural grouping of the species. Plusia Daubei, with which I am not personally acquainted, comes very near to P. Ni according to Freyer’s figure (N. Beit. iii, p. 90, Tab. 256, fig. 1); on the anterior wings it shews the same markings of the sub-terminal line, but it wants the lower oval part of the Plusia-mark, and, on the other hand, has the peculiar reniform stigma as in P. Gamma. Boisduval says of P. Dauber (Index p. 159), that it is smaller than Ni; but according to Freyer, it is almost larger than Gamma. Description of the larva of Aporophila australis—On October 5th, 1867, Mr. Thomas Terry, of Babbicombe, gave Mr. Hellins some eggs of this species, laid by a captured 2 about three weeks previously. On Oct. 16th larvee began hatching ; they fed on Pow annwa and other smooth grasses, and chickweed, and, being kept in a warm place (out of doors), did not seem to hybernate, but fed slowly through the winter, and by the end of January, 1868, were half-an-inch in length : from this time they fed and grew more rapidly till April, and all of them had gone to earth by the middle of that month. The moths appeared September 22nd to October 10th. The egg is full and round in shape, with about 20 ribs, of which a third meet at the top, and the rest stop short in the angles formed by their junction, all con- nected by transverse reticulations; the ground-colour pale yellow, but splashed with purplish-pink. The larvz, when hatched, are greenish, with a blackish tinge on the back of the front segments, the head brown, the under-side paler than the back, the usual dots distinct, each furnished with a stiff bristle. After a moult they become smooth, of a full green colour, with a darker dorsal line and a whitish sub-spiracular stripe, the folds showing yellow, and so they continue to near half-an-inch in length. When this size has been attained varieties begin to develope themselves, some remaining wholly green with double purplish-red dorsal lines, while in others the sub-spiracular stripe becomes edged above with a spiracular line of purplish-pink. At the next change the dorsal purplish-red lines open on the centre of each segment, disclosing a pale pinkish diamond, and the sub-dorsal faintly appears now as a fine double pinkish line. The next moult produces a further development quite characteristic of the adult ; the larva is now an inch long; in some the green of the back is of a yellower tint, and the sides a bright rose-pink; in others a brilliant grass-green, and sides purplish-pink ; at this stage the dorsal line is flesh colour edged with pink or red, and on the front of each segment is a pair of short black marks placed obliquely, so that but for the dorsal line they would forma A with its apex pointing forwards: the sub-dorsal line is also marked with black at beginning of each segment; the sub-spiracular stripe yellowish. The full-grown larva is one of the handsomest and most gaily coloured of the Noctue, is one inch five-eighths in length, rather stout and cylindrical, slightly tapered towards the anal tip. The ground colour is now a very brilliant yellow-green, or in some individuals greenish-yellow ; the head green freckled with reddish, a red, unpolished semi- 14 | June, circular plate on the back of the second segment; on the back of each of the other seements is a red diamond, the front part of which for about a third of its length is black, through which runs the flesh-coloured or pale pinkish dorsal line edged with red, thus cutting what would be a black triangle into two black wedges pointing forwards; in the centre and sometimes hinder portions of the red diamonds the dorsal line becomes often suffused with their colour. The sub-dorsal line black, but only at the beginning of each segment. The spiracles white placed in semicircles of black; and the space between them and the sub-dorsal line thickly freckled and streaked with deep red, appearing like a broad band of red along the side ; the sub-spiracular stripe very pale primrose-yellow, its lower edge softened a little into the ground colour, and followed below by a blotch of red or pinkish on each segment; the prolegs tipped with the same colour; the ventral surface pale yellowish-green. Var. 1. The ground colour a rather deep reddish-pink on the back and sides. The freckled side band and dorsal diamonds of darker purplish-red, with all the other details as in the preceding. Var. 2. Ground colour of the whole surface olive-green, but appearing on the back only at the beginning of each segment as a transverse narrow band, in which can be seen the pinkish-white dorsal line and the black wedges, though much shortened; the rest of each segment is covered by a broad, transverse, dark purplish- brown band extending to the spiracular region and hiding all other marks; each white gpiracle in a large black blotch connected with a narrower blackish-brown — transverse band on the ventral surface of each segment; the head, entire second and half the third segment, anal tip, and legs, also a faint spiracular line visible only on the anterior segments, are all of the olive-green ground colour. The pupa is subterranean (but not enclosed in a hard cocoon), its shape is very cylindrical, tolerably even in bulk throughout, very smooth, but rather thicker in the middle, the tail ending witha small spike. Its colour a rich brown, and polished.—Wm. BuckLER, Emsworth. Occurrence of Acidalia herbariata in London.—Three or four specimens of A. herbariata were taken last June, in the shop of a herbalist, in Holborn; two specimens, both males, are now in Mr. Bond’s collection. One of the examples taken was a very worn female—on examining his stock, the only plant the herbalist could discover had been eaten was tansy.—H. G. Muzx, Old Ford, May 1869. Scoparia Zellerit in South Devon.—I have taken this insect in 8S. Devon for more than a quarter of a century; we used, when boys, to beat it occasionally out of hedges near Teignmouth, and then placed it next to Botys fuscalis. Growing wiser as we grew older, we called it Hudorea cembre, and as the female of this insect I always regarded it until the appearance of Dr. Knaggs’ monograph of the genus Scoparia. Any visitor to Teignmouth may capture Scoparia cembre commonly on the beach beyond the Ness Rock, sheltering amid the Lupatoriwm, which there grows abundantly, but Zelleri is only caught occasionally, either at light or by beating hedges.—R. C. R. JORDAN, 35, Harborne Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham: May 14th, 1869. Pterophorus hieracit.— The readers of the Hntomologist’s Monthly Magazine will remember the discovery made of the larva of a species of Pterophorus on Teucriwin 1869.) 15 scorodonia by Mr. Greening, of Warrington. On examining this with genuine specimens of Pterophorus hieractt, sent by Professor Zeller to Mr. Doubleday, and by Herr Mihlig to Mr. Stainton, it is evidently a quite different species; and next mouth, I hope to describe it under the name of Pterophorus tewcrii (Greening), taking advantage of the opportunity to give a short monograph on the nearly allied European species. I should feel very much indebted to any one who would in the mean time collect evidence as to the existence of the true hieracit in England, as also to those who have an opportunity of examining exotic collections, if they would kindly compare the Pterophorus tewertt with the P. marginellus of Zeller; this species I have never seen, and the description in Linnzea Entomologica, it must be confessed, agrees in many respects very closely with the proposed P. tewerit, especially in the ground colour of the wings “ brunneo fuscus,” and in its having the “ linea in ciliis coste ante apicem tenuis nivea.” Any Entomologist clearing up these two points would confer an obligation on me.—Ib. New locality for Argyrolepia wneana.—On the Ist June, 1868, I took a specimen of this Tortri« in a wood between Herne and Canterbury, about two miles from the former place.-—J. W. Downine, Vauxhall Bridge Road: April 25th, 1869. Worcestershire captures of Lepidoptera in 1868.—This account of my doings in the past season may perhaps interest some of your readers. March 2nd, A. prodromaria, 3 bred; T. populeti, 3 bred; T. munda, 4 bred. April 4th, X. conspicillaris, already recorded, 1 bred. April 19th to May 10th, T. extersaria, 15 bred. April 19th, P. palpina, 4 bred ; 27th, A. berberata, 6 bred. May 8th to 20th, C. ocularis, 12 bred; 19th, EH. heparata, 2 bred; E. plumbeola, 2 bred ; 20th, H. geniste, at sugar, 6; H. suasa, at sugar, 1; A megacephala, 2 bred ; 28th, T. extersaria, 2, beating; L. hecapterata, 6, beating; C.mesomella, 1, beating ; M. Artemis, several; L. sinapis, several. June Ist, H. decolorata, 2, beating; FH. heparata, 2, beating; C. propugnata, 4, beating; B. pandalis, 1, beating; A. pla- giata, 2, beating; 2nd, C. bifida, 1 bred; 10th, S. undulata, 1, beating; 8. apiformis, 27 bred; A. luteata, 2, beating; EH. lariceata, 4, beating at the Trench Woods, and 2 in my garden, where larches are growing; EH. porata, 2, beating; 15th, A. advena, — at sugar, 4; 15th to 25th, OC. porcellus, at flowers, 9; 16th, A. corticea, at sugar, 1; 18th, A. rubidata, 1, beating. July 2nd, C. quercana, 1 very fine, stamped it out of an oak; M. miniata, 4, beating; A. twmidella, 3, beating; N. roborella, 1, beating ; 7th, OC. afinis, at sugar, 1; 11th to 27th, T. betule, 22 bred from 25 larvee taken off Prunus spinosa; 3 of the number having been stung. Seven males appeared before any female ventured out of the pupa. LHvery season for the last ten years I have bred this species, and have always found the males first to emerge. August 3rd, OC. nupta, 5 at rest; 8th, H. sylwinus, 1 at rest; she laid some white eges, which upon the following day became perfectly black; 13th, C. cytherea, at sugar, 3. September 5th, A. lwnosa, 6, at sugar; 19th, X. aurago,1, at sugar; C. miata, 8, at rest ; 22nd, larve of OC. furcula. October 9th, larva of LH. orbicularia. The last four seasons I have searched carefully for larvee of this insect, but I have only succeeded in taking one each season; 15th, V. Atalanta, a singular variety of this species I captured in my garden. The margins of the under-wings are bright yellow instead of scarlet, and there is a profusion of hair around the body near the inner margins, light brown and white.—ABRAHAM HpmuNDS, Cemetery House, Astwood Road, Worcester, May, 1869. 16 [June, Do birds eat the larve of Cucullia?—A paper was read on the Ist March, at the Meeting of the Entomological Society of London, “on the relations between Insects and Insectivorous birds,” by Mr. J. Jenner Weir. This paper broaches a theory founded on certain experiments by Mr. Weir, which theory is so opposed to what I have observed to take place in Nature that I must suppose either that the birds upon which he made his experiments reject, in confinement, food which they would partake of if at liberty, or that some birds will eat certain larvee which may be distasteful to others. I will simply refer to his theory of coloured larva, as instanced by the genus Cucullia, being rejected by birds. I have for many years grown Verbascum thapsus, the food-plant of Cucullia verbasct, a8 well as several other food-plants of the genus, in my garden, to attract the moths. I have some years had hundreds of larve of C. verbasci which fed up toa certain size, but as soon as they begin to show colour and size, and appear on the upper side of the leaves and on the stems to partake of the flowers, down come the birds and off go the larve. The same thing has happened with Cucullia absinthii, much to my annoyance. I therefore cannot feel so satisfied as Mr. Weir expresses himself to be, that “as a general rule birds refuse to eat gaily coloured larve.”—H. D’OrvILLE, Alphington, May 4th, 1869. Capture of Deilephila lineata at Folkestone—A. good specimen of D. lineata was brought to me on the 7thinst. A boy found it at rest on the grass in “ the Warren.” —Henry ULtyett, Folkestone, May 10th, 1869. Deilephila lineata in Gloucestershire.—The other day the remains of a large moth were brought to me, which I had not much difficulty in determining as D. lineata. It was taken last antutan at Great Risington, about four miles from this place, and when caught was in first-rate condition. It was in the school-room window of the clergyman’s house, and a bird was pecking at it from the outside. When brought to me, the remains consisted of a portion of the body, and one hind- wing and a half!—E. Hatierr Topp, Aldsworth, Gloucestershire, April, 1869. Note on Eriogaster lanestris.—In the summer of 1866 I had larve of this insect, about 100 of which went to pups. The dates at which they have emerged are worth noting :—1867, first moth on February 2nd; 1868, February 20th; 1869, April 6th! There are some yet in pupa; when may they be expected next year P—Ip. Sericoris ewphorbiana bred.—This morning, on looking into my breeding-cage, I was pleased to find that a fine specimen of this species had emerged from a pupa obtained from larve collected by me at Folkestone, in September last.— Howarp VAUGHAN, Kentish Town, 3rd April, 1869. Nyssia hispidaria at Hampstead.—A few weeks ago I captured a large male of N. hispidaria on a fence at Hampstead, where I have often searched for that species without success.—ID. 1869.1 17 Eupithecia consignuta bred.—I have bred six fine specimens of E. consignata within the last few days, from eggs kindly sent to me last spring by Mrs. Hutchinson, of Grantsfield. I have entirely failed in getting them to pair.—H. Harpur Crewe, Drayton Beauchamp, May, 1869. The late Dr. L. Imhof’s Works, Manuscripts and Collections.—The November number of this Magazine contained an obituary notice of Dr. L. Imhoff, and there will shortly appear in Switzerland a “ Necrolog”’ of the same naturalist from the pen of Professor C. L. Riitimeyer. In connection therewith the following memoranda may be of some interest, and, in publishing them, I hope to meet with the approval, not only of the respected author of the “ Bibliotheca Entomologica,’”’ but of all those who are agreed that in the interest of science it is the duty of the survivors to preserve an exact record of the work done by those who have died at their post. PuBLISHED Works.—To the almost complete list up to 1862, in Dr. Hagen’s work, there are to be added— “‘Catalogus Piezatorum (Hymenopterorum) circa Basileam nec non in aliis Helvetiz regionibus repertorum.” Basilea, 1 fol. (1838 ?). ‘** Sammlung auslindischer Kifer und Schmetterlinge in naturgetreuen Abbil- dungen von T. D. Labram. Mit Text von Dr. L. Imhoff.’ 1838. Basel, 8vo; 2 numbers, each with 4 pages text and 4 plates, some of which are coloured (Papilio Doreus, Erippus, Bolina, et Diaphanus ; Syntomis Lethe, Procris Lichas ; Acrea Horta; Passalus Heros; Oatoxantha angusta ; Chrysochroa wanthotenia). Lacordaire’s notice of a “Heft” No.19 of the “Singulorum generum Cur- culionidum,” is correct (compare Hagen, Bibl. Ent. I, p. 401). The aforesaid publications are in my possession. Labram’s original pencil drawings to Dr. Imhoff’s work about the Curculionide are also in my hands, as well as many of those of the ‘‘ Insecten der Schweiz ;” but what has become of the remainder of the latter, particularly of the finely executed drawings of the Diurnal Lepidoptera, I am not able to state at present. Manuscripts.—Of these I have secured— **Ludovici Imhoff Dissertatio, in qua insecta nonnulla succino inclusa de- scribuntur et figuris illustrantur,” etc. 4to; ann. 1 tab. (8 Diptera, 1 Phryganea, 1 Termes, and 1 Chrysomela, from the Public and Bernoullian Collections at Basle). No date. “ Kirby’s Arten des Genus Bombus” (a critical comparison of Kirby’s with continental species). No date. “Europaeische Arten des Genus Bombus in der Hellwig-Hoffmanseggischen Sammlung.” No date. Cotections.— Dr. Imhoff’s first and most complete one, combining all orders of Swiss insects, with the types of the species described by him ag new, was bought, many years ago, by Professor L. Agassiz, for the Museum of Comparative Zoology in Cambridge, Mass. (see Hagen, Stettin. Ent. Zeitung, 1868, p. 115). Swiss entomologists will not fail to appreciate the fact that this collection (together with other European ones) is now under the care of Dr. Hagen himself ; and it is to be hoped that this coincidence will be in due time made use of to settle the many open questions, particularly in the order of the Newroptera taken in the Linnzan sense. 18 [June, A very large assemblage of (mostly exotic) beetles, including the majority of the Cureulionde described by Dr. Imhoff, has been acquired by Andreas Bischoff- Ehinger, of Basle, to whose liberality and studiously neat collection the former, on more than one occasion, owed the means of continuing his works. A second general collection has been deposited in the Public Museum at Basle, and I would here express my hope that every Swiss specimen belonging to it may be carefully preserved, if possible, with Dr. Imhoff’s own labels, to enable workers to use the insects as types, as it would be rather a round-about way to have to get information on that head from America. The library of Dr. Imhoff has been dispersed.—ALBERT Muxier, Penge, S.E., April, 1869. The late Mr. Edward William John Hopley.—This gentleman, whose name will be familiar to our readers, died at his residence, No. 14, South Bank, Regent’s Park, London, on the 30th April, at the age of 53. Intended by his friends to follow the profession of medicine, Mr. Hopley was, in early life, articled to a surgeon at Brighton; but he soon relinquished that profession for the, to him, more congenial one of an artist, in the exercise of which he had attained no small degree of celebrity, and he was always ready to acknowledge the assistance to his art-career which his early anatomical studies had afforded him. For many years he had been an assiduous collector of British Lepidoptera, and turned his attention especially to the subject of variation, on which he largely experimented, by subjecting certain larve to forced diet and unusual conditions. As our pages will show, he was a genial writer and minute observer. And he will long be remembered by a large circle of friends for his unvarying courtesy ; an evening spent with him in his studio, surrounded by a combination of the beautiful works of art and nature, was an event not likely to be soon forgotten by the numerous entomologists who enjoyed that privilege. About two years since, Mr. Hopley was attacked by an insidious renal disease, of a kind that has hitherto baffled all medical skill, and though he retained his habitual happiness of disposition up to the last, he knew that, sooner or later, he must succumb to its ravages; yet only a short time before his death he had occupied himself with a re-arrangement of his collection in # new cabinet, scarcely anticipating apparently that the end was so near. One or two of his most beautiful pictures received the artist’s finishing touches only a few days previously to his demise. A ebiety. Tur Insect WorxD, being a popular account of the Orders of Insects ; by Louis Fiauier; second edition, revised and corrected by H. W. Janson. London: Cuapman & Hatt, 1869. Those who desire a popular treatise on general Entomology, profusely ilus- trated, cannot do better than supply themselves with this English translation of Figuier’s “ L’Insecte.’ The writer belongs to the class of “ book-makers” with whom we have little sympathy, yet a careful compilation from trustworthy sources is often better than original works by superficial observers, such as we too free quently see; and M. Figuier appears to have had good advisers as to the books he should consult. One portion, at least, of the English translation is likely to be free from striking errors, as the second edition has been entrusted to a gentleman 1869.] 19 whose extensive knowledge of Coleoptera is indisputable ; and the rest seems tolera- bly correct. The illustrations are, as a rule, well engraved; yet many are very poor, being of the well-known unnatural French type, and the worst are those taken from older authors, which seem to be pressed into their service by all French popular writers on insects with such accurate copying, that one is almost induced to fancy that the same wood-blocks do duty in rival publications. The work is handsomely got up, and will no doubt form an attractive ornament on many drawing- room tables. We cannot refrain from remarking on the low price at which these French works are published, as compared with similar English ones, though the demand on the other side of the Channel can scarcely be greater than here. The secret lies in the cost of production, and it is a humiliating fact that the artistic work of a volume like this can probably be done on the Continent for almost a tithe of what it would cost in England. Even printing in the English language can be executed in some of the large German towns at a far lower rate than at home, and on equally good paper. We say this in no disparagement of an enterprising class of artizans : the difficulty remains to be solved by the political economist. EnrTomeLocicaL Society oF Lonpon, 37d May, 1869. H. W. Bares, Hsq., ¥F.Z.S., President, in the Chair. C. O. Waterhouse, Esq., Assistant in the Zoological Department of the British Museum, was elected a Member. Mr. Stevens exhibited a large collection cf Chinese Coleoptera. Mr. Butler mentioned that the West African Coenocephalus, exhibited by him at the Meeting on the 1dth February last, was still alive, though it had eaten nothing. Professor Westwood exhibited, and remarked upon, several species of Ephyris and other Hymenoptera of doubtful position, including an example of Calyoza staphylinoides, Hope, taken at large at Natal, the species having been originally described and figured (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1st series, vol. ii, p. 56, pl. 7, fig. 11), from an example enclosed in Gum Animé. Mr. Horne read some observations on the habits of various Indian insects. Mr. F. Smith exhibited both sexes of a Cynips sent to Mr. Darwin by Mr. Walsh, as recorded in the last number of this Magazine (vol. v, p. 298). Con- cerning this most interesting discovery we give the following extract from Mr. Walsh’s paper in the “ American Entomologist”’ for February, 1869 :— “The true ‘Oak-apple,’ as it is popularly called, occurs exclusively upon the Black Oak (Quercus tinctoria). It commences its growth in May, or as soon as the young leaves put forth, and reaches its full size in a few weeks. The central cell, in which the larva resides, becomes eventually hard and woody, but the space between that cell and the external skin or rind of the gall is always completely filled by soft, drab, spongy matter. By the fore-part, or middle, of June, both male and female gall-flies (Cynips Q.-spongifica, O.S.) eat their way out of a certain number—say about a fourth part—of these galls. The remaining larve lie dormant for more than two months, when they change into the pupa-state, and subsequently, about October, eat their way out in the form of gall-flies (Cynips Q.-aciculata, O.S), 20 [June, closely allied to, and yet quite distinct from, those produced in June. Out of thousands of these autumnal flies examined by us, all were females, with not a single male among them; and we have experimentally ascertained, by colonizing a number of these females upon isolated black-oaks known to be not previously infested with oak-apples, that they cause apples to be generated in the following. spring upon such isolated oaks. From oak-apples produced in this manner we have bred two specimens of the spring form (Q.-spongifica) of gall-fly which exists in both sexes, and five specimens of the autumnal form (Q.-aciculata) which exists exclusively in the female form. Finally, treating these five autumnal specimens in the same manner, 7. e., placing them upon another isolatea black-oak, we obtained galls in the following spring which produced two specimens of the spring form (Q.-spongitfica), thus showing that the autumnal form sooner or later reverts to the spring form. Hence, as well as from other considerations, we may infer that the former is nota distinct species, but a mere dimorphous female of the latter; for otherwise one form could not generate the other. The bastard oak-apple matures like the pre- ceding in June, but is found exclusively upon the red-oak (Quercus rubra). It differs from the preceding in never reaching so large a size, in the central cell not being woody, but consisting of a mere shell which can be readily broken with the thumb-nail, and in its being only connected with the external rind by slender radiating filaments. Males and females (C. @.-inanis) absolutely indistinguishable from the spring form of the preceding species, are obtainable from this gall in June; but after repeated trials we have never succeeded in breeding from it a single autumnal female, and we do not believe that any such form exists. Hence, and also in consequence of the very great dissimilarity of the galls, and their always growing upon distinct species of oak, we are compelled to consider these two gall-flies as distinct species, although when placed side by side the forms generated in the spring are always exactly like each other.” Mr. McLachlan exhibited all the forms of a small species of Termes brought from St. Helena by Mr. Melliss, and being the same to the ravages of which, in that island, Mr. Layard called the attention of the Society in 1866 (Trans. Ent. Soc. 83rd series, vol. v, Proc. p. xii). Mr. Layard stated that the insect had been introduced in timber from the Coast of Africa, but Mr. McLachlan could not identify it with any described African species, and was inclined to consider it the T. tenuis of Hagen, which inhabits the West Indies and Brazil. Considering that St. Helena is a place of call for vessels from all quarters, there is no reason why it should not have originated from the West; though one would naturally look to Africa as its home, and from this cause he was inclined to think that the idea of its coming from thence had originated. It is an anomalous species in its structure, in which it agrees with T. tenuis. Mr. McLachlan also exhibited a large number of small black Podwre placed in his hands by Mr. Henry Lee, and concerning which it was stated that they had been found at Hungerford, on the 10th April, on the surface of a duck-pond, which they covered to such an extent as to give the idea that a bag of soot had been emptied over it. Mr. A. R. Wallace read ‘‘ Notes on eastern Butterflies (Diadema).” Mr. Butler read “ Descriptions of a new or little known forms of Diurnal Lepidoptera.” 1869. 21 NEW SPECIES, &c., OF HEMEROBIINA; WITH SYNONYMIC NOTES (FIRST SERIES.) BY BR. M’LACHLAN, F.1L.S. Famity OSMYLIDZ. CLIMACIA, ”. g. Antenne moniliformes, alis paulo breviores ; articulo basali bulboso. Ocelli nulli, occiput fornicatum ; frons triangularis; labrum excisum ; maxille (2) setis duabus elongatis rectis instructe ; palporum maxillarum articulus ultimus quarto paulo longtor, subulatus. Prothorax elongatus, capite angustior. Abdomen via robustum, ad apicem attenuatum ; Semine terebra recté, sursum directa, instructum. Pede sgraciles ; tarsorum articulo 1° elongato, 2° et 5° brevioribus, equalibus, 8° et 4° brevissimis ; ungues parvt, simplices ; plantula parva. Ale ovate, ad apicem obtuse ; anticarum subcosta et radius sub-paralleli, distantes, ante apicem conjuncti, pterostigmate dilatato ; area sub-costalis venulé transversali singula basali instructa; furcule marginales apicales duplices, dorsales simplices ; venu- le pauce, seriebus duabus gradatim disposite, cum venis robusta, ciliate ; fimbrie breves: postice fere anticas simulantes. Type: Micromus areolaris, Hagen, North Amer. Neurop., p. 199. This curious little insect evidently belongs to the Osmylide in the sense defined by Brauer ; and Hagen, in his “ Synopsis synonymica,” had already placed it doubtfully in the genus Sisyra, at the same time indi- cating that a new genus should be formed for its reception. From ; Stsyra it differs in the pre- sence of a veinlet at the base of the sub-costal area, and of two well-defined series of gradate veinlets ; also in the elongated pro- thorax, and long triangular Pe Twine O8, Chingctararevianls. face. I have indicated the presence of two curious setiform organs, apparently connected with the maxille, but am by no means sure of their actual position and relation- ship. Hagen received the insect from Florida (March) ; I possess a pair from Bosque County, Texas, taken by Mr, Belfrage (in August). It is probably aquatic in its earlier stages. 22 (June, Famity HEMEROBITID. DREPANEPTERYX BEROTHOIDES, 1. sp. 2. D. griseo-flavescens. Caput thoraxque utrinque fusco-nigri : an- tenne flave, nigro-annulate. Pedes flavo-albidi, fusco-signatt. Ale an- guste: antice margine costali prope basin valde elevato, in medio late exciso; apice longé falcato; margine apicali sub apicem late exciso ; griseo-fusce, marginibus venisque longitudinalibus nigro-punctatis; sec- tores sex: postice albido-hyaline, late fusco-limbate. Long. corp. 3"; exp. alar. 10". Hab. Australia. Head and thorax dull greyish-yellow, the sides above blackish; face shining yel- lowish, suffused with blackish; antenne yellow, narrowly annulated with black; palpi blackish. Legs whitish-yellow ; anterior and intermediate femora and tibize strongly spotted with black; posterior femora internally with a long fuscous cloud ; apical joint of all the tarsi blackish. Abdomen fuscous, paler beneath. Wings long and narrow: anterior pair with the costal margin very narrow at base, then, near the base, strongly and roundly elevated, afterwards very longly and shallowly excised; apex produced into a long curved hook, the margin below the apex deeply excised; colour greyish-fuscous, with a darker transverse cloud before the apex; costal margin regularly dotted with black and yellowish, apical margin (excision) narrowly blackish, with pale whitish-yellow spaces, costal veinlets, radius, and sectors yellow, strongly dotted with black; six sectors; two series of gradate veinlets, of about six each, placed very obliquely and parallel ; cellule at base of costal area long, occupying nearly the whole of the very narrow base of the area: posterior wings with the apical margin longly excised; whitish hyaline, apical and dorsal margins with a very broad smoky fuscous border, extending nearly to the base, hence the hyaline ground is reduced to an oval basal space; veins pale yellowish in the hyaline portion and blackish in the rest. A very peculiar species, with the facies of the Indian and American forms of Berotha ; differing widely on the one hand from the Kuropean D. phalenoides and the Indian D. falculoides, and on the other hand from the Australian and New Zealand group represented by D. bino- culus and its allies, yet agreeing structurally sufficiently well to admit of its being considered generically identical. Lent to me by Mr. Walker. HEMEROBIUS PERPARVUS, 2. Sp. Hi. rufo-fulous, fusco-nigroque varius. Antenne flava, ad basin fusco- annulate, ad apicem nigricantes. Pedes flavi, tarsis anticis intermedusque nigro-annulatis. Ale albido-hyaline: antice griseo-guitate ; vene venu- leque albide, fusco-punctate, pilis longis, erectis, nigris, ciliate ; sectores duo. Long. corp. 14"; exp. alar. 33". Hab. Texas. In coll. auct. 1869. ] 23 Head and thorax reddish-fulvous, the latter varied with black above. Antenne yellow, obscurely annulated with fuscous, the apical portion totally blackish : palpt piceous. Abdomen yellowish, clothed with concolorous hairs; in the male the last ventral segment is produced into a short, triangular, yellow, ciliated borer-like appendages. Legs whitish; anterior-and intermediate tarsi annu- lated with blackish. Wings whitish hyaline: anterior pair with numerous small rounded grey spots, which are very conspicuous along the inner margin; veins whitish, with minute fuscous dots, from each of which arises a long erect blackish hair; margins longly ciliated ; two sectors; five veinlets in the inner gradate series, four in the outer. I received three examples of this very minute and delicate species from Mr. G. W. Belfrage, by whom they were taken in Bosque County, Texas, in September. Faminy CHRYSOPIDA. CHRYSOPA EXUL, %. sp. CO. flavo-viridis. Caput punctis quinque rufescentibus (quorum duo apud verticem, unum inter antennas, unum ad genam utramque) signatum. Prothorax superne punctis quatuor, utrinque linea his paullo inferd, nigris, carindque media transversali, utringue rufescenti, instructus. Ungues ad basin valde dilatati, apicibus valde incurvatis. Ale late, venis venulisque omnino pallide viridibus; anticarum cellula tertia cubitalis ut in C. vulgare. Long. corp. 5!"; exp. alar. 13". Hab. in insula Sanctz Helens. In coll. auct. Yellowish-green. Head with five small reddish dots, whereof one is placed on each side of the vertex, one between the antenna, and one on each cheek. Palpi fuscescent. Antenne yellowish at the base, afterwards brownish, the basal joimt very strongly inflated. Prothoraw® with a stronyly raised median trans- verse ridge, on each side of which is a small reddish dot; the sides oblique in front; a black spot at each angle above, and a black longitudinal line on each side a little inferiorly. Meso- and meta-thorax unspotted. Abdomen greenish, with a fuscous dot on each side of the base above. Legs whitish, the tarsi red- dish-brown; claws strongly dilated at the base, afterwards with the apices greatly incurved. Wings broad, scarcely acute at the tips, hyaline and iridescent, veins and veinlets all greenish, ciliated: the third cubital cellule in the anterior wings as in C. vulgaris. I possess one example, brought from St. Helena by Mr. Melliss, who also collected two specimens of another Chrysopa in the same island, which do not seem sufficiently distinct from the abundant Euro- pean C. vulgaris, already reported from Madeira and Mauritius. DA (June, 1869. CHRYSOPA PUNCTINERVIS, 2. sp. C. flava, brunneo-varia. Caput vittis quatuor, longitudinalibus, brun- ners, apud verticem signatum ; fronte brunneo-vario, genis maculé elongata nigra utrinque ornatis. Palpi flavi, leté nigro-annulati. Antenne brunnee, basin versus flavide, articulo basali superné lined brunned signato. Phoracis vitta lata utringue, lineaque mediana angusta, necnon abdominis macule dorsales plurime, brunnee. Pedes albidi, femoribus ad apicem brunneo-semi-annulatis : ungues simplices. Ale via late, ad apicem ro- tundate, hyaline; vene venuleque albide, regulariter nigro-punctate : anticarum cellula cubitalis tertia ut in C. septempunctata. Long. corp. 3-4!" ; exp. alar. 9-10". Hab. in Texas. In coll. auct. Pale yellow. Head: vertex with four longitudinal brown lines, the two middle ones longer than the outer, and slightly interrupted ; a small brown Y/-shaped spot between the antennz, and a brown line on the basal joint of the latter: front varied with brown, and with an elongate black spot on each cheek. Palpi yellow, broadly annulated with black. Antenne brownish, the basal portion yellow. Thorax yellow, with a very broad brown stripe along each side, and a narrow median line, which is most evident on the prothorax. Abdomen yellow (that of the female much dilated), with numerous, more or less confluent, brown spots along the back. Legs whitish, with short blackish hairs; femora with a black spot internally at the apex; claws simple. Wings rather narrow, the apex rounded, hyaline; veins and veinlets whitish, all (excepting the radius, which is wholly pale) with regular tuberculated black dots, from each of which springs a short blackish hair; pterostigma rather long, dirty yellowish: third cubital cellule of the anterior wings as in C. sep- tempunctata. I have two ¢ and one 9 of this, collected in Bosque County, Texas, in summer, by Mr. G. W. Belfrage. It is remarkable for the regular punctuation of the neuration, as ordinarily in Chrysopa this is entirely pale or dark, or with black spaces only at the two ends of each nervule. CHRYSOPA NIGRA, %. Sp. C. albida, nigro-varia. Caput maculis duabus magnis verticalibus, lined supernée ad basin antennarum, lineisque tribus in fronte, nigris signatum ; antennee nigro-fuscee, pallido-annulate ; palpi fuscescentes. Prothorax al- bidus, nigro-ciliatus, margine antico punctisque lateralibus nigris. Meso- et meta-thorax albidi, nigro-varw. Pedes albidi, femora macula extis ante apicem nigra signata; tibice nigro-bi-annulate : ungues breves, curvatt, simplices. Ale hyaline, angustee, venis venulisque (preeter nonnullas im medio albidas) nigris: anticarum cellulee cubitalis tertice venula separans venule transversalr superpositee equalis. Long. corp. 34” ; exp. alar. 9”. Hab. in insula Antonio (Cape de Verdes). In coll. auct. CHANGES OF ADDRESS. A. BE. Hupp, from 1, Gloucester Row, Clifton, to Stapleton Lodge, Stapleton, near Bristol. - ah Dr. F, BucHANAN Waits, from Perth, to Fasnakyle, Strath Glass, Inverness-shire. Prorsessor Ze.uer, from Meseritz, to Griinhof, bei Stettin (Lange Strasse 46), Prussia. W. G. Pe.erin, from 55, Sandringham Road, to 10, Hertford Villas, Montague Road West, Dalston, N.H. Cie Wetman, from 3, South Ville, Wandsworth Road, fo 14, Portland Place North, Clapham Road, S.W. en ; EXCHANGES. I shall be happy to forward cases of Coleophora geniste to any one wanting that “species, on receipt of two stamps for return postage. The larvee are now nearly full-fed on Genisia anglica.—T. J. Caxrineton, 1, Melbourne Terrace, York. Duplicates.—I have a number of Polyommatus Corydon and of Hipparchia Semele ; also a few good Arge Galatea. Ishall be very happy to exchange any or all of these for others of the Macro-Lepidoptera, or to send specimens gratis to any gentleman who will send a box for them-and enclose return postage. If any gentleman las duplicates which “he would like to part with I should be glad if he would write before sending a box. ' There is a respectable number of species even among the Butterflies which are destderata tome; amongst others Aporia crateg? and Leucophasia sinapis, and 1 should like to obtain fresh examples of Hrebia Blandina and Cassiope, as my own are poor. I fear, however, the duplicates I have are no equivalent for these species. I have some Gonep- _tery# rhamni (nearly all males) for ary northern collector who is in want of it. All my specimens are in excellent condition. Ifa few days elapse before any box is returned, 1- hope it will not be laid to the score of ‘‘ acquisitiveness,’’ but to the circumstance that I have other occupations.—W. A. Lewts, 4, Crown Office Row, Temple, H.C. ~ Exchange Lists are inserted free. T shall be glad to send a printed list of the British species of Homalota, according to my revision of that genus, to any one who will enclose stamped cnyelope.—D. Suarp, - Hecles, Thornhill, Dumfries. : RR L, DAVIS, Waltham Cross, Herts., Preserver or Larvm To ° tHE British Museum. Specimens of Preserved Larvee for the Cabinet from 4d. each. ©. potatoria, E. lanestris, B. neustria, 4d. each ; six specimens post free for 24 stamps. List sent on receipt of stamp. e ‘ DU VAL'S GENERA DES COLEOPTERES D’RUROPE.—A Coloured Copy of. the above work to be sold; price £10, unbound. May be seen -at Mr. Vaw Voorst’s, 1, Paternoster Row, London, E.C, ; > In THE Pruss.—Pricz ls. 6d. ue LEPIDOPTERIST’S GUIDE, by H. Guarp Kyagas, M.D. : F.L.S., &c.; containing full instructions for Conuectinc, ManaceMeEnr, Onsen vATion, and PresERvATion, in all the stages. Orders to be sent either direct to the author, 49, Kentish Town Road, N.W., or to the Publisher, Joun Van Voorst, 1, Paternoster Row, B.C, HE ENTOMOLOGISTS’ ANNUAL FOR 1869, edited by ET: T. STAINTON, F.R.S., containing collected records of the species of Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, and Aymenoptera, new to Britain, observed in 1868; with other papers {one plate). Price Half-a-crown. Joun Van Voorst, 1, Paternoster Row, £.C. CONTENTS. Description of a new species of Hemiptera (Nysius Scotti) occurring in Britain. — PF Saunderss HLS. ica oe ache cine eee Clee alehala aoa eka ea ee ee 1 Two new species of Diptera (Scatopse platyscelis and Thripticus bellus, Loew) in- habiting. Britain. —G.\ HH. Verrall cis ovens oc cea ssent os pe ceaeeememn ed Additions, &c., to the list of British Coleoptera, with description of a new saedee of of ‘Ochthebius; H.C. Rye. ic cciecc cinivie sielcietva s c'ece'a wane eo al cioteete totems: Note on the habits of Phloeophthorus rhododactylus and Hylastes obscurus.— DA. Chapman, M.D. icc ci'vsia s «one nie sGio'e gie'cu als wu'nla ay os ble sa see eae PAGE Note'on Argyra leucocephala.—G.° Hs: Verran co's avisa.0 0 0s'ne ubieea's oa eevee Queries respecting a few Willow Galls.—H. W. Kidd. ....ccceceeeccceccees Note on AXtorhinus bilineatus, Fallen. #. Buchanan White, M.D... ..<«+ ees Abundance in 1868 of the winged form of Velia currens.—J. W. Douglas ...... Hints for finding eggs and larvee of Lycsena Arion.—Prof. P. C. Zeller ....+++- Notes on the food-plant of Lyczena Corydon and Coenonympha, Davus.—Jd. .... Observations on Plusia Ni (translated from the Isis, 1847).—Jd. ....ses+eesees Description of the larva of Aporophila australis W. Buckler ..... Pal Sava ort stare Occurrence of Acidalia herbariata in London.—E. G. Meek 2... .