V THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE: CONDUCTED BY G. C. CHAMPION, F.Z.S. J. E. COLLIN, F.E.S. -r^ W. W. FOWLEE, D.Sc, M.A., F.L.S. R. W. LLOYD, F.E.S. G. T. PORRITT, F.L.S. J. J. WALKER, M.A., R.N., F.L.S. LORD WALSINGHAM, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., &c. SECOND SERIES-VOL. XXL [VOL. XLVL] " We are encoui-aged to study more completely every detail and every anomaly in the distribution of living things, in the firm conviction that by so doing we shall obtain a ftdler and clearer insight into the course of Nature, and with increased confidence that the 'mighty maze ' of Being we see everywhere around us is ' not without a plaii. A. B. Wallace. LONDON: GURNEY & JACKSON (Mr. Van Voorst's Successors), 10, PATERNOSTER ROW. 1910. ifl*^ LONDON : A. NAPIEB, PRINTER, SEYMOUB STREET, EUSTON SQUARE, N.W. 1910. INDEX. PAGE CONTRIBDTORb i General Index ii Special Index — Coleoptera vii Diptera ix Hemiptera xii Hymeuoptera xii Lepidoptera xii Special Index {cnntinued) — page Neuroptera and Trichoptera xiv Ortlioptera xiv Sipbonaptei'a xiv Thysanoptera xiv Genera and Species new to Britain ... xv „ „ ,, ,, „ Science ... xvi Explanation of Plates xviii Errata xviii INDEX TO CONTRIBUTORS PAGE Adams, F. C, F.Z.S 217 Alderson, E. Maude, F.E.S 193, 217 Armstrong, J 16 Aruold, G., F.E.S 18, VJ Bagnall, R. S., F.L.S 255 Bankes, E. R., M.A.,F.E.S....8, 17, 71, 84, 110, 216, i21, 238, 239 Barton, L 189 Beare, Prof. T. H., B.Sc, F.R.S.E., F.E.S 32, 71, 118, 281 Bloomfield, Rev. E. N., M.A., F.E.S.... 119 Britten, H., F.E.S 178,212 Bucknill, L. M 15 Butler, E. A., B.Sc, B.A., F.E.S.. ..13, 29, 141, 191 Cameron, M., M.B., R.N., F.E.S 33, 135, 185, 280 Carter, A. E. J 193 Champion, G. C, F.Z.S 1, 32, 70, 91, 145, 188, 203, 261, 279 Champion, H. G 239, 281 Chapman, T. A., M.D., F.Z.S 214, 215, 260 Collin, J. E., F.E.S 47, 124, 169, 276 Collins, J 273 Dalglish, A. Adie, F.E.S 262 Day, F. H., F.E.S 35, 90, 190 de la Garde, P., R.N., F.E.S 33, 91, 115, 206 Donisthorpe, H. St. J., F.Z.S 32, 118 Dunlop, G. A 16, 34 Eaton, Rev. A. E., M.A., F.E.S 19 Edwards, J., F.E.S 69,80, 133 Ellis, H. W., F.E.S 146, 166 Fergusson, A 238 Fowler, Rev. W. W., D.Sc, M.A., F.L.S 14,228, 262 Halbert, J. N., M.R.I.A 62 Hamm, A. H 137, 263 Hardy, J. R 188 ■ Horvath, Dr. G 12 Jacobs, J. J., R.E 162 PAGE Jennings, F. B., F.E.S 71 Joy, N. H., M.R.C.S., F.E.S 4, 25, 205, 250, 252, 267 Keys, J. H., F.E.S 117, 262 Lloyd, R. W., F.E.S 1, 203 Longstaff, G. B., M.D., F.R.C.P., F.E.S 74 Malloch, J. R 67 Mansbridge, W., F.E.S 22, 41, 72, 92, 120 Mathew, G. F., R.N., F.L.S 282 Meyrick, E., B.A., F.R.S....35, 72, 211, 281 Morice, Rev. F. D., M.A., F.E.S.... 99, 154, 160, 232, 271 Morley, Claude, F.Z.S 36, 143, 193, 240 Morton, K. J., F.E.S 54 Newbery, E. A 16, 83, 109, 131, 178, 229 Nicholson, G. W., M.D., F.E.S 33, 71 Noakes, A 263 Porritt, G. T., F.L.S 119, 145, 161, 192, 263, 282 Rollasou, W. A., F.E.S .38, 39 Rothschild, Hon. N. C, M.A., F.L.S... 30, 88, 207, 253 Rowland-Brown, H., M.A., F.E.S 23 43, 97, 121, 148, 167, 265, 283 Saunders, E., F.R.S. (the late) 10 Selous, C.F., M.B., M.R.C.S , F.R.C.P 6, 214 Sharp, D., M.A., F.R.S 4, 27, 28 71 89, 90, 106, 129, 250,' 274 Sharp, W. B., F.E.S 33 Sich, A., F.E.S '.'. 119 Suuley, R. M 194 Sweeting, H. R 22, 41, 72, 120 Thuruall, A 3(5 Tomlin, J. R. le B., M.A., F.E.S..." 16, 139, 145, 191, 192, 250 Trimen, R., M.A., F.R.S 209 Turner, H. J 23, 41, 73, 96, 121, 146 166, 194, 220, 242, 264 282 Walker, J. J., M.A., R.N., F.L.S. 30 91 92, 117, 144, 185, 191, 213, 238, 280,' 281 Walsh, G. B 16 Walsingham, Rt. Hon. Lord, M.A LL.D., F.R.S 231,257,259 Wood, J. H.,M.B 45, 149, 195, 243 Woodforde, F. C, B.A 114 GENERAL INDEX. PAGE Acrobasis ttunidana, S. Y. ( ^ verracolla, Hb., ^ riibrotibiella, F. E.) notes on ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 84 Additions and corrections to the British List of Muscidse Acalyptratse, 47, 124, 169 : to the List of British Hymenoptera, on foixr, 10 ; to the Isle of Wight list of Coleoptera ... ... ... ... ... ... 32 Agabus brnnneiis, F., in the New Forest in 1908 ... ... ... ... 214 Agathomyia elegantula. Fall., a correction, and A. zetterstedti, Zett., a species new to Britain ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 45 Agriades coridon and ants ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 215 Agrion armatiim, Charp., at Stalhiim Broad, Norfolk ... ... ... 161 Aleochara crassiuscvila, Sahib., &c., at Oxford... ... ... ... ... 30 Anthomyidae, two new species of, in the genus Fannia, E. D. (^= Homa- lomyia, Bouche) ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 67 Aphidivorous larvaj, a note on ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 217 Apion cantianiim, "Wagner (= brevicorne, Schilsky), Note on the British example of ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 188 Astenus (Sunius), Description of a new species of, from Malta ... ... 183 Atheta (Homalota) picipennis, Mannh., a new British beetle, 252 ; in Ireland ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 280 Athous hffimorrhoidalis, a melanic form of, from Dartmoor... ... ... 262 Baccha, oviposition of ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 193, 240 Badger's nest, a note on some inhabitants of . . . ... ... ... ... 16 Bat-bug, description of a new, from British Columbia (with figure) ... 12 Bembidimn saxatile, Gyll , var. vectensis. Fowler, and note on the dis- tribvition of ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 214 Beetle which produces eloquence, A ... ... ... ... ... ... 262 British Lepidoptera, Times of emergence of ... ... ... ... ... 216 Catalogue of British Coleoptera, Some considerations indicative of the need for a fresh ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 69 Cathormiocerus maritimus. Eye, in Cornwall, 71, 90; new locality for ... 191 Catops varicornis, Eosenh., in Berkshire ... ... ... ... ... 280 Cclastrina ai'giolus. An eai^y appearance of 92 Cemiostonia susinella, H.-S., a Tineid new to the British list, in Scotland 8 Cervu-a bicuspis, Borkh., late emergence of 17 Ceroplatus lineatus, Captiu'e of ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 217 Cetonia axirata and florieola. Notes on ... ... ... ... ... ... 137 Ceuthorrhynchidius mixtus, Mids., &c., in the Oxford district, 144 ; further captiu'os of ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 191 Ceuthorrhynchus atomus. Boh. (= setosus. Boh.), Food jilant of ... ... 212 Change of name of a genus [Lepidoptera] 72 Cha;tocnema arida, Foudr., in the Woking district ... ... ... ... 32 Chloriona dorsata, Edw., an addition to the list of British Homoptera ... 13 PAGE Choex-ocampa nerii. Capture of ... ... ... ... ... ... ■ ■ ■ 263 Cis bilamellattis, Fowler, in Avistralia ... ... ... ... ... • • • 72 Coleophora troglodytella, Dup., feeding on Achillea mill-.^folium, L., in Britain, 71 ; a further instance of ... ... ... ... ... ... 119 Coleoptera at Barton-on-Sea, Hampshire, 6 ; British, notes on various, 229 ; at Bude, N. Cornwall, 91 ; County records of, 145 ; in Cum- berland, 190; in S. Cumberland, 90; in Devon, 206 ; in Devonshire, 15; in Devonshire, taken during 1909, 115; in Herefordshire (HI), 139 ; Isle of Wight list of, further additions to, 32 ; at Newcastle- ton, &c., in 1909, 189 ; suggestion for future records of, 118 ; taken near Oxford in 1909, 30; in Suffolk, 191 ; at Woking and Guildford ... 279 Colon, A further note on the geniis, 25 ; further notes on ... ... ... 267 Conops (Brachyglossum) signata, Wiedemann ; an addition to the list of British Diptera 273 Conosoma bipunctatum, Grav., at Broxbotu-ne... ... ... ... ... 71 Correction of Locality of a Tineid ... ... ... ... ... ... 282 Corticaria, Notes on, with descriptions of two new species ... ... ... 105 Corymbites cupreiis, var. seruginosus, F., in Devon ... ... ... ... 33 Crabro, additions to the British list of species, 271 ; aphidum, Lep., in the New Forest 19 Ci'epidodera impressa. Fab., a Mediterranean beetle in England ... ... 27 Cryphalus abietis, Katz., in Scotland ... ... ... ... ... ... 32 Ciyptamorpha desjardinsi, Guer., in Glasgow ... ... ... ... ... 238 Cryptophagus bimaculatus, Panz., and other Coleoptera at Lough Neagh, 62; C. fowleri, sp. nov., a beetle new to Britain ... ... ... ... 205 Cyrtorrhinus geminus, Flor, an addition to the list of British Hemiptera 29 Dale Collection, Some notes on the British Lepidoptera of (concluded) ... 18.5 Diglotta, Winged examples of 117 Diptera at Mortehoe, North Devon, 74 ; two, new to Britain ... ... 274 Dipteron new to the British fauna, A ... ... ... ... ... ... 188 Dispersal of shells by insects ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 192 Drepanepteryx phalsenoides, Linn., The Life-history of (with coloured plate) 54 Dytiscus marginalis, L., on the wing in February ... ... ... ... 91 Enarmonia ericetana, a species of Tortricina new to the British list, in Scotland ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... no Enicmus histrio, sp. nov. : a beetle new to Britain ... ... ... ... 250 Entomology, The first International Congress of 212 Ephyra pendularia, L., A new aberration of ... ... ... ... ... 114 Eupithecia lariciata and Coremia munitata at Huddersfield 282 Evetria sylvestrana. Curt., note on, 17 : a correction 36 Plea, A new, from California (with plate) 88 Gabrius, Diagnoses of some new species of ... 129 Galerucella f ergussoni, further captures of, 262 ; new species of, descrip- tion of, 228 ; nymphcese and sagittariae, 89 ; pusilla, Weise, in England 28 Gracilaria populetormn, Z., in Surrey 36 PAGE Grammoptera liolomeliiia, Pool, An early sijecimen of, 71 ; I'liiicornis, F., var. pallipes, Steph ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 70 Hsemonia appendiculata, Panz., and otlier water-beetles near Oxford ... 238 Hawkmoth, Description of a new Smerinthine, from Sonth Africa... ... 209 Hedychrydium coriaceiim, Dlib., The host of ... ... ... ... ... 18 Holoparamccus caiilarum, Anb(', and As^lonns brunneiis. (ryll., near Oxford 91 Honioeosoma cretacoUa, Eiissl. (senecionis, Vaughan) : a disclaimer ... 17 Hydroporiis bilineatns, Sturm, in the Isle of Shepjiey, 30 ; ferruginous, Steph., &c., at Seaton, Devon 261 Hymenoptera, British, On four additions to the list of, 10 ; from the Highlands, some, 36 ; Acideata in Cornwall, 38 ; Aculfiate and otlier in Soay (Skye) 39 Hyponoraeuta ii^rorellus, Hubn., in Lancashire : a correction ... ... 92 Hypothenemus eruditiis, Westwood, On ... ... 83 Ichneumonidse taken in Soay (Skye) 39 Insectivorous Insects ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 143 Insects, Some interesting British (with coloured Plates) ... ... 4,203 Ischnomera sanguinicollis, F., and other beetles in the New Forest ... 14 Laccobius, A new species of, 250 ; scutellaris, neAv localities for ... ... 15 Lampronia (Incurvaria) tenuicornis, Stn., in Inverness-shire ... ... 239 Lathrobium rufipenno, GylL, and other Coleoptei-a at Delamei'e Forest, 37 ; longipenne, Fairm, occurrence of, in the Oxford district ... ... 280 Leistus montaniis, Stoph., on Skiddaw ... ... ... ... ... ... 16 Leptomorphus walkeri. Curt., early appearance of 217 Lesteva fontinalis, Kies.,an addition to the British list of Coleoptera, 109; sicula, Ei'ichs., and punctata, Erichs. ... ... ... ... ... 118 Leucania loreyi in the South of Ireland ... 282 Limosina, Macq. (Borboridas), a new species of the Dipterous genus, from Ceylon (with plate) ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 276 Longitarsus agilis. Eye, Note on the sexual characters of, 261 ; flavicornis, Steph., in the Isle of Wight 71 Luperina gueneei, Dbl., on the Lancashire Coast ... ... ... ... 263 Macronychus quadiituberculatus Miill., Ee-discovery of 15 Melangyna quadrimaculata, Verr., a fiu'ther note on ... ... ... 193 Melitaea cynthia, Hb., Note on 214 Micro-Lepidoptera, New Corsican and French, 231 ; of Gran Canaria ... 259 Monopis weaverella, Scott (n. syn. = semispilotella, Strand) specifically distinct from M. rvisticella, Hb. (with Plate) 221 Moth, A street blocked by a 162 MuscidBC Acalyptratse, Additions and Corrections to the British List of 47,124,169 Mycetophila, A species of, bred in England 119 MyL'lophilus piniperda. Note on the destructive habits of, 2G0; further note on the habits of .. . ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 281 Myrmecoxenus vaporarioriun, Gucr., near Oxford 117 PAGE Nemoura meyeri, Pict., alnuidant in March ... ... ... ... ... 119 Neurotoina mandibiilaris, Zadd., J , in the Now Forest. A Saw-fly new to , Britain, and in this sex new to science ... ... ... ... ... 160 New Zealand Lepidoptera, Time of emergence of 193 Nomada argentata, H.-Sch., near Oxford ... ... 263 Obituaries: — Bignell, George Carter, F.E.S., 94; Chaster, George W., M.E.C.S., L.E.C.P., 145 ; Kirkaldy, George Willis, F.E.S., 95 ; Kraatz, Prof. Dr. Gnstav, Ph.D., 21 : Lang, Rev. Henry Charles, M.D., 39 ; Nevmson, Basil George, M.A., 93 ; Saiuiders, Edward, F.K.S. (with Portrait), 49 ; Saunders, George Sharp ... ... ... ... ... 121 Omaliiim brevicolle. Thorns., An early Cumberland record of ... ... 35 Otiorrhynchus auropunctatus, GylL, The food-plant of ... ... ... 33 Oxytelus saulcyi, Pand., a new British beetle from mole's nests, 1 ; in Kent 33 Pentomacrus, Description of two species of the Longicorn genus ... ... 135 Phasdon, On the British species of ... ... ... ... ... ... 4 Phora, On the British species of 149,195,243 Platystethxis alutaceus, Thonis., and other additions to the Isle of Wight list of Coleoptera, 16 ; in Sussex ... ... ... ... ... ... 33 Pcociloscytus palustris, Eeut., an addition to the list of British Hemiptera 141 Polydrosus chrysomela, Oliv., and P. confluens, Stoph., apterous or sub- apterous insects ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 279 Porphyrops nasuta. Fall., and P. elegantula, Mg., in Pertlishire ... ... 193 Ptenidiiun, Erichson, A revision of the British species of ... ... ... 178 Pterostichus aterrimus, Pk., cajjture of, in Norfolk ... ... ... ... 281 Ptinus tectus, Boield., New localities for ... ... ... ... ... 213 Pulex tripolitanus, Fulmek, Synonymical note on ... ... ... ... 30 Reviews: — "Charles Darwin and the Orig-in of Species: Adch'esses, &c., in America and England in the year of the two Anniversaries," by Professor Edward B Poulton, D.Sc, M.A., F.Pf.S., etc., 19 ; "Indian Insect Life : a Manual of the Insects of the Plains (Tropical India)," by H. Maxwell Lefroy, M.A., F.Z.S., F.E.S., assisted by F. M. Hewlett, B.A., F.E.S.,40 ; " A List of the Neuroptera of Ireland," by J. J. F. X. King, F.E.S., and J. N. Halbert, M.E.I.A., 92; "Illustrations of African Lycienida; : being Photographic Eepresentations of the Type Specimens in the Imperial Zoological Museum at Berlin," by Hamilton H. Druce, F.L.S. 93; "A Natural History of the British Butterflies, their World-wide Variation and Geographical Distribution : a Text Book for Students and Collectors," by J. W. Tutt, F.E.S., Vol. iii, 163 ; " A Synopsis of the Orthoptera of Western Europe," by Malcolm Bui-r, D.Sc, F.L.S. , &c., 164 ; " Illustrations of Disease-carrying Mosquitoes from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (Propa- ganda North Brazilian Division)," by E. Newstead, F.E.S., 164; " Illustrations of African Blood-sucking Flies, other than Mosquitoes and Tsetse Plies," by E. E. Austen, 165 ; " Catalogue of the Hemiptera (Heteroptera) with biological and anatomical references, lists of food- 16 49 207 238 133 PAGE plants and parasites, &c.. Vol. i, Cimicidae/' by G. W. Kirkaldy, 218 ; " Catalogue of the British Hymenoptera of the Family Chalcididae," by Claude Morley, F.Z,S., F.E.S., 219 ; " The Fauna of British India: Dermaptera (Ear-wigs)," by Malcolm Burr, D.Sc, M.A., F.L.S., &c., 219 ; " African Mimetic Butterflies : being descriptions and ilhis- trations of the principal known instances of Mimetic Eesemblance in the Ehopalocera of the Ethiopian Region," by H. Eltringham, M.A.,F.Z.S.,F.E.S 2-10 Rhopalomesites tardyi. Curt., in Lancashire ... Saunders, Edward, In Memoriam (with Portrait) Siphonaptera, On some European, 253 ; two new European Smerinthus ocellatus, L. — a tragedy Smicronyx, Schonherr, On the British species of Societies : — Birmingham Natural History and Philosophical Society, 146, 166 ; Entomological Society of London, 23, 43, 97, 121, 148, 167, 265 283 ; Lancashire and Chosliire Entomological Society, 22, 40, 72, 120 ; South London Entomological Society ... 23, 41, 73, 96, 121, 146, 167, 194, 220, 242, 264, 282 Tenthredinidaj, Help-Notes towards the determination of British (26 con- tinued), 99, 154 ; (27) . 232 Thysanoptera (Tubulif era) new to the British Fauna 255 Time of Emergence of British Lepidoptera, 216 ; of New Zealand Lepidoptera ' 193 Tineina, Madeiran (Lepidoptera) Tinodes dives, Pict., at Malham, Yorkshire Tortricidse, A new European species of Tortricina, Variability of neuration in two species of Trechus subnotatus, Dej., in South Devon Trichonyx sulcicoUis, Reich., and T. miirkeli, Aube, Capture of Trichoptera, Note on the geographical distribution of certain Trichoptilus paludum, Zell., Occurrence of, near Woking ... Ti'yphana pronuba, An early specimen of Tychius, Germar, On the British species of, 80; hsematopus, a note on, 118 polylineatus. Germ., at Streatley, Berks ... Weevil, A Tasmanian, found alive at Willesden 257 192 211 35 131 213 19 239 145 213 145 SPECIAL INDEX. COLEOPTERA. FAGE Abdeni bit;isci;ita, 270 ; quadrifasciata... 31 Actobius proceriilus, 191 ; sigiiaticoniis. . 91 Agabus brimiieus 214 Agaricophagus cephalotes 31 Agathidium nigripenne 139 Agleuus brunneus 91 Aleochara cuniculorum, 261 ; crassiuscula, 30; fumata, 31;' l)'g;ea, 190; spa- dicea 32, 207 Amphicyllis globus 139 Anaspis gavneysi 140 Anc'homeuus atratus, 91 ; quadripunc- tatus 204 Ancistronyclia abdominalis 189, 230 Aucyrophorus auieus, 206 ; onialiuus ... 115 Auisotoma auglica, bruuuea, 31, 279; ciunamomea, curta, 31 ; luiucoUis, 279 ; parvula, 139 ; rugosa, triepkei 31 Auisoxya f uscula 31 Anophis roboris 190 Authicus scoticus 64 Aphauisticus pnsillus 31, 144 Aphodius borealis, 139, 207 ; enaticus, 139; fijetidus, 191; obliteratus, 139; sticticus, 116, 139, 207; zenkeri 139 Apiou atomaiium, 140; cantiauuni, 188; craccie, 116, 140 ; filirostre, 116 ; genistw, 15 ; Upvigatum, 32 ; scu- tellare, 116 ; soibi, 140 ; urticariuui, 140; viciuuni 116 Apoderus coryli 116 Asemum striatum 189, 279 Astenus gattoi (sp. u.) 183 Atheta picipenuis 252, 280 Athous ha'mon-hoidalis, black vai- 262 Atomaria elougatula, muuda, 139 ; lun- briua, 191 ; vvoUastoni 64 Aulouium sulcatum 204 Axiuotarsus ruficoUis 116 Badister sodalis 115 Balauiuus ceia»oium , rubidus 279 Bathyscia wollastoni 116 Batophila lubi 191 Bembidium argeuteolum, 63, 203 ; doris, 115; puuctulatum, 206; saxatile var. vectensis 214 Bledius spectabilis 261 Blethisa multipunctata 190 Borboropora kraatzi 204 Bruchus atomarius, cisti, pectinicoruis . 140 Brychius elevatus 238 Bythiims curtisi 91,207 Calodera H'thiops 63 Cai-idaaffiuis 204 Cassida hemisphiL'rica, 64 ; sanguirio- lenta, 207, 279; vibex 207 Cathormioceius maritimus 71, 90, 191 Catops sericatus, 207 ; varicoruis 280 CeutlioiThyucliidius mixtus 114, 116, 191 Ceuthorrhynchus arcuatus, 65 ; atomus, 212 ; chrysanthemi, chalybajus, 116 ; cyaiiipenni.s, 116, 141 ; euphorbiie, 32, 116; ua-turtii, 206,207,261; parvulus, 116, 207; pilosellus, 32, 114 ; punctiger, setosus, triaugulum 116 Cluutocuema arida, 32 ; sahlbergi 191 Choleva intermedia, 207 ; spadic6a...l37, 207 Chi-ysoinelabruusviceusis, didymata, 229; variaus 140 Ciciudela hybiida 91 Cis bilamellatus 70 Cissopliagus hedeni! 116 Clinocara uudnlata 207 Ca'lambus uoveuiliueatus 63 Cffiliodes cardui, t'uligiuosus 231 Cu!uocara bovistiu 31 Coleuis dentipes 207 Colon appeudiculatum, &c., 267; serripes, 7; vieuueuse, &c 25,31,279 Conopalpus testaceus 190 Couosoma bipunctatum 71 Corticaria fowleriaoa (sp. u.), 108 ; lambiaua (sp. u.) 106, 261 Corymbites metallicus 31 Crepidodera impressa, 27; ventralis 261 Criocephalus ferus, 279 ; rusticus 2 Cryphalus abietis 32, 191 Gryptaiuorpha desjardinsi 238 Cryptocephalus frontalis, 31; ochrostoma, 190; parvulus, puuctiger 279 Cryptophagus bimaculatus, 62, 65; t'ow- leri (sp. u.), 205; subdepressus 139 Cymiudis humeralis 261 Cy rtusa pauxilla 207 Deronectes latus 206 Diglotta mersa 117 Diphyllus lunatus 116, 139 Douacia impressa, 31 ; thalassina 64 Dorytomus tremuliv, 32 ; validirostris, vorax 279 Dromius quadrinotatus 206 Drypta deutata 7 Dyschirius obscurus 63 Ekiphius lapijouicus 116 Elater lytliropterus, 14 ; pomoua- 15 Elleschus bipunctatus 207 Encephalus complicans 20/ Endomychus coccineus 139 Enicmus histiio (sp. n.) 250 Ennearthron affine , coruutum 140 Epunea lougula, 11(5 ; obsoleta 64 Erirrhinns ajthiops 65 Eryx ater HO Eubria palustris 190 Budectus whitei 203 Euplectus ambiguus 64 Eusomus smaiagdulus 280 Gabrius appendiculatus (.sp. u.), bishopi (sp. u.), keysiauus (.sp. u.), 131 ; peuuatus (sp. n.), 130; stipes (sp. n.), 129 ; velox (sp. u.) 130 Galeiucella fergussoui (sp. n.), 228, 263 ; nymphii'a!, 89 ; pusilla 29 Georyssus pygnucus 139,191 Guathoucus uauueteusis 190 Gonipteras lepidotus 145 Grammoptera holonieliua, 71 ; pricusta, 14 ; ruficornis, var. pallipes 70 Gymnetrou labilis, 15, 115 ; roBtellum ... 32 Gynmusa brevicollis 35, 115, 2/9 Gynaudiophthalma affinis 2 Gyriuus elongatus, urinator 91 Hiemouia appeudiculata 238 Heledoua agaricola 140 Helophoius aivernicus, 115; mul.santi ... 116, 190 Heuicocerus exsculptus 115 Heterocerus f usculus, 8 ; marginatus . . . 105 Ulster bimaculatus, 30 ; margiuatas 190 1 loloparamecus caularuin 91 llomalium brevicolle, 35 ; salicis 31 llomalota u'lieicoUis, 32 ; alpestris, aubei, 190; daucula, &c., 31; curtipeunis, lyO; exilis, 190,207; gemiua, 190 ; iusecta, &c., 63; la'vaua, mouticola, 207 ; oblita, 190 ; oblongiuscula, 207 ; palleus, 190; picipeuuis, 252, 280; pilosiventris, 190 ; silvicola, sodalis, 116; soi-or, 190; validiuscula 207 Hydra'ua atricapilla, gracilis 116, 206 llydrochus angustatus, brevis, 190 ; niti- dicoUis 116 Hydrocyphou deflexicollis 207 Ilydroporus biliucatus, 30 ; discrotii.s, 31 ; ferrugiueus, 19(1, 20(), 261 ; iiicogui- tus, 63 ; marginatus, 31 ; neglectus, 279; obscurus, 116; septeutriolialis, 63; umbrosus 34 Hypera alteruans, 207 ; fasciculata, 91 ; murina 207 Hypophloeus linearis 205 Hypotheuemus cruditus 83 Ily(.bates uigricollis 63 Ips quadripunctata 116, 139 Ischuomera crerulea, sanguinicollis 14 Laccobius scutellaris, 15 ; yteuensis (sp. u.) 250 Laimophloeus ater 31 Lariuus carlina> 207 Lathrobium filiforme, punctatum, 64 ; longipenne, 280 ; rufipenne 34 Leistus moutanus 16 Lema septentriouis 64 Leptiuus testaceus 139, 206 Lesteva foutiualis, 109 ; punctata, sicula 117 Limuobaris pilistriata 65 Limobius dissimilis 140 Liosoma oblougulum 32 Lougitarsus agilis, 261 ; flavicornis, 71 ; lycopi, &c 140 Macrouychus 4-tuberculatus 15, 139 Magdalis armigera, 116 ; plilegniatica 191 Malachius spinosus, vulneratus 1 Malthodes atomus, brevicollis (= uigel- lus), 192; pellucidus, &c 140 Medou castaneus, 32 ; t'usculus, 207 ; ob- soletus 31 Melanopliila aituminata 204, 279 Melauophthalma similata 139, 191 Melasis buprestoides 139 Melasoma leneum 190 Melaspis glabripennis 262 Meligethes bruunicornis, 117 ; fulvipes, 261 ; gagatinus, lumbaris, 117 ; um- brosus 31 Meloe brevicollis 206 Microglossa geutilis 31 Micropepius porcatus 139 Micrurula melauocephala 139, 207 Mouoiiychus pseudacori 15 Mycetoporus augularis, 207 ; punctus ... 31 Myolophilus piuiperda 260, 281 Myrmecoxeuus vaporariorum 30, 117 Necrodes littoralis 261 Neuraphes augulatus 207 Ochthebius rufomargiuatus 207 Ocyu.sa defecta 207 Oinalium brevicolle 35 ( )iK-omera f eniorata 207 Orchestes prateusis 15 Orsodacna lineola 15, 190 (Jtiovrhyiichus auropuuctatus 2, 33 Oxypoda cxoleta, 230; lurida (= per- plexa), 117, 230 ; pectita, 206 ; spectabiUs 31, 190 PAGE : Oxytelus saulcyi 4,33 ; Pachy ta sexmaculata 3 Piuderus caligatus 191 j Pauagseus 4-pustulatus 31, 116 Paracymus uigroa3neus 115 ; Paramecosoma melauocephalum, var 66 Paraplia'don (n. g.) 4 Paruus algiricus 115 Pediacus dermestoides 31 Pelophila borealis 63 Pha-don armoraciae, &c 5 Phdonthus fulvipes, 207; lucens, 31, 64; nigrita, 34, 61, 116 ; uigriventris, 116; puella, 207; thermarum 30 Phyllobrotica qnadiimaculata 64, 1 16 Phyllotreta flexuosa, 64 ; sinuata 140 Phytobius quadrinodosus 144 Pliytodecta olivacea 116 Phytoecia cylindrica 207 Pissodes uotatus 8 Platystethus alutaceus 16, 33 Polydrosus chrysomela, coufluens, fusco- roseus, smaragdulus, &c 279, 280 Poophagus uasturtii 206, 207, 261 Potamiuus substriatus 139 Psylliodes picina 207 Ptenidium gressueri, &c 179 Pterostichus anthracinus, 63, 261 ; aterri- mus 281 Ptinus tectus 213 Quedius brevicornis, 31 ; longicornis, 32 ; obliteratus, 207 ; variabilis, 230 ; vexans 16 Rabocerus bishopi 203 Rhizophagus dispar, 190 ; parallelocollis 206 Rhopalomesitos tardii 16 Rhynchites cupreus, 207 ; pubescens 15 Rhyucolus liguariiis 141 Rhytidosomus globulus 32, 144 Salpingus bishopi 203 Sapriiius virescens 116 Scolytus intricatus 207 Silpha dispar 64 Sitaris muralis 31 Sitones cambricus 140, 207 Smicronyx coecus, &c 133 Stenus crassus, 91 ; nielauarius, 116 ; melanopus, 261 ; nigritulus, &c., 64; uiveus, 191 ; palposus 64 Syncalypta setigera 7 Tachinus laticollis, proximus, 190 ; rufi- pennis 206 PAGE Tanymecus palliatus, 32, 140 ; variabilis 280 Tetropium gabrieli var. crawsliayi 3 Thalycra sericea 31 Tillus elongatus 15 Tomicus acumiuatus 189 Trachodes hispidus 207 Trechus micros, 63 ; subnotatus 131 Triarthrou nuirkeli 31, 279 Trichouyx miirkeli, 207, 213 ; sulcicollis, 139, 213 Trox sabulosus 144 Trypodendron lineatum 189 Tychius hicmatopus, 81, 118 ; polyli- ueatus, &c 81, 118, 213 Xantholinus cribripeuuis 64 DIPTERA. PAGE Acantliocnema glauca, uigrimana 47 Acartophthalmus bicolor, nigrinus 125 Acidia lychnidis 79, 174 Actora 125 Agatliomyia antenuata, 46 ; boreella, 45 ; colliui, 46 ; elegantula, 45 ; viduella, 46 ; zetterstedti 45 Alophora hemiptera 78 Amaurosoma brevifrons 47 Anacampta hyalinata 173 Antlirax paniscus 76 Antichtcta vittata 128 Arctophila mussitans 78 Asilus crabrouiformis 75 Baccha obscuripeunis 17, 192, 217, 240 Beris morrisii 76 Bibio marci 75 BischoBa 127 Blepharoptera 126 BorboridiE 125 Callimyia elegantula 45 Calliphora erythrocephala, vomitoria ... 79 Caricia tigrina 143 Catabomba pyrastri 77 Ceiitrophlebomyia 48 Ceromasia spectabilis . ._. 144 Ceroplatus lineatus 217 Ceroxy.s cana 173 Chilosia albitarsis, bergeustammi, cyuo- cephala, fraterua, honesta, illustrata, variabilis, veiutiua 76 Chironomus brevitibialis 143 Chloi'omyia formosa 75 Chloropisca glabra 79 Chrysogaster solstitialis, spleudens 7(> Clirysopilus cristatus 75 Chrysops Cii'cutiens 75 Chrysotoxum biciuctum, cautum,elegans, festivum 78 Clusia 126 Cnemacautha muscaria 171 Coelopa f rigida, pilipes, simplex 48 Coelopidic 48 Coenosia pedella 143 Colobica 127 Conops flavipes, 78 ; signata 273 Cordyluridii! 47 Cordylura alrata, pallida, nifipes 47 Coreniacera 129 Cricotopus bicinctus, 16; tviciuctus 143 Criorrhina oxyacanthu^ 78 Cteuulus distiuctus, pectoralis 128 Dexia rustica 79 Dichictophora 129 Dichrochira leucopeza 127 Dilophus febrilis 75, 143 Dioctria rufipes 75 Ditauiia 127 Dolichopus ii'iieus 76 Dryoniyza senilis 125 Dryomyzida; 126 Eccoptomera excisa, lougiseta, microps ... 126 Echinomyia fera, grossa 78 Ectinocera borealis 128 Empis livida, 76 ; peiiuaiin , 143 ; punc- tata, tessellata, 70 ; trigranima 143 Epitriptus cingulatius 76 Eristalis arbustorura, horticola, iutrica- rius, teuax 77 Ernoneura argus 274 Euphoria coruicina 79, 144 Euaresta, 174 ; guttata 175 Fabricia ferox 78 Fannia femorata, 67 ; iusignis, 188 ; uigra 07 Fucomyia frigida, glabra 48 Gouiglossum 174 Graphomyia maculata 79 Gymuomera dorsata 48 Haimatopota pluvialis 75 Hedroneura 129 Helomyza bicolor, f'uscicorui.s, hilaris, humilis, la'vifroiis, montaua, uotata, oxyphora, pectoralis, rufa, 124 ; similis, suilloidea, tigriua, 125 ; va- riegata, zetterstedti 124 Helomyzida* 124 Helophilus pendulus 77 Henicita leachii 1/6 Heriua luctuosa 173 Heteromeringia nigi'imaua 125 Heteroneura alpiua, geoniyzina 125 Heteroneurida' 125 Heteropteryx brevipennis 128 Homalomyia, 67, 188 ; canicularis, 79, 143; vesparia 188 Hydromyia 129 Hydroniyza livens 48 Hydrota'a irritans 79, 143 Hyetodesia basalis, pallida 79 Hylemyia strigosa 144 Icterica 174 Isciiyrosyrphus glaucius, lateruarius 77 Lauxania arnica, atrimana, geniculata, hyalinata, nitens 171 Leptis scolopacea, tringaria 75 Leptogaster cyliudrica 75 Leptomorphus walkeri 217 Leptopa filif ormis 47 Leria ca-sia, dupliciseta, flavotestacea , 126; halterata, kerteszi, ruficeps ... 127 Leucozona Incorum 77 Limosina brachystoma, breviceps, 125 ; equitans, 27/'; sacra, 278; septen- trionalis 125 Liogaster metallina 7(i Lonchu'a a-nea, 173 ; deutschi, flavidi- pennis, furaosa, 172 ; hirticeps, 173 ; latifrous, 171 ; nigra, 172 ; nigri- niana, 173 ; peregrina, 172 ; pusilla, 171 ; scutellaris, vaginalis, viridaua, zetterstedti 172 Lucilia ca^sar, 79, 144 ; illustris 79 Lunigera 129 Machimus atricapillus 76 Madiza 178 Malacomyia sciomyzina -AS Megaphthalma pallida 47 Melangyna quadrimaculata 193 Melanostoma mellinuni, scalare 77 Melieria cana 173 Mesembrina meridiaua 79 PAGE Mlcroclnysa polita 75 Microdon eggeri 2/4 Microphorus velutinus 143 Microdon eggeri 275 Microprosopa heteromyzina 48 Miuettia flaviventris, lougiseta, subvit- tata, 109; trispina 170 Monochii'tophora ; 129 Morellia hortorum v 79 Musca domestica 79 Mycetophila sp 120 Mydiua impuucta 79 Myopites 174 Xemopoda fumipenuis, tarsalis 176 Neottiophilum 125 Neuroctena, 125 ; anilis 79 Oedoparea 48 Oucomyia atra 78 Ouesia sepulchralis 144 Orellia 174 Ortalis 173 Oxyna, 174, 175 ; parvula 175 Oxyphora 174 Pachymeria femorata 76 Palloptera costalis, tetabilis 172 Paraclusia tigrina 125 Paralaiixauia albiceps 171 Peplomy za discoidea, litura 171 Pherbina 129 Philonicus albiceps 75 Phora albicaudata, 245, 247 ; augelicie, 152, 199 ; brevicostalis, 243, 246 ; clavipes, 195, 201 ; erecta, 196, 202 ; exigua, 197, 202 ; fasciata, 149, 197 ; gregaria, 152, 199 ; halterata, 196, 197, 202 ; hirsuta, 246, 249 ; hirti- caudata, 246, 248 ; involuta, 153, 200; lata, 151, 199; latifrons, 151, 198; longipalpis, 152, 199; lutes- ceiis, 244, 247 ; iiianicata, 246, 248 ; maura, 196, 201 ; minutissima, 197, 202 ; uigresceus, 244, 247 ; palleus, 150, 198 ; pectoralis, 153, 200 ; pyg- miea, 151, 199 ; rufifrons, 153, 200 ; serrata, 150, 198 ; siniplex, 164, 201 ; spinata, 150, 198 ; spinicincta, 245, 248 ; superciliata, 244, 247 ; sylva- tica, 245, 248; tarsalis, 243, 246; verralli 150, 198 Phycodroma fucorum 48 Phycodromidaf 48 Physocephala rufipes 78 Phyto melanocephala 144 PAGE Piophila aifiuis, apii, atrata, casei, la- tipes, luteata, uigriceps, nigricornis, nigrimana, 177 ; varipes, 178 ; vul- garis 177 Platychirus albimanus, clypeatus, maui- catus, scutatus 76 Platyparea discoidea 174 PoUenia rudis, 144 ; vespillo 79 Porphyrops elegantula, nasuta 193 Psairoptera albitarsis 173 Pteropaectria mcerens 173 Ptilonota centralis 173 Pyrophaena granditarsa ^l Renocera fuscinervis, 128 ; striata, 127 ; strobli 128 Rhagoletis cerasi 174 Rhingia campestris 11 Saltella basalis, nigripes 176 Sapromyza afSnis, 170; apicalis, 171; basalis, biumbrata, decaspila, illota, interstincta, limnea, 170 ; nitidi- frons, 171 ; opaca, 170 ; pallida, placida, 171 ; sexpunctata, 170 ; tarsella, 171; tesquse, uucinata 170 Sapromyzidit' 169 Sarcophaga carnaria, 78; melanura 144 Sargus cuprarius, flavipes 75 Scatophaga analis, arrogaus, calida, eximia, foutanalis, 48 ; maculipes, 143 ; rudis, 48 ; squalida, 143 ; ster- coraria, 79, 143, 144 ; villipes 48 Sciara sp., 16 ; thomic 74 Sciomyza bifasciella, bruuuipes, dorsata, griscescens, lata, pallidicarpa, rufi- ceps, scutellaris, simplex, virgata ... 127 Sciomyzidif 127 Scoliocentra villosa , 126 Seoptera 173 Sepsidimorplia 176 Sepsis biflexuosa, couciuna. 176 ; cy- nipsea, 175 ; duplicata, 176 ; flavi- mana, 175 ; maculipes, 176 ; ornata, 175 ; orthocuemis, 176 ; pilipes, rufi- cornis, violacea 175 Sericomyia borealis 78 Sicus ferrugineus 78 Siphoua geuiculata 78 Sph;i!rophoria menthastri, scripta 11 Spilog aster sp 144 Stemuocera 174 Stomphastica 125 Syritta pipiens ^^ xu. PAGE Syrpliius albosliiiitus, auricollis, 77 ; bal- teatus, 77, 144; cinctellus, composi- taium, corollie, grossulariii', luniger, ribesii, umbellatarum, vitripeiuiis . . 77 Tabauus maculicoruis 75 Tachydromia agilis, cursitaus, miuuta ... 143 Tanypeza longimaua 173 Tephritis,174 ; dioscurca, 175; miliaria... 79 Tephrochlamys flavipes, tarsalis 127 Tetauocera coryleti, punctulata, 79 ; I'O- busta 128 Tetanura 127 Theniira coiisobrina, ciuvipes, denti- maua, minor, uigricornis, pusilla, spiuosa, superba 176 Thereva uobilitata 70 Thyreophora furcata 48 Thyreophorida; 48 Tipula oleracea 75 Toxoneura 172 Trigonometoims 169 Trypeta acuticorni.s, onotrophes 174 Trypetoptera 129 Ulidia uigripeunis 174 Urellia 174 Urophora spoliata 174 Volucella bombylaus, inauis, iuflata, pelluceos 77 Xantliogramma oruatum 77 Xylota segnis, sylvarum 78 Zouosema 174 HEMIPTERA. Chloriona dorsata 13 Cliuocoris pilosellus 12 Cyrtorrhiuus geminus 29 Pojciloscytus palustris 141 HYMENOPTERA. Andrena aiialis, augustior, 38 ; cetii, 263 ; f ucata, ros;o var. spiniger 38 Anthophora quadrimaculata 38 Bombus agrorum, latreillellus var. dis- tinguendus, smithianus, soroensis ... 38 Braconiditt 37 ■ Cerceris labiata ,38 Colletes picistigma, succiiicta 18 PAGE Crabro albilabri.'i, aphiduin, IS; iiiennis, larvatus, 271 ; plauifrou!>, 272 ; palmipes, 39 ; podagricus 38 Cteiiicliiieumou amputatorius 37 Diodoutu-s friesei 10 Dolerus, Table of British Species of .99-105 Dufourea halictula 11 Eucera longicornis 38 Halictus aruoldi 10 Hedychridiinu coriaceum 18 Ichneumouidii' 37, 39 Neurotoma mandibularis 1 60 Nomada argentata 263 Odyuerus herrichii, 1,203; pictus, tri- marginatus 39 Oxybelus mucronatns 38 Pachyprotasis, Table of British Species of 237 Pemphredou cariuatus, clypcalis, morio 10 Pompilus chalybeatus, miuutulus, 38 ; uiger, spissus 39 Proctotrypidiu 38 Prosopis conf usa 38 Psithyrus campostris, vestalis var. dis- tiuctus 38 Rhogogaster, Table of British Species of 235 Saropoda bimaculata 38 Vespa austriaca 39 LEPIDOPTERA. Abraxas grossulariata, 121 ; var. lacti- color, 146 ; var 265 Acentropus niveus 184 Acidalia straminata 242 Acrsea alciope, aurivillei. 23 ; eucedou ab. alcippiua 283 Acrobasis rubrotibiella, 84, 187 ; tumi- daua, 84 ; verrucella, 84, 187 ; zelleri 87 Acronycta alui, leporiua, ligustri, 165 ; tridens 166 ^geria culicif ormis 194 Agriades corydon, 42, 98, ]21, 215, 266 ; var. syngrapha, 42 ; thetis, 216, 264 ; vars 42, 98 Agrotis agathiua, 22, 97 ; ashworthii, 22 ; cinerea, 23; exclamatiouis 43 Amphidasysbetularia var. doubledayaria. 194 Auerastia farrella 186 Augeroua pruuaria 43, 220 Auosia plexippus 20 Authrocera achillea', caruiolica, 42 ; fili- penduho,42, 243, 284; hippocrepidis, 121,284; meliloti 242 PAGE Argynnis bremneri 147 Argyroploce sellana, oblongana 216 Asphalia flavicornis var 16(5 Aveutia flexula 243 Hasilarchia lorqiiinii 97 Kedellia somnulentella 258 Biston hirtaria 195 Boarmia repaudata, 120 ; var. nigra 22 Bomolocha f outis 73 Botys lupuliualis, repandalis 185 Breuthis euphrosyue, 24, 264 ; hecate, 121: pales, 148; selene 121 Callophrys avis 24, 97, 123 Catercinna terebrella 186 Catocala fraxiui 74 Oelastriiia argiolus 92, .166 Cemiostoma scitella, 264 ; susinella 8 Cerura bicuspis 17 Cheimatobia boreata, dilutata 73 Choerocampa uerii 263 Clirysophanus virgaurea? vars 42 Cidaria miata, 74 ; picata 195 Cnepliasia rastrata (sp. n.) 211 Cd'uoiiynipha arcauioides, 284 ; elko 147 Coleophora albicosta, 243 ; niveicostella, paripeunella, 264; ptarmica (sp. n.), 232; troglodytella 71, 119 Coremia munitata 282 Crambus culmellus, myelins, rorellus, verellus 186 Cucullia verbasci 242 Cyaniris semiargus 163 Danaida plexippus 20 Danis taygetes 97 Depressaria chalcogrammella, putridella. 24 Diaseniia literalis, ramburialis 185 Diplura loti 168 Dismorphia astyoche 283 Dryas pandora 284 Ebulea stachydalis 186 Ematurga atomaria var 168 Euarmonia ericetana 1 10 Bndotricha flammealis 185 Endromis versicolor 195 Ephyra pendularia var 114 Epiuephele jnrtina var. fortunata 242 Epione advenaria 194 Epischnia bankesiella 186 Eromene ocellea 186 Eriopsela quadrana 110 thmia callidella (jp. n.) 232 PAGE Eucliloe euplieno, 284 ; turritis 43 Encosma immundana, tetraquetraua 35 Euda;monia brachyura 73 Eugenia autumnaria 146 Eupithecia lariciata, 282 ; pumilata, va- lerianata 22 Euralia anthedon, diibia, uiinia, wahl- bergi 122 Evetria sylvestrana 17, 36 Fidonia atomaria var 168 Gelechia hermanella, 74 ; obseratella ... 281 Geometra papilionaria 146 Glyphipteryx diaphora (sp. n.) 258 Gracilaria elongella, f alconipennella, pop- uletorum 36 Grapta c-album 195 Hemeropliila threnodes (sp. n.) 257 Hesperia cirsii 266 Heteronympha merope 242 Hipparchia semele 24 Hom(EOSoma cretacella (senecionis) 17 HydriBcia crinanensis, 73, 123 ; lucens, uictitans, paludis 123 Hyles euphorbiie 73 ITylophila prasinana 23 lucnrvaria tenuieornis 239 Lampides baiticus 24 Lampronia tenuieornis 239 Lemiodes pulveralis 186 Leucania 1-album, 42 ; loreyi 282 Leucophasia sinapis 195 Limenitis Camilla 266 Limnas chrysippus, V. alcippus 283 Limonias taylori 97 Luperina gueneei, 44, 263 ; testacea 23 Lycajna arion var. obscura 42 Macrocneme lades 284 Madopa salicalis 185 Margarodes unionalis 185 Mechanitis lysimnia 283 Mecyna polygoualis 186 Megacraspedus tristictus (sp. n.) 231 Melauargia arge, 24 ; iapygia 43 Melissoblaptes cephalonica 187 Melittea aurinia, 22, 42, 166 ; vars. aur- unca, comaciua, 284 ; cynthia, dic- tynnoides, didyma, merope, parthenie 214 Monopis biflavimaculella, 222 ; rusticella, spilotella, weaverella (semispilotella) 221 Morpho ffiga, anaxibia, hercules, laertes, menelaus, 283 ; cytheris 243, 283 Myrmecozela ochraceella 224 Nephopteryx hostilis, similella 18" Xeoriua crishna 242 Nonagria arundinis, 264 ; neurica vars .. 24 Notolophus baclia 147 Nyctemera annulata 191 Nyssia hispiilaria, 121 ; zonaria 195 Ocneria dispar 23 Odonotopera bideutata 167 Olethreutes bifasciaua 36 Opogona subcerviuella 259 Oreopsyche kahi i 283 Orgyia gonostigraa 22 Pachuobia hyperborea 264 Papilio ascauius, 283 ; dardanus, 241 ; machaou, 162 ; philenor 20 Parabracta (u. n.) 72 Parnassius apollo 148 Peroiiea perrnntana 97 Phigalia pedaria (pilosaria) 166 Phorodesma smaragdaria 22 Phycis obductella 187 Phyllobrostis daphneella 258 Platytes alpinellus 186 Platysphinx bourkei (sp. n.), 209; phyllis 210 Pieris daplidice, 266; ergane, 24, 265, 266 ; manni, 24, 265 ; oleracea, rap;e 242,243 Polia chi var. olivacea 22 Polygouia marsyas 147 Polyommatus amaiida, 266; argus, 264; damon, 24; eros 266 Pterophorus brachydactylus, 187 ; palu- dnm, 187, 239; rhododactylns 187 Rhodopha>a nibrotibiella, 84, 187 ; tumi- dana, verrucella, zelleri 84 Rumicia phlseas var. alba 42 Saturnia carpini, 42 ; pyri 163 Satyrus statiliuus 24 Schrenobius gigantellus 186 Scoparia ambigualis, angnstea, 73 ; basi- strigalis, conspicualis 186 Scopula decrepitalis 23 Smerinthus ocellatiis, 238 ; populi 168 Sophronia emortualis 185 Spilodes palealis 166 Spilosoma fuliginosa 264 Twniocampa leucographa, miniosa,miiiida 22 Tapiuostola concolor, fulva, lielmauni ... 123 Thanaos persius 147 Thaumatopoea processionea 122 Trichoptilus pallidum 239 Tryphama pronuba 145 Vanessa io 162 Venusia cambricaria 73 PAGE Xanthia fulvago, gilvago, ocellai-is 284 Xylophasia zollikoferi 266 Zenodochiuui sostra (sp. n.) 259 Zeuzera wsculi 242 Zouosoma pendularia vars 22, 114 Zygsena achillea", caruiolica, 42 ; filipeu- dula-, 42, 243, 284; hippocrepidis, 121,284; meliloti 242 NEUROPTERA AND TRICHOPTERA. Agrion armatum, 161 ; puella, 162, 264 ; pulcheUum 162 Agrypnia pagetana 162 Apatania fimbriata 93 Brachytron prateuse 162 Ohhnarra marginata 19 Chrysopa abbreviata, perla 93 Drepanepteryx phala'uoides 54, 60 Erythromma uaias 162 GlyphotiL'lius pellucidus 162 Ischnura elegans 162 Libellula quadrimaculata, fulva 162 Limuoplulus f usciuervis, 93 ; marmoratu.s, xauthodes 162 Lype fragilis 93 Molanua augustata 162 Nemoura meyeri, pra>cox 119 Panorpa germanica 93 Phrygauea striata 162 P.sectra diptera 93 Pyrrhosoma uymphula 162 Tinodes dives, 192 ; maculicoruis 93 ORTHOPTERA. Arixenia esau 98 SIPHONAPTERA. Ceratophyllus franciscanus, ignotus 88 Ceratopsylla iutermedius, wagneri 253 Ctenopthalmus b;«ticus, 208 ; provinci- alis 207, 255 Ischnopsyllus brachystylus, 254 ; inter- medins, obscura, schmitzi, simplex, wagueri 253 Pulex tripolitanus 30 Xenopsylla cheopis Sq THYSANOPTERA. Acanthothrips bidens, nodicornis 255 Cryptothrips lata, nigripes 556 Liothrips hradecensis, setiuodis 256 ADDITIONS TO THE BRITISH INSECT FAUNA BROUGHT FORWARD IN THIS VOLUME. COLEOPTERA. SPECIES. PAGE Apion cautiaiuim, Wagner (= brevi- corne, Schilslcy) 188 Atheta picipennis, 3Iannh 252 Colon calcaratum, Er. (reinstated) 267 ,, microps, Czival. (deleted) 267 ,, puncticoUe, &. (deleted) 267 Corticaria fowleriana, Sharp 108 ,, lambiana, S/iar;p 107 Crepidodera inipressa, Fab 27 Ciyptophagus bimaculatus, Panz 65 ,, fowleri, Joy , 205 Enicmus histrio, Joy 250 Gabrius appendiculatus, Sharp 131 bishopi, /S/iorp 131 keysianus, Sh.arp 130 pennatus, S/i«i"p 130 stipes, Sharp 129 velox, Sharp 130 Galerucella fergussoni, Fowler 228 , , pusilla, Weise 29 Laccobius ytenensis, Sharp 250 Lesteva fontiualis, £"168 109 Oxytelus saulcyi, PoTid 4 Trechus subnotatus, Dej. (? introduced) 131 Tychius hiematopus, Gyll. {= juneeus, Boh., nee Reiche) 81 DIPTERA. SPECIES. Acanthocuenia glauca, Lw 47 ,, nigiimana, Zeif 47 Acartophthalmus bicolor, OZdcwti«.rgr ... 125 ,, nigriuus, Zeff 125 Agathomyia zetterstedti, Wahlb 45 Conops (Brachyglossum) signata, Wied.... 273 Cordylura atrata, Ze« 47 Ctenulus distinctus, Jlfgr 128 ,, pectoralis, Ze«s 10 LEPIDOPTERA. SPECIFS. Cemiostoma susinella, TT.-S 8 Bnarmonia ericetaua, H.-S 110 THYSANOPTERA. SPECIES. Acauthothrips nodicornis. Renter 256 Cry ptothrips lata, Uzel 255 Liothrips hradeceusis, Uzel 256 LIST OF NEW GENERA AND SPECIES, &c., DESCRIBED IN THIS VOLUME. COLEOPTEEA. GENUS. PAGE 4 Paraph^don, Sharp SPECIES. Astenns ga.ttoi, Cdineron, Malta 183 Corticarin fowleriana. Sharp, Scotland.. 108 ,, lambiana, Sha7-p, Neiv Forest 106 Cryptophagus fowleri, Joy, Berl-shire ... 205 Enicmus histrio, Joy, England 250 Gabriiis appendiculatus. Sharp, England and Scotland... 131 Gabrius bishopi, Sharp, Scotland 131 ,, ^eysmmis. Sharp, Devon 1.30 ,, pennatus. Sharp, England arid Scotland... 130 ,, stipes. Sharp, England 129 ,, \c\ox. Sharp, England 130 Galerucella fergussoni. Fowler, Scotland... 228 Laecobiiis ytenensis, Sharp, Nevj Forest 250 DIPTERA. SPECIES. PAGE Fanuia femorata, 'Malloch, Scotland ... 67 „ uigra, ,, ,, ... 67 lora albicaiidata, Wood, Engl and, 245, 247 ,, augeliciv, ,, , 152, 199 ,, brevicostalis, ,, , 243, 246 ,, clavipes, „ , 195, 201 ,, erecta, ,, , 196, 202 ,, exigua, ,, , 197, 202 ,, gregaria, ,, , 152, 199 ,, halterata, ,, , ,196, 197, 202 ,, hirsuta, „ , 246, 249 ,, hirticaudata, ,, , 246, 248 ,, involuta, ,, , 153, 200 ,, lata, ,, , 151, 199 ,, latifrons, ,, , 161, 198 ,, longipalpis, ,, , 152, 199 ,, lutescens, ,, , 244, 247 ,, mauicata, ,, , 246, 248 ,, maura, ,, , 196, 201 ,, miuutissima, ,, , 197, 202 ,, nigresceus, ,, , 244, 247 ,, palleus, ,, , 150, 198 ,, pectoralis, ,, , 153, 200 ,, rufifrous, ,, , 153, 200 ,, serrata, ,, , 150, 198 ,, simplex, ,, , 154, £01 ,, spiuata, ,, , 150, 198 ,, spiuiciucta, ,, , 245, 248 ,, superciliata, ,, , 244, 247 ,, sylvatica, ,, , 245, 248 ,, tarsalis, ,, , 243, 246 ,, verralli, ,, , 150, 198 HEMIPTERA. SPECIES. Cliuocoris pilosellus, Horvath, Biiti.^h Columhia 12 SIPHOXAPTERA. Ceratopsyllus franciscanus, Rothschild, California ... 88 Ctenophthalnuis basticus, Rothschild, Portugal... 208 ,, proviucialis, Rothschild, 8. France... 207 Ischnopsyllus brachystylus, Rothschild, Roumania... 254 HYMENOPTERA. SPECIES. Halictus aruoldi, E. Saunders, England... 11 Neiirotoma niandibularis, Zadd., 6 New Forest... 160 LEPIDOPTERA. GENUS (new name). P ARAB ACTR A, Mey rick 72 LEPIDOPTERA. SPECIES. Cnephasia rastrata, Meyrich. S^vitzerland ... 21 1 Coleophora ptarmica, Walsingham, S. France Ethniia callidella, ,, ,, Glyphipteryx diaphora, ,, Madeira Hemei'ophila threnodes, ,, ,, Megacraspedus tristictus, ,, S. France Platvsphiux bourkei, Trimen, Zululand,S. Africa... 209 Zenodochiuni sostra, Walsingham, Canaries... 259 232 232 258 257 231 EXPLANATION OF PLATES. Plate 1. — Some interesting British Insects (II), (see pp. 1 — 3). „ II. — Drepanepteryx phalmnoides, L., and Drepana lacertinaria, L. 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We now give figures of one species of Aculeate Hymenoptera and six of CoJeoptera, in continuation of those shown on Plate III of the last volume of this Magazine. Fig. 1 — Odynerus herriehii, Saussure, ? . — This handsome wasp was first taken by Mr. Rothney, at Stowborough Hoath, Dorset, in 1878. Mr. Dale subsequently captured a fT in the Isle of Pur- beck, and the Rev. O. Pickard- Cambridge recorded one from Bloxworth Heath, near Warehani. These were the only known British examples till 1908, when Mr. C. H. Mortimer discovered a large colony of it near Swanage, and since then it has been found abvmdantly in the same locality, both by him and by Mr. E. B. Nevinson. The insect belongs to the section Leionotus of Odynerus and was originally described by F. Smith imder the specific name basalis, but as Smith's name was already in use for another species of the same genvis, that of Saussure, herricJiii, must be adopted. All the known British localities for it are in the same county, Dorset. The species is figured in Saunders' " British Aculeate Hymeno])tera,'" under the name of 0. basalis, on plate 20, fig. 6, but this drawing seems to have been made from a dis- coloured badly-set example. The present figure is taken from a specimen kindly lent by Mr. Nevinson. Figs. 2, 2a, b, ^ — MalacJiius v^dnera.tus, Ab. — This insect is the M. spinosus, Er., of the catalogues of G. R. Waterhouse (1858), and Rye (1866), but the species does not appear in our later lists, nor * Cf. Ent. Mo. Mag., xlv, pp. 196, 197 (Sept. 1909). January, 1910. 2 [January, is it meutioned in Fowler's " British Coleo2)fera." In 1905 (Ent. Mo. Mag., xli, p. 66), it was again introduced as British, and the (^ described, under the same name, spinosus, Er. ; bnt shortly afterwards (ojx cit., pp. 88, 89), this identification was found to be incorrect, and the name changed to M. viilnerattis, Ab. All the specimens were from the same locality, Sheerness, Isle of Sheppey, whei'e it was taken by Mr. Waterhotise on Jiine 29th, 185G (Ent. Mo. Mag., xliv, p. 207), by Dr. Power on June 11th, 1859 (Ent. Mo. Mag., xli, p. 234), by Mr. Champion on June 6th, 18G9, and by Mr. J. J. Walker about Jidy, 1894. The first British male was captured in 18()9. The species appears to Ix? extremely local on the Continent, but it has been found in abundance by M. Bedel at AiTonville, Seine et Oise, near Paris. Abeille de Perrins' description of M. vulnerahis was published in 1900, in a periodical few entomologists have seen. The females of the species of this genus are often difficult to determine, but the ^ characters of most of these are of a very peculiar natiu'e, those of M. vulneratns are shown on the accompanying Plate, figs. 2a, 2b. Fig. 3 — Gynandroplitlmlma afhiis, Hellw. — A remarkably distinct Clythrid, first taken by Mr. W. Holland, on June 18th. 1899, in Wychwood Forest, near Witney, Oxford [Ent. Mo. Mag., xxxviii, p. 281 (1902)]. As noted by the Rev. W. W. Fowler, it bears a superficial resemblance to Gastrophysa polycjoni. The insect has since been found in numbers on hazel by Mr. Holland at the same locality [Ent. Mo. Mag., xxxix, p. 202 (1903)], and many collectors are indebted to him for the opportunity of seeing it alive. It has been found on sallow in some continental localities. Fig. 4, 4a — Otiorrhynchus aurnpunctatas, Gyll. — This species, intro- duced as British in 1895 (Ent. Mo. Mag., xxxi, p. 183), has been captured in various localities in Ireland. It is locally abmidant near the coast, on hedges of hawthorn, ash, and privet, chiefly in the Counties of Dublin, Meath, and Louth. The first recorded specimen was taken in 1900, at Culmore, Derry, by Mr. C. W. Buckle. A full accoimt of its distribution, &c., will be found in Messrs. Johnson and Halbert's " List of the Beetles of Ireland " (1902). It is one of the most interesting Irish insects, the known continental localities for it being the Auvergne and the Eastern Pyrenees. Fig. 5 — Criocephatus rnsticns, Dej. — In Dr. Sharp's paper on the genus Criocephalus (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1905, pp. 145 — 164), 1910.] this species was stated to have recently been discovered by Col. Yerbury at Nethy Bridge, Inverness- shire. Since then it has been bred in considerable quantity from larvse found in the large pines at the same locahty, by both Dr. Sharp and Mr. Bishop, who have also taken a few specimens at large. The more deeply cleft third tarsal joint distinguishes it from the very closely allied C. ferns, Muls., an insect found on pines during recent years in the New Forest, and in August and September last near Woking (Ent. Mo. Mag., xlv, pp. 247, 249). Fig. 6—Pachyta sexmaculata, L., ^^ .— This species was introduced into our list in 1877 [Ent. Mo. Mag., xiv, pp. 92, 93], on the authority of two specimens, captured by Mrs. King in the Eothie- murchus Forest, at Aviemore, Inverness-shire. During recent years it has been taken in some numbers at Nethy Bridge, by Col. Yerbury, Dr. Sharp, Mr. Bishop, and others, and again at Aviemore by Mr. Evans in 1893, and by Mr. King in 1903. In the series taken by Dr. Sharp in 1909 there are several examples with the angulated yellow elytral fasciae reduced to scattered spots. Fully developed males have a conspicuous triangular tooth on the inner edge of the posterior tibiae, beyond the middle, but in the specimen figured (one of those taken in 1877) this tooth is so small that it was not noticed by our artist when he drew the plate. P. sexmaculata is a widely distributed Holarctic beetle living upon pines, but it is apparently a rare boreal insect in Europe. Fig. 7 — Tetropium gabrieli, Weise, var. crawshayi, Sharp, ? . — This Longicorn beetle was described by Dr. Sharp in 1905 as a distinct species, from a large number of specimens reared from larch, at Leighton Buzzard, by the Eev. Gr. A. Crawshay. Subsequent investigation by the last-named gentleman has shown that T. crawshayi is simply a variety of T. gabrieli, with reddish tibiae and tarsi and black femora. Mr. Crawshay has given a full and interesting account of its life-history, distribution,* &c,, in the Trans. Ent. Soc, London, 1907, pp. 183—212, pis. xv— xx. In the wild state he says it is exclusively attached to Larix europxa. The insect is likely to become destructive to larch plantations, as it is evidently spreading m the midland and southern coimties. December, 1909. * Amongst the British localities quoted by him, one of those from Surrey, Betchworth, is misprinted " Bletchworth, ' and Enfield is given as in " Surrey," instead of Middlesex, 4 [January, OXYTELUS SAULCTI, Pand., A NEW BEITISH BEETLE FROM MOLES' NESTS. BY NORMAN B. JOY, M.R.C.S., F.E.S. Eesembles 0 fairmairci, Pand., in having the anterior tibia excavated at the apex ; the fore parts are slightly more coarsely sculptured ; the hind body is alutaceous, and very finely and diffusely punctnred (in 0. fainnairei this part is not alutaceous, but is strongly and closely punctiu-ed) ; in the S the sixth ventral segment has the hind border produced in the centre into a small square plate, at the base of wliich is a well marked tubercle, and the seventh is broadly emarginate. L. 1'7 — 2 mm. All my so-called O.fairmairei from moles' nests, taken at Brad- field, Berks, really belong to this insect, and I have little doubt that other records of 0. fairmairei from moles' nests are incorrect. The latter species appears to inhabit dung, and is sometimes taken in moss and on the -ndng. I have also taken 0. saulcyi in flood refuse. Bradfield : Nov., 1909. ON THE BEITISH SPECIES OF P H JE D 0 N . BY DAVID SHARP, M.A., F.R.S. Weise in his great work on the European Chrysomelidx, completed in 1893, but so far as Phiedon is concerned published in 18C4, treated our British P. conchinus, Steph., as a variety of P. armoracite, and emphasises his vievF by remarking that under no circumstances can it be considered a distinct species (Ins. Deutschl. vi, p. 548). Eight years later Bedel treated the subject (Faune Col. Seine, v, p. 153) and recognised P. concinnus as a distinct species. Notwithstanding this, in the recent catalogue of European Coleopfera, P. concinnus stands as a mere variety of P. armoracife. As this diiference of opinion between the highest authorities is very unsatisfactory, I have thought it desirable to investigate the matter again for my own satisfaction. The result leaves me in no doubt whatever as to the validity of P. concinnus. Further than this, I am surprised to find that another species, viz., P. tumidulus possesses characters that must relegate it to a distinct genus, which I propose to call Pamplixdon. Paraph^don, gen. n. Linea mctasternali externe antrorsum curvata ,- elytra hitmeris, cumque meso- sterno antice, ad reccptionem femoris profunde impressis ; prosternum in medio carinatum. It is very curious that these striking external features should have hitherto escaped observation, but we must recollect that Paraphaedon 1910.] 5 fumidulvs is very little knowii on the Continent, being confined to the western portion of Europe and Algeria. As regards its distribution in this country I may say that the species is fairly common in Scotland, but is apparently rarer in England, though it has been taken in numbers at Mickleham, &c. It used to occur at Hammersmith, and I have found it at Lyndhurst and in the Isle of Wight. Its food-plant is Heracleum, a common JJmbellifer. Ph^don. In this genus the metasternal line is elongate and is turned backwards externally and meets the episternal suture nearer the hind- margin than to the front ; there is no cavity for the reception of the intermediate femora, and the prosternum is not carinate. Although the species are at first sight very similar, yet I find that we have undoubtedly three and that they were quite correctly distinguished by Bedel. They liave also been diagnosed by Fowler (Brit. Col. iv, p. 316), still there are other characters not mentioned by these authors, and I may therefore be excused for some repetition. P. AEMORACI^. Usually larger than the other members of the genus and of a dark steel- blue cohjui', with a prominent shovilder to the elytra, which is always limited on the scutellar side by a well-marked depression ; the joints of the club of the antennae are broad and shox't, 7 — 10 being distinctly transverse, and there is no trace of any red colour on the under-sides of the basal joints ; the sculpture of the elytra is strong, all the striae being well-marked, and the interstitial punctuation is quite distinct ; on the under-side the margin of the terminal plate is pale red, and the ventral plates and the breast exhibit a pectdiar silky smoothness, with the punctviation compai-atively little developed. The varia- tion is but slight. P. CONCINNUS. Rather smaller, narrower and more convex that P. armoracim, with the humeral callus somewhat less marked, and the serial punctuation of the elytra more shallow ; the antennae are always quite black, and are not quite so broad as in P. annoracim ; on the under-side there is no red colour on the terminal plate, the surface generally is more punctate, and the metasternimi is shorter than in P. armoraciae. The coloiu' is usually bright green or golden-green, but this occasionally varies, and specimens may be fovind of a violet-gi-een or cupreous colour, but none are of the colour of P. armoraciae. In P. concinnus both upper and under-surface exhibit a peculiar faint strigosity, which has led to the species being sometimes described as finely rugose. There is but little variation except in colour. The violet individuals are a good deal like P. cochleariw, and 6 [January, this has caused some entomologists to doubt whether P. concinnus is truly distinct therefrom. The cupreous form I have seen only in Mr. Champion's collection (Christchurch). P. COCHLEARIiE. In this species the humeial callus is indistinct ; the first and second joints of the antenna; are obscurely marked with red beneath, and the club is comparatively slender ; the tips of the tibise are usually red beneath ; and there is only a very slight red pigmentation of the liind margin of the last ventral plate. This common insect is more varialjle than the allied forms. It is generally of a bright bluish-green colour, but dark violet specimens occur. P. cochlcarise is usually smaller, narrower, and more convex than P. armoracise, but broad and less convex examples occur, which at first sight greatly resemble the latter, but these may be certainly distinguished by the comparatively indistinct hvuneral callvis. The tliree species also show differences in the form of the sedeagus. In P. concinnus the apical portion is longer than in the other species, more curved, but parallel- sided. In P. armoracim this part is narrowed towards the tip, while in P. cochlearix the apical part is only about half as long as it is in P. concinnus. Brockenhurst : December 18th, 1909. NOTES ON SOME COLEOPTERA FOUND AT BAETON-ON-SEA, HAMPSHIEE. BY C. F. SELOUS, M.B., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. As this locality is not very M-ell Icnown, it may be as well to explain that Barton is situated on the Hampshire Coast, almost immediately opposite the Needles of the Isle of Wight. In collecting in tJiis district my attention has been principally directed to the under- cliff, and, though some interesting captures have been made, yet, considering the extent and varied character of the ground, the insect- fauna on the whole is disappointing. Of insects, however, large numbers must be destroyed annually, particularly during the winter months, owing to the continual subsidences which are taking place. Thus I have been frecj[uently disappointed by the destruction of some choice himting-ground, and the spot which one year teemed with some species of beetles may be almost barren next year owing to the complete alteration in the character of the ground, a marshy spot becoming quite dry or vice verso. Acupalpus flavicollis, Stiu-m. — This is one of the commonest beetles on the undercliff. By grubbing at any spot where tlie groixnd is moderately damp at the roots of grass, sedge, &c., it may be foiind in profusion at any time from early spring until late autmnn, and is easily caught as its movements ai-e decidedly sluggish. It may be readily differentiated from the allied species, A. dorsalis, F., by the absence of a dorsal pore on the third elytral interstice. Fowler gives the Isle of Wight and Lymington Salterns as localities for this insect, and mentions it as local and rare Drypta dentata, Eossi. — Of this beautiful Carabid I have obtained two specimens, the first on January 21st, 1909, hibernating at the roots of a tuft of reeds on the undercliff, and the second on June 6th, 1909, running on a foot- path in the sim al:)out thirty yards from the same spot. Alianta incana, Er. — The stems of the reed-mace {Typha), which grows abiuidantly on the marshy spots on the undercliff, are very frequently mined by a Lepidopterous larva {Nonagria typhse ?), the larva itself of course occiipying biit a small fraction of the total space of its tunnel. Most of these galleries that I have opened have contained, besides the larva and its frass, specimens of A. incana, from five or six to twenty or more in number in each burrow. In five cases in which the larva for some reason had taken its depai-ture, A. incana was also absent, although the frass Avas quite moist and the burrow seemed in every way suitable for this guest in spite of the absence of the host. I hope to obtain fiurther light on this ciu'ious companionship. Though " in the stems of reeds " is given usually as the habitat of this insect, I have not seen any mention of their living together with a caterpillar in these galleries. Colon scrripes, Sahib. — This was a most sui-prising capture in the siunmer of this year whilst grubbing at the roots of sedge, grass, &c., on a damp spot on the undercliff. That the occvirrence of the species in this situation was not an accidental one was proved by the fact that eight specimens in all were taken, two on June 2oth and six more on Jvily 12th following. They were running about the groxind on a sandy spot at the extreme edge of the under- cliff where the vegetation was rather thinly distributed. All of them were taken in the morning on an area which an ordinary table-cloth would cover, and I have not as yet found any elsewhere nor taken them whilst sweeping on the undercliff. I cannot find any mention of a similar method of capture of C. serripat, all the records I have searched giving " evening sweeping " only.* Mr. Philip de la Garde, however (Ent. Mo. Mag., April, 1909, p. 88), records the capture of C. viennense with a water-net out of a brook, so I may mention that a streamlet of water ran down the undercliff within a couple of yards of where C. serripes was obtained. Syncalypta setigera ,111. — Two specimens of this insect have been taken beneath small stones on the di'ier grassy parts of the undercliff. They are exceedingly difficult to see, owing to their small size, their shape, and colour, and the persistence with which they feign death, and I have no doubt they are much more common than seems to be the case. This species it appears has only before been recorded from Scotland (see Ent. Mo. Mag., Dec, 1871, p. 151), so this is a new record for England, but there is little doubt that it must occur * The five specimens of Colon brunneum recorded by me (Ent. Mo. Mag., Tii, p. 137) a.s having been taken out of a tuft of grass at Wickcn Fen in July, 1870, were really C. serripes. Mr. J. J. Walker has also taken C. serripes in *ufts of grass in early spring at Wood Eaton, Oxen. — G. C. C. 8 [January, in intermediate districts. Probably specimens exist in collections as S. striato- punctata, Stelf. (= S. hirsnta, Shai-p), since the two species are veiy much alike. The most striking differences are : — Elytral setae longer, paler, scarcely or not at all clubbed: S. striato- punctata, Steff. (= hirsida, Sharp). Elytral setae shorter, darker, and distinctly though slightly clubbed : S. setigera. 111. Mr. E. A. Newbery very kindly presented me with a specimen of S. striato- punctata, and the setal differences between this and my own captui'es are very well marked. The best way to see these distinctions I have foiuid is to look sideways at the beetle through one's lens in the evening vi^ith a bright artificial light, such as a candle flame, as a backgroimd. The outlines of the individual setae are beautifvilly defined by this method. Heterocerus fusculus, Kies. — This insect occiu's very commonly on the undercliff, either flying in the sunshine or issviing out of its burrows in sandy or miiddy patches near streamlets when alarmed by the tread of the collector. The legs of H. fusculus are said by Fowler to be " black or pitchy-black, with tarsi and sometimes femora lighter," but in my series the colour is very variable, being as qiioted at one end, and at the other being light reddish, with the tibiae perhaps a trifle darker, with all intermediate gradations. Here again is perhaps a new locality, as Fowler states that he knows of no other than the Isle of Wight. Pissodes notatus, F. — Forty or more specimens of this weevil were taken in January, 1909, hibernating in the crevices of the bark of some fir trees growing in a clump about a quarter of a mile inland. This capture is of interest in point of view of Fowler's note of its occurrence, which is as follows : — " very local and not common. I have a sti'ong idea that it has been taken in some numbers near Bournemoiith, but cannot find any record." As Barton-on-Sea is situated within ten miles of Bournemouth, as the crow — or beetle — flies, it has not apparently deserted its old locality. Mr. G. C. Champion, however (Ent. Mo. Mag., Nov., 1909, p. 247), states that it is fairly common in the Woking district and it is doubtless spreading in the South of England. He tells me that it has also been found not uncommonly in the New Forest and near Dorchester. In conckision, my best thanks are due to Mr. E. A. Newbery for the un- wearied kindness with Avhich he has assisted me not only in the identification of my specimens but in every other way also. Agra, Barton Covirt Avenue, New Milton, Hants. : November, 1909. CEMIOSTOMA SUSINELLA, H.-S., A TINEID NEW TO THE BRITISH LIST, IN SCOTLAND. BY EUSTACE K. BANKES, M.A., F.E.S. As a set- oft' against the umnerous disappointiueuts that one had to endure during the past season, as a result of the scarcity of Lepi- doptera and the extremely unfavourable weather, it is gratifying to be able to record that one's captures include an addition to the list of 1910.] 9 British Tineidse. in tlie shape of Cemiostoma susinella, H.-S. Of this species I secured two most beautiful individuals amongst its food- plant, aspen, at Avieinore, Inverness- shire, the first being taken on June 17th last, and the other two days later. A comparison of these with the notices by Herrich-Schaft'er in Schmet. Exu-., v, 342 (1855), and by Stainton in Nat. Hist. Tin., i, 288—289 (1855), and with the tine and lengthy series in the Stainton continental collection, has estab- hshed their identity beyond all question. The insect was remarkably scarce, and exceedingly difficult to captiu-e, for the aspen bushes, in the very restricted spot where it occurred, were growing crowded amongst a numljer of young birches which rendered the use of the net either difficult or impossible. My two specimens were, to the best of my belief, the only ones that I saw, but on one occasion my wife, when collecting among these same bushes, noticed just a few minute white moths, which, although they were not secured, can only have been susinella, for, in spite of constant work in that spot, no insect that could possibly be mistaken for it has been met with there. SHslnella is referable to that section of the genus Cemiostoma whereof the members have white fore-wings. It may, however, be readily distinguished from all its congeners by the characteristics mentioned in the following description published Ijy Stainton (loc. cit.) : — " Anterior wings white, with a pale yellow spot on the costa beyond the middle, continued to the anal angle, and a second spot before the apex ; a black spot with a violet pupil above the anal angle, and two fuscous streaks in the cilia pointing iipwards." In my Aviemore specimens, which show an alar. exp. of 6' 75 mm., the markings of the fore- wing are stronger in colour, and consequently more conspicuous, than in Stainton' s continental exponents, the first yellow costal spot being very distinctly margined on both sides, and tine, second on its anterior side, with dark fuscous. On the continent, and presumably in Britain also, susinella is double-brooded, the imagines of the first generation appearing in Jime, and those of the second in August. The larva mines the leaves of Pojndus tremida (aspen) in July, and again in September. In Stgr. & Rbl., Cat., ii, p. 218, No. 4227 (1901), Rebel gives the species imder notice as occiu-ring in Central Europe (except England*), Northern and Western Russia, Sweden, and Mauretania (teste Mey- rick) . Norden, Corfe Castle : November 6th, 1909. * Instead of "Angl.," Rebel should have written "Brit.," which, as explained by himself (ep. cit., i, p. xxvii), signifies "Great Britain with Ireland," for, until I met with it last June C. tutinella was not known to have ever occurred in any part of the British Isles. — E. R. B. JQ [January, ON FOUK ADDITIONS TO THE LIST OF BRITISH HYMENOPTERA. BY EDWARD SAUNDERS, F.R.S.. &c. Pempheedon Momo, Fab. (E. Saund., Hjm. Acul., etc.). This species has been split up by Thomson iuto two, which he has called clypealii^ and c.arinatns ; as we have ceilainly both of these in this conntrv, I wall give their characteristics. Unfortunately they are both rare in Britain. If we drop the name morio altogether, as it seems ({uite uncertain which of the two is Fabricius's species, then one of Thomson's will have to take the name anthracinus, Smith, but at the present moment Smith's type is not available for examintion, so I must keep to the names given by Thomson. The two species may l>e distinguished thus : — Clypealis, Thoms. Clypetis cmarginate, the eiiiargination bearing a distinc't tooth in the centre in the ? ; a slight production only in the d ; ventral segments 3 to 5 in the c? bearing strong fringes of very fine golden hairs ; frontal tubercle in the '^ narrower and less developed than in carinatus. Thomson also points out that in carinatus the apical ventral segment in the 9 is more strongly punc- tiu'ed and carinated at the apex, )jut this chai'acter is hard to see and not very well developed. Of this species I have females from Shuckard's Collection, and Mr. Morice took several males at Downside, near Cobham, on June 29th, 1900, and Mr. Nevinson has a (J from Bude, taken in June, 1891. Carinatus, Thoms. Clypeal emargination simple in both sexes ; venti-al segments in the S iiot densely fringed ; frontal tubercle more developed and thicker ; the females which I have seen tend to be larger than in clypealis. I have two ^ and a ? from Shuckard's Collection, both sexes from the late A. Beaumont, bred from an old stump in his garden, and females from Bury St. Edmunds, taken l)y Mr. W. H. Tuck. Mr. Morice also has it from Mr. Beaumont. Mr. Nevinson has taken the J at Cobham and Oxshott, and has a ? specimen from Colchester. DiODONTUS FEIESEI, Kohl. This species is very closely allied to minutus, and like it has the mandibles flavous, but/Viesi differs in the form of the metatarsi of the intei-mediate legs of the cJ ; these inminutus are suddenly enlarged near the apex; in tliis species the metatarsi are curved and slightly but gradually widened towards the apex showing no sudden enlargement. Another character given by Kohl, and noticeable in the specimens I have from Egypt taken by Mr. Morice, Avhich 1910.-J 11 may be considered as co-types, is the finer reticulation of tlie pronotiira and its sparser punctnration in both sexes. This I fail to see in tlie British specimens ; the intermediate tarsi of the S , however, agree so exactly with those of Kohl's species that I feel little doubt that they are identical. I have only seen one British 9 that I can refer to friesei, and even that I do with doubt ; but the mesonotum is more finely reticulated between the punctiTres, and the punctures are cei-tainly more remote than in the ordinary ? of minutus ; still these characters are not so evident as in the friesei from Egypt. Of this species I have males from Shuckard's Collection, and recently Mr. Silverlock has taken a male at Oxshott, and another male and the female mentioned above labelled " Oxshott or Woking." I have taken males in Jersey, but not on this side of the water. Halictus arnoldi, n. sp. This little species is closely allied to H. rninutissimus, but may be known at once in both sexes by the broader face. S . Face nearly as broad as long; antennal joints shorter than in miiiutissi- mus ; scarcely, if at all, longer than wide ; mandibles dark, piceous, paler at the base ; punctviration of the mesonotum slightly sparser than in rninutissimus ; propodeum more narrowed posteriorly, and more shining on its declivous part, this in rninutissimus being rather densely punctured. Abdomen much less strongly punctured than in that species ; legs black, tarsi very dark piceoiis. ? . Face broader than long ; thorax and mesonotiuu together much shorter and rounder than in minutissiinus ; mesonotiun less strongly punctured ; angles of pronotum not produced ; lateral longitudinal impressions much less strongly marked ; wings not clouded ; propodetun much more finely sculptured, its basal area scarcely rougher than the rest. In rninutissimus the area is very distinct and finely rugulose. The abdomen has the basal segment sparsely punctvu'ed all over, and the following segments are closely and finely punctured. In minntissim^i^s the basal segment is almost without punctiu-es, except for a few near the apex ; size of rninutissimus. Hellingly, near Eastbourne: 3 (^, 1 ? , 14.viii.08. This is really a very distinct species. I sent both sexes to Herr J. Alfken, of Bremen, who quite agrees with me that it is midescribed. I have named it in honour of Mr. George Arnold, its captor, who has done excellent work with our British Aculeates. He has very kindly presented the type specimens to me. DUFOTJREA HALICTULA, Nyl. A ? of this interesting addition to our fauna was discovered by Mr. 0. C. Silverlock in the large sandpit on Woking Heath, a locality which has been worked constantly by numerous Hymenopterists. It must be exceedingly rare, as although it is a small insignificant species, 12 January, it coidd not have escaped the notice of cither Mr. Morice, Mr. Nevinson, or myself. Its congener, B. viihjaris, has such a peculiar flight that on the only occasion when I met with it I recognised it immediately. D. halictula may be known at once from vulgaris by its smaller size, duller surface, moi-e halictif orni shape, and strongly p iinctured mesonotum and abdomen. It ^eatly resembles a small Halictus, from which its wings with only two submarginal cells will easily distinguish it. Thei-e are rare instances when a Halictus has only two submarginals in each wing, but they are so rare that they need hardly be considered ; in such rare cases the long tongue of Dufourea will distinguish it at once. The ^ is particularly like a small Halictus, but the structure of its antennae will distingixish it. They have not got the short transverse joints at the base of the flagellum as in that genus, the face is rounder, and the clypeus is entirely black. 4, LansdowTie, Bognor : Decemher 18th, 1909. DESCEIPTION OF A NEW BAT-BUG FROM BEITISH COLUMBIA. BY DR. G. HORVATH. The Hon. N. Charles Rothschild kindly sent me for examination six specimens of a bug found on October 20th, 1903, on the bat Myotis longicrus, at Okanagan Lauding, British Columbia, by Mr. Allan Brooks. This bug is a true Clinocoris, Fall. {Cimex, L9.tr., nee Linn.), and represents a new species which I describe as follows : — Clinocoris pilosellus, n. sp. Fusco-ferrugineus ; capite, pronoto et elytris pilis ochraceis semierectis, minus brevibus parce obsitis ; capite transverse, supeme obsolete punctato, clypeo apicem versus leviter dilatato ; antennis pilosulis, ai-ticulo tertio ar- ticulo secundo longitudine sequali et quam articulo quarto 4 longiore ; pro- noto disco obsolete et remote, versus latera autem sat dense pruictato, transverse, ante medium latissimo, latitudine sua maxima longitudine media plus quam duplo majore, basi hjngitudine circiter duplo latiore, apice sat profunde sinuato lateribus a basi antrorsum sensim late explanatis, fortiter arcuatis, angustissime reflexis et sat longe ciliatis, ciliis his latitudine oculi longioribus, angulis anticis antrorsum lobato-productis et mediiun oculorum subattingentibus ; scutello valde transverse, fusee, ebseletissime punctulate ; elytris rudimentariis sat remote distincteque pimctatis, margine apicali recto, versus latera autem 1910.] 13 rotiindato, commissiira scutello distincte longiore, margine costali dense et sat longe ciliato ; abdomine late ovato, dense snbtilissiuieque pnnetulato et breviter pilosulo, apice longius et densius settdoso, ciliis marginalibus eiliis pronoti et elytrorum distincte brevioribiis ; pedibus crassiiisculis, femoribus siibtus haud suk-atis. c?. ?• Long. corp. 3a — ij. Lat. pronoti 1^ — li ; abdominis 2^ — 2f milliiii. This species belongs, as may be easily recoo-uised by the widely dilated sides of the pvouotuin, to the group which includes Clinocoris lectularius, L. It differs from that insect by its smaller size, by the body being clothed with longer hairs and provided with less dense punctuation, the very narrowly l)ut distinctly reflexed margins of the pronotum, the shorter and darker scutellum, the more thickened legs, and especially by the different shape of the elytra. The rudimentary eMra have the commissural (inner) margin straight and longer than the scutellum ; their apical margin is nearly straight, but much rounded towards the exterior angles. The pronotum is less emargi- nated at the apex and its marginal cilia are longer than the breadth of the insect's eye. Budapest, Hvmgarian National Miiseitm : November, 1909. CHLORIONA DORS AT A. Edw., AN ADDITION TO THE LIST OF BRITISH HOMOPTERA. BY E. A. BUTLER, B.A., B.Sc, F.E.S. Three species of Chloriona have hitherto been recognised as British. I am now able to add a fourth, viz., C. dormfa, Edw., of which I have taken both sexes in some numbers in Eppiiig Forest. Like the other members of the genus, it lives on reeds, and so far as my present experience goes, it occurs only at one pond. Mr. Edwards' description of the ^ , taken from two specimens from " Haute Savoie," is given in Ent. Mo. Mag., xxxiv, p. 59, and I reproduce it below for convenience of reference. At the time the description was made, the ? was not known. I have therefore added a description of it. Usually the ? ? of this genus are difficult to distinguish from one another, but that of C. dorsata may readily be recognised by the dark ring at the extremity of the abdomen, which does not occur in either of our other British species. The description of the macropterous ? is taken from the only specimen I possess. Chloriona dorsata, Edw. '■' $ . Abdomen above black, the sides nan-owly yellow. Pygofer yeUow, 14 [January, a little darker above, tlie upper notch wide, rounded triangular, reaching from side to side of the segment, and extending cephalad almost to the hind margin of tlie last dorsal segment, the lower notch angular, with straight sides, and a small, almost semicircular, excavation in the middle ; viewed from the side the hind margin passes obliquely and almost in a straiglit line from the hind margin of tlie last dorsal segment to tlie commencement of the lower notch. Contents of the genital aperture brownish-yellow. Anal tube with the aperture transversely elliptic, its lower edge much widened and produced on each side into a large, blunt, triangular tootli, the teeth proper nearly straight and directed almost horizontally cephalad. Genital apertiu-e (or mouth of the pygofer) somewhat triangular, with widely rounded angles. Styles gradually narrowed from base to apex, nearly straiglit, their apices obliquely truncate, with tlie upper and lower angles produced into a sharp triangular tooth. Scutellura with a black sub-triangular patch on each side beyond the side keels. Otherwise like G. glaucescens." ? . Brachypterous form. Bright green, and without a trace of the dark ti'iangles on scutellum wliich characterize the ^ . Much like C. glaucescens ? , but with face liroader between the keels, and with the liind margin of the terminal segment of the abdomen always black, this dark I'im 1»eing sometimes interrupted in the middle of the upper surface. Occasionally there is a broad but ill-defined fuscous band just within the hind margin of each dorsal abdo- minal segment, and two or three dark dots on the sides of each. Length, 4 mm. Mucropteronsfortn. Scutellum rather more than twice as long as prono- tum, yellowish, with dark triangles indicated, though not so distinct as in the iisrs. 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Mag., vol. xliv, pp. 38, 39, I gave an accoimt of the capture of nineteen specimens of Colon, on Jiine 5th, 1907, liy constantly sweeping for about two hours a ride of long rough grass, about 100 yards in length, at the border of a wood. The species captvired were C. viennense, C. serripes, C. zehei, and C. hrunneuin. The spring and early summer of 1908 were very imfavourable for Colons, and I had few opportunities to hunt this same spot, but I added C. angulare (two specimens) to the list, and also took C. latum within 40 yards of the same place. In 1908 I think I visited the locality on two occasions only, and the Colons taken, besides a few C. hrunneuin, were three or four G. dentipes. As I was not able to wander far from home, nearly all my collecting that year was confined to a small copse quite close by, where I have for several years in succession taken a few specimens of Colon. After a good deal of hard work on several days a fair nimiber of examples were netted, including single specimens of C. angulare and C. denticulatum. I found to my surprise that I took very few specimens in the grassy rides in the wood which seemed most suitable for Colons, but that most of them occurred outside the wood, where it was separated from a sainfoin field by a very narrow strip of long coarse grass. The sainfoin has been cu.ltivated here for about eight years, and is now a good deal choked with grass and weeds. I noticed that most of the specimens were captured in a compara- tively small area, so on July 2nd, a fine hot day, I swept most carefully over this area, making only one stroke with the net and then examining it, imtil I had taken a Colon. I stopped at this spot and watched, and very soon saw another settle on a blade of grass and drop. I then knelt on the ground looking towards this spot and the sim and captiired twenty specimens (seven or eight C. serripes, the rest C. hrunnexmi) on the wing in a little over half-an-hour. This was at about 7 p.m. After a little practice I could easily distinguish the Colons from other beetles, as they look conspicuously brown on the wing. As a rule the flight is quite slow and steady, but is at times much more rapid and erratic. I occasionally saw one rise from the ground, but most were taken as they were flying just over the tops of the high grasses, or about to settle in front of me. The area over which all these twenty and the subsequent specimens were taken was only 6 ft. by 4 ft., and was about 8 ft. from the edge of the wood. It c 26 [February, appeared to resemble exactly the remainder of the field in its neie^h- bourhood. The next afternoon was cloudy, but warm. I started watching at about 5.30 p.m., after having cut out two small pieces of turf from the centre of the above area about 8 inches square by 4 inches deej). The soil was light, but gravelly, with a large number of stones in it. These pieces of turf I examined carefully and eventually placed in a small shed with only one window, hoping that if any Colons hatched out they would fly to this window; but this experiment was a failure. As the sun was not shining on the day in question I could not see the Colons against the grass, and I found I could only catch sight of them against the sky-line by lying on my side and looking over the area described. In this way I took thirteen speci- mens on the wing, but probably many were overlooked, as a strong wind was blowing. Of these, two proved to be C. viennense, a species I had never taken near this wood before, four or five were C. serripes, and the rest C. br^mneum. On July 4tli I started watching at about 6 p.m., when it was again warm, but cloudy. This necessitated me lying on my side as on the 3rd. However, I soon had to give this up, as my left elbow and hip were so tender from contact with the hard ground the day before ! Foi'tunately the sun came out and I took five C. viennense, one C. serrlpes, and nine C. hrumieum. I watched two individuals settle on blades of grass, and saw them running about at the roots of grass, but did not see them make any attempt to biirrow into the ground, nor was I able on any occasion to find a specimen by examining the roots of the grass, but of course I did not care to dis- turb the ground to any great extent. I do not believe that the Colons were emerging from the ground, as I saw very few rise from it, and these might have been individuals just recently settled. They appeared to come from some distance away, but were always flying low. I did not catch any obviously immature specimens, nor did I see any in cop. Males slightly predominated over females. I should have stated that on several occasions I swept the grass in other parts of the wood and near this special area or " Colony," as a facetious friend of mine suggested it should be called, and rarely took a Colon. The weather completely broke up on July 4th. On July lltli, in spite of the absence of svm and a strong wind, I took two Colons on the mng at the same place, and a few other specimens on such days up to August 3rd. IJnfortimately on the only two suitable days during this period I was imable to collect beetles. On Sept. 19th, a beautifvil fine warm evening, although I watched for a long time I did not see a single Colon. It is very hard to frame any theory on 1910. 27 these curious observations. Tliis " assembling " seems to me to be comparable witli the " assembling " of JEgialia rvfa, the cause of which, however, is not known. One would suppose that the " assem- bling " of the Colons must have some connection either vntli the procuring of food or with some sexual instinct, in the latter case, certainly not only the laying of eggs as males as well as females occur. The two most remarkable features of the phenomenon are (1) the very small area over which it took place, at the most 6 ft. by 4 ft. (2), the fact that three species occurred commonly, and this seems almost to exclude any pure sexual theory. I took the C. angulare and C. denticu- latum. very near and possibly on this spot, but it was before I had discovered its productiveness. It seems to be well known on the Continent that various species of Colo7i are taken in company in some- what restricted localities, and I have recognised this for some years here. It will be interesting now to ascertain whether in these locali- ties we cannot find one or more small areas where the Colons are specially congregating. Czwalina (Deutsch ent. Zeitschr., 1884, p. 265) suggests that Colons feed on fungi growing at the decaying roots of trees, which have been cut down, as he states that they are generally taken in such places. Weise and Kraatz, in appendices to his paper, refute this theory, and I think my experience here related finally disproves it. In reference to my former note on the genus Colon, I must add the following observations : C. barnevillei, I now agree, is a small mideveloped form of C. zehei. The ? of C. angulare may easily be distinguished from the same sex of C. brunneum by the much narrower eighth joint of the antennae, and by its longer thorax. Braclfield : Nov., 1909. CREPIDODEBA IMPBESSA, Fabr., A MEDITEEEANEAN BEETLE IN ENGLAND. BY DAVID SHARP, M.A., F.R.S. Crepidodera impressa, Fabr., is closely allied to C. transversa, but is rather larger and darker in colour ; it is more shining, and has a shorter thorax, the transverse depression on which is remarkably deep. It may be readily distinguished by the punctuation of the elytra of the male : this consists of series of fine depressions, augmented by other punctures placed quite near ; hence the internal series appears double ; the interstices between the series are broad and definite. The C 2 28 (February, female of C. transversa exhibits a similar scheme of elytral punctuation, but in that insect the punctures are larger, and in the male sex are very confused. This species was discovered by my friend Mr. C. Gr. Lamb at Hay ling Island, in September last, and I judge from his account that it is thoroughly littoral in habit, the specimens having been found on a spot covered by the sea at high tides. The latest monographer of the Palsearctic Crepidodera, Dr. J. Daniel, states (Miincli. Kol. Zeitschr. ii, p. 247) that C. impressa is a Mediterranean insect, but that he has seen one specimen of it from Moritzbiirg, near Dresden, and another from Gerebencz, in Hungary. Neither of them seems to be authentic as to locality. Bedel (Faune Col. Seine, v, p. 178) merely alludes to the species in a foot-note, as it has not been found in Fronce. Weise (Ins. Deutschl. vi, p. 703) says of G. impressa, " on pastures along the shores of the Mediterranean, not rare : in oiir country I know only of specimens collected by Prof. Schreiber, near Grorz. They have a stronger punctuation of the elytra than the North African and South European examples." It is pro- bable that near Gorz refers to a spot on the shores of the Gulf of Trieste. My conclusion is that the species is one of the sea-shore, and that it is probable that it occurs along the Western Coasts of France. I have already mentioned my suspicion that the specimens said to have been found in Central Europe are erroneous as to either locality or determination. I may mention that I have not been able to see a foreign example of the species, and that most of the books say that the lateral margin of the thorax is finer in C. impressa than it is in C. transversa. This is not so in the Hayling Island examples. I have, however, very little doubt as to their being the Mediterranean species. lirockenhiu'st : January 11th, 1910. GALERUCELLA PUSILLA, Weise, IN ENGLAND. BY DAVID SHARP, M.A., F.R.S. When Weise's work on the Galerucidse appeared in 1886, 1 named a few specimens in my collection as his G. pusilla. The form, however, appeared to me to be so near to G. calmariensis, that I did not mention its occurrence here, preferring to wait till I should obtain more speci- mens. In the interval I have done so, and I think it now time to call attention to the matter. 1910. 1 29 G. ptisilla is usually a little smaller than calmariensis, it is less marked with black on the upper-side, and the colour of the upper- surface is a little paler. It is most easily distinguished by the ter- minal two segments of the abdomen being entirely red. Bedel (Faune Col. Bassin Seine, v, p. 279, note) declines to accept pnsiUa as a valid species; but it is still maintained in the recent European catalogue, and I incline to the opinion that it is valid. The species occurs in this country both in spring and autunm. My localities for it are Horning, Mildenhall and the New Forest.* Brockenhurst : January 3rcZ, 1910. CYBTORRHINUS GEMINUS, Flor, AN ADDITION TO THE LIST OF BKITISH HEMIPTEBA. BY E. A. BUTLER, B.A., B.Sc, F.B.S. Of the genus Cyrtorrhimis four species are known to inhabit Europe, and three of these have long been recognised as British. The fourth species, C. cjeminus, Flor, which has hitherto been recorded only from Scandinavia, Finland, and Livonia, may now be added to our list. I have in my collection two British specimens ; one of these was taken at Broxbourne last September, the other, which has hitherto been standing unrecognised in my long series of G. pygmseus, Zett., was taken many years ago somewhere in the South of England, probably in Surrey, but unfortmiately I have no record of the exact locality. 0. geminns is so much like C. pygmsens that only the differences need to be pointed out. In C. geminus, the basal joint of the antennae is considerably longer than in C. pygmmus, and instead of being black with pale apex, as is always the case in C. pygmasus, it is either wholly pale, or with at most a slight dark shade at the apex; the legs of C. gemmus are much longer, and the spines on the hmd tibiae larger and darker. The insect as a whole also is sHghtly larger. The size and colour of the basal antennal joint will, however, always enable it to be recognised. In habits it resembles C. pygmaeus, being found in damp places low down amongst rushes. 56, Cecile Park, Crouch End, N. : January 4i/i, 1910 Wieken Fen may be added.— G. 0. C. QQ [February, SYNONYMICAL NOTE ON PULEX TRIPOLITANUS, Fulmek. BY THE HON. N. CHARLES ROTHSCHILD, M.A., F.L.S. Dr. Leopold Fulmek recently described (Zoolog. Jalirb., Syst., vol. xxviii, p. 289 [1909]) a flea from Tripoli under the above name. Through the kindness of Professor L. G-anglbaiier of Vienna I have been able to examine the type of this species. The insect in question is undoubtedly identical with Xenopsylla cheopis, Rothsch. (1903). Tring, Herts. : January Isi, 1910. Hydroporus hilineatus, Sturm, in the Isle of Shejypey. — Some little time back my friend Mr. J. H. Keys called my attention to the fact that certain Hydropori I had sent him long ago from the Isle of Slieppey as H. (jranu- laris, ¥., agreed with H. hilineatus, Sturm, in the character of the anterior tarsal claws of the amea lutulenta taken at electric light at Fareham. Mr Pickett, his fine series of pi^actically all the known forms of Angerona prunaria, the results of some eleven years' crossing and inter-breeding, and also a very nice set of Pieris napi from various localities, bred and captured. Mr. Sperring, a long series of Orrhodia vaccinii taken this axitimm containing all the forms hitherto noted in this country. Mr. Oolthriip, varieties of British Lepidoptera. — Ht. J. Turner, Hon. Secretary. Entomological Societt of London : Wednesday, Dccmiber 1st, 1909. — Dr. P. A. DiXET, M.A., M.D., President, in the Chair. Mr. W. C. Crawley, of ToUerton Hall, Nottingham, and Mr. G. H. Grosvenor, M.A., of New College, and 3, Blackball Road, Oxford, were elected Fellows of the Society. D 2 44 [February, The President anuounced that the Society would hold a Conversazione in the month of May, 1910, and invited the co-operation and assistance of Fellows. Commander J. J. Walker exhibited 128 species of Coleoptera, belonging to 68 genera, which he had taken, by sweeping only, at Wytham Park, Berks., between 12.30 and 3.30 p.m. on November oth, 1909 ; several local and uncommon species were included among these, such as Homalota 'jmberula, Sharp, Anisotoma cinnamomea, Panz. (both sexes), A. punctulata, GylL, Hydnohius 2}U7ictatissimus, Steph., Cryptophayus pubesccns, Stvu-m, Phlosophilus edwardsi, Steph., Mantura matthevjsi, Curt., Salpingus castancus, Panz., Apion Jilirostre, Kirby, &c., &c. The Rev. C. R. N. Burrows, examples of an vmidentified species of Luparina, captured during the past season on the Lancashire coast, an insect discussed by Mr. South in the " Entomologist," 1889, p. 271, where he expresses the opinion that it may be a form of Luperina testacea, intermediate between L. gueneei and L. nickerlii, Mr. Tutt maintaining in his " Varieties of British Noctuas," vol. i, p. 140, that it was a variety of Lioperina testacea ; the exhibit also included three specimens of what are taken to be authentic L. nickerlii, the first two obtained from a Vienna collection, said to be Nickerl's own collecting, and over fifty years old, the third belonging to Mr. South, and labelled " Bohemia " ; also a series of undoubted L. testacea, mostly labelled from about the same district, with fovu- specimens of the Lancashire insects, and several specimens vmdoubtedly of L. testacea, of the palest form, taken mostly at Rainham, and named, more for convenience than from conviction, L. gueneei. Mr. Burx"0ws drew attention to the fact that the form of the fore-wings in the Lancashire insect is much narrower than in either L. testacea or (reputed) L. nickerlii, and said that with respect to the possible connection of these Lancashire specimens with L. gueneei, he had consvilted what he believed to be Henry Doubleday's original description in the " Entomologists' Anniial" for 186-1, p. 123 ; but tliat he was not acquainted with " the three round white dots on the costa near the apex " in our common species, and did not see them in the (reputed) L. nickerlii. In the absence of Mr. J. W. Tutt, who was indisposed. Dr. T. A. Chapman opened a discussion on the affinities of Agriades thetis (hellargus) and A. coridon, and exhibited a number of photographs upon the screen to illustrate his views, being details of species included in the Plebeiid group. These inchided slides of the ova of thetis and coridon by Mr. F. Noad Clark and Mr. A. E. Tonge, and of the first instar of the larvae of P. argus, L., P. argyrognomon, A. coridon, and A. thetis ; a photograph of the larva of thetis by Mr. Hugh Main, shoAving the " fan " structures remarkably well ; also many slides illustrating the differences in the genital armature of the two species under review, and their allies. The Rev. G. Wheeler, Mr. G. Bethune-Baker, and other Fellows continvxed the discussion, which was eventvially adjourned until the February meeting. Mr. C. P. Pickett, Mr. A. E. Gibbs, Mr. J. W. Tutt, and Dr. Chapman also exhibited series of A. coridon and A. thetis with varietal forms and aberrations. Mr. T. Bainbrigge Fletcher communicated a paper "On the Genus Dcuterocojnis, Zeller." Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe, on " Some Experiments with Ants' Nests." — H. Rowland-Beown, Hon. Secretary. 1910. 45 AGATH0M7IA ELEGANTULA, Fall.— A CORRECTION, AND AGATHOMYIA ZETTEBSTEDTI, Zett., A SPECIES NEW TO BRITAIN. BY JOHN H. WOOD, M.B. Agathomyia elegantula, Fall. — At p. 5, vol. xvi (new series) of this Magazine I introduced this insect erroneously under the name of Callimyia elegantula, and as a species new to our fauna. The error might long have gone undetected, had I not subsequently met with a small and very distinct-looking species, which on being submitted to Mr. Verrall was unhesitatingly pronomiced to be the true Agathomyia elegantula. The insect which had for a time usurped its place is on the contrary a Callimyia with all the singular and characteristic beauty of the females of that genus ; and it is a matter of regret that it must for the present go without a name, in spite of its striking beauty which is quite distinct in its details from that of our two well-known species. A pair only of A. elegantula have been obtained. Both were swept from under old spruce trees in Stoke Wood, the male 19/9/08, and the female as far back as 14/10/05. The remarkable feature about the insect is the bright colovu'ing of the abdomen of the male, which in tint and almost in ext-ent rivals that of the female, and at once dis- tinguishes it from the male of any of our other species. In the female the three basal segments are a l^right orange with indications of a narrow dusky line down the middle ; in the male only the 2nd and 3rd segments are of this bright colour, the narrow basal segment being black, whilst the dorsal line consists of a broad black band on the 3rd segment, continued of a dusky red about half-way into the 2nd where it ends abruptly. The female bears some resemblance to horeella, Zett., and might possibly be passed over for a variety of that species with the light parts on the abdomen brighter and more extensive than usual, were it not for the differently coloured thorax. In horeella the thorax is luiiformly black, as is the rule in the genus, but in elegantula it is somewhat parti- coloured, muddy-grey in front and ochreous-grey behind and on the scutellum. A. zetterstedti (Walilb. in lit.), Zett.— This is another new British- species which I have had the good fortune to find recently in Hereford- shire, and for the name of which I am again indebted to Mr. Verrall. Five examples were taken in 1907, between September 25th and October 13th — one male and three females vmder some big trees (since un- fortimately cut down) in Ashperton Park, and one female in my own garden. This year again, two females were met with at the end of 46 [February, September, by sweeping under spruces in Stoke Wood. Mr. Verrall tells me that nothing appears to have been heard of the insect f above the other). There may be a temptation at first sight to place elefjanfula imder CalUmyia on accoimt of the liriglitly coloured abdomen and the scarcely lengthened 3rd joint of the antennae, but the presence of bristles on the middle metatarsi and the bare 3rd wing vein show conclusively that it is an AgatJwmyia. iftio.i 47 ADDITIONS AND COEEECTIONS TO THE BRITISH LIST OF MUSCID^ AGALYPTRATM. BT J. E. COLLIN, F.E.S. It is proposed in the following pages to put on record the capture of a number of additional species in this particular group, and at the same time to indicate the many changes which the researches of other stvxdents have made necessary in Verrall's " List " as published in 1901. Those marked with an asterisk are new to our Fauna. CORDYLUEID^. *Conlylura atrata, Zett. — A male of this species, the smallest in the genvis, was taken by Col. Yerbnry at Nethy Bridge (Inverness) on Jime IGtli, 1905 ; its small size (5 mm.) and entirely black legs at once distinguish it. Cordylura rufipes, Mg., which appears in italics in the " List " is according to Becker a synonym of C. pubera, ¥., and can therefore be struck out. Megaphthalma pallida. Fin. — This is the Cordylura pallida of the List of Reputed British Species. I was fortunate enoiigh to take a female at Orford (Suffolk) on June 20th, 1907. It is a yellow species with no long bristle at the end of the palpi, only one sternoj)leui-al bristle, scutelkim with two bristles, eyes nearly round, and arista with a scattered pubescence. Leptopa filiformis, Zett. — Col. Yerbury has taken this species at Porthcawl (Glamorgan) as recorded in the Proceedings Ent. Soc. London for November 18th, 1904 ; he also found a specimen at Barton Mills (Suffolk) in May, 1909, and about the same time I caught one in a large wood near Newmarket (Cambridge- shire). There are a niunber of specimens in the Dale Collection at Oxford under the name of Gymnomera dorsata, Zett. It need therefore no longer appear in the " List " in italics. Amaurosoma inerme, Beck., armillata, Zett., and Jlavipes, Fin., have been recorded in this Magazine as occurring in Britain, the first two on page 138 (1908) the last on page 105 (1909). Amaurosoma brevifrons, Zett. — This yellow-legged species with two shining stripes on its somewhat poUinose thorax has been found by Col. Yerbiuy in some numbers at Aviemore (Inverness) towards the end of May, 1904 ; Mr. A. E. J. Carter has also taken it at Musselburgh (Edinburgh) on May 30th, 1906, and Mr. J. E. Malloch at Bonhill (Dmnbarton) . The front femora are unarmed, the cltunp of bristles in front characteristic of several species in this genus being absent. Mr. Malloch mentions this species on page 105 of this Magazine for 1908. * Acantliocnema nigrimana, Zett. — Mr. Verrall caught a male of this species so long ago as July 22nd, 1872, at Braemar (Aberdeen), but it remained unidentified, probalily because it was an unset specimen making it difficult to see the spur beneath the end of the front tibiae. I do not feel the slightest doubt concerning its identity. * Acanthocnema glauca, Lw. — It has fallen to the lot of Dr. J. H. Wood to first recognise this species as being British from a specunen foiuid by him near Tarrington (Hereford) on Jidy 20th, 1909. 48 [February, 1910. Microprosopa heteromyzina, Zett., recorded as British by the late Dr. Meade in this Mag-azine for 1899, page 32, under the genns Scatopliaga, has not been found since, and it is doubtful if he correctly recognised it. Scatophaga analis, Mg., and villipes, Zett., have been confirmed as British, the former by Col. Yerbuiy (Irish Naturalist, xi, 88, 1902), the latter by Mr. Urimshaw (Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1904, 202). Scatophaga fontanalis, Eond. — Tlio remarks made under Microprosopa heteromyzina also apply to this species. Scatophaga rudis, exiviia, calida, and arrogans of Haliday are mere names to me, the first two have never been recognised since they were described, and the last two have been recognised by Dr. Meade only. Up to the pi-esent I have had no opportunity of examining the type specimens, if such exist tliey are probably in Cui-tis' Collection in Australia. Gymnomera dorsata, Zett. — The only record of this species as British is that of Dr. Meade in this Magazine for 1899 ; he introduced it on the strength of one male taken by Mr. Dale at Glanvilles Wootton, the specimens under this name in Dale's Collection seen by me were all Leptopa filiformis, a species not possessed by Meade, it is therefore quite possible that G. dorsata has been introduced in error for L. filiformis. THYREOPHOEID^. A new genus Centrophlehomyia has been founded for Thyreophora furcata, F., by Hendel (Zeitschr. Hym. Dipt., 1903, 216). CCELOPID^ (Phtcodromid^). Malacomyza, Haliday Ciirtis' Giiide, 2nd ed., 1837, p. 280, and Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., II, 186 (1838), emended by Haliday himself iiito Malacomyia in Westwood's Mod. Class. Ins. Generic Synopsis, p. 144 (1840), has priority over Phycodroma, Stenh. (1855), and must replace it. In the Addenda to the second volume of Walker's Insecta Brit. Dipt. (vol. iii, p. xiii, 1856), Haliday caUed attention to this by placing Phycodroma fncorum, Zett., as a synonym of Malacomyia sciomyzina, Hal. Agassiz in his Nomenclator Zoologicus quotes a genus Malacomyia, Desv., 1830, and Scudder copied him in 1883, but I cannot trace that Desvoidy ever described such a genus though lie iised the family name Malacomydx. The genus (Edoparca has been placed by continental Dipterologists in this family. It should be noted that Haliday's description of Coelopa frigida in Ent. Mag., I, 167 (1833), referred to frigida of Meigen (nee Fallen), and was the same as pilipes of Haliday Ann. Nat. Hist., II, 186 (1838), thus making pilipes, Hal., the type of the genus Coelopa. Fucomyia frigida. Fin. — C. simplex, Hal., should appear as a synonym of this species (v. Hal. in Walk. Ins. Brit. Dipt., Addenda, vol. iii, p. xiii, 1856). Fucomyia glabra, Wlk., of the List is according to the type a greasy specimen of Hydromyza livens, F., and therefore disappears as a synonym. NOTE.— Subscriptions for 1910 (6s. per annum, post free) are now due, and should be paid to E. W. LLOYD, I. 5, Albany, Piccadilly, London, W. It would be a great convenience to the Editors in keeping the accounts if these were paid promptly, as having to send reminders entails a considerable amount of extra work. 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EDWAED SAUNDERS, F.R.S., an Editor of this Magazine since 1880, and a frequent and valued contributor to it from tlie appearance of its first volume in 1864 up to the present year, passed quietly away in sea-side lodgings at Bognor on February 6th, 1910. In the present month he would have completed his 62nd year, having been born on March 22nd, 1848, at East Hill, Wandsworth. His father, the late W. Wilson Saimders — also F.R.S. — held for a time a commission in the Royal Engineers, and won some credit while serving in that capacity under the Indian Grovernment. But leaving the Army at the time of his marriage, he became a member of " Lloyd's " ; and for many years was exceedingly well- known and respected in business circles, and also in those of science and art. He lived on familiar terms with most of the naturalists of his day, and was himself a frequent writer of short papers on scientific subjects, but was perhaps best known through the impor- tant collections of art and natural history formed by him at Hillfield, Reigate, to which house he removed in 1857. It was by serious work (begun at a very early age) upon these collections that Edward Saunders, who was educated entirely at home, laid the first foundations of his future eminence. He devoted himself first to the Coleoptera, but acquired also considerable familiarity with Entomology in general, and with several other of the " Systematic " sciences, such as Botany and Conchology. At the age of 16 he pubHshed a paper in the first volume of the Ent. Mo. Mag. on " Coleoptera at Lowestoft," and was afterwards for some years mainly occupied in studying the Buprestidas of the world. A succession of Notes, Descriptions, Revisions of particular collections, groups, &c., bearing on this subject, were commimicated by him to the Transactions of the Entomological Society from 1866 to 1869 ; in 1870 he published a " Catalogue of the species contained in the gQ [March, CTeiuis Tluprestis, Linn," and in 1871 liis " Catalo,!:,ais Buprestidavuni Synonynucus et Systematicus," a work whose importance was imme- diately recognised, and whicli lias ever since remained a classic. In order to render the s}Tiou\anies of his Catalogue as reliable as possible, he undertook the only foreign tour of his life, visiting in succession all the chief Museums of Europe and examining personally the " types " of Buprestid spp. contained in them. From 1872 to 1874 he continued his Avork on this group, describing several new genera and over a himdred new species ; and at the same time began to issue in this Magazine a long series of Notes on British Hemiptera, which were followed in 1875-6, by a Synopsis, in three parts, of the British Hemijitera-Heteroptera, and this again by a large illustrated volume, his well known " Hemiptera-Heteroptera of the British Isles," which was published in 1892. Concurrently with this important mass of work on two distinct orders of insects, he began to attaclc a third group — the Aculeate Hymenoptera, to which he gradually transferred his chief attention. Two circumstances may probably have contributed to turn his thoughts this way. His father had purchased Shuckard's fine collection of British Hymenoptera, including several of that author's " types " ; and both father and son were intimately acquainted with the veteran Hymenopterist, Frederick Smith. At any rate for the rest of his hfe the Aculeates (especially the British spp.) became his favourite study, and he xiltimately became not merely the foremost, but, it may almost be said, the final authority upon the latter. His own explana- tion of his special fondness for the Aculeates was that in order to make out the species it was necessary to study structure, and his thoroughness in carrying out this principle gave a qmte exceptional value to his descriptive work. In studying our indigenous species he naturally became familiar with descriptions of related Continental forms. These he never had an opportunity to collect for himself, except during his one " grand tour" above mentioned, at which time he was unfortimately not yet interested in them. But his father's cousin. Sir Sidney S. Saunders, who had been Consul-General in Albania, was a well-known writer on palaearctic Hymenoptera, and had collected them in Greece and else- where with great enthusiasm and success, as evidenced by the fine series of his captures now preserved in the Hope Collections at Oxford.* Sir Sidney, though a much older man, was an intimate ■ Trofessor Poulton informs the writer of much valuable assistance given to his Department recently by Saunders in revising the naming, &e., of the above Collection. 1910.1 51 friend of Edward Saunders, and no doubt was more than pleased to bestow " duplicates " and items of information on so appreciative a recipient. At any rate, specimens ticketed with the initials S. S. S. form no inconsiderable part of the Palsearctic Collection of the latter, and may probably have been its original nucleus. Subsequently it was augmented from time to time by specimens, or even whole collec- tions, handed over to him by some of his many " travelled " friends (e.g., the Eev. A. E. Eaton, Commander Walker, Dr. Chapman, and others) ; and the excellent descriptions which he pubhshed of new species detected by him among these windfalls gradually brought him into communication and exchange of specimens with many of the most eminent Continental Hymenopterists, so that he amassed at last a collection, rich in genera and species, and not destitute of actual " types," though boasting no long series of duplicates. " Exotics " he deliberately left to others, and neither described them nor admitted them to his collection. It is quite impossible within the limits of this Notice to give even the titles of Saunders's minor writings on Aculeates. It must sufl&ce to say that his grand work " The Hymenoptera-Aculeata of the British Isles " (1896) is one of the few without which no serious Hymenop- terist thinks his working-library complete, and that its merits have been acknowledged in the warmest terms by every one at home or abroad who is competent to form an opinion upon it. Except in his earliest years Saunders could only work at entom- ology in the intervals of busmess, and this practically compelled him to deal with his subject almost entirely on its " systematic " side. It was impossible for him to conduct experiments or observations re- quiring unbroken attention for long spaces of time. Indeed, it is quite astonishing that a man whose daylight hours were spent almost invariably in the Eoyal Exchange should have been a collector and field-naturalist at all, much more one so skilful and successful as he proved himself, when a rare "off-day" or brief summer- vacation o-ave him his opportunity. (He never collected nor- even described on Sundays, though he was absolutely free from pharisaical bigotry on this or any other matter, and often said that " what was rio-ht for a man was whatever he felt to be right in his own case"). Practically, therefore, all his serious work was done either in the earlv morning, or in the evening after returning from town — at which time he was always siu-rounded by his yomig family, and ready at a moment's notice to turn from his books and boxes, to join in a game or con- versation, or welcome a visitor, or discuss a domestic problem. He E 2 52 [March, had no " sanctiun," and no '' close time '" for study. It was really only by utilizing all liis odds and ends of time ; by the perfect method of his arrangements, so that he knew exactly where to look for any book or other article which he wanted ; and by his phenomenal power of concentrating attention on a subject, or allowing it to be diverted for an interval, exactly as he pleased ; that he was able gradually to build up his materials for a book or paper of any length, brick by brick, as it were, until the whole was completed. Obviously, the work of a systematist (which deals at any one time with a few facts only, and which at every step is completed as far as it goes), must suffer less from the sort, of siu-roiuidings described above, than the welding of vast masses of experiment and observation into a connected chain of argument, such as we find in a work of Darwin's. ^Vliat Saunders might have achieved in wider fields, had he been able to make science the business of his life, it is useless now to conjecture. For present purposes it is enough to say, that he contrived, under apparently most unfavourable conditions, to produce a series of important works, which have been useful to inniunerable beginners, and to many serious students and even masters of science ; which have been treated with something more than respect by foreign naturahsts who have no great lielief in English entomology as a whole ; and which will long (and perhaps even always) remain standard authorities on the subjects dealt with in them. And, at the same time, he foimd or made leisure to exchange correspondence and specimens with the foremost entomologists of every country in Eur(_ipe ; to determine insects and answer letters from all sorts and conditions of collectors in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland ; and generally, for more than half his life-time, to stimidate in a hundred quiet ways the progress of his favourite science among his owti countrymen. From one method only of popularizing it he completely abstained. He had an invincible disHke of speaking in pviblic ; and except very rarely, and then only to small and special audiences, could never bring himself to deliver a formal lecture. In 1865 Saunders entered his father's ofiice at Lloyd's, thus commencing a business career which he pursued amid universal respect till his last fatal illness, and in which he was assisted latterly, and is noAV succeeded, by one of his sons. In 1872 he married Miss M. A. Brown, of Wandsworth, who (as well as all but one of many sons and daughters) survives him. Of his happy and l^eautiful home-life, the present writer, after intimate contact with it for many years, will here say simply that to have witnessed it was a privilege, and ought to have been an inspiration. From the time of his marriage up to 1887 he 1910. 53 lived successively at various places within easy reach of his business (Reigate, Wandsworth, Bromley), and in the latter year he settled finally at Woking. His short holidays were generally spent somewhere on the South Coast ; once or twice only did he cross the water, to the Channel Islands, or the coast of Britanny. As a yoiing man he was active and even athletic, showing more than average proficiency in cricket, skating, &c. He was also fond of shooting, bvit sold his favourite gim in order to supply its place with a good microscope ! Even when no longer young he enjoyed and could hold his own in a smart i-ally at lawoi-tennis, but some years ago a sharp attack of illness made it necessary for him to abstain from all violent exertions, and at last from anything more fatiguing than a moderate walk. The actual cause of his death was probably influenza, which attacked him in March last year, but the case was complicated with Itmg-mischief, and his strength had for some time before been evidently, though very gradually, failing. At the last there was extreme weakness, but happily no pain whatever, and his interest in scientific matters was keen and bright up to the very end. He became a Fellow of the Entomological Society in 1865, served as Treasurer from 1880 to 1890, and was a Vice-President in no less than five sessions, viz., in 1874, 1899, 1901, 1906, and 1907. Though he never actually held the Presidency, it is scarcely a secret that he would more than once have been elected to it unanimously, if he could have been persuaded to accept a post, whose duties he felt imequal (physically) to discharge as completely as he would have wished. He entered the Linnean Society in 1869, and about that time contributed at least three Papers to its Journal. Long after, in 1890, he published in the same Jottrnal an exceedingly carefvil and interesting paper on the Tongues, &c., of Bees, with beautiful illustrations, drawn by his brother, Mr. Gr. S. Saunders, from microscopic preparations made by Mr. Enock. His election in 1902 to the honour — so rarely bestowed on an entomologist merely as such — of Fellowship in the Royal Society was not only highly gratifying to himself and his personal friends, but to all who saw in it a recognition of Systematic Entomology, treated as Saunders treated it as no mere idle dilettantism, but a genuine branch of Science. The accompanying portrait is reproduced from a photograph taken several years ago and given by Saunders to the present writer. M. 54 [March, LIFE-HISTOEY OF DREPANEPTERTX PHAL.ENOIDES, Linn. BY KENNETH J. MORTON, F.E.S. Plate II. On the 23rd of October last, the Hon. N. Charles Eothschild secured a specimen of Brepanepteryx phali^noides, Linn., at Chantilly, Oise, France, the insect having been beaten from a hawthorn bush. He has very kindly allowed me to record his capture, and has at the same time placed at my disposal beautifully drawn figures of the insect and of Brejimia lacertinaria, Linn., which bears so close a resemblance to it, a likeness that Linne and Leach have recognised in the specific and generic names given to the Neuropteron. As the species is certainly one of the rarest and most interesting of the Planipennia that we possess, an accormt of what is known about it as a British insect, and of its habits and distribution elsewhere, may be useful. Although I have not been able to consult many of the older authors who have noticed the species, a reference to the extensive bibliography in Hagen's Hemerobidarum Synopsis Synonimica (Stett. Ent. Zeit., vol. xxvii, 1866, pp. 403 and 418), and Albarda's Cata- logue raisonne et synon. des Nevropteres observes dans les Pays Bas et dans les pays limitrophes, The Hague, 1889, pp. 307-8), shows that it excited the interest of nearly all the old writers of importance, and from Reaumur in 1737 down to Eambur in 1842, it seems to have been figured more than half-a-dozen times. The following notes will sei-ve to give an idea of its distribution on the Continent : Eambur (" Insectes Nevropteres," Paris, 1842, PI. 9, fig. 6, p. 419) speaking no doubt of its occurrence in France, says : " Habite les bois ou on le rencontre toute I'annee niais assez rarement." Wallengren (Skandinaviens Neuroptera, Kongi. Svenska Vetens- kaps-Akademiens Handl., Band 9, No. 8, Stockholm, 1871) records the insect as rare but wide spread, occurring in July and August in Northern and North-Western Scania, Smiiland and Ostergothlaud. He refers to Linne' s locality, near Upsala, and to that quoted by Zetterstedt, near Ofvertornea. Brauer (Die Neuropteren Eiiropas und insbesondere Oesterreich mit Eiicksicht auf ihre geographische Verbreitimg, Wien, 1876) quotes France, England, Belgium, Germany, Hungary, Eussia, Sweden, Switzerland, Styria and Carintliia. Schoch (Neui-optera Helvetia, 1885) says it occurs at Zurich and Wetzikon ; always singly and rare. Dr. Eis {in lift.) informs me that Ent. Mo. Mag., 1910. — Plate II W. Frohawk, del. ~-^x5^ 4. I 1 5. 3. 4^- — — 9. Drepanepteryx phalaenoides, L and Drepana lacertinaria, L. SOME INTERESTING BRITISH INSECTS. 1910.] 55 he lias specimens from Rlieinau, and further that it has been bi-ed from apple-twigs collected there (see below). Eostock (Neuroptera Grermanica, 1888) gives a number of German localities ; found on elm, not common. Albarda (I.e.) -. Zelande, Hollande mer. et Hollande sept. : en mai et juiu, dans les bois. Rare. Renter (Neuroptera Fennica : Acta Soc. pro fauna et flora fennica, 1894) gives the distribution as Europe, excludmg the Mediterranean region. He says it is rare in Southern Finland, chiefly in oak woods. Dziedzielewicz (Bull, de I'Academie des Sciences de Cracovie) records the species from G-alicia, Austria. Petersen (ISTeuroptera Danica : Planipennia : Entomologiske Med- delelser, 1906) gives a number of Danish localities. Dr. Eis tells me he has not seen the species from Italy, and it is not' mentioned in any of the few papers dealing with the Balkan Peninsula, to which I have access, although it occurs in the Trans- sylvanian Alps (Klapalek). Nor is it included in Navas' Neuropteros de Espana y Portugal, 1908. Outside the limits of Europe, I know of no locality excepting Teneriffe. Dr. Ris possesses a ^ labelled as from that island given to him by a Lepidopterist, Mr. Honegger, of Basel, who used to get Lepichjdera regularly from Teneriffe. One is teiupted to suggest the possibility of its being there an introduced species. Turning to our own country, when the species was first found at Cleghoru, Lanarkshire, in September, 1885, there had been no recorded British captures for about twenty years (Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xxii, p. 139). It is interesting to note in connection with this locality, that a specimen mentioned by Curtis was taken about fifty years before by H. Walker near Lanark, a to"nm about two miles distant from Cleghorn. The previous occiu-rences, communicated to me by McLachlan at the time may be here repeated. It is indicated as British in Turton's Edition of Linne (Syst. Nat.) 1806 ; but Tui-ton included a good many striking things as British that were never con- firmed. Leach constituted the genus Drepanepteryx in the Edinb. Encyc, 1815, probably from the citation in Turton. Curtis refers to the example taken by Walker ; and Stephens figiu-es one taken by Little at Raehills. In the Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond., New Series, vol. i, p. 46 (Jan. 6th, 1851) we read: "Mr. Douglas, on the part of Mr. " Allis, exhibited a specimen of the rare Neuropterous insect, D. plialx- " noides, taken by him at Bowness." And in McLachlan's Monograph of the British Neuroptera Planipennia, the author refers to an example taken at Windermere by Mr. Strouvelle. If Turton's citation be 56 [March, excluded we have, with those recorded in the above mentioned note, seven British examples in all known at that time. McLachlan added another example taken at Hasting-s (Ent. Mo. Mag-., vol. xxii, p. 239). The subsequent records knowTi to me are as follows : One beaten from sallow by Miss Hutchinson in Deepdale, Yorkshire, on August 28th ; it dropped on the ground and it was only afterwards that she found it was not D. lacertula (Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xxvi, p. 52). One beaten from alder by Mitchell near Wolsingham, Durham, thought at first sight to be a "hook tip" (I. c, p. 90). Two beaten from beech by Henderson at Gribside, North Durham, in September (?. c, p. 110). One at Cleghorn, October 5th (Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xxvii, p. 308) ; one at Carluke, Lanarkshire, on June 6th, in flight in the late evening (Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xxviii, p. 194) ; and one at Cleghorn beaten from hazel on August 7th (Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xxix, p. 249). One at Pitlochry, Perthshire, by Beaumont, from birch on Avxgust 29th (Ent. Mo. Mag , vol. xxix, p. 263). One by Milton at Windermere on June 6th (Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xxxv, p. 235). Six or seven in all were taken in the Cleghorn and Carluke localities, and I estimate the number of known British examples at just under a score. Whether the insect is rare or not, it is, as far as I know, never found at large as an imago either here or on the Continent in numbers. A habit of feigning death, its resemblance to a dead leaf, and the time of flight may all contribute to its being overlooked. I have seen it only once in flight, and I doul>t that it ever flies voluntarily by day. A remarkal)le feature is its occurrence throughout the whole season. Hibernation is extremely probable, not only in this but in other species of Hemerohiidse. Ris informs me that he has taken an old and ragged specimen of JDrepanepter^jx in April. I possess a specimen of the closely allied Megalotmis algidus taken by Kempny in Lower Austria, in February, while a freshly emerged series of the same species from Eheinau, Canton Zurich (Ris) is dated September. In the Cambridge Natural History, vol. v, pp. 453 and 468, Dr Sharp has figiu-ed the whole insect, also the peculiar structure for bringing the hind and fore-wings into correlation, and the narrow space in the inner margin of the fore-wings from which colour is absent, alluding in connection with these details to the existence of somewhat analogous structures in some moths, and of small trans- parent spaces in the wings of some butterflies. Although in Europe D. jjlialxnoides stands alone in respect of the unusual outline [of the fore-wings, Brauer (Zusatze und Berechti- gungen zu Hagen's Hemerobidarxuu Synopsis Synon., p. 987) calls in 1910. 57 question Hagen's definition of the gemis : Differt a Megalomo sectori- bus pluribus, ala apiee acuta, postice excisa. He holds that tlie chief difference is to be found in the anterior cubitus (median) which in DreiMnepteryx is divided into 4-5 parallel branches, which run like the radial sectors ; while, for example, in Megalomus hirtns the same vein simply forks in the first third of the wing, and only breaks up at the margin into two further end-forks, in this respect resembling Hewerobins. Judged by this character, some species, usually con- sidered as belonging to Megalomus, such as M. algidus, would fall to be placed in Brepanepteryx. Brauer has also described and figured the nervous system, the alimentary system, and the female genitalia of Brepianepterijx in his Beiti age /Air Keutniss des inneren Baues und der Verwaudlung der ISTeuropteren, p. 18 (Schriften des zool. bot. Vereins in Wieu, 1855). At p. 24 of the same paper he gives the interesting information that the imago feeds on Lepidoptera whose wing-scales can be cjuite well recognised in the stomach ; the insect was found by him in June and July on elms and peach trees. With reference to the life-history, although the species has been reared more than once, the modern literature on the subject appears to be very meagre. Von Hey den in Die Neuroptera-Fauna der weiteren Umgebung von Frankfurt a. M. (Bericht iiber die Senckenbergische Naturforschende Cles. in Frankfurt a. M., 1896, p. 115), says the larva is found at the beginning of June in oaks and develops in July. The pupa is said to be enclosed in a thicker yellow cocoon, suspended in a larger wide-meshed one and held from the side by only a few threads. Prof. Standfuss also bred the insect from material collected for him by Dr. Eis. He published a very short note on the subject recording the interesting fact that the pupa after leaving the cocoon luns some distance before it bursts the pupal skin (Mitt, der Schweiz. Entom. Ges., vol. xi. Heft 4, 1906 : Bewegliche Puppen bei Insekten mit volkommener Verwandlung, p. 154). Going back to earlier times, Reaumur knew the larva and he raised a crippled imago. But the best account extant seems to be that of Von Grleichen genannt Eussworm: Versuch einer Greschichte der Blatlause und Blatlausfresser des TJlmenbaums : Niirnberg, 1770 (with four coloured plates). This author narrates that on opening a curled up leaf, amongst the moving mass of plant-lice of different sizes and a tangle of cast-off skins and other matter, he noticed some very active brown larvae which he at once concluded were what they proved to be, the creatures to which Eeaximur had given the name of " Lion KQ [March, cle Poiicerous " (Blatlaus-Lowen, i.e., the larvae of Drejninepterya') . Jiidgiug from the time they took to reach maturity, they were ah'eacly half-growu, and von Gleichen concludes that they pass from egg to pupa in at most 14 da^s,* an observation which agrees with Reaumur's. The head is compared to half an oval, the convex side directed to the body, covered above with two ash-grey horny plates and in front flat and membranous. The long antenna" stand between the small black eyes above the mandibles (oberhalb des Zangengebisses) , and under the latter are the 2-jointed labial palpi (Fressspitzen). The thoracic segments increase in size towards the abdomen, which is flatter than round. The abdomen gradually tapers to the last segment, which is pointed, and which in running is either moved to and fro, or is used in the same way as the terminal abdominal feet (Nachshieber) of caterpillars. The ground colour above is yellow and brownish-red, beneatli straw-yellow. Along the back there is a brown depression in the middle of a white stripe which looks as if dusted with a powder. This depression ends towards the middle of the abdomen. Upon the thoracic segments on each side there is a shallow, elongate depression. The sides of each segment, the last excepted, are beset with raised warts which are probably the spiracles. A figure is given of these warts, and of the scale-like texture of the skin of the back. These larvae give off a strong scent which is compared to that of thyme. They are described as terrible gluttons. When a plant-louse is caught, it is all over with it in half a minute. The empty slough is cast aside and another victim is seized. The author states that 30 and odd plant lice were consumed one after the other without a moment's interruption. The proceeding is thus described : the larva rushes at the nearest louse which he never misses. As soon as the plant-louse is gripped with the mandibles, it is turned round with the aid of the palpi in order to bring it comfortably to the mouth. Then the mandibles and palpi become quite still, the robl)er being busy sucking his prey. The louse is again turned round to another side and the sucking renewed ; this turning and sucking being repeated until nothing remains but an empty skin. The dexterity shown in this process cannot be surpassed, and may be compared to the rapid move- ments of the squirrel when he turns roimd a nut in his paws. Reavunur, as quoted by Von Grleichen, in connection with the mouth parts, wrote : — Mais ce qui est de plus remarquable, c'est qvie le formicaleo n' a point de bouche oil les autres insectes en ont une : il en a deux <|ui * Pi'obably uudercstimated. 1910.] 59 sont placees bien singulierement, elles sont aiix bouts extremement fins de corues tres fines. Ces memes cornes avec dequelles le formi- caleo perce un insecte, et avec lesquelles il le tient saissi, sont chacune un corps de pompe. Au moyen de ces deux corps de pompe il fait passer dans ces intestins toute la substance du malheureux, que est devenu sa proie. Nos lions des pucerons, ou nos petits lions, ont de semblables cornes, avec lesquelles ils sucent les pucerons.* Von Grleichen tried in vain to reconcile his observations on this point with those of Reaumur, and he had almost equal difficulty in finding another mouth opening. Between the mandibles and palpi he saw nothing but a surface of very fine horizontal folds, and it was only when he seized a larva by the head with his forceps and brought it under a lens that he noticed in the fore part of the head an opening which could be notliing but the movith. As he observes that this mouth is only used for sucking, its perfect closure is a natural con- sequence, as is also the impossibility of opening and seeing it unless by a properly directed pressure of the head. When the larva has reached the age of 13 or 14 days, it leaves the scenes of its bloodthirsty activity and seeks to conceal itself in some angle of a twig or on another leaf. Up to that time it seems to have made no use of its spinneret (which is placed at the end of the body), but within half-an-hour it has covered itself within a web. This web is white in colour, fibrous and tangled like wool. It is not too close to prevent the enclosed larva from being seen in a cun^ed position, the head almost withdrawn within the thorax. The cocoon consists of two separate layers, the one as above described, but the inner is hard as if made of dried paste (Kleister) : this inner layer might be described as a perforated capsule rather than a web. So far Von Grleichen. He reared two of the flies in July about the fourth week after the lai-vse had spun up, but he failed to observe the actual emergence — a misfortune which the observations of Standfuss have made good. Since the foregoing was written, I have received through the medium of my friend. Dr. Eis, an extract made by Professor Standfuss from his unpublished notes on the biology of Brepanepteryyc . I am very much indebted to Professor Standfuss for this, and as his notes are so i\\\\ of interest, I venture with his permission to give a transla- tion of them. * See Sharp, Cambridge Natural History, vol. v, pp. 4.55-7, as to the mouth parts of ant lions. It is tliere explained how the mandibles and thie lobes of the maxilLB are modified, and co-adapted to form sucking organs. 60 ' [March, NOTES ON THE BIOLOnY OF DREPANEPTERYX PHALJENOIDES, L. BY PROFESSOR DR. M. STANDFUSS, ZURICH. " Several times near Ziiricli I have met with the very mobile larvae of a lighter or darker brown colour with a greasy gloss, measuring when full grown 12 to 15 mm. long. These lai-vse do not cover them- selves with the skins of the plant lice they have sucked dry, in this respect differing from their i-elatives of the genus Hememhius. They were found in populous colonies of Lachnus fayi, L., on the under-side of the leaves of Fagiis silvatica, L. Often also this gluttonous enemy of the plant lice was foiuid on the foliage of plum trees, Prnmis ilomestica, L. (Zwetschen) and Prumis inH'difia, L. (Pflaumen), amongst ApJiis 'pruni, F., a species present in great numbers nearly all the year round. With us it occurs still more numerously in the great colonies of Schizoneura ulmi, L. This plant-louse causes a blister-like swelling, and a yellowish discoloration of the leaves of JJlmus campestris, L., infested by it. G-radually the leaves become rolled at the margin downwards and inwards, and so form a pod-like sheltering hollow space in which the full grown larvae of Drepaneptery;c not rarely fix their pupal web. I further discovered Schizoneura lanigera, Hansm. — the " Blutlaus " of the apple tree — to be a S2:)ecially favourite food of the laiwa of this fine Hemerobiid. My good friend Dr. Fr. Ris, of Rheinau, sent me repeatedly, apple-twigs much infested by this Schi- zonenra, for use in my lectures on insects injiu'ious to agriculture and forestry. The first of these consignments in May, 1904, produced alone 32 imagos, and later sendings, also, always contained a number of individuals of this Neuropteron. The larva of this species I found here, in Eastern Switzerland, between the beginning of May and the middle of July. In autumn I was never able to observe larvae, so that in our region we should have decidedly only one generation of B. pliaJienoides. Pupation takes place according to the warmth of the season, and probably also according to the available supply of plant-lice, between the middle of May and the middle of July, in rolled-up leaves, or some- times in crannies on tree stems, or even on the ground. The neat, rather wide-meslied cocoon, consists of two parts, the inner ordinarily oval btit sometimes approaching a spherical form ; the outer a looser enveloping web. It is produced from the contents of the rectal glands modified into spinning glands. The larva lies rolled up in a ball whilst engaged in this work. It is verv absorbing to observe 1910.J 61 liow the eyes giiidingly watch the inovements of the teriiiiual segment which, when actively spinning, lies close to the organs of vision. The pupa also rests curved in the cocoon. In from 14 days to three weeks after pupation the imagos emerge. When the pupa has worked its way out of the wide-meshed cocoon, and by this time has stretched itseK out perfectly straight, it always rmis some distance (35 cm. being the longest stretch hitherto observed) until it has found a suit- able spot where it is able to fix itself firmly by the claws. Only then does the perfect insect burst the integument of the back of the pupa. The height of the flight time happens in July and August, and during these months I have sometimes found paired couples. In the first days of October I have observed the last examples of the year in the open near Zurich. I have never seen the species in winter or in spring. The eggs therefore are surely deposited in high summer and autumn, and probably in large batches — the fact that the larvae usually occur in numbers, close together, leading to this conclusion. Whether the eggs over- winter or the larvae emerge before winter, has hitherto escaped my observation." In addition to these Notes, Professor Standfuss has also most kindly sent a series of the extremely neat cocoon (including one in situ) and two pupal skins, thus providing material which could not have been olitaiued otherwise for the relative figures. He and Dr. Kis have further forwarded for examination a rather long series of the perfect insect. These, in conjimction with my own few specimens, show some range in the colour of the fore-wings, the darkening being no doubt to a considerable extent a matter of age. In one or two there is also a reduction in the intensity of the brown markings, including the streak which runs to the wing-tip. The dates of these Swiss specimens include April, May, June, July, September and October. Standfuss has a specimen from the Riesengebirge in September. This paper owes its origin entirely to the co-operation of Mr. Rothschild. In addition to providing the drawings and the plate, he has laid me under special obligation by sending me for perusal Von Grleichen's rare and interesting memoir. I should also like to thank Dr. Ris for his invaluable assistance in various ways, including a loan of several important papers. P.S. — Commander Walker has just informed me that there are four British specimens of D. plialeenoides in the Oxford University Museum, viz. : two in the Hope-Westwood Collection of Netiroptera, and two in the Dale Collection. He writes : "Of the first named, one 52 [March, " is set in tlie attitiide of repose and liear.s no data; the other, which is " in fairly good condition but not Avell set, has a printed label ' Mr. " Little.' Of the Dale specimens one is in quite good condition, but " is unfortunately without data ; the other is larger but has the hind- " wings much crumpled ; this has a label in C. W. Dale's handwriting, " ' Cumb. H. F. Farr, fr. Bond, Nov. 1862.' " It seems certain that some, if not all, of these specimens were not included in McLachlan's estimate of 1885. The example bearing the name of Mr. Little (the Eev. William Little) in all likelihood came from Raehills in the South of Scotland, the locality whence the speci- men figured by Stephens came, as mentioned above. EXPLANATION OF PLATE. DrEPANEPTBBTX I'HAL^NOIDES. Fig. 1. Larva, natiu-al size. „ 2. „ enlarged. „ 3. Spiracle, &c., of larva. „ l. Cocoon, enlarged. „ o. „ in situ, natural size. „ 6. Abdomen of pnpa (from cast-off skin). „ 7. Mandibles of „ „ 8. Imago, natural size. „ 9. „ at rest. Dkepana lacektinaria. Fig. 10. Imago, natural size. „ 11. „ at rest. Figures 1, 2, and 3 are after Von Gleiclien, and are given for what they are worth, in the absence of fresh material. CRYFTOFHAGUS BIMACULATUS, Panz., AND OTHEK COLEOPTERA AT LOUGH NEAGH. BY J. N. HALBERT, M.R.I.A. To the student of British Coleo})tera, the Lough Neagh district is undoubtedly one of the most interesting localities in the British Isles. It is well known as the habitat of many local insects, notably of Dyschirms obsctirus, Bembidium argenteolum, and Stenus ijolposus, species which are not knowni to occur elsewhere in the Britannic area. During a visit to the district in the summer of 1902, I found a few specimens of a small black-banded Cryptophagus, which proves to be 1910.] 63 C. bimacnlatus, Piuiz., and is yet iiiiotlier addition to our list.* The present paper was written cliiefly with a view to callincj attention to this insect, at the same time it seemed desirable to place on record some of the more interesting- species which have been recently found on the northern and north-eastern shores of the lake. The following list is largely the result of two collecting trips to the Shane's Castle district, organized by the " Royal Irish Academy, Fauna and Flora Committee." On the first of these visits, in June, 1902, I was joined by my friend the late Mr. C. W. Buckle, and together we secured most of the local species. At my suggestion, Mr. Buckle made several subsequent excursions to Shane's Castle with a view to the preparation of a joint paper on the beetle-fauna of the district. It will be seen that eight of the species are unrecorded from this coimtry, and at least three others must be re-instated in the Irish list, on account of their occurrence at Lough Neagh. Except where otherwise stated, the locality is Shane's Castle on the north-eastern corner of the lake. Pelo])hila borealis, Payk., fairly common at Shane's Castle, found running on the shore, and also in flood refuse. Dyschirius obscurus, Gyll., locally abundant on sandy parts of the shore at Shane's Castle, also at Toonie. Pterostich^is anthracimis. 111. Anchome^ius yyiicans, Nic, in flood refuse and by sweeping, Mr. Biickle also found it under dead alder bark at Shane's Castle ; this species seems very local, and these are the only authentic Irish examples that I have seen. Bemhidium assimilc, Gyll., B. pallidipenne. 111., and B. argenteolum, Ahr., all locally common in sandy places. Tachypus Jiavipes, L., banks of the river Bann, near Toome. Trcchus micros, Herbst, a few specimens in flood refuse. Coelamhus novemlineatus, Steph. Hydroporus septentrionalis, Gyll., U. incognitus. Sharp, taken under flood refuse by Mr. Buckle. Cercyon marinus. Thorns, {aquaticus, Muls.), and C. minutus, MiUs. ; the latter insect must be re-instated in the Irish fauna. Aleocliara brcvipennis, Grav. Ocalea castanea, Er., under flood refuse ; Dr. Sharp has kindly examined the Lough Neagh specimens of this species, and he remai-ks that they are referable to a " variety of the old casta^iea, agreeing with what Waterhovise called 0. riviilaris." Ilyobates nigricollis, Payk. Calodera sethiops, Grav., Shane's Castle, also shaken out of reeds at Portmore Lovigh. Homalota insccta, Thoms., a single specimen of a large dark form at Shane's Castle in September, fide Dr. Shai-p. Homalota " sp. n. ?, near elongatula," fide Dr. Sharp; H. picipes, Thoms., Shane's Castle, not previously recorded from Ireland ; H. debilis, Er., taken by sweeping at Portmore and Shane's Castle ; H. gemina, Er., abundant on reeds at Portmore Lough, not previously recorded from Ireland ; H. divisa, Miirk., rare. Myr- mecopora stdcata, Kies., a single specimen of what Dr, Sharp considers may * I have already referred to the capture of this insect in the February number of the "Irish Naturalist." — J. N. H. G4 I March, represent a dwarfed race of this species occurred on the shore near Toome, Jvme, 1902. Gyrophsena gcntilis, Er. Bolitochara ohliqua, Er. Conosoma pedicularium, Grav., common at Lough Neagh, so that this species must be re-instated in the Irish list. Phihmthus lucens, Er., in flood refuse ; P. vernalis, Grav. ; P. nigrita, Nordm. Xantholinus cribripennis, Fauvel, a specimen from Shane's Castle, in the collection of the late C. W. Buckle, seems to be referable to this species ; it is slightly longer, darker, and more strongly punctured than the ordinary Irish form, as it occurs at Magilligan sandhills and other places in the North. In the males of X. crihripennis the hinder margin of the eighth dorsal segment is naiTowly, but distinctly excised at the middle ; in a male of X. distans, from Transsylvania, sent by Herr E. Reitter, this excision is deeper and nearly three times as wide as it is in X. cribripeimis. [Mr. Norman H. Joy has recently sent me two specimens ( ^ and ? ) of a Xantholinus which he collected at Dalwhinnie, in Inverness-shire, during October, 1909 ; these appear to me to agree with the Irish X. crihripennis, and I have no doubt that they are to be referred to that species rather than to X. distans']. This insect has now been recorded from Scotland, Ireland, France, Italy, and the Caucasiis. Lathrobiiim punctatum, Zett., not previously recorded from Ulster ; L. jili/orme, Grav. Dianous cwrulesccns, Gyll. Stenus palposus, Zett., Toome and Shane's Castle ; S. incrassatus, Er., Shane's Castle, not previously recorded from Ireland ; S. nigritulus, Gyll., fovind by Mr. Buckle in flood refuse at Sliane's Castle dviring September, and by mj^self by sweeping reeds in the same locality, not previously recorded from Ireland ; S. nitens, Steph., swept off reeds at Portmore Lough. Bedius subtcrraneus, Er., abundant in sandy places. Phlceo- charis siibtilissima, Mann., taken by Mr. Buckle at Shane's Castle in September ; a new record for Ulster. Euplectus anihiguus, Reich. Calyptonicrus dubius, Marsh. Colon serripes. Sahib., ^icJe Champion. Liodes hmncralis, Kug. Silpha dispar, Herbst, found sparingly in flood refuse. Hister neglectus. Germ. Hippodamia Vi-punctata, L. Hypcraspis reppensis, Herbst. Phalacrus caricis, Sturm, on liulrushes. Epurxa obsolcta, F. Telmatophilus typhse. Fall., abun- dant on bulrushes. Antherophagus nigricornis, F. Cryptophagus a£inis, Sturm ; C. pubescens, Sturm ; C. biinaculat\is, Panz. [See below]. Paramcco- soma nielanoccphalum, Herbst, vars. infuscatum, n., and univeste, Reitt. [both additions to the British list, see below]. Atomaria wollastoni. Sharp, I found a dwai'f specimen of this rare insect at Shane's Castle in Jvuie, 1902, the identification of which has been kindly verified by its describer; A. gidta, Steph., abundant at Shane's Castle, so that this species must now be re-instated in the Irish list. Donacia thalassina, Germ., abundant ; D. vulgaris, Zsch. ; D. clavipcs, F., abundant on reeds at Portmore Lough ; D. discolor, Panz., common. Lema septentrionis, Weise, a few specimens taken at Toome by sweeping. Phyllohrotica quadrimaculata, L., Shane's Castle, Mr. Buckle found this species by sweeping under alder trees ; it is a very local insect in Ireland. Phyllotreta vittula, Redt., Shane's Castle, not previously recorded from Ireland ; P. flexuosa, 111., Shane's Castle, there is but one previous Irish record (Wexford) of tliis species. Crepidodera aurata, Marsh., a dark variety of this insect occm-s at Shane's Castle, one or two of the specimens having the legs and antennae infuRcate. Cassida hemisphmrica, Herbst. Anthicus scoticus, Rye, not un- 1910.1 65 common on sandy parts of the shore. Bhynchites minutus, Herbst, Portmore Lough. Ajnon sethiops, Herbst ; A. gyllenhali, Kirby, and A. senicuhis, Kirby. Erirrhinus scirpi, F., and E. sethiops, F., a few sj)ecimens of the last mentioned species occvirred in flood refuse at Shane's Castle. Bagous glabrirostris, var. nigritarsis, Thorns., common. Cionus pulchellus, Herbst ; Shane's Castle, in company with Phyllobrotica (Biickle). Ceuthorrhynchus arcuatus, Herbst ; I found a few specimens of this rare species by sweeping on the banks of a stream running into the lake at Shane's Castle in June, 1902, and Mr. Buckle subse- quently secured a fine series ; it has not been previously recorded from Ireland. In some of the Lough Neagh specimens the groimd-colour is rather dark, with the white marking very distinct, causing the insect to resemble the allied C. asperifoliarum, an insect unknown as yet from Ireland. Rhinoncus castor, F. Euhrychhis velatus, Beck, and Litodactylus leucogaster. Marsh., in weedy drains at Glenavy and Shane's Castle. Phytohius comari, Herbst, P. 4!-tuherculatus, F. and P. cayialicidatus, Fiihr., Shane's Castle. Limnobaris pilistriata, Steijh., all the Irish specimens of Limnobaris that I have seen are referable to this species. Pityogenes bidentatus, Herbst, Shane's Castle. Cryptophagus bimaculatus, Panz. When at Lough Neagh iu June, 1902, 1 captured a few specimens of this insect by sweeping amongst reed-beds on the shore of the lake at Shane's Castle. An excellent definition of it is to be found in Ganglbauer's " Die Kafer von Mitteleuropa," iii, p. 678. The follow- ing short description of the Lough Neagh specimens may prove useful for reference : — Colour in mature specimens reddish-brown, with an ill-defined black median band on the elytra, this being in most specimens i-educed to a large black spot on each of them. Head and thorax strongly, deeply, and closely punctured ; thorax about twice as broad as long, narrower than the elytra, strongly and regularly serrated along the side-margins, with no trace of the more or less conspicuously larger tooth near the middle, which is such a characteristic feature of all the known British species of the genus, the refiexed anterior angles not prominent. Elytra oblong-oval, convex, the punctures at the base almost as strong as those of the thorax, wider apart and much finer towards the apex. The entire insect clothed with rather long loosely attached pubescence. Antennae of moderate length (about '716 mm.), comparatively slender, the fifth segment a little shorter than the third and noticeably longer than the fourth, the club rather narrow. Length, 1'8 — 2 mm. This interesting species has a northern and central range in Europe (Reitter), extending as far north as Finland. According to Heyden, it ranges also into Siberia (Cat. Coleopt. Siberia, Nachtrag, I). G. bimaculatus may be easily recognised by the structure of the side-margins of the thorax, and the black marking of the elytra, indeed F 60 [March, Ganglbauer in liis synoptical table separates it from all the known central European species of Cryptophagus by means of these characters. The general facies of the insect is also very distinct. Paeamesosojia MELAxocEPHALrii, Herbst. The Irish representatives of this insect are decidedly interesting. It would seem that the type, with black head and thorax and chestnut- brown eu-tra, has not, so far as I am aware, l^een found in Ireland. In matiu-e examples of the prevalent Irish foi-m the head, thorax and elytra are black and very shining ; the femora and the apical part of the tibiae are infuscate : and the general pimctuation, especially of the elytra, is noticeably stronger than in the type. As this variety is so well marked, I ventm-e to propose that it should be referred to as var. infuscatiim. I have seen specimens from the counties of Donegal, Cavan, Armagh, Dublin, and Kerry, so that it is widely spread in this countiy. At Shane's Castle, Mr. C. W. Buckle found two specimens of another fomi of the same species, which I have little doubt is the var. U7iiveste [univestre] of Eeitter. A short comparative description of the latter is given by Ganglbauer (Die Kafer von Mitteleuropa, iii, p. 670). The Lough Neagh specimens are large, about 2 mm. in length, and of more robust structure than the ordinaiy form. They have the head, thorax, and elytra of a unifonn chestnut-brown colour, with the legs and antennae slightly lighter ; the thorax a little more trans- verse than is the case in the type; the general punctuation of the upper surface veiy noticeably stronger ; and the pubescence more scattered. The var. nniveste, Eeitter, has been recorded from Hamburg, Prague, Vienna, and the Caucasus. Mr. Gr. C. Champion has recently drawn my attention to a record by Mr. J. H. Keys of a dark form of P. melanocephalum from the Plymouth district [Ent. Mo. Mag., xlii, p. 137 (1906)]. Mr. Keys describes the dark colouring of his specimens, and although he does not mention the stronger punctuation, there is no doubt that they are to be referred to the var. infnscatum. Irish Natural Museum, Dublin : January 27th, 1910. 191".] 67 TWO NEW SPECIES OF ANTHOMYIBM, IN THE GENUS FANNIA, E. D (= HOMALOMYIA, Bouche). BY J. B. MALLOCH. Fannia nigra, n. sj). S ■ Deep black, hardly shining ; eyes bare, very narrowly separated by a black stripe ; frons and epistome hardly projecting- ; jowls descending but little below the eyes ; face distinctly silvered ; palpi normal ; 3rd joint of the an- tenna? about two and a half times as long as the 2nd, arista slightly pubescent ; thorax dull black, unstriped ; abdomen with distinct grey dusting, the black dorsal stripe broadly triangularly dilated on each segment ; anal organ small and inconspicuous ; legs entirely black, fore femora and tibiae with the usual bristling ; mid femora hardly contracted at the tip, a row of about eight strong bristles on the antero-ventral surface from the base to about one-third from the tip, from where it is continued to the tip in a row of very short but strong bristles ; postero- ventral surface with a somewhat similar row of rather weaker bristles ; posterior surface with a row of long, soft, curved hairs ; at the tip on tlie postero-dorsal surface a short row of long, strong bristles, about six in nmnber ; and a few curved hair-like bristles on the antero-dorsal sm-face at the tip ; mid tibia with the apical half slightly thickened, the ventral surface clothed with rather short, but distinct, pubescence, which becomes longer as it nears the tip ; two antero-dorsal and two postero-dorsal bristles present, the upper antero-dorsal bristle about half the size of the usual lower one ; hind femora with a row of bristles on the antero-dorsal surface which ends in three or foiu" stronger and longer bristles at the tip, a row of rather widely placed bristles on the antero-ventral surface, which increase in size as they near the tip, and the basal two-thirds of the postero-dorsal surface with soft hairs, which shorten towards the tip ; hind tibiae with generally two bristles on the antero- ventral surface, and about three bristles above the usiial one on the antero- dorsal surface, the usual dorsal bristles present ; calyptras black, the under scale distinctly protruding ; halteres yellow ; wings infuscated, outer cross vein distinctly waved, last portion of the 4th vein rather more than twice the length of the penultimate ; 3rd and 4th veins slightly convergent. 4 — 5 mm. Boiihill and Cardross, Diuubartonshire, 4 (5" c? • June — August. The presence of more than one bristle on the antero-dorsal surface of the mid tibia places this species in the same section as carbonaria, Mg. (= corvhia, Verr.), and poiijclneta, Stn., the only two British species with which it can be confounded if this character is attended to. From both of these species it is easily separated by its dull black coloiu* and black calyptra, besides other characters which are quite obvious from the foregoing description. The only other European species that falls into this section is mimitipalpis, Stn., which has the calyptra whitish-yellow, and the palpi very small. F. FEMORATA, n. sp. (J . Black, not shining ; eyes large, very narrowly separated by a black F 2 eg [jrarch, stripe ; frons, epistome, and jowls very narrowly projecting ; antenna; of modci'ate length, 3rd joint two and a qiiarter times as long as the 2nd, arista pubescent, thickened at the base ; palpi normal ; thorax dull black, sides and front undusted, distinctly grey dusted behind ; abdomen dull black, base of segments laterally grey dusted, dorsal stripe much dilated at apices of seg- ments, and hardly separable from the lateral black marks nearer the base, in some positions the segments seem to be only narrowly diisted at the base laterally ; anal organ not very prominent (in the single specimen before me, with two small backward directed appendages, prodiiced into sharp points at their apices) ; legs black, fore knees only inconspicuoiisly paler ; fore femora and tibia with only the normal bristling ; mid femora not greatly thickened, constricted at the apex, with an antero-ventral row of long bristles, beginning at near the base, decreasing in length, but becoming closer placed till about two-fifths from the apex, from where they form a comb-like row on the con- stricted portion ; a somewhat similar row of longer, but rather weaker, bristles on the postei'O-ventral surface ; ventral bristle long and strong ; postero-dorsal surface with long, soft, curved, hair-like bristles ; mid tibia with the apical two-fifths distinctly, but not greatly thickened, much as in verrallii, Stn., but longer, the pubescence on the ventral siirface very short and sparse on the basal unthickened portion, but longer and erect on the apical two-fifths ; a rather weak bristle on each of the antero-dorsal and postero-dorsal surfaces in addition to the iisvial stronger lower one ; hind femora bent, and dilated, thickest at about one-third from the apex, antero-ventral surface with a row of hair-like bristles, which inci ease greatly in length from the base to the thickest part of the femoi-a, and then decrease to the apex, a row of about six long, liair-like bristles on the basal two-fifths, and a group of about nine very long, hairlike bristles on the thickened portion beyond the middle of the postcro- ventral surface, a few very short hairs on the tip fifth ; hind tibia with the usual dorsal bx'istles, two antex'O- ventral bristles, and (in the single specimen) no antero-dorsal bristle ; calyptra blackened, unequal in size ; halteres yellow ; wings darkened along the front half, clearer behind, 3rd and 4th veins nearly l^arallel, outer cross vein nearly straight, last portion of the 4tli vein nearly three times the length of penultimate. 4 mm. The single (^ of this very distinct species was taken by Mr. A. E. J. Carter at Aberfoyle, June 30th, 1904. It is quite distinct from any other British species, and cannot even be confounded with any European species. 'Bothfasciculata, Lw., and hirticeps, Stn., have the hind femora as in this species, but the former has the base of the abdomen yellow, and the latter has the eyes densely haiiy. Afra, Stn., differs also in many particulars from this species in the arrange- ment of the bristles according to Stein's description, and in the absence of the thickening of the femora. Bonhill, Dvunbartonshire : December, 1909. 1910]. 69 Some considerations ijulicative of the need for a fresh catalogue of British Colcoi-itera. — If the British Neva-opterist, Hymenopterist. or Hemipterist wishes to find out what has been published, in this country or abroad, about any particular object of his study he may tiu-n to the appropriate section of the " General Catalogue of the Insects of the British Isles " published from time to time by the Entomological Society of London, with a reasonable prospect of finding a reference to the original description, together with such additional references as were in the judgment of the several compilers germane to the issue from the point of view of the British student. Similar particulars are also available to the Orthopterist and Lepidopterist in the admirable " Synopsis of the British Orthoptera," by Eland Shaw (Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xxv, p. 354, et seq.) and Mr. Tutt's colossal "Natural History of the British Lepidoptera" respectively; but the student of British beetles has no siich advantage; not that there is any lack of " Catalogues," the wi-iter calls to mind at least eleven, from Stephens, 1829, to Beare and Donisthorpe, 1904 ; but the first of these is the only one which professes to be more than a list of names, and it is, in the nature of things, of very limited utility at the present day. But by far the most poignant instance of the necessity for some trustworthy guide to the literatm-e of Coleoptera is ftu-nished by Professor T. Hudson Beare, who, in a paragraph dealing exclusively with British beetles (Ent. Rec, xxii, p. 1, Jan. loth, 1910) writes of " our present scanty knowledge of the life-history of the majority of beetles." This extraordinary statement proceeds, be it observed, not from some obscure provincial student, whose lack of information might be exctised, but from a " leading Coleopterist " (I quote from Ent. Rec, xxi, p. 190) and a Vice-President of oiu- National Entomological Society ! Now, if there had existed a catalogue of British Coleoptera on the lines of the " Cata- logue of British Neuroptera," it wotdd of necessity contain references to the writings of those Entomologists who have dealt with life-histories of beetles, from Greoffroy, 1762, to Donisthorpe, 1909, writings which require for their eniuneration more than six hundi-ed octavo pages (Eupertsberger, 1880, 1894), and the passage in question need not have been written. That it is, in some sense, a duty on the part of our National Entomological Society to provide British Entomologists with a real catalogue of the insects of ^he British Islands, seems to have been recognised by the executive of that body more tha,n forty years ago, and for a few years after the appearance of the first Part in 1870 the publication went on at a reasonable rate, biit I am not aware that any Part has appeared since 1876. However, it is, doubtless, only necessary to call attention to the matter and the subject will receive the consideration which it deserves. It seems matter for regret that, so far as beetles are concerned, the question of naming varieties, i.e., groups of individuals occupying a position interme- diate between the individual and the species, has not received more attention in this country. The history of many species cannot well be wi-itten without i-eference to these things, and it would appear that the most convenient means of making such reference is by name. The latter has been the opinion of several authors of repute, thoiigh they have not always been quite logical in their application of the principle; e.g., Weise in dealing with Coccinella lO-j^unc- 7q [March, lata after iisiny separate iiaiiies for seven different varieties, forthwith hunps them all together imder one name, ■i!-2n(,nctata, L. A name as a symbol for a definition is well, but if it be made the symbol for several definitions its utility disappears. I cannot call to mind that any English author has suggested that varieties should be ignored ; on the conti-ary, Dr. Sharp, in chapter ix of his pamphlet on Zoological Nomenclatvire (1873J expressed the hope that varieties would soon receive more attention than they had hitherto done. It appeared to him that the purposes of Science would be best served by there being no names for varieties, but that every aiithor who specialized varieties should do so by means of a letter or figure, or combination of the two. Whether the latter system has any advantage over that of naming is matter of opinion, but it is to be hoped that in any futvire catalogue of British beetles scientific utility will not be sacrificed to mere prejudice or the curtailment of the cost of printing. — J. Edwards, Colesborne, Cheltenham : Feb. 7th, 1910. Cis hilamellatus, Fowl., in Australia. — Amongst the large numlier of " Blackburn " types of Australian beetles at present deposited in the British Museum, there are two species of interest to our Coleopterists here, from the jjoint of view of geographical distribution. One of them is Fristonychus australis, Blackb., which is correctly sunk as synonymous with the cosmo- politan Lse-most'enus complanatus, Dej., in the second edition of Eeitter's Cata- logue (1906). The other is Cis munitus, Blackb. [Trans. E. Soc. S. Austr. x, p. 268 (1888)1, from Port Lincoln, which is synonymous with G. hilamellatus. Fowl. (1884), the type of the former, a S , agreeing perfectly with the same sex of the species described by Fowler. G hilamellatus is still, I believe, to be found in its old locality at West Wickham, but it seems probable that it has been introduced in some way there, as in Australia, and that its real home has yet to be discovered. As regards this species, I may add that during the present winter it has been found breIy. Sich exhibited specimens of Gelechia hermannella in illustration of his paper. Mr. Turner, ^ and ? specimens of the rare " tailed " moth Eii,deemonia hrachyura from Sierra Leone. Mr. Edwards, a box of Exotic Hemiptera, among which was the remarkable Heteropteron Macroceroea grandis from Tenasserim. Mr. J. Piatt Barrett, pupae of Hyles euphorbise found by him in Sicily, and an immature form of a mole-cricket from Messina. Dr. Hodgson, the most 74 : March, striking forms of Anthrocera taken or bred V>y hiui this year, inohiding dwarf A. trifolii and curiously marked examples of A. hijppocrepidis and A. filipendulx. Mr. Barnett, dark forms of Cheimatohia boreata and of Oporabia dilutata from West Wickham and Wimbledon respectively. Mr. Robert Adkin, series of Agriades coridon ? s from Eastbourne, showing eight or nine lines of variation ; he also showed a bred series of Polia chi from Hnddersfield ova. Mr. Sich i-ead a paper entitled "Notes on Gelechia herinannella." Thxirsday, Jcmiiary IMh, 1910. — The President in the Chair. Mr. South exhiliited, on behalf of Mr. More, of Barnet, specimens of Coleoptera, _ &c., mounted on transparent gelatine cards allowing of ready examination. Mr. Adkin, a series of Selenia bilunaria bred from Eastbourne ova, and read notes on the brood. Mr. Lucas, photogi-aphs of Hybernia defoliaria taken on January 4th and 8tli. Mr. Turner, on behalf of Rev. C. R. N. Burrows, series of the genus Hijdrsecia, H. nictitans, H. pahulis, H. lucens, and H. crinanensis, together with microscopical preparations of the genitalia and photographs of the same. Mr. Tonge, a bred series of Cidaria miata from Chichester, a bred pair of Catocala fraxini from ova laid by a ? taken at Horsham, and two species of Hymenoptera bred from a bamboo cane standing in a garden at Red Hill. Mr. Newman, living specunens of Pyrameis atalanta, which he was endeavouring to hibernate. Mr. A. H. Hemming, an under-side aberration of Polyommatus icarus taken at Red Hill, in which the submedian spots were closely clustered around the discoidals, while on the hind- wings some spots were obsolete. Mr. Enock gave a lantern demonstration of the life-histories of Gonepteryx rhamni, Dicranura vinula, and Urapteryx sambucana, and many illustrations of the marvellous and delicate Hymenopterous egg- parasites, Mymaridm. — Hy. J. Turner, Ho7i. Secretary. DIPTERA TAKEN AT MORTEHOE, NORTH DEVON. BY G. B. LONGSTAFF, M.A., M.D. This list is obviously, the woi-k of a beginner. Those groups of flies whose habits of life foi'ce them upon the notice of a Lepidopterist have naturally enough been the first to attract his attention ; but Mr. Gr. H. Verrall's grand volume on the Syrphidie has contributed not a little to the attractions of that family. My best thanks are due to Mr. Verrall, to Mr. E. E. Austen and his assistant Mr. Hills, as well as to Mr. A. H. Hanim, for their patient assistance in naming specimens. Mtcetophilid^. Sciara thomae, L. — One at Borough, July 29th ; another Twitcheu, on Angelica, August 26th, 1909, 1910.] y 5 BlBIONID^. Dilophus fcbrilis, L. — Found as the prey of Empis tessellata, F., May 26th, 1905. Bibio marci, L. — Abundant. TlPULID^. Tipula oleracea, L. — Once seen in the jaws of Asilus crabroniformis, L., again as the prey of Philonicus albiceps, Mg. In the autumn, if a strong east wind be blowing, it is cui-ious to watch this insect on Woolacombe sands. Thousands of the flies blown from the land attempt to settle on the shore ; for a few moments they dother in the wind upon their long legs, but are soon swept on, rolling over and over along the smooth sand ; now and again between the gusts they recover their legs, but the process is repeated until at last the all-devoiiring waves are reached. Stratiomtid^. Sargxis flavipes, Mg.— A $ in my garden, Sept. 16th, 1909 ; S. mprarius, L. One in my garden, Jvily 28th, 1908. Chloromyiaformosa, Scop. — Common, July 20th — August 5th. The remains of one found as the prey of the sawfly Allantus ? arcuatus, Scop. Microchrysa polita, L. — One at Twitchen, May 29th, but common the last week of July. Fond of settling on leaves of Hydrangea. Beris morrisii, Dale. — Two specimens : Twitchen Garden, July 22nd, Borough, July 29th, 1909. Tabanid^e. Hxmatopota x^luviaHs, L. — Only too abiuidant. Tabanus maculicornis, Ztt. — Borovxgh, not common. Chrysops csecutiens, L. — This exquisite fly is scai'ce at Twitchen, common at Borough. Leptid^. Leptis scolopacea, L. — One, Mortehoe, May 26th, 1905 ; another at Borough, June 4th, 1906. L. tringaria, L. — A ? with prey (which was lost). Borough, July 19th ; another at "Woolacombe, Jvdj 26th, 1909. Chrysopilus cristatus, F. — -Borough, several by sweeping amongst Inula dysenterica, July 23rd, 1909. ASILID^. Leptogaster cylindrica, Deg. — One of this AgTion-\i\.e fly at Twitchen, July 28th, 1908. Dioctria rufipes, Deg. — One at Borough, July 21st, 1908. Asilus crabroniformis, L. — This formidable fly is not uncommon in some years ; its buzz is almost as terrible and as suggestive of a hornet as its appear- ance. It is most commonly seen settled on very short grass on high land. Only once have I seen one with prey, a large Daddy-long-legs. Philonicus albiceps, Mg. — Frequent on Woolacombe sand-hills close to the sea in July and August ; it usually settles on the bare sand. Once I saw a ? devouring a blue-bottle {Calliphora vomitoria,!!.) and whilst so engaged a epidoptera, Coleoptera, and lairds' Eggs, E3NTTOM:OI_,OC3-IO^^ILi FINS. The " DIXON " LAMP NET (invaluable for taking Moths off street lamp without climbing the lamp posts), 3s. 6d. SKOiar ROOIVI FOI( CiLlBIM^STS, dice. 36, STRAND, LONDON, W.C., ENGLAND. Birds and Mammals, Sfc, Preserved ^Mounted by first-class workmen. 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On the wing this fly is extraordinarily like Bomhus agrorum, and I have been deceived several times. The two insects occur together at Twitclien, on the same day, on the same patch of Ccntaurea nigra, the Bumble bee very common, the fly comparatively scarce — all the classical conditions of Batesian mimicry. Sericomyia boreulis, Fin. — Occasionally at Twitchen and Borough, August 10th— September 23rd. Chrysotoxtmi cautum, Harr. — A 84 [Api-il, is cup-shaped, broadest at the apex and rather broader than the scape, very little longer than broad; the three following joints very minute, 2 rather transverse, 3 and 4 increasing in width and decreasing in length, the 4th being a flat plate adpressed to the club. The ckib is large, flattened, and 4-jointed, with the sutures curved on the upper-side, but nearly straight lieneath. It lias been suggested that tliis insect is identical with Stephano- deres (Cryplialus) aspericoUis, Woll. (Cat. Canarian Coleopt., p. 256, 1864). This is erroneous. I have two of Wollaston's specimens, from Gromera. now lying before me ; they have funiculus of the antennse distinctly 5-jointed, besides other minor differences. Professor Westwood says (lac. cit.J : " Mr. Liunley does not know from what quarter he received the book. . . . Entomologists nnist therefore use their own discretion as to its introduction into the British hsts." Mr. 0. E. Janson has found the insect in the so-called "Brazil nut" of commerce, and also in some numbers in the cover of a book from Java. I have examined several of this last brood. More recently Dr. Sharp has bred it from the cover of a book from Singapore. Although it has been retained in the British list, it seems to be exclusively an exotic insect, which never appears to have dispersed from the usually abnormal pabulum in which it was originally imported. In the last (1906) European Catalogue Hypoihenemtis — of which Stephanoderes, Eichh., is considered a synonym — is given as a sub- genus of Cryphahis, and includes seven somewhat heterogeneous species, five of which are marked as introduced by ships, in grain, &e. 13, Oppidan's Eoad, N.W. : Fehruanj lUh, 1910. [Mr. W. F. H. Blandford, who has recorded H. ervditus from Mexico, Panama, the Antilles, &c. [Biol. Centr.-Am., Coleopt. iv, 6, pp. 226, 229, 230 (1904)], states that he has found four joints in the funiculus (by mounting the antenna in balsam) in a specimen from Nevis.— G. C. C.]. NOTES ON ACBOBASIS TUMIDANA, S. Y. {=VERRUCELLA, Ub., = RUBROTIBIELLA, F. E.) BY EUSTACE E. BANKES, M.A., P.E.S. In Ent. Mo. Mag., ser. 2, xiv, 164-166 (1903), the late Mr. C. G. Barrett stated that he had been forced to the conclusion that two closely-allied species of Acrohasii< had, for many years, been 1910.] 85 confused togetlier. These lie there separated under the names " verrucella, Hiib.," and " ruhrotihiella, F.E.," giving detailed descrip- tions of both, pointing out the principal distinctions that he found between them, and stating that, although the former had been taken in some numbers at Forest Hill, near London, the only British example of the latter known to him was one in his own collection, captured near Portsmouth by Mr. Moncreaff. My friend adhered to this conclusion in Lep. Brit. IsL, x, 10-13 (1904). In Ent. Mo. Mag., ser. 2, xv, 255 (1904), I gave the Isle of Wight and South Devon as additional localities for the species which, as it appeared to me, Barrett had differentiated as the true verrucella, and, erroneously assuming that an unidentified individual, found in a British collection and transferred to my owTi, represented the insect to which he assigned the name ruhrotihiella, because it agreed with his description in certain important details, I referred to it as the only example of the latter that had come imder my notice. At the dispersal of Mr. Barrett's Phycitidx in 1906, his British series of A. verrucella and ruhrotihiella, as finally arranged and labelled by him, passed into my possession, the former being represented by three specimens from Forest Hill, and the latter by the solitary Portsmouth individual. This last proved to be totally distinct from my supposed example of ruhrotihiella, which, with the kind assistance of Sir GTeorge F. Hampson, has since been identified as referable to Trachonitis cristella, Hb., a Phycid with rather a wide distribution on the Continent, but hardly likely to occur in Britain. Perhaps, there- fore, the specimen in qtiestion, which has certainly been re-pinned, is of Continental origin. Dr. T. A. Chapmap, having kindly added to my collection the two G-ennan exponents of rtibrotihieUa referred to by Barrett (to whom they formerly belonged) in Ent. Mo. Mag., ser. 2, xiv, 166, I have now before me all the individuals of both this and verrucella upon which Barrett's notes were based, with the exception of those that he borrowed from McLachlan. And having seen McLachlan's own series during his life-time, and having more recently examined, in the national British collection, three individuals standing as " Acro- hasis tumidana, Schiff. =^ ruhrotihiella, F.B,.," two of which are labelled as taken at Forest Hill by McLachlan, while the third is indicated as also captured there by him, I have no hesitation in saying that McLachlan's Forest Hill specimens are identical with those, from the same locality, which stood in the Barrett collection, and are now before me. A careful comparison of Barrett's notes in Ent. Mo. Mag., ser. 2, 86 [April, xiv, 164-166, with the material upon which they were based, has, to my great regret, disclosed some marked discrepancies between them. Oiu- friend's principal reasons for separating these supposed species were (1) that verrucella, Hb., has an elevation of red scales just outside, but not upon, the thick black first line, whereas ruhro- tihieUa, F.R., has no corresponding tuft of raised scales, either red (p. 165), or black (p. 166) ; (2) that rvhrotibiella, F.E., has the fore- wing decidedly broader from the base, and much more squared behind, than its ally, the hind margin being almost perpendicular, and the anal angle conspicuously filled out. But his specimens show (1) that in both his verrucella and his ruhrotibiella the dark first line, which he obviously thinks is composed of flat scales in both insects, is formed of raised scales, and that a still more conspicuous bar of raised, and remarkably long, rufous or red-brown scales touches its outer edge ; (2) that the differences in the shape of the fore-wings are not constant. Again, my friend failed to notice that whereas, in Hiibner's original and all-imjjortant figure of verrucella, the first line is markedly oblicjue, lie himself describes verrucella, Hb., as having this line " nearly straight and erect," his " erect " being evidently directly opposed to " oblique ! " An examination of Barrett's scanty material together with a large number of British individuals, standing in my own and other cabinets as " ruhrotibiella,''' " verrucella,''' " timiidana," &c., and of the lengthy series of " Acrohasis tumidana, Schiff.," in our national European collection, which includes Continental specimens from the Frey, Ragonot, and Zeller collections, has led me to the conclusion that Barrett found " distinctions " where there are no reliable " differences," and that his two supposed species are merely forms of one and the same insect. The late M. Eagonot, who made a special study of the PJiycitidfe of the world, was well acquainted with these and other forms of this Acrohasis (which, as he pointed out, in Ent. Mo. Mag., xxii, 27-28 [1885], should bear the name tumida^ia, S.V., this having priority over both verr^icella, Hb., and ruhrotibiella, F.E.), for he expressly says (oj). cit., p. 28), — " .... ruhrotibiella, F.E., but the latter species varies very much, and I have specimens which agree very well with fig. 73 of Hiibner." Now Hiibner named his fig. 73 " verrucella," and it is precisely these two somewhat different-looking forms of tumidana, S.V., viz., verrucella, Hb., and ruhrotibiella, F.E., that Barrett convinced himself were specifically distinct. A long series of A. tumidana, S.V., whether British or Continental, shows a wide range of variation in size, colour, and shape of wing, but the 1910.] 87 extremes are connected by all possible intermediate forms, nor does sex appear to be responsible for any of the differences in question. It may be as well to mention (1) that the range in size is from 20 mm. to 24 mm. ; (2) that some individuals are much lighter and more ferruginous than others ; (3) that every gradation occurs in shape between the unusually broad fore-wing, much squared behind, and with the anal angle conspicuously filled out, and the decidedly narrower, and much less truncate, one ; (4) that the first line is always more or less straight, though somewhat bent inwards on the costa, but is, at the same time, always more or less obliquely placed, individuals, however, differing noticeably in this respect ; (5) that the first line and the one just outside it vary greatly in breadth and character, and, to some extent, in colour. With regard to this last point, the majority of specimens have a black first line followed immediately by a red line, both lines consisting of raised scales, of which the red ones are the longer and overtop the others. But every intermediate form occurs between the one extreme, in which the black line is exceptionally broad and includes all the raised scales, there being no red ones at all, but only some flat dark ones outside it, and the other extreme, in which the black line is reduced almost to the vanishing point, and the red line assumes abnormal breadth and includes nearly all the raised scales. A. tumidana, S.V., must not be confused with its close ally A. zelleri, Eag., which has no transverse bar of raised scales on the fore- wing, and is generally known in Britain under its synonym tumidella, Zk. Barrett, in Ent. Mo. Mag., ser. 2, xiv, 165, advocated the retention of the latter appellation for it, failing to see the necessity for Eagonot's judicious action (loc. cit.J in re-naming it zelleri. In colom-, size, and shape of wing, zelleri varies to fully the same extent as tumidana. In Ent. Mo. Mag., ser. 2, xiv, 164-166, Barrett makes no reference to the larva of either of his two reputed species, but in Lep. Brit. Isl., x, 11, he says of A. verrucella, "Larva and pupa not certainly known," while, on page 13, he remarlis, with regard to A. rubrotibiella, " I think that we have no definite knowledge of the laiwa or pupa." No reliance, however, should be placed on these statements, for the larvae A. tumidana, S.V. .( = verrucella, Hb. = rubrotibiella, F.E.), have been recorded by Kaltenbach [Pflanz. Klas. Insek., 657, no. 315 (1874)] as hving together in a web spim between oak-leaves, in the beginning of June, and various other authors, e.g., Sorhageu, Eagonot, &c., give oak as the food-plant. In Ent. Mo. «!i 88 [April, Mag., ser. 2, xxii, 28 (1885), the last-named Lepidopterist gives a descriptiou tliat is intended to be equally applicable to the lai'\"8e of both tumidana and zelleri, which are very similar, and then proceeds to point out the differences between them. He tells us that the larva of the former has the markings dark and very distinct, and frequently shows a strong reddish tinge, whereas, in that of the latter, the longi- tudinal lines are nearly obliterated anteriorly, and the ground-colour is also yellower and greener. The imagines appear in July and August, and, as regards the British Isles, records exist of their having been captured in Devon, Dorset, Hampshire (including the Isle of Wight), Kent, Suffolk, Surrey (?),* and Sussex. In spite of this wide distribution in the southern liaK of England, tumidana is apj)arently scarce, as a rule, although it was formerly taken in some ninnbers in the neighbourhood of Forest Hill. It is partial to " sugar," and, so far as I am aware, has never been met with in this coimtry except in the perfect state. Norden, Corfe Castle .- January 2Sth, 1910. A NEW FLEA FROM CALIFORNIA. BY THE HON. N. CHARLES ROTHSCHILD, M.A., F.E.S. PLATE III. Ceratophyllus franciscanus, sj^ec. nov. Closely allied to C. ignoUis, Baker (1895), of which it is possibly the Western form. The two insects are readily distingiiislied from each other in both sexes by the modified segments of the abdomen, which we figure. We must, however, note that these sclerites and their bristles are not quite constant. Male. — The process P of the clasper is much shorter in franciscanus (fig. 1) than in ignotus (fig. 4) and more triangular. The moveable process P is also shorter in the former species than in the latter. The eighth sternitc is somewhat shorter and proximally broader in franciscanus (fig. 2) than in ignotus (fig. 5) and its apex is differently shaped in the two insects. Whereas this sclerite bears on each side one very strong bristle in ignotus (fig. 5) besides some smaller ones, there are in franciscanus two bristles instead, which, more- over, are much thinner and shorter than in ignotus. * In Ent. Mo. Mag., .ser. 2, xiv, 104, and again in Lep. Brit. Isl., x, 11, Barrett says that Forest Hill is situated on the borders of Surrey and Kent, from which one concludes that he was uncertain which of these two counties was the actual scene of the captures that he records I am doubtful, therefore, whether A. tumidana has occurred in Surrey, but it has certainly been taken in Kent, foi- although Meyrick's entry of "Kent "in H.B. Ur. Lep., 3S'2 (1SS<5) is probably based on the Forest Hill specimens, Mr. George W. Bird's collection contaiiia four examples that were secured by him, at sugar, in Darenth Wood, August IVtli —21st, 1S75.— E.R.B. 1910.1 89 Female. — The seventh sternite is much narrower at the apex in franciscanus (fig. 3) than in ignotus. Both insects vary rather much in the nvunber of bristles on the thorax and abdomen, but ignotus has generally more bristles than franciscanus. On the first abdominal sternite, for instance, ignotus has several hairs at the ventral margin between the postmedian ventral bristle and the base, while franciscanus is usually devoid of any hairs in that place. The ninth abdominal tergite in ignotus has more than 25 bristles on the lateral ventral portion and only about 20 in francisc amis. Hah. : San Francisco, California, off Tlwmomys bottai ; a small series of both sexes. Tring Park, Tring : February, 1910. Galcrucclla nymphsese and sagittarise. — An luifoi'tunate confusion exists about these insects, viz., first as to their characters and distinctness, and next as to their names. We have many of us recognised two species in this country, and have called them nijmphieie, L., and sagittarise, Gyll. Doiibts have, however, been expressed as to the distinctness of the two forms by Fowler (Brit. Col. iv, p. 329) and others, and Bedel in his " Faune Col. Bass. Seine," v, p. 278, treats sagittarise as merely a variety of nymphsese. I think there are certainly two very variable, but distinct species : nymphsese is broader, has a markedly larger head, and the cox£e, more especially the hind pair, are more widely separated. The variation of the two forms is different, and nymphsese lives only on water-lilies, while sagittarise eats a variety of plants, but apparently excludes water-lilies from its diet. They are both very variable, and it is necessary to bear this in mind in considering the question of their names. Gyllenhal descx-ibos two species under the names I have given at the head of this paper, and there is no reasonable dovibt as to his intention of referring to oiu- two forms, though he did not fvdly appreciate the variation and the true distinguishing characters, and the same remark applies to C. J. Thomson, who treated of a similar fauna in 1866 (Skand. Col. viii, p. 157). Weise, in 1888, also adopted two species with the same names (Ins. Deutschl. vi, p. 624) ; he, however, relied largely on the acuminate apices of the elytra of nymphsese for distinguishing them, and he gives a note expressing a little, but not much, doubt about the species Gyllenhal referred to. Weise was wrong in attaching much importance to the acximination of the elytral tips, as this is a highly variable character, and is sometimes nearly as strongly marked in sagittarise as it is in nymphsese; the two elytra, moreover, are occasionally differently shaped in the same individual. Bedel, in the work already referred to, abandoned the species sagittarise as a mere variety, but stated, in giving the synonymy, that Weise's sagittarise was not the sagittarise of Gyllenhal. He gives no reason, bvit I presmue he was misled by the note of hesitation given out by Weise and already mentioned above. 90 [April, In the Cat. Col. Eiu-ojjte, publislu-d in 1890 — the authors of which appear to like as many changes of names as possible — the two species are maintained as distinct, in opposition to Bedel^ but the doubt as to synonymy has in this work induced an entire change of name : sagittarix, Gyll., is placed as a variety of nymphasae, but Weise's sagittarias is considered distinct and the name gri- sesccns, Joannis, is adopted for it. According to this our two species are to be called nymphxie and grisescens. This seems to me to be quite a mistake, and I shall continue to use the old names ; and there is no reasonable doubt that I shall be correct in doing so. Joannis described his G. grisescens in 1865 (Abeille, iii, p. 98) ; he adopts both nymxjlixx and sagittarise as distinct, and describes grisescens as a third species, founded on a single specimen from Sicily — and separated from sagittaria; by the interposition of four other species. The description does not apply to sagittarise ; still it is possible that it may refer to a variety thereof. I have been induced to investigate this matter by some very remarkable specimens that I believe are a form of G. sagittarise, recently captured by Mr. Anderson Fergusson near Glasgow. There is only one record of the captvire of G. sagittarise in Scotland, and that is my own, as in September and October 1867, I captured a series at Dabton Loch, Thornhill. The specimens are very dwai-fed, bvit I consider them to be sagittarise, as a careful examination has revealed no satisfactory specific distinction. Mr. Fergusson's series agrees with the Thornhill examples except in colour, and this is somewhat variable ; Init some of his examples are entirely black. This i-emarkable form may be thus characterised : — G. SAQlTrAlil/E, VAE. B. Minor (42 — 5 mm. long.), nigi-a, elytroriun epiplexxris pedibiisqvie plus minus flavescentibvis. — D. Sharp, Lawnside, Brockenhiu-st : February 2Sth, 1910. Cathormiocerus maritimus in Cornwall. — I owe an apology to Mr. Butler for being ignorant of the fact that he has already recorded the occiu-rence of a specimen of this species in Cornwall (Ent. Mo. Mag., Feb. 1909, p. 39), and I should like to explain my mistake, which arises from the fact that until now I had not looked through that particular number of the Magazine. During February and March last I was away at Cambridge, and the Magazine was sent to Brockenhurst as usual, and when I retiu'ned I looked at the March No., but passed over the Febrviary one, probably under the impression that I had seen it before. If C. maritimus comes to vis from N.W. France, it is curious that both of the captures in Cornwall shoidd l)e in the north of the county. — Id: March Uli, 1910. Coleoptera in South Cumberland. — The field work of resident Coleopterists in Cumberland has hitherto been largely confined to the middle of the coiuity. The extreme ends, north and south, being leather inaccessible, have been neglected. With the intention of adding something to local knowledge, I spent the early part of last June at Seascale, about ten miles south of St. Bees' Head, a locality I found in every way an ideal one for a siunmer holiday. Unfortu- 1910.] 91 nately the weather was too cold for l^eetles to be really as abundant as one expects in Jnne, but still, by persistent work, I manajjed to take some 300 species, a useful contribution from an unknown locality to the county list. Of course many were common forms, but a few were new finds for Cumberland, viz. : — Cicindela hybrida, L., common on sunny days on the sandhills. I was much interested to find this well-known Lancashire and Cheshire insect in Cumber- land. On dull days odd specimens were to be seen creeping on the sand. Harpalus arixius, Duft., one specimen ; H. neglectus, Dej., fairly common on the sandhills. Cillenus lateralis, Sam., one specimen on the beach. Tachinus Jiavipes, F., in sheep-dung on the sandhills. Meligethes rufipes, GylL, one specimen (M. lumharis, Sturm, is the common species in Cumberland). Saprinus quadristriatus, Hoffm., not ruicommon on the sandhills. Corymhites holosericcus, F., one specimen. Cryptocephalxi,s aureoLus, Suffr., common in flowers of butter- ctip near the golf-links. Notoxus monoceros, L., common at roots of marram grass. Anthicus humilis. Germ., several iinder dry bones on the beach. Hypcra fasciculata, Herbst, two specimens on the sandhills. Among other species taken may be mentioned, several hithei'to accounted rare in the cpvinty, viz.: — Amara lucida, Duft., Demctrias atricapillus, L., Oyyialium Iseviusculum, GylL, Corticaria crenulata, Gyll., Eumicrus tarsatus, Miill., Aphodius scyhalarius, F., Microzoum tibiale, F., and Phaleria cadaverina, F.— F. H. Day, 26, Currock Terrace, Carlisle: February I7th, 1910. Dijtiscus marginalis, L., on the wing in February. — I was much astonished to find a female example of this species in a small bath, placed to catch the over- flow from a rain-water tank, at the back of my house, on February 18th last. The weather was rough and stormy at the time, and the insect must have flown to the spot, perhaps attracted to light, or carried there by the wind ? I have occasionally captvired a Dytiscus on the wing in siunmer, when the ponds were drying up, but have never before seen one on the move in winter. — G. C. Champion, Horsell, Woking : March 6th, 1910. Coleoptera at Bude, N. Cornwall. — As the Cornish records are scanty, it may be worth while noting the following species which occurred when working on the marshes at Bude during two forenoons of the past winter, 27th December and 5th January : Anchoynenus atratus, A. viduus, Deronectes 12-pustulatus, Hydroporus discretus*, Gyrinus elongatus, G. urinator,* Actobiiis signaticornis,- Othius lasviusculus, Psederus fuscipcs, Stenv,s crassus, Bythinus curtisi, and Ephistemus globosus*, mostly singly. — Philip de la Garde, Manor House, Shaldon, Teignmoiith : March 9th, 1910. Holopara.mecus caularum, Aube, and Aglenus bru7ineus, GylL, near Oxford. — On March 14th I met with the first-named interesting little beetle in a hay- stack (in process of removal) at Water Eaton, Oxon. An hovu-'s work on a space not exceeding a foot square produced as many specimens as I cared * First record for the County. d2 [Api^i. to bottle, as, next to Typh.va funiata, it was the coinnionest insect in the debris, though by no means easy to detect without close scrutin}'. Aglemis hnmncus, Gyll., has since been taken freely by Messrs. W. Holland and J. Collins, in another haystack not far off. — James J. Walker, Oxford : March 19th, 1910. An early appearance of Celastrina argiolus. — My friend, Mr. J. J. Pellatt, of Sheerness, writes me that on March 0th he caj^tured a freshly emerged (? Celastrina argiolus in the Isle of Sheppey. In the exhavistive list of dates of appearance of this insect in Mr. Tutt's "British Butterflies" (Vol. II, pp. 461-7), I can find only two notices of its having been observed earlier in the season, viz., at Dover, February 15th, 1898 (Webb), and at Worcester, Febiaiary 20th, 1903 (Peed', and its occurrence in the first week in March, especially in so bleak and exposed a locality as the Isle of Sheppey, is I think worth recording. —Id : March 19th, 1910. Hyponorncuta irrorellus, Htibn., in Lancashire: a correction. — Referring to the record of this insect at Silverdale, in the report of the November meeting of the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society, my attention having been directed to the fact that the species was only taken in a very restricted area in Siirrey, and has not been known to occiu' for many years ; I took an opportunity of comparing the specimens with those in Mr. Capper's collection, and fovind them to be only the common U. evonymella. So. (cognatella, Hiib.). — Wm. Mansbeidge, 4, Norwich Koad, Wavertree, Liverpool : March Uth, 1910. ileuteitjs. A List ov the NEUKorTERA of Ireland. By J. J. F. X Xing, F.E.S., and J. N. Halbert. Proceedings of the Eoyal Irish Academy, Dublin, 1910. Price Is. 6d. In 1889 Mr. King published " A Nevu'opterous Fauna of Ireland," and after twenty-one years, another List by the same author — in conjunction with Mr. Halbert — is most welcome. Diu-ing the interval, knowledge of the distri- bution, &c., of these insects in Ireland has been greatly extended, but even yet there appear to be very few workers at the grovip, and, as the authors tell us, very little indeed has been done by anybody in the south and west of the country. The names of 38 species are given as having been added since the 1889 List, and 9 of them recorded species are deleted, but this does not quite accurately state the advance made, as several of the additions are merely changes in nomenclatiu-e, and were formerly represented in the List, by the now deleted names. Still, in so comparatively small an ordei', and with so few workers, the number of additions is respectable and satisfactory. The entire number of species recorded for Ireland is 240, as against 384 for Great Britain, and the avithors appear to consider that the poverty of the Irish fauna in this group of insects is clearly manifest, notwithstanding that so large an area of the countz-y has been so little, or not at all, investigated. The deficiency is most marked in the Dragon-flies, there being only 23 in Ireland wio]. 93 as against 42 in Great Britain. This seems sing-nlar, as there are so many apjDai-ently exceptionally suitable localities for these conspicuous insects. The scarcity, too, of tlie, in England, almost xiniversally abimdant and distribvited Panorpidse, is remarkable, the only species recorded being Fanorpa germanica, and it for only the Cork district. No species of Raphidia or Nothochrysa has been recorded at all ; and the absence of Chrysopa perla, so abundant in England almost anywhere, also culls for comment. On the other hand the List includes four species of Trichoptcra which are as yet um-ecorded for Great Britain, viz., Lininophilus fuscinervis, Tinodes macucicornis, Apatania fimhriata, and Lyx>e fragilis. The captvu-es of the very rare Psectra dijyterd at Wexford, and the occvirrence commonly of Chrysopa ahhreviata on the sand-hills at Port- marnock, are most noteworthy. We heartily congratulate the authors and the Royal Irish Academy on so interesting and valuable a contriljution to the literatiu'e of the Natural History of Ireland.— G. T. P. Illustrations of African Ltc^knid^ ; being Photographic Eepresenta- tions of the Type Specimens contained in the Imperial Zoological Museum at Berlin. By Hamilton H. Druce, F.L.S., &c. London : Published by H. H, Druce at 43, Circus Road, N.W. 1910. The author of this exceedingly useful little work has been enabled, by the kindness of the Director, to obtain photographs of the type-specimens in the Imperial Zoological Musevun at Berlin, of the species of African Lycsenidas described by Herr E. Suffert and Dr. F. Karsch, in "Iris" and other German periodicals of recent date. These photographs, representing abovit 40 hitherto luifigured species, are reproduced on eight admirable half-tone plates, with brief explanatory letter-press ; and these will not fail to be highly appreciated by all students of exotic butterflies, especially by those whose attention is directed to the Family on which Mr. Druce is so well known as one of the leading authorities. iiuarics. Basil George Ncvinson, M.A., who died on December 27th last, at 3, Tedworth Sqiiare, Chelsea, was born at Leicester on November 2nd, 1852 ; he was educated at Shrewsbury School, from which he proceeded to Exeter College, Oxford, and afterwards became a barrister. He was a member of the Conservative Club, and of the Oxford and Cambridge Musical Club. Mr. Nevinson was a man of very versatile tastes ; he was a great lover of music, and was himself no mean performer on one or two instruments. His house was a veritable museum of objects of art and of curiosities of all kinds ; his collection of Chinese robes and Japanese embroideries was one of the best private collections in existence, and he was much interested in bronzes, ivory carvings, and bric-a-brac generally. With all this he was a very keen Entomologist ; he was perhaps most interested in the Lamellicornia, especially in the genus Phanseus, of which he published a " Revised Synonymic List " in 1892, and had nearly completed a Monograph ; his series of the very rare genus Plusiotis is almost, if not qiiite, H 94 ['^P'^' luirivalled. His association with Leicester brought him into contact with the Bates family, and he acquired the Cicindelidae and Rutelidse of Mr. F. Bates. Latterly, perliaps, he took more interest in the Cicindelidm than in any other ^oup, and the amalgamation of his own valuable collection with that got together by Mr. Bates, and the purchases which he has since made at great cost, have resulted in producing one of the finest collections of the family at present known. Mr. Nevinson was elected a Fellow of the Entomological Society in 1889, of the Zoological Society in 1878, and a Member of the Societe Entomologique Fran(,-aise in 1871. He was more of a collector than a writer, but there is no doubt that if he had really taken up the study of any group he would have been among the f oi-emost of our Entomologists ; as it was, he was always ready to put his collections and knowledge at the disposition of any one who required help, and several of us have to thank him for the loan of many valuable specimens. His geniality and hospitality made him many friends ; of late years he had not been out so mucli, and therefore is less known to the present generation of Entomologists, but he will be much missed by many. — W. W. F. George Carter Bignell. — On the 1st of March, barely breathing into the morn of his 84th birthday, Mr. George Carter Bignell, F.E.S., the veteran entomologist of the West of England, passed away at his residence, " The Ferns," Saltash. Mr. Bignell was born at Exeter, in 1826, and made his fii-st start in life at the early age of twelve years. In 1842 he joined the Royal Marines at Stonehovise, and five years later he was on board the " Superb " off the coasts of Spain and Portugal diu-ing the eventful times of the Eevolution. This period of active service was followed by a "home billet," at the Millbay Barracks, Plymouth, which lasted for seven years. Here he had the opportunity to seriously prosecute his taste for natural history, and he did not fail to avail himself of it. The year 1864 saw Mr. Bignell freed from the " service " and settled at Stonehouse as Registrar of Births and Deaths and Poor Law Officer. This position gave him much sjiare time, which he largely devoted to the rearing of Lepidopterous larvae. Somewhere, too, about this period, his latent talent for water-colotu- painting awakened. He made up his mind that it was to be done, and forthwith commenced to draw and paint from natiu-e ; crudely at first, but success eventually came and he attained a high reputation for his scrtxpulously life-like figvu'es. His own copy of " Newman's British Moths," with coloui-ed drawings of numbers of the larvae, is a beautiful example of his work. We next find Mr. Bignell rearing larvae solely for the sake of their parasitic flies ; and, later still, studying the parasites and hyper-parasitea of tlie Aphides, &c. In this branch of Entomology he won rank in the forefront of the science. He discovered no fewer than 51 of these parasites new to Britain, of which 19 were new to science, and was honoured by having the two species, Mesoleius big^ielUi and Apanteles bignellii named after him. His collection of Aphis-parasites and hyi^er-parasites is uniqvxe, and is now in the Natural History Museum at South Kensington ; those in all other orders have been acqviired by the Plymouth Borough Museiuu. 1910.] 95 To those who knew Mr. Big-nell it is not stirprising that he should have been so successful in his varied nndertaking-s, for he was a man possessed of strong- will-power, combined with ing-ennity and enthusiasm, and, above all, he liad the ability to plod. To him failures were but stimnli to further exertion and experiment. His collecting- and breeding apparatus bore evidence to his inventive power, and was, for the most part, either original in scheme, or distinct in some clever departixre from the ordinary, and there was biit little of all his impedimenta belli that had not been made by himself. The well- known " Bignell beating tray " is a lasting memento of his skill in adaptation. In addition to special knowledge in several orders of Insects, Mr. Bignell was a good all-round field naturalist, and very few questions wovvld arise during a comitiy ramble to which he could not afford illuminating answers. He had, too, a rich fund of humovu% and delighted to joctdarly entangle a qviestioner. To his colleagues, his best information was always available. Amongst his contributions to the literature of Entomology may be mentioned "A List of the Geometrina of Plymoxxth " in the Ti-ansactions of the Plymouth Institution ; " The Ichneumonidie and Braconidse of South Devon " in the Trans. Devonshire Association ; the Lists of the Parasites bred from the lai-vse and pupae of species included in the volumes of Buckler's " Larvae," published by the Eay Society ; and, in the Victoria History of Devon, Vol. I, he was responsible for the lists of, and articles on, the Orthoptera, the whole of the Hymenoptera, the Hemiptera and the Aphidse. He was a freqvient lectiu'er at the Athenseiim, and occui^ied the Presidential Chair of the Plymoutli Institution in 1893-4. In his married life he was fortunate in possessing a partner who extended much practical sympathy to his entomological work, and who was always rejoiced at his successes. In the trip to Corsica which they made together in 1899, to spend some months with the late Eev. T. A. Marshall, it was Mrs. Bignell who discovered the iinique Anthribid which is now the type of a new genus and species, Spiathorrhamphus corsicus. Mr. Bignell leaves a widow and three davighters, two of whom are married. His only son was di-owned on the high seas many years ago. — J. H. K. George Willis Kirlcalcly was born in London and educated at the City of London School. His death, following a sxu-gical operation in San Francisco, took place on February 2nd, 1910, at the early age of thii-ty-six. As a school- boy he was interested in Natural History, and more especially in the collection and study of fossils, as well as of Crustacea and aqviatic insects Subsequently he became a special student of the Hemiptera, tlie aquatic species being his particular favourites ; in connecti®n with these he specially investigated tlie structural characters of the stridulatory organs of the Gorixidse. In 1903 he joined the writer in Honolulu, to become one of the Assistant Entomologists under the Board of Agi-iculture and Forestry of the Territory of Hawaii. Shortly after his arrival he had the misfortune to sustain a bad fracture of the leg in a fall from a horse. Several painful opei-ations that he underwent led to no satisfactory result, and the final one was in fact shortly followed by his H 2 96 [April, death. In 1904, with the other Ten-itorial Entomologists, he left the employ of the Government to join the staff of tlie Experiment Station of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association. Always a prolific writer, during the years of his residence in the Islands the tima at his disposal for systematic work was much greater than ever before, and extensive publications on the Hemiptera resulted. The large amount of material collected by the field-workers of the Experiment Station in Australia, Fiji, China, the Malay Islands, and in parts of North America, fui-nished him with an endless soiu-ce of work. The results have been largely published in the Bulletins of the above-named Experiment Station and in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of NeAv Soiith Wales. In these and other papers may be found not only descriptions of hosts of new species and genera, but valuable contribiitions to the general classification and to the life- histories of the Hemiptera. A contribution published in 1902, and a supple- mentary one now in the press, almost completed the working oiit of the material of Hawaiian Hemiptera for the " Fauna Hawaiiensis." In addition to his descriptive work, he prepared various faunistic or other catalogues, and had lately completed the first volvune of a proposed complete catalogue of the Hemiptera of the world — a work for which he was admirably fitted A sub- editor of the " Entomologist," President of the Hawaiian Entomological Society, and a member of many other societies, he contributed to the Proceedings of many of these, as well as to a gTeat number of periodicals. A man of strong likes and dislikes, fond of controversy, biit genial and with a strong sense of hiunour, he was always ready to assist his colleagues, even though the task were one that could have possessed little or no interest for him personally. We have no doubt that much of his work will be foiuid to be of a very high order.— E. C. L. P. Societies. The South London EntomoTjOgical and Natxieal HisTor.T Society : Annual General Meeting, Thursdaij, January 21th, 1910. — Mr. A. Sigh, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. A satisfactory Balance Sheet was read and adopted as was also the Report of the Council. The President declared the following gentlemen duly elected as Officers and Council for the Session 1910-11 : — President, W. J. Kaye, F.E.S. Vice-Presidents, A. Sich, F.E.S., and A. E. Tonge, F.E.S. Treasurer, T. W. Hall, F.E.S. Librarian, A. W. Dods. Curator, W. West (Greenwich). Hon. Secre- taries, Stanley Edwards, F.L.S., F.Z.S., F.E.S. (Corresponding), and Henry J. Turner, F.E.S. (Eeport). Council, E. Adkin, F.E.S., S. E Ashby, F.E.S., E. C. Joy, F.E.S., H. Main, F.E.S., A. M. Montgomery, F.E.S., E. A. E. Priske, F.E.S., and B. H. Smith. A letter was read from Mr. Kaye, thanking the Society for tlie honor done him, and explaining his absence for the next few months as diie to his having imdei-taken an expedition to Southern Brazil in search of Lepidoptera and evidences for or against mimetic resemblance. The President then read liis address and hearty votes of thanks were passed to the Officers and Council. Ordinary Meeting: Mr. A. Sich, F.E.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. Mr. R. D. Moi'ford, of Upper Kennington Lane, was elected a Member. 1910.] 97 Mr. Tonge and Mr. Colthrup exhibited long- series of Hyhernia aurantiaria H. dcfoliaria, and Himera pennaria, taken in the New Forest, November 17th- 19th, 1909, where they were abnndant in spite of the weather being clear and frosty. Mr. Colthrup, a Gonepteryx rhamni, found at the same time hibernating among holly. Mr. Turner, a short series of the beautiful Limonias (Melitsea) taylori, and specimens of Basilarchia lorquinii, from Victoria, Vancouver Island. A short discussion took place on the hibernating habits of 6f. rhamni and OrrJioiUa ruhiginea. Thursday, Fehruary lOth, 1910.— The Vice-President in the Chair. The deaths were announced of two Members, Mr. Kirkaldy and Mr. McArthur. Mr. H. J. Turner, a series of the brilliant Lycaenid Danis taygetes, from Brisbane, obtained by Dr. Liicas, an old Memlier of the Society. Mr. J. P. Barrett, a box of cohspicixous insects of various orders from near Messina, Sicily, including an immature Mantis and a Pieris hrassicx it had captured on a flower head. Mr. Coote and Mr. Barnett, Hyher7iia defoliaria, which species was said to have been very abundant at West Wickham, from November to mid January. Mr. Moore, a box of various species of Dipt era, mainly from Africa, which were instrumental in spreading disease. Mr. West (Ashstead), a specimen of the " fish " insect, Lepisma saccharina, which had existed two months Avithout food. A number of Members brought microscopes and slides, and the rest of the evening was spent as a microscopical one. Thursday, Fehruary 2Mh, 1910. — The Vice-President in the Chair. Mr. G. S. Robertson, of Dulwich, was elected a Member. Dr. Chapman exhibited a bred living specimen of Calloplorys avis from S. France, and pointed out its divergence from the closely related C. ruhi. Mr. Barnett, a long series of Hyhernia aurantiaria from West Wickham Wood, where it was abundant in November of last year. Capt. Cardew, gynandro- morphs of Amorpha populi, Agrotis puta, and Dryas paphia, the last named captured in the New Forest. Mr. Eussell, a strikingly aberrant form of Polyonwiatus icarus from Eeigate, the under-side was striated on the right wings only. Mr. Sperring, Agrotis agathina from Chiselhurst, and a smoky example of Arctia villica. Mr. Adkin, a bred series of Peronea permutana from Sussex, and read notes on its occurrence and characteristics. Mr. Alderson, a large collection of Butterflies taken by him in a six weeks' holiday in and near the Rhone Valley, during May and June of last year ; over a hundred species were represented, most of them being in very flne condition. Mr. R. Adkin read a paper, entitled, " The Lepidoptera of a London Garden." Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Secretary. Entomological Society of London : Wednesday, February 2nd, 1910. — Dr. F. A. DixBY, M.A., M.D., President, in the Chair. The President announced that he had nominated as Vice-Presidents for the Session 1910-1911 Professor T. Hudson Beare, B.Sc, F.R.S.E., Mr. G. T. Bethnne- Baker, F.Z.S., and Mr. H. Rowland-Brown, M.A. Mr. Edward Morrell Holmes, of Ruthven, Sevenoaks ; Mr. E. G. Josephs, 98 [April, of Lincoln College, Oxford ; Mr. Ernest Cooper Joy, of 2, St. Kilda's Road, Stoke Newington, N. ; Mr. John W. Ward, of Rusinurbe House, Somerset Eoad, Coventry ; and Mr. Frank C. Willcocks, Entomologist to the Khodivial Agricultural Society of Cairo, Egypt ; were elected Fellows of the Society. Dr. M. Burr gave an accovint of the forthcoming Entomological Congress to be held at Brussels in August next, and appealed to all Fellows for their sixpport, as well as to the Local Natural History Societies throughout the United Kingdom, and Dr. K. Jordan gave an outline of the programme of papers already arranged to be delivered. The Secretary having read a letter from the Entomological Society of Russia, inviting the Society to send a delegate to the fortlicoming Jubilee Celebration in St. Petersburg, it was resolved unanimously to send a letter of congratulation to the Society in honoiir of the occasion. Mr. John Alderson, who was present as a visitor, exhibited tlie results of six weeks' collecting in the Rhone Valley, Switzerland, in May and June last, representative in all of one hiindred and two species of Rhopalocera. Mr. E. E. Green, sent for exhibition boxes designed for the convenient storage of butterflies in paper envelopes, together witli the original model as made by a local tinsmith in Ceylon. Dr. K. Jordan exhibited two specimens of the new earwig, Arixenia esau, lately described by him in Nov. Zool., p. 313, pi. xvi-xviii (1909). The insect was discovered in the breast-pouch of a specimen of the naked bat obtained in Sarawak. Under the microscope were shown the man- dible and maxilla of Arixenia, together with the mandible of Hemimerus. Dr. Malcolm Burr, D.Sc, F.L.S., F.Z.S., commi;nicated a paper, entitled, " A Revision of the Lahiduridse, a Family of the Dermaptera." The discussion of the aiRnities of Agriades thetis (bellargus) and A. coridon, adjovirned from the December meeting, was resu^med by Mr. J. W. Tutt, who exhibited series of the two species, demonstrating in particiUar the several forms of A. coridon as occurring in the Pala3arctic region. He pointed out in detail the nearness of the two Agriadid species in the structure of their eggs, larva}, piipEe, imagines, especially noting in the latter case the similarity in the (J genitalia. Observing tliat it had generally been assiuned that closely -allied species had been maintained if not developed by the setting iip of some effective boundary in their environment or moi-phological structiu-e, resulting in isola- tion, it was remarkable that no sxich boundai'ies could be found in these species. Not only was their environment similar, their morphological structure almost identical, biit their actual range was practically the same. Exhibitions were also made by Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker of varieties of A. coridon andhellargus respectively from Spain, Greece, Asia Minor, and Persia ; by the Rev. George Wheeler of examples from Italy and Central Europe, and by Miss M. E. Fountaine of coridon, var. olympica, taken by herself at Amasia, Asia Minor, and of thetis, var. polonus, from the Lebanon. At the end of Mr. Tutt's remarks, the discussion was continued by Mr. A. L. Rayward, Mr. Hamilton H. Druce, the Rev. G. Wheeler, Dr. T. A. Chapman, Mr. W. G. Sheldon, Miss Fountaine, and other Fellows, the President paying a special tribiite to Mr. Tutt's lucid explanation and diagnosis of the various foi-ms of the two closely-allied butterflies. — H. Rowland-Brown, Hon. Secretary. 1910.] 99 HELP-NOTES TOWAEPS THE DETERMINATION OP BRITISH TENTHREDINIDM, kc. {2Cy continued). DOLEEIDES (continued). DOLERUS, Juk. BY THE REV. F. D. MORICE, M.A., F.E.S. It is fortunate that I could not find room enough m my hist paper to incdude the Table of British Bolerus spp., which had been prepared for publication in it. Since that paper appeared, I have received the concluding part of Dr. E. Enslin's learned and suggestive Revision of the European forms ; and thereupon have entered into a correspondence and exchange of specimens with him, which has cleared up several questions that have long puzzled me, and will enable me (I hope) to present the Table here following in a far more " up-to-date " condition, both as to nomenclature and characterization of the species, than would have been possible last September. Yet even now certain specific names will have to be given more or less provisionally, partly because there is a grave doubt whether all the forms now generally identified with species established by the older authors (Linne, Klug, Hartig, &c.) have been assigned to them correctly ; and partly because several of what have always been considered, and nuist for the present be treated, as distinct species, will almost certainly fall to the rank of varieties and local forms, as our knowledge of this perplexing genus increases. Of the forms (about 50 in all) enumerated by Dr. Enslin from Europe and Northern Asia (Siberia) practically just half are known to me as British ; and this half includes all but a very few of those species, which from the range of their distribution abroad might naturally be expected to occur with us. If these few, which are all rarities everywhere, should turn up here, the British list would be practically identical with that of Central Europe. Several forms described \)\ Mr. Cameron as British have not yet been identified as occTirring on the Continent. Some of them, I believe, are known there under other names. Having carefully examined the types at South Kensington, I hope to throw some light on this matter in the " Notes on Species " following my " Table." SYNOPTIC TABLE OF BRITISH DOLEBUS Spp. 1. Abdomen black, no part of it red 14. — Abdomen at least partly red 2. 2. Some or all the legs partly red 9. — All legs quite black 3. 3. Abdomen above red up to and including the apex 4. — Abdomen only ringed broadly with red, its apex black 5, 100 TApril, 1910. 4. Scutellum, with the pronotum, the mesonotum (except three black marks) and the propodemii red in both sexes ; or, in the S S only, the whole thorax and propodeum may be black tripUcatus, Kl. — Sciitellum black ; pronotum, mesonotum entirely (i.e., without black marks) and i^ropodeum red madidus, KA. 9 (^:::latcritms, C). 5. Pronotum, and middle lobe only of mesonotiim red (the side lobes beini,'- entirely or for the most part black), 9 9 8. — Pronotum and mesonotum entirely black, (? c7 6. 6. Antenna) tapering, longer than abdomen : 8th dorsal segment with its apical half (or more) bisected by a long triangvilar polished un- pression madidus, Kl. ^ . — Antennaj not longer than abdomen and scarcely tapering ; apex of 8th dorsal segment with a central carina between two short impressed fovea; 7. 7. j\^pical segments of abdomen above shining, with fine sparse punctiu'es. Antenna3 thickish, shorter than abdomen antimis, Kl. iiE. By HAMILTON H. DRUCE, F.L.S., &c., Containing 8 photographic process plates -with 80 figures of 40 types in the Imperial Zoological Musuem at Berlin, and notes on the species. Invaluable to all interested in the correct identification of African Butterflies. Bound in cloth, size 8^" x 6|", Price, 10s. 6d. net. Published by the Author at 43, Circus Rd., London, N.W., England. rpHE MAGNIFICENT COLLECTION OF EXOTIC BUTTER- FLIES formed by H. GROSE-SMITH, of 5, Bryanston Square, has passed into the hands of Major JOICEY, of Sunningdale Park. 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Very large species 10 ( ots (in some lig-hts very conspicuous, in others quite invisible!) adjacent to the furrows which bound the vertical area laterally 27 . — Tempora without definite impunctate spots situated as above described. . .29. 27. Vertex convex ; the shining spots on the tempora bounded only liy a simply punctured surface (without any definite raised margin or ridge- like elevation). Antenna? normal, more or less setiform and slender in both sexes, in the i;p.,\S-'2Q mm.), and one female (alar, exp., 16 mm.), taken by him with four other males, not identical with those so described,* at Trafoi, in the latter half of July. In the course of his detailed information, he states that languentana is, on an average, a little larger and narrower- winged than ericetana, but that the patterns of the fore- wings are almost exactly similar, though the former has a dark ashy- grey gromid-colour : he adds that it is rather duller, more monotonously grey, than G-erman examples of the latter, but that two specimens from Lapland' also before him are likewise monotonously grey. Snellen can only have been acquainted with an unusually small form of erice- tana, and an unusually large one of fractifasciana, seeing that, in Vliiid. V. Ned., Microlep. (1882), he enters the wing-expanse of the former (p. 347) as only 14-15 mm., but that of the latter (p. 345) as 14-16 mm. for the males, and 12-13 mm. for the females. Rebel (loc. cit.) gives ericetana as occvirring in the European Alps, North G-ermany, Holland, Northern Europe, Asia Minor, and perhaps Labrador, but enters the Tyrolian Alj^s as the only known locality for var. languentana. Whereas von Heinemann, in Sclimet. Deutsch. u. d. Schweiz, II, i (i), p. 216 (1863), states that the imago of ericetana (Zell. MS.), H.-S., is found at the end of May and in June, round birches, Frey [Lep. Schweiz, 326 (1880)] gives it as occurring from the end of June into August, and in Vlind. v. Ned., Microlep., p. 348 (1882), Snellen writes of it; — "Flies from the end of June until August. Larva unknown. Flies about dwarf sallow (Salix repens), sea-buclv:thorn (Hijjpophai- rhamnoides), heath and Vaccinium.'" Sorhagen [Klein- schmet. d. M. Brand., 325 (1886)], however, tells tis that the moth is out in May (end) and June, and occurs " round aspens and birches," ' staudinger {loc. cit.) refers to hi.s .supposed new species, languentana, one individual ((J) that he captured in the Upper Engadine, as well as the nine that were secured at Trafoi. — E. R. B. ] 14 [May, and that the larva feeds in August and September between spun leaves of Populus fvpinnJa. At Aviemore the perfect insect appears about the niiddle of Jiui<\ but has disappeared by about the end of the month : during the past season, when I was closely watching for its emergence, the first example was seen on Jime 15th, and the last on June 28th. I have little doubt that the larva, which seems to be still undescribed, feeds there in August and September, on aspen (Popuhis tremnla), for all the imagines have occurred where aspen and birch bushes grow together in heathy places, none liaving been met with where birch alone was present, even though only a few yards away from their haunts. They may be beaten out of the aspen — and rarely out of the l)ircli — bushes by day, but their flight-time is during the evening, and I have taken them on the wing as early as 4.45 p.m., and as late as 9.45 p.m. Occasionally, about flight-time, odd examples may be disturbed from heather amongst which aspen is growing, having probably just crawled up from below to see whether the weather conditions are sufficiently favourable for taking wing. The males, as a whole, emerge before the females, as is evidenced by the fact that almost all the earlier captures have been referable to the former sex, whereas the later ones have included a modest proportion of females, which are much more rarely met with than the males. The species appears to be very local in the Aviemore district, and my efforts to find it in other spots, liesides those ah'eady alluded to, have met with no success. Norden, Corfe Castle : March, 1910. A NEW ABEEEATION OF EPHYRA PENDULARIA, L. BY F. C. WOODFORDE, B.A., F.E.S. In 1908 I olitained batches of ova from two bred females of Epltyra pendnlarla, L., ab. suhroseata, mihi. One of the females was paired with a bred male, the other with a very worn wild male. No partial emergence took place in August of that year though about eight of the pupae were discovered dead in September with completely developed imagines inside the pupa case. In May and June, 1909, emergence took place, and over thirty perfect imagines were produced. The majority were ab. suhroseata, but eleven were of a coloration I have never seen before. They differ from ab. suhroseata (of which a description aberration may be found in the " Entomologist," vol. XXXV, p. 275) as follows: — The central portion of the fore-wings 1910.] 115 is pale oclireoiis instead of beincj red. The hind-wiugs are entirely grey. In other respects the form closely resembles ab. nuhroseata. The ocelli are distinct on both sets of wings. The second line, con- sisting of very distinct black dots, is continued through both wings, and is followed by a distinct whitish band. The cilia are pale grey preceded by a well-marked dark grey line. This form is very distinct from ab. siihyoseata, and I would suggest as a name for it ab. suboch- reata. Unfortmiately, as it has turned out, I fed up the larvse of the two batches together and so am in ignorance of the male parentage of the new form, as to whether it was a bred siibroseata, or the worn wild male. The latter was of the suhroseata type, but the colour of the central part was so faded as to be unrecognisable, and it mmj have been pale ochreous. It was taken in North Staifordshire to which district I believe the form suhroseata is confined. Last June I paired two of the ochreoiis form and now have pupae whose emergence is due next month. The type specimen of the new form I have given to Prof. Poulton, and it is now in the Collection in the Hope Department, Oxford University Museum of British Lepido'jptera. Martet Drayton: A^ril, 1910. Coleoptera taken in Devonshire during 1909. — In continuation of my notes on Devon Coleoptera, in Ent. Mo. Mag., xlv, 86-88, the following list is, as a rule, restricted to such insects as I can record from fresh localities : — At AxMiNSTER, in April .- — One Badister sodalis from a damp spot in a wood; Clivina collaris, Liynnehius nitidus, Helophorus arvernicus (2), Hcnicocerus exsculptus, PMlonthus fulvipes (o), Elmis parallelopipedus, Heterocerus margina- tus*, H. Isevigatus, Cryptohypnus riparius, and C. 4!-guttatus, in, and on the banks of, R. Yarty ; Oncomera femorata (4), Hylastes opacus (1), and Meligcthes viduatus (1), on walls, &c. Between Heathfield and Bovet Tracy on 20th May, with my friend, Mr. Keys, we took: — Bembidimn articulatum* Tachyusa Jlavitarsis* Ancyro- phorus omalinus, Heterocerus marginatiis, and Phytobius 4:-tuberculatus, on the banks of E.. Bovey ; Bembidium doris* Hydroporv,s granularis* H. fiavipes, H. angxistatus, Agabus femoralis* Copelatus agilis, Dytiscus punctulatus, Paracymus nigroseneus (present in fair niunbers), Ochthebius pygmseus, Gynmusa brevicollis, Stenus melanarius* S. binotatus, Parnus algiricus, and Bagous limosus, in a pond on Knighton Heath ; and, by sweeping, Longitarsus liolsaticus (1), Phyllotreta exclamationis, Crepidodera fulvicornis v. jucunda* (1), and Gymnetron labilis*. IIG IMay, Staying- by myself at Bovey from 4tli July to ."ith September, there occurred in aiLlition to the above: — Bemhidium flnmmnhitum* Hydrochus nitidicollis (1), Hydrxna (jyacilis and H. atricapilla (both freely), Myllu'na Jcraatzi, and Elmis volkmari, in the river; Haliplus confinis, H. ohliquus (11, H. fulvus, Hydroporus obscurus* (1), Ilyhius ater, Philydrus coarctains v. s^duralis* Helopliorus sequalis* Hydrsena testacea, H. riparia, H nigrita, and Philonthus nigrita (1), in various ponds and rills on the Heath ; a peculiarly small race of Lesteva heeri (sicxila) in a hillside bi'ook ; Homalota silvicola (!', amongst hedge rubbish ; Homalota sodalis (4), Oxyporus rufus (1), Dacne hunieralis (in quantity), Ips 4-punctata* Cis hispidris, C. pygniseus, C. festiru<; (1), and Rhopalodontus fronticornis* (several from both oak and sallow), in fungus; Cerylan. histeroides (1), and Dij-iliyllus Ivnatus (1), amongst the debris from a nest of P. rufa in an oak stump ; five Ocypus compressus, under stones ; Scymnus pygmxus (1), 8. capitatus, S. testaceus, Brachypterus gravidus^ (1), Epur:va longula* (1), Soronia grisea (1), Ileligethes Imnbaris^^ (3), M. brunni- cornis, M. gagatinus* (1), Florilinus museorwm, Aphodius sticticus, Telepliorus thoracicus, Malthodes mysticus, M. guttifer, Malachius viridis, Axinotarsus ruficollis* (1), Cryptocephalus pusillus, Phytodecta olivacea, Phyllobrotic.a 4- 'maculata (one in a swamp), Haltica lythri, Phyllotreta 4-stignia* Mordellistena 2^arvula* (1), Apoderus coryli, Apion rraccm, A. subulatum, A. vicinum* (2), A. filirostre, A. snitellare, Limobi^is dissimilis (2), Orchestes saliceti* Tychius to7nentosus, T. injgmxus, Coaliodes quercus, C. ruber, Ceutliorrhynchus chalybxus* C. punctiger, C. litura, C. terminatus (1), C. niixtus* (one off nettle), Amalus hiemorrlious, and Magdalis armigera (1), by sweeping; one Silpha opaxa and two Bathyscia I'ollastoni. Teignmouth : — In some tidal puddles aboxit a coixple of miles up the river, Mr. Keys and I took on '7th June, Helophorus mulsanti* Ochthebius marinus, and 0. punctatus* At vaHoiis times at Shaldon, I got one Panaganis 4-pustii- latus from moss ; one Phyllotreta diademata on a Avindow ; and, by sweeping, Agathidiuni marginatum (1), Bruchus rufipes* and v. ruficornis* B. atomarius, B. loti, Apion filirostre, Cceliodes exiguus, Ceuthorrhynclnis setosus (1), C. punctiger, C. chrysanthemi (1), Cissophagus hederse (2), and Phlceophthorus rhododactylus (1). At Dawlish : — One Elaphrus uliginosus and a few Stenus picipennis came from a small marsh near the Warren ; a Lxmostenus complanatus from I'oots of bent-grass, and a Mycetoporus angularis* in tide rubbish, on the Warren ; and, by sweeping on the cliffs, Olibrus particeps, 0. mille/olii (several), Leptura livida, BrueMhs rufipes (1), Mantura rustica v. suturalis (1), Smicronyx junger- 7nannice (1), Gymnetron antirrhini, Ceuthofrhynchus cyanipennis,* C. parvulus (2), C. euphorbia;* (1), C. triangidum* (2), and Cissophagus hederm (1) ; also, on 8th June, Mr. Keys obtained one Saprimis virescens* by sweeping the flowers on the cliff slopes. In ExMiNSTER Marshes, Ilybius obscurus,* Helophorus lequalis, Quedius attenuatiis, Stemis picipennis, and Tanysphyrus lemnse (1), turned up. A Pogonochierus dentatus was brought to me in June from Bicivington, near Newton Abbot, having been found on a trunk of a hawthorn. To list for 1907, from S. Brent, a Philonthus nigriventris* has to l)e added ; this insect Avas taken in a carrion trap in September of that year. * First record for the County. 1910.] 117 One Oxypoda, obtained in May, 1908, on the sandhills at Bkaunton, was kindly submitted for me by Mr. Newbery to Captain St. Claire Deville and Dr. Sharp — the resiiltant opinions make its synonymy stand as lurida, Woll. {poylexa, Rey) {teste Capt. Deville) = verecunda. Slip, {teste Dr. Sharp), [c/. Ent. Mo. Mag-., xlv, 37]. I am very much indebted to the kindness of Mr. E. A. Newbery for the verification of many difflcixlt species. — Philip de la Garde, Manor House, Shaldon, Teignmouth : March 9th, 1910. Myrmecoxenus vaporariorum, Guer., near Oxford. — I met with this ctu'ious and somewhfi.t rare little beetle, of which a single example only had hitherto been recorded from the Oxford district {cf. antea, p. 30) in a haystack at Wytham Park, Bex'ks., on April 9th, and again in considerable numlDers on the 11th, in company with S^lnius diversus. Monotonia rufa, spinicolLis, and longicollis, vaviows Atomarias and the usual run of haystack-frequenting Coleoptera. Unfoi'tunately an unduly large propoi'tion of the specimens taken were found on mounting them to be more or less broken and mutilated. 3Iyrinecoxcmis is an addition to the list of Berkshire Coleoptera as given in the " Victoria County History." — James J. Walker, Oxford : April 11th, 1910. Winged examples of Diglotta. — In view of Mr. G. C. Champion's remarks on the numerous examples of the genus Diglotta which lie examined and found to be all " apterous," as recorded by him in 1899 in this Magazine (vol. xxxv, p. 264), it is interesting to record the capttu-e of a fully winged specimen at Dawlish Warren in June last. With my friend Mr. P. de la <5arde I was search- ing for Bledii, and the Diglotta was found with them. Two examples only were taken : one a small specimen, li mm. in length, with a mere scale-like rudi- mentary wing as described by Mr. Champion, aud the other a large specimen, 24 mm. long, possessed of fully developed wings, the length of each being 2 mm. with a maximion breadth of 1 mm. Both individuals have the widened apex to the abdomen. Amongst his long series of Diglotta Mr. de la Garde has an ex- ample which also appears to be fvdly winged, but he has not unravelled them to make sure of the fact. — James H. Keys, 2, Freedom Park Villas, Plymouth : April 14th, 1910. Lesteva sicula, Erichs., and Lesteva punctata, Erichs. — The Rev. W. W. Fowler in his Col. British Islands, vol. ii, p. 403, suggests that these two species are not distinct, and that the latter will probably have to be sunk as a variety of the former; this is a mistake, the two species are quite distinct, and easily separable, Ganglbauer, in his " Kafer von Mitteleuropa," vol. ii, p. 712, divides the species of the genus he deals with into two groups. . In the one group, Avhich contains only one species (punctata, Erichs.), the sides of the thorax are not bordered on the basal half ; in the other group, which includes the rest of the species, and therefore sicula, Erichs., the sides of the thorax are completely bordered. 118 [May, We have thus a definite strixctiu-al cliai-acter, which enables any one to at once separate those two species, but in addition the shape of the thorax is quite different, it is much sliorter in sicula and not so suddenly contracted behind the middle. I am afraid that Fowler (misled perhaps by his correspondents) has mixed the localities for the two forms, certainly the Luccombe Chine insect (I have taken it there commonly) is punctata, that is the species with the thorax not completely bordered ; I have also taken it at Berwyn on the Dee, Wales, but nowhere else. The other siDCcies, sicula, is by no means confined to Scotland ; I have taken it at Wimbledon and Wicken Fen, and in Scotland at Nethy Bridge, Aviemore, and near Edinburgh, in my opinion neither of the species is really rare, they are both local but common when found, thoiigh Ganglbauer says sicula is very rare and punctata rare. The synonymy of the two species as given by Ganglbauer and in the latest European Catalogue agrees with that given by Fowler. Lesteva sicula, Erichson = heeri, Fauvel and Kraatz = punctata, Duval and Thomson. Lesteva punctata, Erichson, Kraatz and Fauvel = riparia, Hecr ;= muscorum, Duval. — T. Hudson Beaee, 10, Eegent Terrace, Edinburgh : April 9th, li)10. A note on Tychius hsamatopus, Gyll., Sfc. — I have taken the above species at Tilgate Forest, Sliej)herd's Well, and Saudown, Isle of Wight. Thanks to Mr. Edwards' excellent table and paper on the genus Tychius (antca, pp. 80-83), it is noAv possible to correctly name our species. 1 may mention that the specimen of Tychius polylincaMis I took when staying at Ditchling Avith my friend Mr. Dollman, was actually found by him. I was sweeping and he was " grubbing " at the roots of plants for Tychii, and he called to me to come and take a Tychius off his i>aper. He has found three specimens so far of this very rare insect. I can only claim to have identified the species. — Horace DoNisTHOBrE, 58, Kensington Mansions, S.W. : April 6th, 1910. A suggestion for future records of Colcoptera. — It would gTeatly facilitate the labovu' of those who are compiling local or county lists, or of any one Avorking at the British distribution of Coleoptera, if all Coleopterists would mark with an asterisk, when recording captures of beetles, such species as are new to the district or the county ; or when this is not possible, from a locality not given for the species in Fowler's "Coleoptera of the British Islands." In last year's Ent. Mo. Mag. Mr. Tomlin pviblished some most interesting and useful lists of beetles from Herefordshire ; nearly all the species, say nine-tenths of the whole, were new records for the county, but the remaining tenth would be perhaps noted in "Fowler" from "the Malvern Hills" say, whence Mr. Tomlin also recorded them ! It thus meant that every one of these insects had to be checked with " Fowler " before the records coidd be made use of, a gi-eat waste of time and labour which could have been avoided if the hitherto unrecorded species had been marked with an asterisk ! I ventiu-e to say that I now know the British localities of most of oiu" beetles as well as any one, but it is obviously 1010.] 119 impossible to remember the exact distribution of over 3,000 species. As T am endeavouring to keep the distribution of onr species up-to-date, I shall be very much oblig-ed if Coleopterists will kindly fall in with my sug-gestion. — Id.: April 6th, 1910. A further instance of Coleophora trnglodytella, Bup., feeding on Achillea millefolium, L., in Britain. — As Mr. Eustace R. Bankes, in his interesting notice on this point in the March number of this Magazine, asks for further particvi- lars, the following note may be of interest. On June 11th, 1907, my brother Mr. H. Leonard Sich, sent me from Bepton, West Svissex, several larvee he had foimd feeding, in cases, on yarrow. The larvse mined in the segments of the leaves, making two or three entrance holes in each segment. The mined portions turned light brown and soon withered. In the latter half of July I bred from these larvae two males and four females of Coleophora troglodytella. Before the imagines appeared, my hopes of having obtained something new had been dispelled by consulting the works of Continental authors and finding tliat yarrow was recorded as one of the food-plants of this Coleophora. Baron de Crombrugghe de Picquendaele, in his catalogue of the Micro-Lepidoptm-a of Belgiiun (Mem. Soc. Ent. Belg., xiv, p. 77, 1906), mentions Achillea as one of the food-plants of this species. In Bohemia, C. troglodytella appears to be especially fond of Achillea, as Dr. Ottokar Nickerl writes (in German) : "The larva with us on Achillea millefolium." {Die Matt en Bohmens, p. 82, 1908). — Alfred Sich, Corney House, Chiswick, W. : April, 1910. Nemoiira meyeri, Pict., abundant in March. — Whilst beating the still leafless branches overhanging the stream running through Harden Clough, Hudders- field, on the afternoon of Easter Monday, March 28th, I was surprised to note the abundance of Nemoura meyeri, Pict., at so early a date. The species occurred commonly all up the stream and was, I think, as plentiful as I have ever seen it in the summer months. N. prsecox, Morton, was not uncommon along with it, hnt was not nearly so numerous as meyeri. The afternoon was very sunny and warm, notwithstanding an east wind, biit was followed by a night so intensely cold as to cause a considerable thickness of ice. As Mr. King tells us (A List of the Neuroptera of Ireland, 1910), that "the range of N. meyeri in Great Britain is not known," it may be well to record that it is one of the commonest species of its genus in West Yorkshire, occurring freely apparently on all the narrow " clough " streams, and equally so on tlie larger rivers such as the Wharfe. — Geo. T. Porritt, Dalton, Huddersfield : April 9th, 1910. A species of Mycetojjhila bred in England. — A year or two ago Mr. E. W. Swanton, the Cm-ator of the Haslemere Educational Mviseum, met with some curious Ancylus- or miniature limpet-like creatures, near the highest part of Blackdown, Siissex, feeding on a rotten sodden oak branch attacked by the fungus Poria vulgaris, but could find no one to tell him what they were. Last autiunn he met with them, under similar conditions, in another locality about K 2 120 [May, half a mile from the former, and bred them under a bell-glass, when they proved to be Diptera. On sending- them to the British Museum he was informed by Mr. E. Aiisten that they were a species of 3Tycetophilidm of the o-enus Myce- to'p'hila, and nearly allied to M. himaculata, F., but he was not able to determine the exact species. I am not aware that these Ancylus-like larviE have been found in Eng-land befoi-e, it has, however, been observed by Ferris in the similar larva; of Myceto- phila scatophora, and by Braiier in a species from Brazil.* The Ancylus- shell- like covering of the larva is said to be formed of their own excrement. Mr. Swanton remarks that at first sight he thought they might be a strange form of Helix rotundata. In the first case there were about twenty on the branch near each other, in the second about ten In both years they were found early in October, and the files were bi'ed late in the same month. — E. N. BLOOMFiETiD, Guestling Rectory .- March 21st, 1910. ituaiiiT. George Sharp> Saunders died at Burgli Heath, near Epsom, on April Gth last, aged 68 years, his brother, Edward Saiinders, having predeceased him by two months only. He was well known as an excellent entomological draughts- man, a fact alluded to in the Obituary notice of his brother recently published in this Magazine. For many years he had taken great intei-est in Economic Entomology, and occasionally contributed articles on this subject. He was elected a I'ellow of the Linnean Society in 1899 (serving on the Coiuicil from 1902-05), and of the Entomological Society of London in 1861. Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society : Meeting held at the Eoya! Institution, Colquitt Street, Liverpool, Monday, Fehmary 2lst, 1910.— Dr. P. F. TiNNE, Vice-President, in the Chair. The following gentlemen were elected Members of the Society : — Mr. H. "S. Leigh, of Worsley, Mr. T. A Clarke, of Hooton, - Mr. Wm. Mansbridge gave an address on " Variation.^ in Lancashire Lepidoptera," specially instancing such species as Boarmia repandata, Aplecta nehulosa, Macaria liturata, Odontopera hidentata, and Melanthia hicolorata. The various local forms of these species were described and their distribution within the Society's area fully noted. A discussion ensued, in whicli the Chairman, Mr. F. N. Pierce, Mr. E. Tait, Junr., and others took part. Mr. Mansbridge exhibited his series of B. repandata to illustrate his remarks, also the well-kno^vn Cheshire forms of A. nehulosa. Dr. Tinne also showed B. repiandata, including vars. nigra and conversaria, the latter from the * "Theobald's Briti.sh Flies," p. d7. 1910.] ^^^ New Forest. Mr. A. W. Boyd, B. repandata var. nigra, Hyhernia defoliaria and H. aurantiaria from Delamere Forest. Mr. Tait's exhibit included a fine and varied series of Himera 'pennaria from Monk's Wood. The Meeting was adjoimied to March 21st. - H. E. Sweeting and Wm. Mansbridgb, Hon. Secretaries. The South London Entomological and Natural History Society Thursday, March lOth, I910.-Mr. A. SiCH, F.E.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. Mr. West exhibited two cabinet drawers of the Society's Collection of Coleoptera which he had just remounted and arranged. Mr. Barrett, specimens of Nyssia hispidaria, PUgalia pedaria, and Hyhernia leucophearia from Richmond Park, and: noted that he took the first named species in the same locality forty ^ears ago. and that quite one-third of the last species seen were more or less crippled. Mr. Lucas, photographs of a very rare earwig, 0. lewisi, from a specimen recently obtained in the Liverpool Docks. Mr. Bonham, two bred • intensely black ? s of Nyssia hispidaria. Mr. L. W. Newman, an interesting series of Anthrocera species from Bristol, taken by Messrs. Smallcombe, including A. hippocrepidis v. chrysanthemi ; a yellow form, a fine pink form, and a red form with yellow spots, with a confluent form of A. lonicersa ; also a confluent specimen of A. meliloti ; and reported that pupa^ of a second brood of Abraxas grossulariata kept out of doors were still alive. The remainder of the evening was devoted to the exhibition of lantern slides by Messrs. Tonge, West (Ashtead), Lucas, Dennis, and Edwards, including series ilkistrative of the resting attitudes of insects, details of insect structure, various plants attacked by galls, and the natural history and structure of the cockroach.— Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Secretary. Entomological Society of London .- Wednesday, March 2nd, 1910. Dr. F. A. DixET, M.A., M.D., F,R.S., President, in the Chair. J^ vote of sympathy and, condolence was passed unanimously with the family of th^ late Edward Saunders, F.E.S., and of the late George Willis Kirkaldy, Fellows of the Society. The decease was announced, also, of George Carter Bignell, and Albert Piffard, Fellows of the Society. It was announced-that the Society would be represented at the forthcoming Jubilee Celebration of the Entomological Society of Russia by Dr. Malcolm Burr, D.Sc, F.L.S.^ F.Z.S., &c., and that he would deliver an Address ot Con- gratulation. Mr. John C. Eales-White, of 47,- Chester Terrace, Eaton Square, S.W., was elected a Fellow of this Society. Mr. W. G. Sheldon exhibited various forms of Agriades (Polyommatns) corydon from Southern Europe, including A. var. arragonensis, and its form co^rulescens from Albarracin, Spain; also a pair of Brenthis selene from La Granja, and a pair of B. hecate from Hungary, showing the remarkable ^22 (-May, approximation of the two species in the markings of the under-side. Mr. H. St. John Donisthorpe broug-ht for exhibition a case containino- a small nest of about 30-4.0 § ^ living examples of Formica rufibarbis, var. fuscoruilharUs, from Whitsand Bay, August, 1909, into which had been introduced a queen of Formica rufa from Nethy Bridge (May, 1909) ; the queen had been accepted by the otlier ants in a few days. Mr. C. O. Waterhouse, on behalf of Mr. J. C. Moulton, of the Sarawak Museum, exhibited a Longicorn beetle of the genus Chloridolum, in which tlie right antenna was much shorter than the lef t ; the specimen appeared to be a male in every respect except in the length of the riglit antenna, the joints of which were a trifle shorter than those of a female. Mr. Moulton was inclined to tliink the specimen might be gynandromorphous. Mr. Waterhouse suggested that it might rather be regarded as a malfonnation. Mr. W. E. Sliarp exhibited an example of Calathus mollis, having tlie right anterior tibia and tarsus in triplicate ; he said that such redixplication was not uncommon, but that it was seldom so perfect in detail. Mr. L. W. Newman, a case containing tlie following forms of Zyg^na hippocrepidis, all taken in June. 1908, in one small iield in the neighbourhood of Bristol .- (a) analogous to A fiUpend^da^, var. chrysanthemi, (h and c) examples with the normal carmine coloration replaced by yellow, analogous to A. fiUpendul^, ab. /am, Eobson, and with pink, and (d) an example with yellowish spots, otherwise normal ; also a specimen of Z. lonicerm captured at tlie same place, witli tlie markino-s broadly confluent. Mr. G. Bethime-Baker, three nests of a species of Lasiocampid from Mount Elgon, Albert Nyanza, belonging to the same group as TAatmaiopca VTocessxonea ; he had been consulted relative to the possibilities of using the silk of which the long pouch-like "nests" were constructed. Mr. G. A. K Marshall said that they belonged to a species of Anaphe. Professor E B Poulton, F.R.S., read a "Preliminary Note on Mr. A. D. Millar's experimental breeding of forms of the Nymplialine genus Euralia in Natal," by Mr Eoland Trimen, M.A., F.E.S., and exhibited examples of the species and forms referred to; he said that Mr. Millar was greatly to be congratulated on his success in obtaining the long-wished-for proof that Euralia wahlbergi and E. mima were foiins of the same species. Prof. Poulton also exhibited a set of six Euralia anthedon, Doubl., and four E. duUa from Lagos, tlie western representatives of E. xmMhergi and E. mima respectively, giving it as his opinion that after the proof obtained by Mr. MiUar, the western butterflies were also tlie diinorpliic forms of a single species. The following papers were read :-" Tliird Paper on the TetrigimB (Ortho- ptera) m the Oxford University Museum," by J. L. Hancock, M.D. " Descrip- tions of new Algerian Hymenoptera-Aculeata (Sphegidm)," by the late Edward Saunders, F.E.S., and the Eev. F. D. Morice, M.A. "On Zizeeria, Chpmn. {=Zlzera, Moore), a group of Lycaenid Butterflies," by Dr. T. A. Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S. " Further Notes on two Osmia species of the Adunca group " by the Eev. F. D. Morice, M.A. "A few words respecting Insects and iheii- Natural Enemies," by Arthur G. Butler, Ph.D., F.L.S., F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. The Eev. F. D. Morice, M.A., then delivered an address " On the Saws of Saw-flies," illustrated by many lantern slides, prepared and arranged by him. 1910.] 123 We(hicsday, March IQDi, 1910. — The President in the Chair. Mr. Echnond AVace Carlier, M.S.C., M.D., F.K.S.E., of the University, Birming-hani ; Mr. Herbert Alfred Green, of the Central Fire Station, Dui-ban, Natal ; Mr. Philip Harwood, of 23, Northgate End, Bishop's Stortf ord ; Mr. J. Henderson, of Clifton, Ashbormie, Derby ; Mr. Lionel Leslie Jacobs, Shelford, Copers Cope Eoad, Beckenham ; Mr. William LaitUaw, 73, Endsleigh Gardens, Ilford, Essex, and 74, Great Tower Street, E.C. ; Mr. H. S. Leigh, of the University, Manchester ; Mr. F. Graham Millar, of Seafield, Batu Tiga, Selangor ; Mr. Francis AUcock Oldaker, M.A., of the Eed House, Haslemere ; Mr. Aiya^jpa Raman Pillai, Trivandrum, India, and 13, Biiccleuch Place, Edinburgh ; Professor Reginald Crundall Punnett, M.A., of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge ; and Messrs. James M. Williams and ¥. E. Scott, of the Howard Motor Garage, Cardiff, and Canford Cliffs, Hants. ; were elected Fellows of the Society. Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe exhibited examples of Cremastogaster scutellaris 5 5 , Colobopsis truncatus $ $ ," and a beetle, Fonnicomus pedestris, a good mimic of the latter ant, all taken in virgin cork at Kew, May, 1909. Commander J. J. Walker, E..N., living specimens of Holoparamecus caularum, Aube, taken com- monly in haystack refuse at Water Eaton, Oxon., on Mai'ch 14th. Mr. H. M. Edelsten, photographs of the anal appendages of Tajnnostola hellmanni, T. concolor, and T. fulva, showing their remarkable similarity ; also ova of the same species in situ. The photographs were the work of Mr. H. Main and Mr. A. E. Tonge. Mr. G. W. Nicholson, a specimen of Dyschirius angustatus, Ahrens, from Littlestone, Kent, taken in July, 1906 ; two specimens of Bem- bidium 4-23Ustulatum, Dej., taken at Pvdborough in June, 1909; and two specimens of Conosoma hip^uictatum, Gr., f oiuid by Mr. Jennings and himself at Broxboui-ne, Essex, in January of this year. Dr. T. A. Chapman, series of Gallophrys avis bred this spring, together with C. rubi for comparison, and pointed out the princi- pal superiicial differences between these two closely allied species. The s]3eciinens show much vmiformity in size, more on measvu'ement than in appearance (due to setting ?) the range being 33 to 3(3 mm. They show, when placed together, a very bright and fairly uniform red tint, markedly contrasting with the ruddiest rubi he has, and looking brilliant beside them. The females are rather larger than the males. Mr. J. W. Tutt read a note on the several forms of Hydrsecia occui-ring in Britain, and showed examples to illusti-ate the superficial differences where discoverable, and the marked difference in the anal appendages of the several species, Hydrsecia nictitans, H. paludis, U. lucens, and H. crinanensis. Excellent photographs of the genitalia of the four British species (both sexes) made by Mr. F. N. Pierce were handed round for examination. The Eev. C. E. N. BuiTOws, to whose research the discovery of H. crinanensis is due, stated that it seemed to him amazing that two species showing so much difference as Hydrsecia lucens and H. crinanensis in their genitalia, should present no definitely marked superficial character in the imago. Dr. Karl Jordan con- sidered that the four species, as proved by the differences in the genitalic strixctures, were abundantly distinct, and brought forward a parallel case among the Attacids. Mr. J. C. Kershaw contributed a paper on '' The Oothecse of an Asilid {Promachus sp.)." Dr. T. A. Chapman read a note entitled " Xanthandrus comtus, Harr., a Correction." — H. Row land-Beg wrN, Hon. Secretary. 124 fMay, 191(J. ADDITIONS AND COERECTIONS TO THE BRITISH LIST OF MVSGIDM AGALYPTRATM. BY J. E. COLLIN, F.B.S. (Continued from page 48). HELOMYZID^. I am nmcli indebted to Abt. P. Leander Czeniy for confirmation and correction of my identifications in this Family. Helomyza humilis, Mg-. — Col. Yerbury fovuid this species at Barmouth (Merioneth) in May, 1902, and I have recently i-eceived a specimen from Mr. Norman H. Joy bred from English truffles. Helomyza variegata, Lw., apparently does not occur in North Eiirope, and Meigen made a mistake in restricting Fallen's name rufa to this species. Loew's name must stand as has been pointed out by Czerny. Helomyza pectoralis, Lw. — Czerny has svmk this as a synonym of notata, Mg., but Meigen's description does not apply to our species, which is, however, certainly Zetterstedt's hilaris. If Czerny be correct oiir species is the var. hilaris of notata, Mg. Helomyza lievifrons, Lw. — Czerny sinks this species as a synonym of rii/a. Fin. {nee Panz.), and contends that Fallen's reference to Musca rufa, Panz., does not affect the case, but I must agree with Loew that Fallen's name rufa cannot be used at all. Fallen must have thought he was recognising Panzer's Musca rufa and not describing a new species or he wovild not have used the name rufa, and as he was certainly wrong in his identification there remained only one way in which a subsequent student coiild use the name rufa. Fin., for a species of Helomyza and that was by restricting it to a species (not previously dis- tinguished) included in Fallen's concejDt ; Ijut what has actually taken place is as follows : — The first student to deal with Helomyza rufa after Fallen was Meigen who, in 1830, restricted the name to a species which does not occiu- in N. Europe and consequently coidd not be included in Fallen's concept ; then Zetterstedt in 1838 i-estricted Fallen's name to a species which he was unaware had been described eight years previously by Meigen as flava ; again in 1847 Zetterstedt, recognising his previovis mistake, attempted to restrict Fallen's name to another species, but this had also been described by Meigen seventeen years before as affi.nis. Schiner followed Zetterstedt in using the name rufa. Fin., for affinis, Mg., while Walker, Eondani, Bezzi and others have followed Meigen. When Loew monographed the group there remained only one species of those included in Fallen's concept of rufa undescribed, and by describing that as Imvifrons Loew made it impossible for Fallen's name ever to be revived. Helomyza zetterstedtii, Lw., must be known in future under the name of H. bicolor, Zett., as has been pointed out by Czerny. Helomyza montana, Lw., miist be known as H. fuscicornis, Zett. *Helomyza oxyphora,M.ik. — This species is closely allied to H. fuscicornis, Zett. {montana, Lw.), but the scvitelkun terminates in a short bkmt protuberance and the stout middle femora of the male are clothed beneath at the base with a number of sliort black hairs. Col. Yerbury took two males at Golspie (Sutherland) on August 2nd and 7th, 1900. NOTE.— Subscriptions for 1910 (6s. per annum, post free) are now due, and should be paid to R. W. LLOYD, I. 5, Albany, Piccadilly, London, "W. It would be a great convenience to the Editors in keeping the accounts if these were paid promptly, as having to send reminders entails a considerable amount of extra work. The Coloured Plate issued last September having been so much appreciated by our readers, another (devoted to Hymenoptera and Coleoptera) was given with the Jan. number. 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The genera Dryomyza, Neuroctena, Neottiophilum, and Actora have been united luider the above family name. *Dryomyza senilis, Zett. — We appear to possess this species in Britain in addition to flaveola and decrepita. I have seen specimens taken by Mr. Verrall from Rannoch (Perthshire) and the island of Arran. HETEEONEURID^. This family has been recently dealt with by Czerny (Wien. Ent. Zeit., 1903) where he founded a genus Heteromeringia for nigriniana, Lw., and sank alpina> Lw., as a synonym of geomyzina. Fin. *Acartophthalmus nigrinus, Zett. — This species does not appear to be uncommon in suitable localities ; it has been found by Dr. Sharp and Mr. C. G. Lamb in the New Forest (September, 1903), by Col. Yerbury at Nethy Bridge (Inverness), (August, 1904), and at the same place by Mr. Lamb (June, 1905), while Mr. J. E. Malloch has sent me specimens from Bonhill (Dvimbarton) taken in Jiily, 1908, and I found it on the stimips of recently felled oak trees at Barton Mills (Suffolk) in May, 1909. *Acartopht'halnius bicolor, Oldenberg. — When collecting in a large wood near here (Cambridgeshire) in company with Col. Yerbury at the end of May, 1909, I caught a n\imber of this Acartophthalmus which I recognised as being distinct from A. nigrinus in having pale antennae, front of frons and face and darkened costa. It was described in Heft III of the Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. published on May 2nd last. The generic name Stomphastica was proposed by Loew to replace Clusia, Hal., because the latter name had been employed by Linne in Botany, but on the stx-ength of " Eecent Eules of Nomenclature " Czerny has revived Haliday's name, and proposed the generic name Paraclusia for tigrina. Fin. Helomyza similis, Mg. — Specimens of what I had believed to be H. suilloidea (Desv.), Hal., were returned to me by Czerny as H. tigrina, Mg. {= similis, Mg.), but I cannot agree with Czerny that this species must be called tigrina, Mg. In 1830 Meigen described what he thought was Fallen's Helomyza tigrina, but in 1838 came to the conclusion that his species was not the same as Fallen's (in which he was quite right, as Fallen's species was afterwards found to be generically distinct) and therefore renamed his species similis. Fallen's tigrina 12Q [June, being placed at that time in the genns Helomyza, Meigen was absokitely right in changing the name of his species and being i-ight then his action must be accepted as right /o?- a H time quite irrespective of Avhat happened to tigrina, Fin., afterwards. Mik (Ent. Nachr., 1897, p. 1.33) first advocated the use of the name tigrina, Mg., for this species under the mistaken idea that Fallen liad described his species as Heteromtza tigrina, which of coiirse would have altered the case entirelj\ Czerny states that the above case is similar to that of Helomyza rufa. Fallen, and so it is, for neither rufa. Fin., nor tigrina, Mg., were new names and therefore could not supplant any name siibseqiiently proposed for the species included under Fallen's and Meigen's concepts, consequently the name r\ifa. Fin., cannot supplant flava, affinis, or Isevifrons, and the name tigrina, Mg., cannot svipplant similis, Mg. Eccoptomera longiseta, Mg., microps, Mg., and ornata, Lw., have been recorded by Mr. J. E. Malloch as occiu-ring in Britain in the pages of this Magazine. Mr. Verrall caught a female of longiseta at Fawley (Hants.), on June 21st, 1875, and Col. Yerbury found it at Studland (Dorset) in Jane, 1907 ; microps is foiind not uncommonly in moles' nests, and in additional to other published records, I have seen specimens taken by Mr. J. H. Keys in Devon, and by Mr. E. C. Bedwell in Siiffolk, Mr. Verrall foimd a male at Felixstowe (Suffolk), on Jvily 14th, 1894, and Col. Yerbmy a female at Barmouth (Merioneth), in May, 1902. Mr. C. G. Lamb has taken longiseta at Padstow (Cornwall), and Dr. J, H. Wood has found both species in Herefordshire. *Ecco2)tomera excisa, Lw., has been taken by Dr. Wood diu-ing the months of October and November in Herefordshire. Scoliocentra villosa, Mg. — I have seen two edibus testaceis, tibiis plus minusve infus- catis ; capite lato ; thorace lato, parallelo, punctis seriatis majoribus ; elytris thorace paido longioribus, profunde punctatis. Long., 5^ mm. Mas. : segmento ultimo ventrali rotundato, integro ; xdeago ad apicem appen- dicula tcnera, haud rcflexa, nee acuminata. Hah.: Anglia; rarissime. Plymouth (J. H. Keys) ; Mickleham (G. C. Champion) ; Cambridge (D. Sharp). This is not only very rare, but also very variable. I am not, 130 [J«ii«' however, convinced that all the specimens I refer to it are really one species. The ap»penda!^e at the extremity of the aedeagus is of very delicate form, and shrivels somewhat in drying. A variety — quite mature — with pale elytra occurs. The type is of the large, dark, veiy flat form. 2. — Gabkius pennatus, sjj. n. Angustus, niger, antonnarum basi, 2Mlpis x>eclihusque testaceis ; capitc angusto ; thorace angusto antrorsiim suhangiistato ; clytris thorace paulo longioribus, sat fortiter punctatis. Long., 4| mm. Mas. : ahdomine segmento ultimo ventrali excisione parva, sed profunda, a memhrana pcllucido, fere omnino impleta ; xdeago ad apicem apjpendicula rohusta, abrupta, acuminata, quasi p)entagonali. Hah. : Anglia et Scotia ; hand vulgaris. This is much narrower than G. nigritul'us, and is thoroughly well characterised by the aedeagus, which does not resemble that of any other species. 8. — Gabrius velox, sp. n. AngUjStus, niger, antennarum basi palpisque testaceis ; capite angusto ; tJiorace angusto antrorsum subangustato ; etytris thorace paulo longioribus, fortiter punctatis. Long., 4^ mm. Mas. : abdomine segmento ultimo ventrali excisione angusta, profunda, a mcmbra^ia pellucida fere omnino impleta; xdeago sat elongato, o.pice obtuso, appcndicula apicali reflexa, male delimitata, in partem anteriorem corporis mdeagi quasi perdita. Hah.: Anglia ; ad flumen Lymington dictimi cujus in ripas velocissime currit. Extremely similar externally to G. pennaius, but with a totally different sedeagus. This organ in the present species naturally pro- jects between the two terminal styles, so that the form of its apex can be seen without dissection. G. nigrihdus is twice as broad as G. velox ; the sedeagus in these two species approximates considerably ; but there are well marked distinctions and the structure exhibited by that of G. nigritulus explains that of G. velox, which taken alone would be obscure. 4. — Gabrius keysianus, sp. n. Sat angustus, niger, pjcdibus piiceis, iarsis rufescentibus ; capite oblongo ; prothoracc antrorsum parum angustato ; clytris prothorace longioribus, sat profunde punctatis. Long., 5^ mm. Mas. : abdomine segmento ultimo ventrali excisione lata, a, membrana pellu- cida parte majore impleta ; sedeago apice pellucido ct elongato, apice summo suibaciwiinato sed vcre minutissime bidcntato. 131 1910.] Hah. : Anglia, Devon, Slapton Ley (J. H. Keys and G. C Champion) . 5— GaBRIUS APPENDICULATirS, Sp. tl. Augustus, cor^ciusculus, ni,errin.us, antennaru.n lasi ^^fj-\^^ fortitcr imnctatis. Long., 4| mm. ■ Mas. : c^aomine seo^nenio .ati.no rentrali e.Hsione vrofuncU a .^.n.rana .elluciaa .arte majore im,leta ; ..lea.o ^re.i, rolusto, a,,.n^.cula rcfle^a lata, hrevi, ferdura. Hah. : Anglia et Scotia ; liic inde, sat rarus. Very similar to G. heysianns, but smaller, with short, robust feet, and a very remarkable sedeagus. e.—GABRIUS BISHOPI, sp. tl. inoustus, .iger, antennarum hasi palpisaue piceis, pedihus testaceis, tiJ^Us plus .Ls.e .^uscatis; capite an.usto, oUongo-o^atotkora^e <^^^^^ ^ Uaur. angustato; elytris tkorace longioribus, fere sr.mUter punctatrs , tars^s gracilibus. Long'., 5 mm. Mas : aMo.nne seg.rcnto vMnno vcntrali e.cisione profunda a m^nbrana pcllucida parte majore i^npleta ; .deago clongato, apice duro, rotundato fere bulboso. Hah.: Scotia: ranssime, Beattock and Thornhill (T. G. Bishop andD. Sharp). Extremely similar to G. velox, but a little broader, with shghtly darker palpi, the pimctuation of the elytra rather less impressed, and an ^deagus very distinct from that of any other species. It occurs at Beattock, I believe, on the banks of the stream in the gromids of Mr. Bishop, and I am glad to have the opportunity of nanung it after my old friend. Brockenhurst : May Uth, 1910. TBECHUS SUBNOTATUS, Dej., IN SOUTH DEVON. BY E. A. NEWBERY. A single specimen of this interesting insect has been taken by Mr P de la G-arde, under circumstances which leave little doubt as to its native origin. At the same time, owing to its Imown distribution (Italy Istria, Dalmatia, Greece), it appears to be a south-eastern species, which can only be regarded provisionally as British until other specimens are captured here. 132 tJ^^®' The followaug descrij)tion is translated from Putzeys (Trechorum oculatoruin Mouograpliia, 1870, species No. 94) : — Pitchy, with an oblong sjjot at shoulder, a subrotundate one befoi'e apex, and the inflexed margin of elytia, testaceous. Antenna with the 2nd joint shorter and thicker than 4th. Thorax subcordate with sides a little arched and posterior angles small, prominent, and acute. Elytra sub-oblong-ovate, punctate-striate, the marginal striae nearly obsolete. T. suhnotafus lias several marked varieties, wliicli have been studied by Holdhaus (Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1902. p. 196). lu Mr. de la Grarde's example the shoiilder spots are altogether wanting, and although coming very close to the var. fairmairei, Pand., an example of which Capt. Deville has kindly sent me for Comparison, he thinks it may possibly belong to an undescribed race, if other specimens occur to support this view. The specimen in question was found at Shaldon, near Teignmouth, on February 26th, 1910. In order that the probability of its being a native or an importation may be fairly judged, I give details of capture in Mr. de la Garde's own words : — " Shaken out of a tuft of grass which had evidently been dislodged from the face of the cliff diu-ing the heavy rains. The tuft was lying on the beach in a trickle of water. The cliffs at this spot are nearly perpendicular and about 150 feet high, with here and there ledges and crevices in which grass, &c., grows. At high tide the sea washes nearly, or quite, to the foot of the cliff, but this part of the beach is entirely free from any eddy of the river (which debouches the other side of a prominent point), and in fact, has rarely any tidal refuse at all on it, there was none whatever on the day in question. There is no house within half a mile of this part of the cliff ; the village of Shaldon is on the bank of the river some distance up, and Teignmouth is on the opposite bank further away still." 13, Oppidan's Eoad, N.W. : May nth, 1910. [I have taken Trechus subnotatus in the Ionian Islands (Corfu and Argostoli [Cephalonia]), Greece (Patras), and Asia Minor (Voiu-lah Bay, near Smyrna), usually at roots of grass in marshy places. — J. J. W.]. ON THE BEITISH SPECIES OF SMICRONYX, Schonherr. BY JAMES EDWARDS, F.E.S. We have in Britain three species of Smicronyx, which may be distinguished as follows : — 1910.] 138 1. Claws eqiial 2. Claws unequal ; the inner one on the front tarsi, and the outer one on the middle and hind tarsi, the smaller coecus, Eeich. 2. Length of the elytra visually twice as great as their width at the base. Thorax without any appearance of tuberculation... jungermanniae, Eeich. Length of the elytra visvially one and a half times as great as their width at the base. Thorax apparently tuberculate rcichi, Gyll. The characters employed above are designedly independent of the scaling of the upper sui-face, because it appears that abraded speci- mens are much more frequent in collections than well-clothed ones. The first point to be observed in essaying the deteruunation of Smi- cronyx is the condition of the claws ; with specimens set in our English fasliion there is no difficulty about this, and the omission to do so has led to confusion in more than one collection of repute. The sculpture of the thorax merits attention, but its real character cannot readily be observed except in abraded specimens. In the interspaces of the large punctures it consists of a shallow confluent punctulation (the " cross reticulation " of Fowler), which in S. ccecus is so little evident that for practical purposes it may be regarded as absent ; in S.jungermamiise it is more easily seen, and in S. reicM it is sufficiently evident to impart to the surface a characteristic dull appearance. The large punctures are similar in S. coecus and S . jtingertnannise, i. e., the cavity is shallow and has a flat bottom which bears behind the middle a minute pit, from which a hair-scale arises. In 8. reichi, however, the greatest depth of the punctm-e, which is considerable, lies at its hinder edge ; and the floor, although plane, rises gradually from back to front, so that in the customary cephalad aspect, when the sui-face is lighted from front to back, the front edge of the puncture is invisible ; from this circumstance arises an appearance of tuberculation (the " ponc- tuation rape use " of Bedel), but when the sm-face is lighted at a right angle to the long axis of the body the complete circular boimdary of the orifice of the puuctixre is easily seen ; indeed, if regarded under that lighting alone, the thorax might be described as deeply punctured. These particulars may easily be verified with a magnification of fifty diameters or less. 8. coecus, Eeich.— This species may be recognised in any condition by its unequal claws. I have seen no specimen in which the scaling of the elytra was complete, but several had more or less extensive patches of undisturbed scales, from which it is evident that the normal con- dition is for each interstice to have a row of distant fine hair- scales down the middle, and an irregular double series of elongate-oval white 134 [June, scales ; the latter are twice as long as wide, truncate at the apex, and separated from each other in a lateral direction by a space equal to the width of one scale. In addition to the two specimens mentioned by Dr. Fowler (Col. Brit. IsL, v, p. 282), I have seen others from Weymouth (J. J. Walker), ex coll. Gorham, and ex coll. Fowler. This is the S. reichei of Fowler, /. c. ; the fig-ure of his insect, PI. 167, fig. 10, though sufficient to show that reichi proper was not intended, is not characteristic of 8. coecus. There seems no reason to doubt that G. E. Waterhouse's treatment of the Pissodes ? ijygmxus of Curtis (Ann. Nat. Hist., v, p. 280, 1840) as a Smicronyx was correct ; and Curtis' phrase, " deep shining black, sparsely clothed with minute white scaly hairs," apjjears to me to identify his insect with S. emeus, Reich, so clearly that what the 8. lyycjmseiis, Curt., of British col- lections may have been matters nothing. Curtis' description does not apply to either of our two other species in any condition. 8. jungerman/nise, Reich. — In form this species resembles the foregoing so closely that denuded examples are only to l)e separated by their equal claws. In fresh specimens the elytra are densely covered with broad, subcontiguous, pale brown scales, with a sprinkling of irregular patches of white ones, and each interstice has a row^ of distant decmnbent hair-scales down the middle. The appressed scales are not more than one and a half times as long as wide. *S^. reichi, Gyll.— This is easily distinguished from our other two species by its larger size, and the greater bidk and width of the body behind the thorax, as well as by the peculiar sculpture of the latter. The character of the scaling of the elytra does not diifer appreciably from that of 8.- juncjermannix, as appears, amongst others, from a very perfect specimen ex coll. Capron lent me by Mr. Champion. A recognisable figure of the species, from Mr. E. A. Waterhouse's Folkestone specimen is given in Ent. Ann., 1873, but the artist has somewhat exaggerated the width of the elytra as compared with that of the thorax, and also made the latter too long in proportion to its width. Var. championis is the name by which Fowler distinguished this species from the 8. reichei, of Col. Brit. IsL, as appears from Mr. Champion's Folkestone specimen, which is the type, or co-type, of the name in question. Besides the two specimens previously mentioned, Mr. Champion has lent me two others ex coll. F. Smith, and one taken by himself at Caterham. Dr. Fowder most obligingly sent me on April 25th, 1910, all his 8'microtiyu', with the labels as they were standing in his collection, viz. : above the label cceeus, Reich, the specimen of that species referred to 1910.] 185 in Col. Brit. Isl. and determined by M. Bedel; above tlie label reichei, Gyll., three specimens of tlie real 8. reichi, all of them with the scaling of the elytra abraded to an extent which would justify Bedel's phrase, " condensees par places;" above the labels .24S5 j»?i- germmmise, Reich, 2484 cicur, Reich, and 2485 pygmcevs, Curt., cut from Sharp's Catalogue of 1871, four examples of 8. coecus, Reich (two of them being the material on which his figure of 8. reichei, I. c, was based) , and one very abraded specimen of the real jungermannise , Reich. It appears, therefore, that the author's views have been modified since his account of 8'micronyx in Col. Brit. Isl. was written, and that he has properly discarded var. chamjnonis, a name which he applied to the real 8. reichi at a time when he considered specimens of 8. ccecus to represent the true reichi. He also put in the box thirteen specimens of 8micronyx from Chobham and Woking, ex coll. E. Samiders, but as these had been simply gummed on card without any pretence at setting, they did not, with the exception of one fresh ^Ye]\- clothedju7igermau}iiie, Reich, admit of determination. It is clear that if records of the British distribution of 8micronyx are to have any value whatever they will have to be worked out de novo. Mr. Champion's specimens of 8. jimgermannise were mostly taken on " dodder," in heathy places (Bournemouth, Woking, Esher, Shirley, &c.) and on the chalk (Mickleham, Caterham, Guildford, &c.). Colesborne, Cheltenliam : May 4th, 1910. DESCKIPTION OF TWO NEW SPECIES OF THE LONGICOEN GENUS PENTOMACBUS. BY MALCOLM CAMEKON, M.B., K.N., F.E.S. Pentomacms serraUis, u. sp. Eeddish-testaceous, head and thorax dull, very obsoletely and diffusely piuictured, the latter much longer than broad, slightly rounded at the sides. Elytra rather shining, coarsely and thickly punctured, less so at apex. Anterior femora armed witli a tooth, middle and posterior femora armed with a strong tooth, the posterior edge of the tooth on the hinder femora being finely bixt distinctly serrated for its whole length. Anterior and middle tibiie slightly, posterior distinctly, sinuated. Legs and antennas reddish-testaceous. In general appearance most like a small P. fasciatus, Gahan, but differs in the puncturation of the thorax, the absence of elytral bands, the well marked serrated edge of the posterior femoral tooth and the sinuated posterior tibiae. Length, 5 mm. 136 [June, Taken by sweeping near Port an Prince, Haiti, in Februarv, 1908. Type in my Collection. Peutomacrus distinctns, u. sp. Testaceous, rather shining. Head shallowly punctured, slightly infuscate on the front. Thorax almost cylindrical, ninch longer than broad, witli shallow pnnctiiration, disc marked on either side with ill-defined ferruginous spot. Elytra shining testaceous, rather coarsely punctured, each marked with two ferruginous bands, one situated before the middle and convex backwards, the other placed behind the middle and slightly convex forwards, each pair meets its fellow at the suture. Antennas and legs testaceous, all the femora armed with a tooth, that of the middle and posterior, larger and having the posterior edge of the tooth on the hinder femora serrated. All the tibiaj distinctly sinuated. Length, 5 mm. Taken by sweeping near Port au Prince, Haiti, in February, 1908. Type in my Collection. The following Table should sen^e to discriminate the species at present known: — A. — Posterior tibiae sinuated. 1. Posterior edge of posterior femoral tooth not serrated. a. Thorax more diffusely punctured, elytra mottled with piuislish- brown spots scambus, Newm.* a'. Thorax closely punctiu'ed, elytra with two transverse bands, one behind shoulders, one before apex de7iti2)es, 01. t 2. Posterior edge of hinder femoral tooth serrated. a. Colour reddish-testaceous, thorax dull, very obsoletely punctured, no definite bands on the elytra serratus, n. sp. a'. Testaceous, thorax shining, distinctly piinctured, each elytra marked with two distinct bands distinctus, n. sp. B. — Posterior tibiae not sinuated. 1. Size larger (12 mm.), thorax marked with black at anterior margin and sides in front. Elytra marked with three well-defined transverse dark brown bands .femoratus, F. 2. Size smaller (7-10 mm.), thorax withovit markings, three obscure transverse elytral bands .fasciatus, Gahan. Fehruary, 1910. * This insect was removed from Xewman's genus Ciiriug and i)lacod by Leconte and Horn (Col. North America, p. 289) in Dejean's PCectromerun. As the latter author has given no characteristics of the genus and the insect falls naturally into White's Pentomucrus (Longicorn viii, 2, 1855, p. 207) I have accordingly included it in the Table. t Hen.shaw, Cat. Col. North America, 1885, p. 07, sinks scambus, Newm., as a synonym of dentipes, Ol. The insect in the British Museum Collection standing under the latter name is quite distinct from the type of Newman's scambus in that Collection. 01i\'ier's description and figure, although the latter is poor, would apply to the insect named dentipes, OL, in the B. M. Collection, but would not ap]ily to scambus, the elytra of which are said to be, " profunde punct^i, luteola fusco varia" (The Kntoniologist, March, 184!. p. 79), whilst Olivier's description of dtiitipcs leads, "elytris fasciis duabus fuscis " (Eut. iv, 70, p. 2'.l). ^1910.] 137 NOTES ON CETONIA AURATA, L., AND C. FLOBICOLA, Herbst. BY A. H. HAMM. C. AURATA, L. . During a brief visit to the New Forest in August, 1908, mv son and I came across some fairly large Lamellicorn larvae. They were feeding upon the fragments of damp dead wood, at the foot of what had once been a very fine beech, now, alas ! reduced to a mere stump, situated at the far end of Queen's Bower, near Brockenhurst. A few of the largest were placed in a tin box with a suificient supply of the dead wood to enable them to arrive at maturity. Upon reaching home several of the smaller individuals were put into spirit, Init five ex- amples of the same size and apparent age were kept alive for future study. The larvae con- tinued feeding until quite late into the autumn. They then buried themselves in the accumulation of frass and hibernated until the following spring. Towards the end of March they again commenced feeding and continued to do so without inter- mission until mid-June, when four of them built from their excreta, &c., oval cocoons about the size of a good-sized hazel-nut. On August 19th the first emerged, another on the 23rd, and the remaining two on the 25th. By this last date four out of the five larvae had produced perfect specimens of Cetonia aurata. The remaining larva continued feedino- until some time in October, and finally hibernated as before. The four imagines, after emergence, were left in the tin box with the remaining larva. These at the beginning of September "buried themselves at the bottom of the box and remained perfectly motionless, with all their limbs tightly adpressed to the body, Tintil the beginning of April. X U. C. FLORICOLA. 138 [June, They are now (April 10th) quite lively. The remaining lan^a has also commenced to feed again. These few observations tend to prove (1) that the larvae of C. anrata feed for several seasons before reaching maturity ; (2) that the imagines can hibernate and pass the winter in a cjuiescent state ; (3) that all larvae of the same age do not reach maturity together. These facts may account for the abundance or scarcity of this insect in certain seasons. Reference may also be made to the " Ento- mologist's Record," 1904, p. 301. C. FLORicoLA, Herbst. Last July my friend Mr. Horace Donisthorpe brought to the University Museum a larva of C. floricola, which he had obtained from a nest of Formica rufa in Scotland, in order that Professor Poultou might witness its remarkable mode of progression, afterwards described in " The Entomologist's Record," 1909, p. 288. This lai^va I have kept supplied with F. rufa nest material, and like C. anrata it has hibernated during the past winter. Having a larva of both species I thought it would be interesting to place them side by side and note the difference, if any, in their movements, &c. The comparison was made on April 13th last, when lioth larvae were placed on a sheet of white paper and the following notes were made. With C. Jioricola it mattered not whether the larva was placed laterally or ventrally, it always turned over on to its dorsal surface, and with very slight contractions of the body moved along steadily and easily on a perfectly " even keel." In colour it is pale ochreous-yellow, almost straw-colour, and it is thickly covered with short, reddish-brown, bristly hairs. Its dorsal surface is not strongly convex, and the folds between its segments are arranged quite differently from tliose of C. anrata. These differences will be better appreciated by reference to the illustration. The latter is nearly white, and its dorsal surface is far more convex from side to side ; it is less thickly covered with lighter-coloured liairs, whicli are chiefly developed on the sides. Its mode of progression differed in a marked degree from that of C. jioricola. Like the latter it always turned over on to its dorsal surface, but its relatively rapid motion was accom- panied by a pronounced roll, like that of a ship, due to the rounded contour of its back. My thanks are due to my friend, Mr. C. J. Bayzand, for his kind assistance in photographing these larvae. Universitj' Museum, Oxford : May, 1910. 1910.] 139 COLEOPTERA IN HEREFORDSHIRE (III). BY .T. R. LE B. TOMLIN, M.A., F.E.S. The first and second papers of tliis series appeared in vol. xlv, pp. 56 and 252, of this Magazine ; and it may be well to note that only the former of these two papers is indexed under the county heading. The notes below refer almost exclusively to captures in 1909. Since the publication of Part II, I have to record a fine specimen of Oxypoda spectahilis, Miirk., from a mole's nest at Tan-ington, taken on January 3rd last. Leptmus testacexis, Miill., LedbiTry, "West Malvern and Tarrington ; at the last two places it occtirred in mole's nests which had passed by reversion to field-mice : Clamhus armadillo, de G., and C. jmhescens, Redt., common on a species of Ag-aric in ject ; and since tlieu Prof. Poulton has done something to popularize its study. The following observations are no more than casual, and I have others, for the moment mislaid, of an equally scrappy nature. They are drops in the ocean of a wide subject, each one of which, no matter how small, will go to build up a vast edifice ; but the recording should be close, and misnomers strenuously avoided. For the names here employed I am indebted to Mr. E. E. Austen and his Attendant at the British Museum ; and, for the prey of Mellinus, to Rev. E. N. Bloom- field. Unless stated, the species were taken in the garden of Monk Soham House, Suffolk. 6.9.1907. — Csenosia pedclla, Fha., $ , preying iipoii Sciara sp., 9 j while sitting" on a post in the salt marshes of the Buss Creek at SoutliAvold. 23.5.1908. — Empis trigramma, Mg., upon being frightened, dropped a J of Tachydromia agilis, Mg. 2-1.5.1908. — Three pairs of Empis pennaria, Fin., sitting in cop. on lime leaves, each ? with a very small J Chironomus. 24.5.1908. — Empis trigrammM, Mg., ? , with ^ Sciara sp., sitting on floAver of ChsBrophyllum, upon which the latter had probably been feeding, as also often do the former. 24.5.1908. — Tachydromia cursitans. Fab., on lime leaf, devouring a Psychodid. 24.5.1908. — Scatophaga stercoraria, L., ^ , sucking Corethra sp., J , fi.t 7 p.m. 29.5.1908. — Two Tachydromia minuta, Mg., haUa flavicornis from Mickleham having a large dark blotch in the disc of the fore-wings. Mr. Edwards, numerous species of the gentis Parnassius, including P. transicus, P. smintheus, P. gracilis, P. imperator, &c. Mr. Main, specimens of two species of Scorpion sent him from S. France by Dr. Chapman Mr. Covdson, a very pale buff example of Phigalia pedaria from Epping Forest. Mr. Hy. J. Turner, a number of species of Lepidoptera from Zermatt, and read a paper entitled, " A few days with the Butterflies of Zermatt." Thursday May 2Gth.—Mr. J. W. Kaye, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. Mr. Newman exhibited ova of Sesia andreniformis and two specimens of a blue butterfly S and ? from the late Mr. Sabine's collection supposed to be a natural hybrid between Agriades coridon and A. thetis (bellargus). Mrs. Hennnings, a very fine gynandrous specimen of Celastrina argiolus taken in Stu-rey on March 10th, 1910. Mr. Edwards, numerous species of the S. American genus of Satyrids, Taygetis,and a niunberof under-sidesof Melanitis leda showing extreme variation in colour and markings. Mr. Adkin, the series of Boarmia repandata referred to in Proc. S. Lond. Ent. Soc, 1909, p. 3, and read fui^ther notes on them. He also reported an instance of a butterfly, Pieris brassicie (?) being captured and carried off by a bird. Mr. Sich, the small winter tents of the hibernating larvse of Hyponomeuta cag7iagellus. Dr. Hodgson, specimens of C. argiolus and Pieris napi recently bred or taken by him as noteworthy in the colom- investigations he has been carrying on for some years. — Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Secretary. 1910.] 167 Entomological Society of London : Wednesday, May 4th, 1910. — Dr. F. A. DiXET, M.A., M.D., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. The decease was announced of Mr. G. S. Saunders, F.L S., a Fellow of the Society. Mr. J. J. Ward brought for exhibition an example of the ichneunion-fly, Bhyssa 2}crsuasoria, 9 , together with a photograph of the living insect. The specimen was captured at Coventry ; bvit whether that place was its natural habitat is doubtful, as some packing straw from Geneva was lying in the vicinity. Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe, on behalf of Dr. Nicholson, Mr. Dollman, and himself, examples of a species of Olophrum new to science, and Scotch specimens of Olophrum fuscum, Grav., the species to which it comes nearest, for comparison. The specimens of the new beetle were taken by Dr. Nicholson and himself in Wicken Fen under sedge refuse, and subsequently by Mr. Doll- man in some numbers in the same locality. Mr. Donisthorpe pointed out the characters in which it differed from 0. fuscum, and said he had described it, and proposed for it the name of Olophrum nicholsoni. Mr. H. Eltringham stated that in reference -to his previous paper describing experiments on the edibility of certain Lepidopterous larvee (Trans. Ent. Soc, 1909, pp. 471-478), the caterpillars there I'eferred to as Boarmia rhomboidaria had proved to be Odontopera hidentata. Further, that some of the moths had been bred from larviB fed exckisively on ivy, and thoiigh similar larvse had, as explained in the paper referred to, proved extreraely distasteful to the lizards with which he had experimented, the moths were found to be palatable. His lizards having failed to siu'vive the winter, he had sent the moths to the Zoological Gardens where Mr. Pocock had given one to a bird and two to some lizards {Lacerta viridis), and all of the moths had been devoured at once. The result, therefore, appeared to show that the distastefulness of the larvae was due to the particles of the food-plant contained in the digestive tract. Mr. E. Meyrick, B.A., F.E.S., communicated a paper entitled " Descriptions of Micro-Lepidoptera from Maru-itius, and the Chagos Isles." Wednesday June 1st, 1910. — President in the Chair. Mr. F. Merrifield, and Mr. E,. Trimen, F.R.S., were appointed to act as additional delegates to the International Congress of Entomology at Brussels in August. The President announced that the Conversazione, postponed from Friday, May 27th last, by reason of the general mourning for His late Majesty King Edward VII, would be held during the forthcoming session on some date not earlier than the last week in November. Mr. Arnold Whitworth Boyd, The Alton, Altrincham, Cheshire ; Mr. Emile Garcke, M.I.E.E., Witton House, Maidenhead; Mr. Henry Oliver Holford, Elstead Lodge, Godalming ; Count Birger Morner, Consul for H. M. the King of Sweden, Sydney, New South Wales ; Mr. C. W. Mason, S.E.A.C., St. Denis, Shaftesbury, Dorset ; Mr. Martin E. Mosely, 13, Addison Eoad, London, W. ; Mr. Eobert Tait, junior, Eoseneath, Harboro' Eoad, Ashton-on-Mersey, Cheshire ; Mr. Frank Wray Terry, The Planters' Association, Honohdu, Hawaiian Islands ; Mr. F. V. Theobald, M.A., South Eastern Agricultural College, Wye Court, near O 2 168 , [Jiiiy. Ashford, Kent; Mr. Charles Henry Ruclge, Assoc. M. Inst., C.E., 15, Newton Road, Bayswater, W. ; and Miss Carlotta Rudge, 15, Newton Road, Bayswater, W. ; were elected Fellows of the Society. Commander J. J. Walker exhibited examples of CeutJwrrhynchus pilosellus, Gyll., and Ceuthorrhyricliideus mixtus, Muls., taken by him dvu-ing May last at Tubney, Berksliire. The Rev. F. D. Morice, a specimen of Clavelia pompiliformis, Luc. ^ , the only known fossorial wasp with pectinated antennae, taken by him this spring in Algeria; also examples of the ssiw-Hy Phymatocera aterrima. King, with photographs of the insect in the act of ovipositing on " Solomon's Seal," and gave an account of the way in which the saAvs are employed for the purpose. Instead of cutting vertically the saws are turned sideways, a characteristic method employed, said Mr. F. Enock, by many of the Howoptera. Mr. C. O. Waterhouse and Dr. T. A. Chapman also joined in the discussion, and Mr. A. Sich mentioned that some years since many larvee which appeared identical with those of P. aterrima occurred on the same plant in his garden at Chiswick. Mr. H. Main, an empty larva skin of a J Lamjnjris noctiluca with a living pupa, which was seen to be intermittently huuinotis. Mr. L. Newman, a case containing a long and varied series of Ematurga atomaria bred from a melanic ? taken in cop. with a dark typical ^ at Bury, Lancashire. It was noticeable that melanic and semi-molanic forms of the offspring predominated ; also a ^yza tarseUa, Zett., was phxced in the "List" in mistake for ohsoleta. Fin. I have never seen a British specimen. Sapromyza apicalis, Lw.-Eecorded by Eev. Thornley in his List of Lincolnshire Diptera (1899), and by Eev. W. J. Wingate in his List of Durham Diptera 1906. I have never seen a British specimen. Sa'prcvyza placida, Mg.-This species has very slight claims to remain in the List, it was recorded by Curtis in 1837, though it was unknown to him, and no one appears to have recognised it since it was described. Paralan.ania albiceps, Fln.-Mr. Malloch has confirmed the occurrence of this species in Britain in this Magazine for 1909, p. 41. I have seen specimens taken in Herefordshire by Dr. Wood, and in the New Forest by Mr. C. O. Lamb. Cnemacantha muscaria, Fln.-Mr. Malloch has also recorded this species on p. 234 of this Magazine for 1909. Mr. Verrall possesses a specimen taken by Mr. Coryndon Matthews at Stoweford Cleave (Devonshire) on August 19th, 1888. Peplomyza wiedemanni, Lw., is now considered a synonym of UUira, Mg., under which name it should appear in the List. P. banmhaueri, Lw.^c^^sco^c^ea, Mg., is a distinct species of which I have not seen a British specimen. " 'lanxania atrwtana, Mg., is an unrecognised species recorded by Stephens (1829) in his Catalogue as having been taken by himself within 2.5 miles ot St. Paul's Cathedral. Lauxania geniculata, Mg., has been recognised as a good species by Becker (1902) Specimens taken by Mr. Verrall at Upware (Cambs.) on July 11th, 1875 and near Aberdeen on Jiuie 3rd, 1884, also by Col. Yerbxuy at Nairn m Jtxne' 1900, may be at once separated from L. ^nea by having a much more shining thorax (owing to the absence of pollen) and darker legs, but I am not sure that they do not answer better to the description of L. nitens, Lw. Lauxania hyalinata, Mg.-L. frontalis, Lw., is a synonym of this species (t Becker Zeitschr. Hym. Dipt., 1902, 232), and I feel sui-e that Haliday's L. a,mca is'another synonym. It has been found by Dr. Wood in Herefordshire m June, and I have seen it from the New Forest. Becker placed it in the genus Sapromyza, but I consider that Loew was correct in considering it a true Lauxania. LONCH.fflID.ffi. Lonchwa pusilla, Mg.-This is a synonym of Lauxania hyalinata, Mg., according to Becker. Lonchsea lati/rons, Mg., is considered a synonym of lasiopUlialnia, Mg. I have not seen a British specimen. 172 ■ I July, 1910 Lonclifea nigra, Mg. — Mr. Verrall took a female at Aberlady (Hadding'ton) on June 30th, 1S70; Col. Yerbury took it at Golspie (Sutherland) on June IGth, 1904; I found it at Orford (Suffolk) on June 19th, 1907, and Dr. Wood has taken it in Herefordshire. L. insequalis, Lw., is a synonym {t. Becker, 1902). Lonchsea vaginalis. Fin., is now considered a synonym of L. chorea, F. *Lonchsea flavidipennis, Zett. — I recognise this as distinct from chorea, F. {vaginalis, Fin.). In addition to the darker coloured wings, L. flavidipennis has the frons and face wider, the former not so dull black and the latter more distinctly ^\hitish, the pleural pubescence is shorter (at least in the male), and there are Uvo equally strong sternoploural bristles. L. fumosa. Egg., would appear to be very closely allied if not identical. * Lonchiea deutschi, Zett. — This has entirely black legs, dark squamre, third joint of anti>nnae about twice as long as broad, and the disc of the abdomen obscured about the middle by brownish dust. I have seen specimens taken by Col. Yerbury and Dr. Wood in Herefordshire, and by the former at Golspie (Sutherland), Mr. Ven-all has taken it at Newnham (Cambs.) and I have found it at Chippenham Fen (Cambs.). * Lonchiea scutellaris. End. — This species was taken by Mr. Verrall in company with the last at Newnham (Cambs.) on August 3rd, 1906. It may be recognised by its partly pale tarsi, pale fringed squamae, and the sciitellum being of a different colour to the thorax. * Lonchsea peregrina, Becker. — This fine species has partly pale tarsi and and pale fringed squamae like the last, but its large size 5 — 6 mm., and shining cheeks serve to distinguish it. Mr. Verrall caught a female at Landwade (Cambs.) on August 19th, 1883. * Lonchsea zetterstedti, Becker. — According to Becker this is the laticornis of Zetterstedt, bxit not of Meigen. I have seen specimens of what I believe to be this species taken by Col. Yerbury at Nethy Bridge (Inverness) in July and August. * Lonchsea viridana, Mg. — This small species with short antennaj, pale first joint to all tarsi, and brown fringed squamaj, was found by Mr. Verrall in his garden on May 2nd, 1886, and I have seen specimens taken by Col. Yerbury at Golspie (Sutherland) and by Dr. Wood in Herefordshire. Palloptera Isetahilis, Lw., was recorded as British by Dr. J. H. 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Juscicorne may also bo distinguished by its black colour and much loiiger pubescence. 3 The name " inlerniediuin, Wank.," must be retained, Gyllenhal's " intermedium " is a 2'richopteryx. Matthews's type of wankowiezii is a rubbed specimen of pusillaw, GyU. 180 ■ [August, 9 (8). ScutoUum with a distinct central keel, and two pnnctiire:;, which are placed just within the side ano^les ; prosternal keel simple, narrow ; pubescence long-, evident, and semi-raised (except in myrmeco- pJiilum, Mots.) Sub-genus Ptenidium, i. sp. 10 (11). Thorax and elytra coarsely punctured with simple, deep punctures, the interspaces being minutely piinctrdate ; thorax with a broad^ impunctate central line ; body black ; antenna; and legs dark yellow Length, 0.8—0.84 mm. P. pundatum, Gyll. 11 (10). Thorax not coarsely punctiired. 12 (15). Metasternum smooth, not alutaceotis. 13 (14). Piody deep black, clothed with long gToy hairs; head and thorax with distinct, scattered, shallow umbilicate pimctures, with a central impiuictate line ; elytra with simple piinctures, which are either iiot confluent (type form) or very large, deep, and confliient on apical third (var. rucjnsmn, Britten) ; antennae dark pitch-brown... Length, 0.74 — 0.8 mm. P. fuscicorne, Er. 14 (13). Body, or at least elytra, castaneous-brown, longish, strongly convex ; head and thorax scarcely punctured ; elytra with evident punctures and very short scattered hairs ; antennae yellow. The var. kraatzi, Matth., has the outer basal thoracic fovose deeper than in the type form Length, 0.88 — O.Ofi mm. P. myrinecophilum, Mots. = formic et or um, Kraatz. 15 (12). Metasternum alutaceous, at least at the sides. 16 (17). Thorax, especially at sides, almost as strongly punctured as elytra, sides less rounded ; elytra distinctly punctiu-ed in eight or nine irregular longitudinal rows, furnished with long, semi-erect, grey hairs ; antennae yellow, at most with the last two joints slightly darker Length , 0.9 — 0.94 mm. P. jjustHitm, Gyll. aincale, Erichs. * 17 (10). Upper-side of thorax scarcely punctured, sides more rounded, inner basal foveae less distinct than in pusillum ; elytra more scantily punctured in six or seven irregrdar longitudinal rows ; hairs much shorter and more slender than in pusilluin ; antennte with, first two joints and club nearly always infuscate,^ the midtUe joints being- more slender than those of jmsilliim... Length, 0.8—0.9 mm. P. hrisoidi, Matth. = nitidum, Bris., nee Heer. 18 (1). Transverse fui-rows of scutellum withovit a middle keel, with four deep eqviidistant foveae ; prosternal process with two furrows be- tween the anterior coxae Sub-genus Gillmeisterium, Flach. Basal thoracic fovea deep, proportional size of outer foveae very 4 The type of Marsham's /'. evanetce-nn in Stejibens'-s collection i.s AtomaHa punlla, Payk. Gyllenhal's name fpi-.niiiuw) is only a year or two later (ISOS) and should be preferred. 5 A .specimen in the Matthews collection received from Urisout under the name of iiitUinm, Bris., has i)ale antenna;, but Brisout's description accords with that given above, as do all the specimens we have seen. 1910.) 181 variable in respect to inner ; length of piibesence, size, and colour also very variable ...Length, 0.74 — 0.96 mm. P. nitidum, Heer. = pusillum, Erichs., nee Gyll. = Ixvigatum (pars), Matth., nee Gyll. In the following references to Miitthews's collection, the European portion of it is implied. The British collection, with the exception of the type specimens, being at present in the hands of Professor Ericson for examination. All the specimens referred to have been examined by one of us. P. gresmeri, Ericlis. (Nat. Ins. Deutschl., Ill, 13, 1845), Grillin. Introduced as British by Blatch in 1883 (Ent. Mo. Mag.,xx, 121).— New Forest, in rotten wood, especially beech (Champion), in rotten wood infested with fungus, rare (Dr. Sharp), (Toinlin) ; Bradfield (Dr. Joy) ; " no connection with ants " (Dr. Sharp). P. Isevigatum, Erichs. (Nat. Ins. Deutschl., Ill, 36), nee Matth. Represented in the Matthews collection by two nitiduin, Heer, and several i)imlhrni, Gyll. — Widely distributed from Cumberland to the Isle of Wight.. Found with Formica riifa and Lasius fuligmosus, in moss, rotten wood, moles' nests, &c., and rather common. Numerous specimens in the Matthews collection under /ormicefor?(w. P. turgidum, Thoms. ((Efv. Vet.-Ak. Forh., 340, 1855). Eepre- sented in the Matthews collection by a specimen (co-type ?) from Thomson, and by an intermedium, Wanlc. — New Forest, in rotten wood infested with fungus, "especially in beech" (Champion), rare (Dr. Sharp), "in hundreds" (Tomlin) ; Cobham Park, Kent (J. J. Walker), " no connection with ants " (Dr. Sharj^). P. intermedium, Wank. (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. Ser. 4, ix, 412, 1869). The type of wanhovnezii, Matth., in liis British collection is a rubbed and dirty specimen of pusillum, Gryll. In the European collection are two specimens : the first is pusiUtim., and so labelled by Jekel ; the second is probably a small immature intermedium, labelled " Italy."- — Brockenhurst, in very powdery decayed wood, six specimens (Newbery) ; Tring, in very rotten willov/ (Elliman) ; Sandown, Isle of Wight (Champion) ; Falkirk, Scotland (Hislop, ex coll. Champion) ; Dim- chediock, Exeter District (de la Garde). P. punctatum, Gyll. (Ins. Suec. IV, 293). — Under seaw^eed on all our coasts, usually in profusion. It has also been found inland, in clung heaps, shingle, moss, &c. These inland specimens are usually smaller than the coast form, and have occurred at Hendou, Eslier, Woking, Great Salkeld, &c. 182 I August, P.fuscicorne, Erichs. (Nat. lus. Deutsclil. 111,37). — lu moss and at roots of plants at sides of streams, and also in marshes. Widely distributed from Aberlady to the south coast, Isle of Man, Ii-elaud, &c. P. myrmecophilum, Mots. (Bull. Mosc, 1845, 518) = formice- tornm, Ivr. Eepresented in the Matthews collection by lasvigatum, myrmecophUum, nitidum, and pusillum, almost all Mattliews's own specimens being leevigatum. The type of the var. hraatzi in the British collection is a rather small myrmecophilum with the outer basal thoracic fovea} much deeper than the middle pair. — One specimen ex coll. Bates (Joy), two specimens, near Leicester (lal)elled " kraatzi " by Matthews) (Fowler). Appears to be rare. In Matthews's European collection are two bad specimens under hraatzi: one appears to be myrmecophilum, the other intermedi^i,m. P. pusillum, Gyll. (Ins. Suec. I, 189, 1808) = apicale, Erichs. — The very numerous specimens of this common and widely distributed species in the Matthews collection have not been examined. It occurs in dead leaves, moss, &c., in Britain, Ireland, and the Isles of Wight, Man, Lundy, Scilly, &c. P. hrisouti, Matth. (Trichopt., 82) = nitidum, Bris, (Cat. G-ren., 43, 1863), nee Heer. Represented in the Matthews collection by a small specimen with paler antennae than usual, from C. Brisout himself (see footnote 5). A second specimen is most probably pusillum, Gryll., the third and last is nitidum, Heer. — In moss on banks of ponds and streams, in flood refuse, debris of reeds and rushes, &c. Banks of Thames, Walton (Champion) ; banks of River Eden and ponds at Gi-reat Salkeld (Britten) ; Bradfield (Joy) ; Duu- chediock, near Exeter (de la Garde) . P. nitidum, Heer (En. Helv., 377, 1841) = lawiyatum, Matth., nee Erichs. — It has not been considered necessary to examine the numeroiis specimens of this common species in the Matthews collection. Like pusillum, G-yll., it is widely distributed and very common, often occurring with it. The variations in size, colour, and pubescence have given rise to several so-called species, among which we may rank P. Isevigatum of Matthews {nee Gillm.), which is represented in his collection by nitidum, Heer, with pale elytra, labelled " pusiUumva.r.,'" by Brisout; a,notlier nitidum from Aube, and several pusillum, Gryll., from Jekel. The P. salinum. Mots., of the Matthews collection must be referred to this species, as also must the type of P. attenuAitum, Matth., which is an example of the pale form. We desire to render our best tlianks to the following gentlemen UtlO. 183 who have very kindly placed the whole or part of their collections of Ptenidium at our service: — Rev. W. W. Fowler, Drs. D. Sharp, N. H. Joy, Commander J. J. Walker, Messrs. E. C. Bedwell, E. A. Butler, G. C. Champion, E. C. Ellimau, P. de la Garde, W. E. Sharp, J. R. le B. Tomlin, and W. West. A. P. gresxneri, Gillm. — a. outline, b. pvostenml keel, c. scutellum. B. P. lievigatv.m, Gillm. — a. ,, b. ,, ,, c. ,, C. P. intermedium, Wank. — 6. prosternal keel, c. scutellum. D. P. pHsilli'.m, Gyl\. — b. prosternal keel, c. scutellum. E. P. nitidum, Heer. — b. ,, ,, c. ,, July 4th, 1910. DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF A8TENUS (SUNIUS) FEOM MALTA. BY MALCOLM CAMERON, M.B., R.N, ASTENUS GATTOI, 71. Sj:). Very closely allied to A. uniformis, Duv., htit differs at first view by its stouter build and shorter antennaj. Head black, narrower before the eyes, but with sides parallel, about as broad as long, puncturation urabilicate as in ^. uniformis. Antennae reddish-testaceous, shorter than in A. uniformis, the indi- vidual joints being shorter. Thorax black, about as broad as long, widest in front, gradually narrowed behind, anterior and posterior angles obtusely rounded, each bearing a seta ; puncturation of similar character to that of head, but rather coarser ; pubescence yellowish. Elytra longer than broad, parallel. 184 [August, black, apical maro-ins (broadly) and shotildcrs testaceous, roiighly punctured as in A. MJw/onH'is, pubescence yellowish. Abdomen elongate, margins of segments narrowly testaceous, apex testaceous, coarsely punctiired, pubescence yellowish. Legs reddish-testaceous. Length, 4'3 mm. Compared with A. uniformis, Duv., which is the ouly European specdes with which it could lie confused, its stouter buikl, shorter and broader head and thorax, and stouter antennae, distinguish it . Taken at Ta Baldu in veo-etable (h'hris in November, HM)1. Type in my collection. The insect recorded by me fi-om Malta as Siinins uniformis, on Mr. Walker's authority (named by M. Fauvel), proves to be referable to the same species. A. gattoi is the Suuius, n. sj)., of my List.* Dedicated to Dr. A. Caruana Gatto, to whom I was much in- delited during my visits to Malta. I append the following Table, which may assist in determining the species of the group to which it belongs. A. Species broad and short tristis, Er., latus, Eosenh., &c. B. Species elongate. (1) Size larger. A'. Elytra dull, pimcturation finer. 1'. Thorax longer than broad, oval-oblong, angles obsolete. a. Anterior and posterior angles of thoi*ax each furnished with a seta, elytx-a longer than thorax ...filiformis, Latr. b. Anterior and posterior angles without setae... ab. anguimis, Baudi. c. Posterior angles only with a seta ...ab. siibditus, M. & K. d. Humeral angles of elytra testaceous... ab. humeralis, Gredl. e. Elytra shorter than thorax v. abbreviatus, Baudi. 2'. Thorax broaifu-, about as long as broad, angles obtusely roimded bvit traceable. aa. Head longer than broad, antennal joints longer ; species more slender. a. Head black, thorax red walkeri, Fvl. b . Head and thorax black uniformis, Duv. c. Head and thorax red ab. diversicollis, Baudi. d. Hvuneral angles of elytra testaceous... ab. humeralis, Eottbg. bb. Head as broad as long, antennal joints shorter; species more robust gattoi, n. sp. B'. Elytra shining, puncturation very coarse... cribrellus, Baudi, Jllum, Aube. (2) Size smaller pxilchellus, Heer, angustatus, Payk., &c. June 2Hth, 1910. * (y. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1907, p. 392. 1910.] 185 SOME NOTES ON THE LEPIDOPTERA OF THE " DALE COLLECTION," NOW IN THE OXFOED UNIVERSITY MUSEUM. BY JAMES J. WALKER, M.A., R.N., P.L.S. {Concluded from vol. xlv, j.i. 181). PTBALIDINA (including DELTOIDES). Madopa salicalis, W. "V. — Four specimens, including- one ? in excellent condition ; labelled at side " Kent." Sophronia emortualis, W. V. — A very fine example, apparently a 9 • Labelled " Taken by the late Charles Healey near the King's Oak, High Beech," and at side "Eloping Forest." {Cf. Barrett, Lep. British Islands, vol. vi, p. 288). Herniinia derivalis, Hiibn. — A fine series of twelve specimens, some of them on old pins ; the more recent are labelled " Abbot's Wood " at side. P\jralis lienigialis, Zell — A pair in excellent condition ; the ? is labelled "From Rev. H. Burney coll., 1893" (C. W. D.). Diasemia ramhurialis, Diip. — One example in good order as t(3 the wings, but lacking the antenna3 and most of the legs. " Folkestone " at side ; probably the specimen referred to by Barrett (I. c, vol. ix, p. 258) as taken in that locality by Mr. W. Purdey in 1878. D. literalis. Scop. — Five examples, in good condition and apparently of fairly recent date. " Devon " at side. Antigastra catalaunalis, Dup. — A single example in very good condition " from Rev. Burney's coll." (C. W. D.), but with no fvu-ther history. Endotricha fiammealis, W. V. — Two fine examples, in which the usual pinkish-fulvous ground colour is almost entirely replaced by a rich dark fuscous- brown tint. " Folkestone " at side. Accntropus niveus, Oliv. — Four examples from " Glanvilles Wootton " stand under the label " Garnonsii B. E., pi. 497," and probably include the type specimen figured under the name of A. garnonsii by Curtis, Brit. Ent., plate 497 (April 1st, 1834), and therein referred to the Phryganidm {Trichbptera) {Cf. also Stephens, 111. Mand., vol. vi, pp. 148, 151, and " The Natvu-alist," vol. i, p. 14, 1837). One of these is a 9 with rudimentary wings about 1-5 mm. in length, or proportionately of about the same size as those of Chcimatohia hrumata, ? ; this has a printed label " foem :" and a bright red phiin label. A fine 9 with fully developed wings, among others from " G. Wootton " is labelled in a similar manner. Margarodes unionalis, Hiib. — Three examples, indifferently set, and in fair to poor order ; the best is labelled " Galley Head, L. H.," and the others, " Taken Kewton Downs, July, 1880," and " Geo. King, Torquay, 1859 " (C. W. D.). Botys repandalis, Schiff. — One fine specimen, which bears a printed label apparently cxxt out of a sale catalogue, " bred by Rev. H. Biu-ney from Ver- bascum," and " Torquay" at side. {Cf. Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xxii, p. 145). B. lupulinalis, Clk. — A fine but very badly set specimen on an old gilt pin, with label also cut out of a sale catalogue, " taken from Dr. A. Wallace, 1857, Bembridge, Isle of Wight." 186 [August, Mecyna jyolygonalis, Hiib. — There arc four of this very rare species in the collection, all set Ioav down on rather old wliite and gilt pins ; the best one is labelled " taken n'- Heme Bay." '• Kent " at side. Ebulea stachydalis, Zinck. — Six good specimens, three with " Freshwater " and three witli " Sussex " at side. Lemiodes piilveralis, Hiib. — Five specimens (4 ^ , 1 9 ), i^H except one in fine condition. " Folkestone " at side. Scoparia cemhralis, Gn. — The series of this species includes three of " v. scotica, White, Eenfrewshire " (C. W. D.), and three of var. zcllcri, Wocke, " Folkestone." S. hasistrigalis, Knaggs. — Thi-ee specunens from " Tilgate " and two from "Bordean" (C. W. D.), one of the latter also labelled " Bordean, July, 1844" (J. C. D.). S. conspicualis, Hodg. — Five specimens, " Yorkshire " at side. Included in the series of this species are two rather ill-set but otherwise good specimens, labelled " S. ulmella. Dale," also with " Bordean " at side (C. W. D.). S. mcrcurcUa, L. — Under tliis name arc included some very fine and well- marked specimens of the var. portlandica, Dale, from Portland. Platytes alpinellus, Hiib. — Five examples from " Hunstanton," and three from " Southsea" (C. W. D.). Crambus culmellus, Linn. — Two almost pure white specimens are labelled " striga, Uaio.," and there are also examples of the species fi'om St. Kilda in the series. G. rorcllus, Linn. — Two fine specimens on rather old pins, one of which is labelled " chrysonuchellus, Hiib." {? J. C. D.). C. myellus, Hiibn. — Two examples, also very fine ; one is labelled " Dr. B. White, Braemar, 1870" (C. W. D.). C. verellus, Zinck. — A rather badly set example, labelled " E. R. Dale " (C. W. D.), " Christchurch " at side, and another somewhat worn " C. A. Briggs, Folkestone, '72 " (C. W. D.), and " Taken by Mr. C. A. Briggs, nr- Folkestone, July 21, 1872, see Ent. Ann., 1873." Eromene ocellea, Haw. — Two specimens, both g , on modern gilt pins, one badly set, the other veiy good ; labelled " Roxburgh." Schcenobius gigantelhis, W. V. — Three examples of this species from " Whit- tlesea" fully merit tlieir specific name, as a J measiires in expanse of wing as set, l\l inch (46 mm.), and two 9 's are each 1 mm. less. Anerastia farrella. Curt. — Three specimens, one labelled " Paget, 1841 " (J. C. D.), and two •' from Grigg coll., 1889 " (C. W. D.), " Yarmoiith " at side. Epischnia bankesiella, Rdsn. — Three very good examples appai-ently bred, " Portland " at side. Cateremna terebrcUa, Zk. — Two specimens, labelled " bred Norfolk, 1899 ;" " Merton " at side. " Eurhodopc argyrcus {Dubrensella)." — Under these names are two examples of a Phycitid standing at the head of the series of E. carnella, L., which are 1910.J 187 decidedly puzzling- ; their general shape and aspect agreeing pretty well with carnella, but the fore-wings being of a shining metallic silvery-grey tint longi- tudinally suffused with ftxscous Both specimens are somewhat worn, on old bead-headed pins, and witliout data. I cannot find any reference to " Eurhodope anjyreus " in oiu- older authors, and the insects are certainly not the " Palparia argyrea" (Crambus argyreus, F.) of Haworth, Lep. Brit., p. 486. Phycis ohductella, F. v. R — A very fine specimen, labelled only " Gravesend " at side. Rhodophaea ruhrotibiella, Mann. — Six more or less worn specimens under this name, much more probably Acrobasis verrucella, Hiibn. One is labelled " Wolnier Forest (J. C. D.)," and another " G. W., Jidy, 1901 (C. W. D.)." Ncphopteryx similella, Zk. — A fine fresh ^ example of this very rare and distinct-looking species bears a label " N. Forest, Gulliver 190- " (the last figure is illegible) (C. W. D.) and is undoubtedly the specimen referred to by Mr. C. G. Barrett as taken in the New Forest by Mr. C. Gulliver (Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xxxix, p. 1, and Lep. British Islands, ix, p. 424). N. hostilis, Steph. — Three specimens, one " Grigg coll." (C.W.D.) " Col- chester" at side. Melissoblaptes cephalonica, Sta. — Six fine specimens, " London " at side ; two are labelled " Meek " and " Bower " respectively, and a very fine ? " Entom. xxiii, pi. iv, fig. 3." Pterophorus rhododactylus, Fab. — Five examples, some very fine ; " Chat- tenden " at side. P. brachydactylus, Tr. — A very fine example of this great rarity is labelled " J. Weir's coll. 1894 " (C.W.D.) and " Norfolk " at side, and is presimiably the specimen taken on June 17th, 1842, at Herringfieet, Norfolk, by Mr. Farr, on which the species was introduced as British (c/. Barrett, Lep. British Islands, ix, p. 396. P. paludum, Zell. — Eight specimens, " Bloxworth " at side. Owing to my lack of special Icuowledge of the Tortricina and Tineina, I do not propose to deal with the very rich and extensive series of these groups in the Dale Collection, which have been recently made much more safe and more available for study, by " staging " the whole of the specimens on cards raised well above the bottom of the cabinet drawers. I may, however, draw attention to the exceedingly fine series of Peronea cristana and hastiana ; the former species being represented by 224 specimens arranged under 39 varietal names, and including nearly all the forms indicated by Haworth, Curtis, Stephens, Desvignes, &c. ; and the latter by 89 specimens and 17 named varieties. " Aoi'angi," Lonsdale Road, Summertown, Oxford : July I6th, 1910. 188 [August. A DIPTEEON NEW TO THE BRITISH FAUNA. BY J. RAY HARDY. I have for some considerable time lieeu engaged in making a col- lection of the insects which inhabit wasps' nests. In February of the present year I received an intimation that a fine large and old nest of Vespa vulgaris had been found on a farm at Northern Etchells in Cheshire. I went down and received the nest intact, brought it up to Manchester, and kept it at my home. During the last two or three weeks various insects have emerged from the nest, and among others there appeared four or five specimens of Fannia (HoniaJomyia) ins'ujnh, Stein, a Dipteron which has not been previously recorded from Britain. I am indebted to Mr. E. E. Austen, of the Bi'itish Museum, for kindly identifying it. A series of specimens of this species has been presented to the Manchester Museum. Manchester Museum : June 2\st, 1910. TMeade's Homaloinyia vesparia bred from nest of Vespa fjcrmanica (Ent. Mo. Mag'., 1891, 42), a species overlooked by Stein and by Meade himself in his later writings, should be compared with the above, though Mr. Verrall is of the opinion that Stein described Meade's species under tlie name ciliata. — J. E. C] Note on the British example of Apian cantianum, Wagner (= brevicorne, ScliilsTcy). — In Heft xxxix of Kuster's "Die Kafer Eiu'opa's," No. 31 (published in 1902), Schilsky has described a new species of Apion, from Britain, upon the authority of a single specimen found by Commander Walker in the Chatham district (in 1872 or 1874, probably at Chattenden), and communicated by me with other British and continental forms when he was preparing his work for publication. As this species is likely to be overlooked by British Coleopterists (it had been completely forgotten liy myself, though the insect had long been separated from A. filirostre in my cabinet), it is perhaps desirable to call atten- tion to the above mentioned publication, in the hope that fiu'ther examples may be found in our collections. I have seen many A. filirostre from Oxford, Caterham, Mickleham, Guildford, &c., but cannot identify A. brevicorne amongst them, and as the type remains in Schilsky's collection, it is no longer available for comparison. The detailed description may be freely translated thus : — " Similar to A. filirostre in shape and colour, and at the same time very like it, but with the antennae shorter and stouter, the thorax miich more finely punct\u'ed, the anterior tibiae straight, the middle tibiae slender, and the pos- terior tibiae curved at the base (straight in A. filirostre). Body black, shining, apparently glabrous. Head broader than long, finely piuictured, smooth behind, forehead finely striated, eyes moderately arched. Rostrum slender, almost longer than the head and thorax togethei*, slightly curved, eqxially slender throughout ; faintly and indistinctly punctiu-ed at the base, with a slight prominence on each side above the points of insertion of the antennae, and before these with a distinct transverse furrow (? constant) ; thence to the apex i«io.] 189 very shining, finely ijiuictiired, and towards tip witli a. fine transverse furrow (? accidental, though conspicuoiis). Antennaj black, stout, glaljrous, inserted almost at the middle of the rostrimi ; scape short, considerably thickened at the apex ; joint 1 of the funiculus of the same In-eadth as the apex of the scape, slightly longer than broad, almost club shaped, 2 very little longer, 3 only as long as broad, the following joints gradually shorter and stouter, and the last two strongly transverse, and not sharply sepai'ated from the obovate club. Thorax as long as broad, somewhat arched on the disc iind at the sides, narrowed in front, but not contracted before the apex ; disc moderately thickly and strongly punctru'ed, shagreened, the spaces between the punctvu-es even, shining, and almost as large as the punctures themselves, the depression before the scutellixm distinct, almost rouiided (the pvmctiiation in A.filirostre is much closer and the spaces between the punctures ai'e wrinkled). Scutellum punctiform. Elytra long-oval, rounded at the sides, strongly arched, broader at the base than the thorax, very sloping behind, striate-punctate, the piuictures in the stria3 strong and catenulate, the interstices almost level, twice as broad as the striffi, the sutural interstice the broadest, the sutui-e itself raised (level in A. filirostre), the humeral callosities distinct. Legs unicolorous black, tibiae slen- der, claws toothed. Hab., England, Kent, Chatham (J. J. Walker). I have seen only one example of this species, which was sent me by Mr. G. C. Champion ; it was labelled ? filirostre. The form of the antennte and legs is suggestive of a S J but the last abdominal segment does not project as is usually the case in the (J J of this group, therefore I conckide that this example is a ? . If really a ? , this insect differs considerably from the same sex of A. filirostre, but even if it proves to be a ^ there is sufficient to distinguish it from that sex of A. filirostre, as the latter has a very strongly curved rostrum and straight tibiae. There still remain the very much finer and more scattered punctuation of the thorax and the roof-like elevated suture of the elytra, but the conspicuous transverse furrows on the rostrum are probably accidental. Nevertheless, the species still I'equires careful consideration and study when further material is available for examination. The specimen described was committed to my charge, and is now in my collection." It may be stated that Schilsky's specific name brevicorne proved to be pre- occupied in the genus, and was subseqiiently changed to cantianum, by Wagner. I am indebted to my friend Signor Angelo Solari for calling my attention to the description of this insect du.riug a recent visit to Genoa.— G. C. Champion, Horsell, Woking : July 7ih, 1910. Coleoptera at Newcastleton, <.fc., in 1909. — Last June I spent a very enjoyable three weeks' holiday on the Scottish border, for the most part at the bleak little to\vn of Newcastleton. Amongst the Coleoptera observed there the following seem noteworthy : — Trypodendron lineatum, 01., a few specimens, extracted with the aid of a sharp chisel from larch planks in the ' timber yard, but afterwards seen in numbers on the wing when the svxn was bright ; Tomicits acaminatus, Gyll., with the preceding ; Asemum striatum, L., half a dozen in the timber yard ; Phyllobius viridicollis, F., abundant ; Ancistronycha abdominalis, F., two on the wing and two by beating alders ; Telephorus paludosus, Fall. ; Corymbites pecti- 190 [August, nicornis, L., C. cxipreus, and its var. mrugiiiosus, F. ; Helodes marginata, F., com- mon on the banks of small burns ; Gnathoncus nannetensis. Mars. ; Hister mar- ginatus, Er. ; Rhizophagus dispar, Gyll. ; Alophus triguttatus, F. ; Adalia ohliterata, L. ; Paramecosoma melanocephalum, Herbst ; and Aphodius lapponum, Gryll. At Greywell, Hants, Euhria palustris, Genn., Orsodacna lineola, Panz. (on the wing), and Melasoma seneum, L. Near Aldershot, Anoplus roboris, Suffr., and at Mickleham Downs, Conopalpus testaceus, 01., and Cryptocephalus ochrostoma, Har. — Lewis Barton, The Eetreat, Guildford Eoad, Woking : July 1th, 1910. Coleoptera in Cumberland. — Among recent captures are a nvunber of species worth noting, either on accovmt of their pi-evious rarity with us, or as being now recorded from the county for the first time, such new records being, as usual, indicated by an asterisk. Blethisa multipunctata, L., taken freely in May on the grassy margins of a large pond near Carlisle ; *Bembidium nitidulum. Marsh., common on the clayey banks of the Camwhinton brick ponds ; Haliplus obliquus, F., common in the same ponds, the only previous county record being on the authority of the late T. J. Bold ; Hydroporus pictus, F., a number taken in a pond in a disused freestone quarry near Carlisle ; H. ferrugineus, Steph., in the Camwhinton brick ponds; *Agabus unguicularis, Th., any previous records of this species for Cum- berland I'efer to affinis, Pk., a common insect here in boggy ponds ; I have now taken the true unguicularis in Thui'stonfield Lough, a large sheet of clear fresh water near Carlisle, but it is apparently scarce, as much search has only yielded five specimens, three males and two females. Hydrochus brevis, Hbst., taken rather freely in May, 1909, by dredging up the mud in the overflow pools by the sides of the before-mentioned Lough. Having several requests for it, I looked for it again this spring, but vmsuccessfully. *H. angustatus, Germ., one speci- men on Burgh Marsh ; *Helophorus mulsanti. Rye, not uncommon in shallow, brackish pools on the Solway Marshes ; Ochthebius niarinus, Pk., common at the moutli of the River Waver ; Anacwna limbata, F., rather a scarce species here, but widely distribiited, *ovata, Reiche, being much more often met with. *Aleochara lygwa, Kr., one example at Silloth in seaweed ; Oxypoda specta- bilis, Mark., swept in wood rides ; Homalota gemina, Er., curtipennis, Slip., a^ibei, Bris., all in moss ; H. eremita. Rye, rather common in moss both at high and low elevations ; *H. oblita, Er., boletobia, Th., autumnalis, Er., in fungi in Gelt Woods ; H. cauta, Er., villosula, Kr., cinnamoptera, Th., among dead leaves, &c., in various localities ; *H. alpestris, Heer, in flood refuse by the River Petteril ; U. pilosiventris, Th., a few specimens in fvmgi ; H. pallc7is, Redt., one or two in flood refuse ; If. soror, Kr., H. cavifrons, Shp., H. exilis, Kr., in moss and flood refuse. *Actobius signaticoniis. Muls., taken in autumn on sandy banks by the River Calder ; Lathrobium longuhim, Gr., occasionally in flood refuse. Tachinus proximus, Kr., in fungi in auttimn, not uncommon and more often taken than humeralis, Gr. ; T. laticollis, Gr., common in dung. Stenus foveicollis, Kr., a few taken in sphagntun, Bowness Moss and Oaton Woods ; 8. lustrator, Er., binotatus, Ljun., cicindeloides, Gr., ixnder refuse by Monkhill Lough. *Lesteva punctata, Kr., in waterfall moss in the Gelt Valley, this species was I'ecorded from Cumberland in error by Mr. Murray (Ent. Mo. Mag., 1909, p. 137). Omalium tricolor, Rey, several in flood refuse in the Petteril Valley. 1910,] 191 Meligcthes suhrugosus, Gyll., appears to be very rare, I have only taken one more specimen {vide Ent. Mo. Mag., 1909, p. 63) ; M. hidens, Bris., on Teucrium in Gelt Woods ; *Atomaria fimetarii, Hbst., one specimen in my house ; A. wnihrina, Gyll., by beating, &c. *Aphodius fostidus, F., a series in sheep droppings near Wasdale Head. Scymmis luemorrJioidalis, Hbst., in haystacks. *Bri(.clius pisi, L., in floiu- mills in Carlisle. *Batophila ruhi, Pk., swept in Gelt Woods ; *Chsetocne'ma sahlhergi, Gyll., one specimen near the month of the River Waver. * Alphitohius piceus, 01., in flour mills in Carlisle. *Apion trifolii, L., near Carlisle by sweeping ; Trachyphlceus scaler, L., roots of grass in the Eden Valley ; *Bngous limosus, Gyll., taken in the water net in a pond in a quarry near Carlisle ; CeutJwrrhynchiis viarginatus, Pk., roots of grass ; Magdalis plilegmatica, Hbst., a third specimen taken in a new locality near Carlisle by beating the Scotch fir ; *Tomicus acuminatus, Gyll., Durdar near Carlisle, by beating recently cut fir tops. — F. H. Day, 26, Currock Terrace : Ju7ie 26th, 1910. Further captures of Ceuthorrhynchidius mixtus, Muls. — I am glad to be able to report the capture of two other specimens of this rare species. They were taken on the same day as those recorded by Commander Walker (Ent. Mo. Mag., xlvi, p. 144), and in the same way, by sweeping amongst mixed herbage, but at a locality some 60 miles distant. The spot where I took them is in the imme- diate neighboiirhood of Eoyston, on the border line between Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire. Mr. G. C. Champion has kindly confirmed my identification of the species. Two other captvires made on the following day. May l7th, and in the same neighbourhood, may perhaps be worth recording : — Cryphalus abietis, Ratz., in some numbers, and one specimen of the Hemipteron Gastrodes ahietis, L., both insects from the boughs of a recently fallen spruce fir, which still re- tained its foliage. — E. A. Butler, 56, Cecile Park, Crouch End, N. : July, 1910. A new locality for Cathormiocerus maritimus, Rye.— On June 23rd I found a single specimen of Cathormiocerus maritimus at roots of herbage in a damp sandy spot on the face of the cliffs at Milford-on-Sea, Hants, in company with Actohius procerulus, Psederus caligatus, Georyssus pygmaeus (common), &C. A second visit to the same place produced nothing better than Trachyphlceus myrniecophilus, but I have no doubt that the Cathorviiocerus will be found in suitable spots on the Milford and Barton Cliffs, if sought for at the right time of year. — James J. Walker, Oxford : J^oly 16th, 1910. Coleoptera in Suffolk. — Two or three visits to Glemsford, a village in the Sudbury district of Siitfolk, have produced several interesting beetles, and the following species are all new to the Suffolk list published by Mr. Morley in 1899. Oligota pusillima, Gr., in garden refuse ; Hypocyptus Iseviusculus, Mann., Tachyporus pallidus, Sharp, Ste7ius niveus, Fauvel, S. foveicollis, Kr., Trogo- phlceus pusillus, Gr., all by sweeping ; Choleva intermedia, Kr., Sericoderus late- ralis, Gyll., Monotoma hrevicollis, Aube, in cut grass ,- Melanophthalma similata, Q 2 192 fAngiist, Gyll., common on spruce ; Paramemsoma melanocephahim, Hhst., not uncommonly swept beside a ditch; Maltliodes atotmis, Th., common in long grass; M. hrevi- collis, Payk., one specimen beaten from a hedge ; my determination of this specimen is confirmed by Ganglbaiier, who says that the name nigellus, Kies., falls as a synonym before brevicoUis, Payk. ; the species is twice the size of atomus and intermediate in size between atomus and 2)ellucidus ; if Dr. Power's specimens do not (as Fowler states) seem to differ from atomus, they are evidently too small for nigellus ; Mantura rustica v. suturalis, Ws., one swept ; Rhytidosomus fjMndus, TDjst., one on Populus tremula. — J. E. le B. Tomlin, Stoneley, Reading : Julij Sth, 1910. The dis2:>ersal of shells Inj insects. — Cases of this kind have been recorded fairly frequently with freshwater Molhisca, but rarely with land shells. It is therefore of some interest to be able to report the abduction of a Cyclostoma elegans. While botanizing this spring at the foot of the Great Doward a little below Symonds Yat, my Avife called my attention to a huge humble-bee, which was flying sloAvly along and apparently carrying something. On being netted and examined, the bee proved to have one of its hind legs firmly wedged between the shell and operculum of a live adult Cyclostoma elegnns. Any one who is acquainted with this species knows how tightly and exactly the oper- ciilvim fits the mouth of the shell. The association of bee and molhisc was of coiirse qtiite accidental and involuntary on the part of each, and one can only theorize as to how it happened. I do not imagine the Cyclostoma would be carried far enovigh to lead to any definite result of colonization, but it shows in what unexpected ways shells may be transported. — Id. -. July Sth, 1910. Tinodes dives, Pict., at Malham, Yorkshire. — On Jiuie 4th last, when atten- ding an excursion of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, I came across the local Tinodes dives in plenty on the river Whai'fe at Malham. It occurred for some distance on the river banks, sitting on grass stems close to the water, the day being sunny but with a somcAvhat cold wind. At one point, however, Avhere a bridge crossed the river, a stone Avail ran at right angles xip to the bridge, and on getting over the wall, I found an old ash stiimp overgroAvn Avitli ncAV shoots and leaves against the wall close to the AA^ater, and completely sheltered from the wind by the wall. The sun was shining full on it, and the stiunp was "alive" with Tinodes dives, various saAv-flies, beetles, Diptera, &c. It was quite new to me to learn that T. dives (or indeed any Tinodes) was such a sun-loving species, but it Avas constantly flyiug and pairing all over the leafy stump. I boxed some fifty dives from it alone, and left Avith the species still visiting it. T. dives has only once previously been recorded for Yorkshire, in June, 1891, when I took two specimens on the same river at Grassington, but about seven miles away from the Malham locality Probably it occurs on the open parts of the river for many miles — Geo. T. Pobbitt, Dalton, Huddersfield : July 9th, 1910. Ovi2)osition of Baccha. — At noon to-day my attention Avas attracted by a female Baccha obsciiripennis, Mg., hovering about a leaf of bullace, which was 1910. 19:^ partially curled lono-itudinally ))y Aphis pruni, De G-., and also contained a Coccinellid larva (probably Coccinella bipunctata) and an Anthocoris larva. The fly investio^ated the surrounding* leaves of varioiis shrubs, bvit after several fleeting- visits eventually settled down to oviposit, and actually placed several Avhite eo-gs upon the under-side of the curled leaf, so close to the larval Apliidids as to touch them ; I then captured her. Although Verrall gives Baccha as an Aphidivorous genus (Brit. Flies, viii, 674), his statement there appears to rest on his earlier one {lib. cit., 456), that " the larvae feed on Aphides or Coccidas," which is a little vague. BratUey thought (Ent. Mo. Mag., 1896, p. 256) that B. elongata could not have been parasitic upon Mamestra persicarite — but cf. I. c, 1909, p. 244 — and it is satisfactory to have ascei'tained the actual species of Apihis attacked by it. — Claude Morley, Monks Soham House, Suffolk : July Srd, 1910. A further note on Melangyna quadrimaculata, Verr. — In order to follow up my observations of last year on this species, I visited, on March 29th (Easter Monday), a suitably situated bush of Salix capric on the outskirts of one of the numerous woods, which so thickly clothe this part of Nottinghamshire. The day was brilliantly hot and sunny, and even at some yards' distance it was easy to see that the newly opened catkins were proving attractive to Diptera. A closer inspection revealed a most interesting sight. The shrub, which was 10 or 12 feet high, was absokitely alive with Melangyna quadrimaculata, each catkin being furnished with its pollen-seeking giiests, jostling one another in their eager enjoyment of the sweets. No net was nee