THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S 1 MONTHLY MAGAZINE: CONDUCTED BY G-. C. CHAMPION, F.Z.S. J. E. COLLIN, F.E.S. W. W. FOWLEE, D.Sc, M.A., F.L.S. G. T. POEEITT, F.L.S. E. SAUNDEES, F.E.S. J. J. WALKEE, M.A., E.N., F.L.S. LOED WALSINGHAM, M.A., LL.D., F.E.S., &c. SECOND 8EKIE8-VOL. XIX. [VOL. XLIV.] '• There is scarcely any well-informed person who, if he has the will, has not also the power to add something essential to the general stock of knowledge, if he will only observe regularly and methodically some particular class of facts which may most excite his attention, or which his situation may best enable him to study with effect." — Sir J. Herschel. LONDON: GUENEY & JACKSON (Mr. Van Voorst's Successors), 10, PATEENOSTEE EOW. 1908. Qb4ti .El? LONDON : NAPIER, PRINTER, SEYMOUR STREET, EUSTON SQUARE, N.W. MDCCCCVIII. j! INDB X. ('.in 1 RIBUTORS General Index -S* Special Index— A.phaniptera Coleoptera ... Diptera Hemiptera ... Hymenoptcra Sri . iai. I ndrs (continued)— paoi Lepidoptora x Neuroptera xiv Orthoptera \iv Thysanoptera xv Geni ra and Species new to Science .. .. xv „ „ ,, ,, ,, Britain xvii Explanation of Plates xviii Errata xviii INDEX TO CONTRIBUTORS PAGE Adams, F. C, P.Z.S 208,237 Andrews, H. W., F.E.S 187 Arnold, G., F.E.S 17 Atmore, E. A., F.E.S 157 BagnaU, R. S., F.E.S 3, 39 Bankes, E. K., M.A., F.E.S 250, 256 Beare, Prof. T. H., B.Sc, F.R.S.E, F.E.S 272, 273 Bedwell, E. C., F.E.S 60,2/3,274 Bethime-Baker, G. T., F.L.S 238 Bignell, G. C, F.E.S 136 Bloomfield, Rev. E. N., M.A., F.E.S. .34, 137 Brocklehurst, W. S 130 Butler, E. A., B.A., B.Sc, F.E.S. ...40, 155 Butterfield, Rosse 63 Carter, A. E.J 128 Champiou, G. C, F.Z.S.. .1, 8, 32, 63, 90, 123, 124, 134, 194, 206, 225, 233, 254, 270, 271 Chapman, T. A., M.D., F.Z.S 256 Chaster, G.W..M.D., 16 Chitty, A. J., M.A., F.E.S. (the late)... 141, 209 Day, F. II., F.E.S 90, 109, 205 de la Garde, P. H., R.N., F.E.S. 13, 60, 90, 234 Donisthorpe, H. St. J., F.Z.S. ...40, 60, 255 Edwards, J., F.E.S.. 55, 80, 102, 218 Elliman, E. G., F.E.S 274 Evans, W 207, 277 Fowler, Rev. CanonW. W.,D.Sc.,M.A., F.L.S 274 Gardner, J., F.E.S 256 Gardner, Willoughby, F.E.S 89, 186 Green, E. E., F.E.S 41 Hamrn, A. H 181 Hey, Rev. W. C, M.A 146 Jenkiusou, F., M.A 129, 150 Jennings, F. B., F.E.S. ...61, 113, 136, 155 Jordan, K., Ph.D., F.Z.S 91 PAGE Joy, N. 11., M.R.C.S., V.K.*. ...38, 39, 51, 102, 104, 106, 125, 150, 174, 175, 210 Keys, J. II., F.E.S 12, L84 Longstaff, G. B., M.D., F.R.C.l'., F.E.S 68, 117 Lucas, W. J., B.A., F.E.S 198 Malloch, J. R 11, 137, 180, 203, 205 Meyrick, E., B.A., F.R.S 197 Mills, H. 0 2(17 Morice, Rev. F. D., M.A., F.E.S.. ..95, 178, 189, 260 Morley, Claude, F.E.S 235, 262, 270 Mortimer, C. H., F.E.S 186, 236 Morton, K. J 37,42, 159 Nevinson, E. B., F.E.S Ill Newbery, E. A. ...30, 88, 89, 90, 105, 148, 156, 195, 234, 235 Porritt, G. T., F.L.S 17, 40, 91, 185, 255, 275 Reuter, Prof. O. M., Hon. F.E.S 22 Rothney, G. A. J., F.E.S 157 Rothschild, Hon. L. W., Ph. D., F.E.S. 249 Rothschild, Hon. N. C, M.A., F.L.S. ...76, 187, 231 Saunders, E., F.R.S. ... 113, 235, 252, 257 Scott, Hugh, B.A 9 Sharp, W. E., F.E.S 13 Sharpin, Archdale 91 Speyer, E. R 277 Sulc, Dr. Karel 36 Thompson, M. L., F.E.S 231 Thurnall, A 186 Tomlin, J. R. le B., M.A., F.E.S.. ..40, L04, 125, 156, 185 Tottenham, H. R 275 Walker, J. J., M.A., R.N., F.L.S.. ..16, 91, 111, 135, 157, 186, 2H7, 234, 272 Walsingham, lit. Hon. Lord, M.A., LI,!)., F.R.S 52, lll'.i, 220 Waterhouse, E. A 207 Wood, J. II., M.B 164, 215, 253 V.rbury, Col. J. W., R.A., F.Z.S. .236, 237 90 GENERAL INDEX. PAGE Abraxas grossulariata var. varleyata, further notes on the breeding of 275 Aleochara crassiuscula, Sahib., a British insect, 194; additional localities for, 270 ; ruficornis, Grav., at Woking Anarsia, A new Indian species of ... . • •• ■•• ••• ••• ••• '■"' Anaspis garneysi, Fowl., &c, bred from New Forest, 233 ; septentrionalis, Champ., Habitat of 255 Anisotoma brunnea from the Isle of Wight, 6'") ; flavicornis, Ch. Bris., an addi- tion to the British list of Coleoptera, 174; additional localities for ... 200 Antaeon, British species of ... ... ... ••• ••• ••• •■• 14-1, 209 Antecerococcus, Green, Note on the genus ... ... ... ••• ••• 41 Aphodius constans, Dufts., at Oxford, 111 ; in Middlesex, Herts, and Essex, 336 ; scybalarius, F., ab. nigricans, Muls., at Deal 155 Apion lsevigatum, Kivby, at Braunton, North Devon 234 Arseocerus fasciculatus, De Geer, as a British insect ... 265 Arena octavii, Fauv., on Dawlish Warren 90 Bassus flavipes, Holmgr. ... ... •■• ■■• ■■• ■•• ••• ■■■ 136 Bracon, further notes on the Hymenopterous genus 269 Bruchus affinis, Frohl., a British insect ... ... ... 40 Butterflies and Neuroptera in Perthshire 149 Callicera senea, F., in South Wales 237 Calodera protensa, Mann., a British insect ... ... ... 225 Carabus violaceus, sub-s. sollicitans, Hartert, Note on 124 Cataplectica farreni in Norfolk ... ... ... ... ... ••■ ••• 157 Ceuthorrhynchidius mixtus, Rey, in Northamptonshire, 90 ; parvulus, Bris., an addition to the British list of Coleoptera ... ... 195 Ceuthorrhynchus eetosus, Boh., A food-plant of 136 Clunio marinus, Haliday, in Scotland ... ... ... ... ... ... 207 Coelioxys afra, Lep., A bee new to Britain from the New Forest ... ... 178 Coleoptera, method of collecting, in running streams, 271 ; Notes on various British, 1 ; Two new British, 51, 104; of the Chiltern Hills, 133; at Christow and in South Devon, 13 ; Notes on Cumberland, in 1907, 109; in Devonshire, 32 ; at Hendon, 155 ; in the Isle of Wight, 255 ; Lundy Island, 156 ; in Moles' nests, 246 ; in the Nests made by Bombycid larvae, 233 ; at Oxford, autumnal, 272 ; in flood-rubbish at Oxford, 135 ; Scilly Islands, 175, 206 ; taken on the wing in Surrey, 134; in various localities in 1907, 61 ; in the Woking district 254 Colias edusa, &c, in 1908 207 Colon, A note on the Coleopterous genus ... ... ... ,. ... ... 38 Correction, A ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... • •• H3 Corticaria, Notes on the genus ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 125 Corymbites castaneus, L., in Yorkshire ... ... ... ... ... ... 234 Crabro and Dipteron : Romantic tragedy in low life ... ... ... ... 236 Cryptophagus lvendali, Ganglb., in the New Forest, 123 ; schmidti, Sturm, at Strood, Kent, 16 ; subdepressus, Gyll., and Melanophthalma similata at Nethy Bridge 272 Cumberland Coleoptera in 1907 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 109 Dale Collection, British Dragonflies of 198 Dasypoda hirtipes, Ltr., Note on the nesting habits of 235 Dasytes plumbeus and D. oculatus of British collections 156,234 Deliphrum crenatum, Grav., in Dumbartonshire 16 Devonshire, Coleoptera in, 13,32; Hemiptera-Heteroptera in 32 Diptera, Two new British : Pegomyia esuriens, Mg., and P. univittata, v. Ros., 128; in Dumbartonshire in 1907,137; Two new British: Eccoptomera microps, Meig., and Agromyza bicornis ... ... ... ... 180 Dragonflies of the Dale Collection, Notes on the British 198 Dromius angustus, Brulle, at Woking ... ... ... ... 124 Drymus brunneus and sylvaticus, The macropterous and brachypterous forms of 257 Dryops (Parnus) luridus, Er., a species not hitherto recorded as British ... 102 Eccoptomera microps, Mg., and Agromyza bicornis, Kalb., Two Diptera new to the British list, 180 ; in moles' nests ... ... 277 Empis livida, L., Observations on ... ... ... 281 Epursea, Notes on the genus ... ... ... ... ... jOg Fauna Hawaiiensis Micro-Lepidoptera : A correction ... 109 Q-norimus variabilis, Re-occurrence of ... ... ... ... 9*73 Halesus guttatipennis, McLach., at Pocklington .. 91 Halictus longulus, Smith, a small form of H. malachurus, Kirby 229 Helophorus, The British Species of, 218 ; porculus, Bedel, an addition to the list of British Coleoptera ... ... ... ... 88 Hemerobius marginatus, Steph., and H. orotypus, Wallengr., in Wharfedale... 17 Hemiptera from Cambridgeshire ... ... ... ... 9*75 Hemiptera-Heteroptera, Nomenclature of British, 22 ; in Devonshire 32 • in various localities in 1907 ... ... ... ... gi Hyadina nitida, Mcq., a species of Diptera new to the British list 205 Homoptera hitherto undescribed or unrecorded as British 55 80 Hydropori found at West Ay ton ... ... ... ... ,^fi Hydroporus bilineatus, Sturm, Re-occurrence of, in Britain, 60 ; marginatus Dufts., at South Brent, South Devon ... ... ... c,q± Hymenoptera in the New Forest, &c, 17 ; Aculeata near Bradford in 1907, 63 • during 1907, 111 ; at Minehead, 157 ; on some Irish ... ... 276 Hystrichopsylla narbeli, G-alli-Valerio ... ... ... ... qi Laccobius, Er., A new species of, with a table of the British species of the genus, 30 ; nigriceps, an unrecorded form of, 90 ; purpurascens, Coloration of, 60 ; sinuatus, Mots, (oblongus, Grorham) ... ... gi Lsemophloeus monilis, F., in Berkshire ... ... ... ... go Lecanium, Towards the better knowledge of the genus ... ... og Lepidoptera, Suffolk, in 1906 and 1907, 34; in the Upper Engadine 238 Leucania vitellina, &c, in South Devon ... ... ... ... 25^ Macaria liturata var. nigrofulvata in Yorkshire ... ... ... 185 Malachius vulneratus, Ab., Further captures of, in Kent ... 207 Mallota cimbiciformis, Fin., in Northamptonshire ... .,. 187 Melanism, &c, Abraxas ulmata ... ... ... ... ... ^n Meligethes subrugosus, Gryll., in South Devon, 60 ; viduatus, Sturm, var. aestimabilis, an addition to the list of British Coleoptera .. 89 Metatropis rufescens, H.-S., in the New Forest ... ... ... leg PAGE Micrambe villosa, Heer = pilosula, Er., an addition to the British list of Coleoptera 105,235 Micro-Lepidoptera, Spanish and Moorish, 52, 226 ; Fauna Hawaiiensis : a correction ... ... ... ... • ■ ■ • • ■ • • • ■ • •• • 109 Microplax albofasciata, Costa, in Jersey ... ... ... •• .. ■•■ 275 M oil usca disseminated by Water Beetles ... ... ... ... ... 40,80 Mycetophilidoe, including several species new to the British list ... 129, 150 Nephrocerus flavicornis, Zett., at Lyndhurst ... ... ... ... 208,237 Neuroptera in Perthshire, 149 ; in Suffolk, Scarce British ... ... ... '42 New Forest, Hytnenoptera in ... .. ... ... ... ... ... 17 Nomada guttulata at Swanage, Dorset ... ... ... ... ... ... 186 Notiophilus aquaticus, L., on the Scottish mountain form of, 271 ; Two un- recognised British species ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 103 Notochilus hamulatus, Thorns., an addition to the list of British Uetniptera .. 252 Notodonta phcebe, Sieb. (= tritophus, F.), in Bedfordshire ... ... ... 136 Obituaries :— Chitty, Arthur John, M.A., F.E.S., 13; Dobree, Nicholas Frank, 64; Finot, Pierre Adrien Prosper, 160; Freeman, Francis Ford, F.E.3., 113 ; Gbss, Herbert, F.L.S., F.G-.S., F.E.S., 92 ; Jacoby, Martin, F.E.S., 44; Knaggs, H. Guard, M.D. (with Portrait) 49 Odonata collected by Miss Fountaine in Bosnia and Hercegovina, 37 ; of the Dale Collection, Notes on the British ... ... ... ... ... 198 Odynerus basalis in Dorset... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 236 Olibrus pygrnasus, Sturm, on Filago germanica ... .. ... ... ... 274 Onthophilus globulosus, 01., &c, in moles' nests... .. ... ... ... 274 Pachycoleus rufescens, Sahib., iu Devonshire (with figure) ... ... ...8,42 Papilio from Africa, A new .. ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 249 Pegomyia univittata, v. Ros., and P. setaria, Meig., in North Kent ... ... 187 Phlceophilus edwardsi, Steph., at Nethy Bridge 273 Phora, The British species of, Pt. ii ... ... 164,215,253 Phoridse in Dumbartonshire, with description of a new species ... 11, 203 Phjllotreta diademata, Foudr., an addition to the British list of Coleoptera ... 148 Pipunculus melanostolus, Beck., a fly new to Britain, The pupal and adult stages of... ... ••■ ••■ ••• ••• ••• ••• ••■ ••• 9 Plusia gamma and Pyrameis cardui, Probable immigration of ... ... ... 157 Polydrusus chrysomela, 01., A singular variety of 90 Procas armillatus, F., in Nottinghamshire .'.. 273 Proctotrupids, British species recently described by J. J. Kieffer ... ... 63 Proctotrypid genus Antseon, with descriptions of new species and a table of those occurring in Britain ... ... ... ... ... ... 141, 209 Pselaphus dresdensis, Herbst, near Oxford ... ... ... ... ... 234 Pyralis lienigialis, Zell., at Oxford... ... ... ... ... ... ... 16 Pyrameis virginiensis, Drury (huntera, F.), in the Isle of Wight ... ... 91 Pyrausta serialis, Hibernation of ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 256 Pyrochroa coccinea, L., and Athous rhombeus, 01., abundance of larvae of, in the New Forest 274 Pyropterus affinis, Payk., at Nethy Bridge 273 Quedi us nigrocoeruleus, Muls. and Key, in Devonshire ... ... ... ... 184 PAGE Reviews : — " Lepidoptera and other Insects observed in the Parish of Morte- hoe, North Devon," by G. B. Longstaff, M.D., F.R.C.P., 43 ; " Moths of the British Isles," by Richard South, F.E.S., 64 ; " Forest Entomology," by A. T. Gillanders, F.E.S., 158 ; " Thirty-First Annual Report and Proceedings of the Lan- cashire and Cheshire Entomological Society, Session 1907," 159 ; " 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. ii, 187 ; " Practical Hints for the Field Lepi- dopterist," by J. W. Tutt, F.E.S. Second Edition, Pt. i ... 208 Rbizophagus parallelocollis, Er., in seed potatoes ... ... ... ... 40 Rhytidosomus globulus, Hbst., near Oxford ... ... ... ... ... 157 Romantic tragedy in low life ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 236 Scilly Islands, Coleoptera of ... ... ... ... 175,200 Scoparia dubitalis, Is it a root- or a moss-feeder ? ... ... ... ... 186 Scotland, Butterflies and Neuroptera in Perthsbire, 149 ; Diptera in Dum- bartonshire in 1907 ... ... .. ... ■•• ■■• ••• •■• 1^7 Scymmus pulchellus, Hbst.... ... ... ... ... ... ... ••• 185 Sehirus morio, L., and luctuosus, M.R. ... ... ... ... ... ••• 113 Siphonaptera from Ruwenzori, Uganda (with a plate), 76 ; A new British Flea (with plate) 231 Spanish and Moorish Micro-Lepidoptera ... ... ... ... ... 52,226 Steganoptycha subsequana, Haw., in Norfolk ... ... ... ... 157 Stenophylax alpestris and Hemerobius quadrifasciatus near Sheffield ... ... 185 Societies :— Birmingham Natural History and Philosophical Society, 188; Birmingham Entomological Society, 18, 45, 65, 67, 92; Entomological Society of London, 20, 21, 48, 94, 115, 140, 162, 258, 279 ; Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society, 18, 19, 65, 93, 114, 139, 160, 277; South London Entomological Society 19,46,66,93,115,139,161, 189, 209, 237, 257, 278 Suffolk Lepidoptera, 34 ; Neuroptera ... ... ... ... ... ... 42 Sympetrum fonscolombii : a correction ... ... ... ... ... ... 277 Tachytes pectinipes, L., and its prey ... ... ... ... ... '••. 186 Tenthredinidae, Help Notes towards the determination of British, (21) 95, (22) 189, (23) 260 ; Scarce 137 Teretrius picipes, F., commensal with Lyctus canaliculars and L. brunneus ?... 39 Thysanoptera, new to the British Fauna ... ... ... ... ... ... 3 Tortrix pronubana, Hb., at Bognor ... ... ... 256 Trichoptilus paludum, L., in East Devon... ... ... ... ... ... 91 Vanessa io, &c, at West Hartlepool ... ... ... ... ... ... 256 Venezuela, A fortnight's winter collecting in ... ... ... ... 68,117 Xanthia ocellaris, Life-history of ... ... ... ... ... ••• ... 267 Xantholinus linearis and Dyschirius thoracicus, Combat between ... ... 235 Yorkshire Hymenoptera, Aculeata... ... ... ... ... ■ •• ... 63 Yponomeuta rorellus, Hb., in Britain ... ... ... ... ... 250 SPECIAL APHANIPTERA. PAGE Archseopsylla 231 Ceratophyllus stygius 77 Ctenocephalus wollastoui 76 Ctenopsyllus a^thiopicus, 79 ; hirsutus 78 Hystrichopsylla narbeli, talpse 91 Ornithopsylla laetitise 231 Pygiopsylla torvus 77 Spilopsyllus 231 COLEOPTERA. Acauthocinus ajdilis 272 Achenium depressurn , humile 136 Acrognathus mandibnlaris 254 Actocharis readingi 33 Actobius cinerascens, 177 ; procerulus, signaticoruis 14 Acupalpus brunnipes, &c 134 .^Epys mariuus 33 Agaricochara laevicollis Ill Agathidium convexuni, 136 ; Uevigatum, 110; uigripeuue 134 Agnathus decoratus 233 Aleochara brevipenuis, 90 ; crassiuscula, 194,270; maculata, 135; mierens,15 ; ruficornis, 90; spadicea ...134, 185, 246 Amara consularis, 32 ; farnelica, 134 ; patricia 32 Anaspis garueysi, 233 ; septentrionalis... 255 Anchonieuus viduus, 110; thoreyi 177 Ancyrophorus aureus, onialinus 14 Anisodactylus neniorivagus 134 Auisotonm brunnea, 60 ; cinuauioinea, var. anglica, 272 ; curta, 1, 272 ; flavicornis, 174, 206; lunicollis, puiic- tulata, rugosa, triepkei 272 Antherophagus silaceus 254 Anthicus angustatus 33 Aphanisticus pusillus 272 Aphodius constans, 111, 136; scybalarius, var. nigricans, 155 ; tessulatus 110 Aphthona nigriceps 255 Apiou affine, 61 ; atomarium, craccse, 34 ; crueutatum, 136 ; filirostre, 272 ; ltevigatum, 234 ; pubesceus, stolidum 134 Ara;ocerus fasciculatus 265 INDEX. PAGE Arena octavii 90 Aspidiphorus orbiculatus 15 Athous rhombeus 274 Atomaria atra, 11 J ; beroliuensis, 177 ; versicolor HI Baris lepidii 136 Badister peltatus 176 Bathyscia wollastoui 40 Bembidium monticola Ill Bidessus minutissimus 14, 33 Bledius f'emoralis, 134 ; unicornis 177 Bradycellus cognatus, &c 110 Bruchus affinis, 1, 40 ; v. velutinus 1 Bythinus curtisi 15 Cfpnopsis waltoni 62,177 Callicerus obscnrus, 14, 125 ; rigidicornis 127 Calodera nigrita, 254 ; protensa, 225 ; riparia, 110, 134; umbrosa...l4, 134, 272 Carabus violaceus, sub-sp. sollicitans 124 Cardiophorus asellus 135 Cassida hemisphserica, 33 ; inumea 14 Caulotrypis seneopiceus 177 Ceuthorrhynchidius chevrolati, 2 ; mixtus 90 Ceuthorrhynchus alliariai, 61 ; chalybseus, moguntiacus,2,272 ; euphdrbise, 272 ; parvulus, 195 ; setosus, 110, 136 ; timidus, viridipenuis 2 Cilea silphoides 14 Choleva anisotomoides, 14 ; spadicea ... 134 Ccelambus uovemlineatus, quinquelineatus 111 Colon angulare, appendiculatum, 39 ; denticulatum, 30 ; serripes, vien- nense, 38, 254 ; zebei 38 Coninomus carinatus 254 Conopalpus testaceus 62, 254 Corticaria crenicollis, eppelsheimi, line- aris, longicollis 127 Corylophus sublajvipennis 33, 177 Corymbites castaneus 234 Cryptocephalus bilineatus, 62 ; ochro- stoma 256 Cryptophagus hirtulus, 178; l(/>vendali, 123 ; pallidus, 110 ; pubescens, 33 ; punctipeunis, 111 ; ruficornis, 14 ; schmidti, 16; subdepressus, 272; nm- bratns 134 Dasytes oculatus, 156; pubescens 234 Deliphrum crenatum 16 PAGE Qbrmestes aurichalceus 232 Deronectes latus 147 Diglotta mersa 33 Dorcatoma chrysomelina, 234 ; fiavicornis 251 Dromius angustus, 124 ; vectensis 33 Dryops luridus 102 Dyschirius politus, 111,254; thoracicus.. 235 Elaphrus uliginosus 15 Elater sauguinolentus 254 Elmis iuueus, &c, 14 ; nitens 33 Epuraea spp., 106 — 109; thoracica 254 Eryx ater 133 Euconnus hirticollis 110 Eumicrus rufus 15(5 Euplectus ambiguus 110 Euthiascydmaenoid.es 156 Exomias pellucidus 61 Falagria thoracica 33 Gnorimus nobilis, 133 ; variabilis 273 Gnypela coerulea 33 Gynmetron labilis, 110; villosulus 62 Gymnusa brevicollis 110 Gyrinus colymbus 15 Hiemonia curtisi 134 Haplocnemus impressus 61 Harpalus discoideus 32 Heledoua agaricola 133 Helophorus arvernicus, 14, 33 ; dorsalis, 136 ; porculus, 88, 272 ; tubercula- tus, &c 221 Henicocerus exsculptus 14 Hippuriphila modeeri 62 Hister helluo, 223 ; marginatus, 185, 248; purpurascens 61 Holoparamecus caularum 156 Homalota autumnalis, 14, 15 ; clancula, 234 ; currax, 14 ; debilicornis, 134 ; debilis, 254 ; insecta, 14 ; longula, 136 ; luteipes, 14 ; orbata, 111 ; pagana, 272 ; paradoxa, 247 ; paral- lela, 110 ; pavens, 14 ; puberula, 272 ; silvicola, &c 134 Hy drama- gracilis, &c, 33; lougior, &c, 14, 15 ; pygnia?a 60 Hydnobius punctatus, 1 ; punctatissimus 272 Hydrochus nitidicollis 14, 33 Hydroporus biliueatus, 60 ; ferrugineus, 147 ; lougulus, 33, 147 ; marginatus, 234 ; melanarius, oblongus, 1 17 ; obscurus, 110; obsoletus, 147; sep- tentrionalis, 14, 33, 147; umbrosns.. 147 Hylesinus oleiperda 62 Eypera pollux 15 Ilyobatos nigricollis, 110, 134 ; propin- quus 136 Kissister minima 136, 177 Laccobius nigriceps, 90, 110 ; purpu- rascens (sp. n.), 30, 33, 60; sinuatus 61 Lsemophlceus mouilis 39 Lampriuus saginatus 136 Larinus carlinae 14 Lathridius bergrothi 110 Lathrobium angustatum, 14, 33; elonga- tum, var. fraudulentum, 156 ; var. nigrum, 1; filiforme, 62, 135; pal- lidum 135 Leptinus testaceus 15 Lesteva sicula 14, 33 Limnius troglodytes 15, 33 Limobius dissimilis 15 Limouius minutus 110 Litargus coloratus 104 Longitarsus distingueudus, 111 ; niger- rimus 104 Lycoperdina bovistse 272 Lynmanini nigropiceum 33 Magdalis barbicornis 61 Malachius vulneratus 207 Medou apicalis, 254 ; castaneus, 90, 248 ; ripicola 14 Megacronus incliuans 134 Melanophthalma similata 135, 254, 272 Melanotus punctolineatus 62 Meligethes subrugosus, 60 ; umbrosus, 110; viduatus, var. ajstiniabilis 80 Micrambe perrisi, 133; villosa 105,235 Micropeplus tesserula 110 Molorchus minor, 61 ; umbellatarum 255 Monotonia longicollis, 254 ; quadricollis, spinicollis, rufa 156 Mordellistenahumeralis,255 ; neuwaldeg- giana 34, 255 Mycetophagus piceus 234 Myllsena brevicornis, 133 ; kraatzi 33 Myrmedouia collaris 234 Necrophorus interruptus 33 Neuraphes angulatus, 254; elongatulus, 33, 110 ; sparshalli 156 Notiophilus aquaticus, var., 271 ; hypo- crita, pusillus, 103, 271 ; rufipes, 14, 15; strigifrons 171 Ochthcbius exaratus, 255 ; lejolisi, 33 ; rufimarginatus Ill Ocypus fnscatus 136 Ohbrus pygmaeus, flavicornis 274 Onthophilus striatus, 134 ; globulosus 248, 27 1 Oxypoda perplexa, 51, 177; spectabilis.. 134 Oxytelus clypeonitens, 134, 249, 254; fairmairei, 254 ; insecatus 62 Pentarthrum huttoni 15 Perileptus areolatus 14 Phalacrus hybridus 60 Philonthus concinnus, 51 ; ebeninus, var. corruscus, 60 ; fulvipes, puella, 111 ; punctus 33 Phlceophilus edwardsi 254, 272, 273 Phlccotrya rufipes 61 Phyllotreta diademata 148 Phytoecia cylindrica 15 Phytosus balteatus, spinifer 33 Phytodecta olivacea, var. nigricans 110 Pissodes notatus 1/V Plagiodera versicolora 61 Polydrnsns cbrysomela 90, 111 Poophagus nasturtii 2, 15 Prionus coriarius 62 Procas armillatus 274 Pselaphus dresdensis 234 Pseudopsis sulcata 135 Pterosticlms anthracinus, 136 ; gracilis. 176; dimidiatus 32 Ptilium exaratum, knnzei 254 Ptinus sexpunctatus 15 Pyroehroa coccinea 271 Pyropterus affinis 273 Quedius auricomus, 15 ; longicomis, 247 ; nigrocoeruleus, 184, 247; riparius, 185; vexans 110, 217 Rhantus exoletus 110 Rhizopbagus coeruleipennis, 14 ; paral- lelocollis 40 Rhytidosomus globulus » 157 Salpingus aeratus 15 Scymnus capitatus, minimus, 61 ; pul- chellus, 185; redtenbacheri 157 Sibinia areaariae, potentillae, sodalis, pri- mita 15 Staphylinus latebricola 136 Stenolophus teutonus, 90; vespertinus... 134, 176 Stennsargus, 110; ater, 134; circularis, fuscipes, vafcllus 136 Stilicus fragilis 134 Sunius angustatus,var. lyonessius (var.n.) 177 PAGE Telephorus darwinianus Ill Teretrius picipes 40 Tetratoma desmaresti 272 Thalycra sericea 255 Trechus micros 136 Triarthron markeli 254 Trogolinus anglicanus 255 Trogophloens halophilus, 111; tenellus ... 254 Xyleborus dispar, 135 ; pfeili, 233 ; saxe- seni 233 DIPTERA. Acnemia longipes 152 Agromyza bicomis, 180; capitata, 138; curvipalpis, 181 ; scutellata 138 Allceostylus sudeticus 138 Allocotocera piilchella 152 Amaurosoma armillata, inerme 138 Anatella ciliata, flavicauda, sp 151 Anthomyza unguicella 138 Aphiochaeta 168 Apoliphthisa subincana 154 Asiudulum sp 154 Azana anomala 151 Brachypeza armata, bisignata, 132 ; ra- diata 132,151 Callicera aenea 237 Callimyia amcena, speciosa 138 Chersodroniia arenaria 137 Clunio marinus 207 Conicera atra, similis 12 Cordyla valida 151 Diadocidia ferruginea , valida 154 Diaphorus ocnlatus 138 Diastata inornata 138 Drapetis nervosa 137 Eccoptomera longiseta, microps ... ISO, 277 Lonchoptera lutea, var. palustris 277 Empheria, 153; lineola, pictipennis 154 Empis livida, 181 ; lutea 137 Epicypta punctum, 130, 131 ; scatophora, sp., 130 ; trinotata 131 Euthyneura myricas 137 Gnoriste bilineata, trilineata 153 Gymnophora arcuata 12 Hertwigia marginata 153 Ilomalomyia difficilis, fuscula 138 PAGE TTvadina guttata, 206; aitida, 206; scu- ' tellata 206 1 1 ypophyllus discipes 138 Leia elegans, 152; helvola, 151; varie- gate 152 Leptopa filiformis 138 Leucopis obscura 138 Easpocephala alma 138 Lonchoptera lutea, var. palustris 277 Mallota . cimbicifonnis 187 Stegophthalmidia crassicornis, zugmay- erisE 152 Metopina galeata 13 M icromorphus albipes 138 Mycetophilida? 129 Mycothera semif nsca 132 Neottiophilum praeustam 138 Nephroceles flavicornis 208, 237 Orygma luctuosum 138 Pachymeria femoratus, palparis 137 Parastemma brevicornis 151 Pa ratinia , 154 ; sciarina 153 Pegoinyia esuriens, 128; flavipes, 129; iniqua, 128 ; setaria, 187 ; univit- tata 129, 187 Pelina amescens 138 Philhygria interstincta, picta, posticata, 138 stictica Phora abdominalis, 13 ; albicans, 172 ; campestris, 174, 218 ; carinifrons, citreiformis, 13 ; coneinna, 12 ; cos- talis, 13 ; crassicornis, 12 ; cubitalis, 13, 171, 254; curvinervis, 12; dubi- talis, 171, 253 ; emarginata, 172 ; femoratus, 13 ; fennica, 12 ; flava, 13 ; flavicauda, 253 ; flavicoxa, 254; formicarum, 168, 215 ; fuscinervis, 173, 217; giraudi, 170, 216; hu- meralis, 254 ; intermedia. 204 ; lu- gubris, 12, 204 ; lutea, 13 ; magni- palpis, 217 ; meigeni, 170, 216 ; nudipalpis, 12 ; nudipes, 173, 217 ; opaca, 12 ; paludosa, 174, 217 ; picta, 169, 216 ; projecta, 13, 170 ; puberi- cornis, 12 ; rata, 172 ; retroversa, 173, 217 ; rufa, 170 ; ruficornis, 171 ; sexspinosa, 169, 216, 254; sordida, 13; spiuigera, 174, 21"; sublugu- bris, 12; thoracica, 12, 203; urn- brimargo, 13, 168, 216 ; unispinosa, 12; nrbana, 12, 203 ; vitripennis ... 13, 205 Phthinia humilis 152 Pipunculus hylseus, 10; melauostolus ... 9 PAGE Plastophora 168 Poecilobothrus Dobilitatus 236 Polylepta splendida, undulata 153 Porphyrops cpnsobrina, spinicoxa 138 Pseudacteon crawfordii 168 Psilopa leucostoma 138 Etagas unica 137 Rhamphomyia sethiops 137 Sapromyza affinis, anisodactyla, quadri- vittata 138 Sciomyza cinerella, pallidicarpa, scutel- laris 138 Sciophila fenestella 154 Sepsis pilipes 138 Sphserocera monilis 138 Syntormon tarsatus 138 Tachydromia calceata, 137 ; flavicornis. flavipes, 138; pubicornis, varia 137 Teuchophorus monacanthus 138 Trichina flavipes 137 Trimerina madizans 138 Trineura aterrima, schineri, velutina 12 Trypeta jacea' 270 Urophora solstitialis 269 HEMIPTERA. Acocephalus sestuarmus (sp. n.), Edwards, limicola (sp. n.), Edwards 5" ^Elia acuminata 34 Antecerococcus (gen. n.), Green 41 Apha Lara pilosa 86 Aplianus alboacnminatus 63 Athysanus sejungendus 69 Calocoris ticinensis 275 Ceraleptus lividus 63 Chlorita apicalis, solanituberosi 82 Cicadula livida, warioni 80 Corixa bonsdorffi, &c 2~5 Cymatia coleoptrata 34 Deltocephalus formosus, forma steini, 59; minki 80 Dicraneura luteola 81 Doratura impudica 58 Drymus brunneus, sylvaticus, 257; pili- cornis 275 Empoasca butleri (sp. n.), Edwards, 82; populi (sp. n.), Edwards, smaragdula 81 Eulecanium 36 Eupelix cuspidata, depressa, producta ... 58 Heterogaster artemisia? 63 Lecanium 36 X. PAGB Livia crefeldeusis 85 Lopus gothicus 34 Macropsis rubi 56 Mesovelia furcata 34 Metatropis rufescens 186 Microplax albofasciatus 275 Microvelia pygma^a 34, 275 Myrmedobia inconspicua 34 Myrmus miriformis 34 Notochilus hamulatus 252 Pachycoleus rufescens 8, 42 Palaeolecanium (gen. n.), Snlc 36 Partheuolecanium (gen. n.), Sulc. ......... 36 Psylla viburni 85 Ranatra linearis 275 Reduvius personatus 275 Salda c-album, 34; cincta, elegantula ... 275 Sehirus luctuosus, niorio 113 Sigara minntissima 275 Spha'rolecanium (gen. u.), Sulc 36 Teratocoris antennatus 275 Thamnotettix striatulella 80 Therapha hyoscyami 34 Trioza silacea, 86 ; velutina 85 Typhlocyba f ratercula, f rustrator 84 Zicrona coerulea 63 HYMENOPTERA. Agenia hircana 112 Andrena bucephala, ferox, 112 ; lap- ponica, 63, 112 ; niveata 17 Anta-on barbatus (u. sp.), Chitty, 142; beaumonti (n. sp.), Chitty, 145; breviventralis (u. sp.), Chitty, 144; ellimam (n. sp.), Chitty, kiefferi (n. sp.), Chitty, 143; luffnessensis (u. sp.), Chitty, 145; morleyi (n. sp.), Chitty, 144; ohscuricornis, Kieff., 146; rufulocollis (n. sp.), Chitty, 143; suffolciensis (n. sp.), Chitty 144 Bassus flavipes 136 Belytida* 63 Bombus soroensis 112 Bracon 269 Calicurgus hyalinatus 17, 113 Chrysis fulgida 17 Cfelioxys af ra 178 Crabro cetratus, 17 ; gonager 113 PAGE Dasypoda hirtipes 235 Dufourea vulgaris 17 Gorytes bicinctus, 112,113; laticinctus... 17 Halictus atricornis. freygessneri, 63 ; longulus, malachurus, 229 ; puncti- collis, 17 ; rubicundus, smeathmanel- lus 276 Hedychridium coriaceum 17 Heriades truncorum 112 Holcocneme erichsoui 101 Nomada alternata, 276 ; guttulata 186 Nysson trimaculatus 112 Odynerns basalis, 236 ; crassicorais, 17 ; herrichii, 236 ; pictus, trimargiuatus 276 Osmia parietina, pilicornis, xanthonielana 112 Oxybelus mandibularis 17 Pamphilius betulae, 100 ; gyllenhali, 137 ; pallipes 100 Pemphredon morio, wesmaeb 112 Pompilus unicolor 113 Prenolepis vividula 63 Proctotrupidse 63, 141, 209 Prosopis cornuta, dilatata 113 Psenulus concolor 17, 112 Salius notatulus, obtusiveutris, 113 ; ex- altatus 276 ScMzoceros furcatus 101 Sphecodes ferruginatus 63 Stelis octomaculata, 112; phoeoptera...l7, 112 Vespa austriaca 63, 276 Xyphydria camelus 137 LEPIDOPTERA. Abraxas grossulariata var. varleyata, 275 ; ulmata, 35, 47 ; nielanic 40 Acidalia emutaria, 35 ; humiliata 48, 27S Acronycta myricse, 244 ; psi 258 Actinote anticas, 69 ; hylonome 118 Adela crcesella 35 Adelpha bredowi var. calif oruica, 21 ; lara 116 Aeria agna, 76 ; eurymedia 74 Agdistes bennettii 35 Ageronia f erentina 69 Agrotis ashworthii, 18, 20; cursoriavars., 91; rip;p, 18; saucia 256 Ambia iustrumentalis 162 Ammalo insulata 120 Amphidasys betularia var., 93 ; strataria 160 Aniphirene epaphus 118 PAGE Amynthia maerula 119 Aiura ryphea 72 Anarsia ephippias (sp. n.) 197 Anarta cordigera, melauopa 19, 243 Anartia amalthea 70 Angerona pruuaria IS Anosia archippus 70 Anthocharis tagis 258 Anticlea derivata, 18 ; rubidata, 93 ; sinuata 47 Anthrocera trifolii vara 21 Anybia epilobiella 189 Aplecta nebulosa var. robsoui, 18, 280 ; occulta 35 Aporia crataegi 244 Araschiua levana var. prorsa 20 Argynnis agla.ia, 150, 244; amathusia, dia, 244; napsea, 243; niobe, 242; pales, 243; paphia var., 258; selene, 240; thore 242 Argyresthia laevigatella 159 Aricia agestis var. alpina, 19 ; var. arta- xerxes 149 Arteurotia tract ipenuis 72 A sthenia pygrrueana 189 A thesis clearista 74 Batodes angustiorana 66 Belenois (sp. n.) 32 Bertholdia specularis 120 Boarmia gemmaria var. perfumaria, 18 ; repandata 18, 139 Bombyx quercus var 66 Brenthis euphrosyne, selene 149 Butalis iucougruella 35 Calamia phragmitidis 35 Callicore ruarchalii 72 Callidryas eubule 70 Callimorpha domiuula var 259 Callipsyche thius 71 Camptogramuia fluviata 260 Oaradrina ambigua 256 Carystus coryna 120 Cataplectica f arreui 157 Catochrysops hanno 71 Catonephele nyctimus 121 Catopsilia catilla 161 Ceratinia cneno, diomea 76 Charaxes neanthes, zooliua 280 Chariclea umbra 18 Charis argyrodines 118 PAGE Chauliodus chaerophyllellus, illigerellus ... 35 Chiomara asychis, 72 ; gesta 70,121 Chortobius davus 150 Ohortodes bondii 51 Chrysophanus alciphron, 161 ; hippothoe, 21-2; thersamon, 161 ; virgaureae ... 242 Cidaria silaceata 35 Oolaertis julia 121 Coleophora onosmella, 20 ; siccifoliella, 237 ; therinella, 35 ; virgaureella . . . 258 Colias edusa, hyale, 207, 280 ; myrmi- done ab. alba, 161 ; palseno, 280, var. herrichi, 243 ; phicomoue 239 Cosruosoma teuthras 120 Crambus alieuellus, 240; chrysonuchellus, 238 ; maculalis, 243 ; margaritellus, pyraroidellus, 245 -, radiellus, zermat- tensis 213 Cryptoblabes bistriga 35 Cteuucha venosa 120 Cupido minima 149 Cybdelis mnasylus 71 Cycloglypha thrasybulus 120 Cymatophora duplaris 66, 245 Cyrestis thyodamas 66 Cystiueura cana 121 Daptououra lycimnia 70 Deilephila galii 19 Deiopeia ornatrix 74 Dercas verhuelli 66 Devarodes hypocritaria 74 Diantha?cia ciesia, 244 ; naua 18 Dichelia grotiana 35 Dicranura bicuspis, 22, 238 ; bifida 256 Didouis biblis 72 Dilophouota ello 120 Dione juno 70 Dircenna jemima H7 Drepana binaria 34 Dryas paphia var 258 Dynamiue postverta, theseus, sara 72 Earias chlorana 34 Ebulea stachydalis • • 35 Elachista sepulchrella 54 Ellopia prosapiaria 19 Emmelesia adaequata IS Euautia melite H9 Endrosa aurita, 243 ; irrorella, 239 ; ros- cida 243 Ephialtias tryma I2" Xll. PAGE Ephippiphora inopiana 35 Epichnopteryx radiella 35 Epinephele jurtina 1 in Epunda lichenea. Iutulenta, nigra 256 Erebia sethiops, 244; coecilia, 47; epi- lihrnn, 150; euryale, 240, 280; gorge, lappona var. sthennyo, 47 ; lefebvrei, 47, 67; hgea, 280; medusa var. psodea, 161 ; melampus, 240 ; mne- stra, 241; ceme, 1-7; pharte, 241; stygne, tyndarus var. dromus 47 Erebus odorus, zenobia 120 Eubolia palumbaria var 47 Eucereon setosum 120 Euchromia purpurana 35 Eudamus catillus, eurycles, 72 ; proteus... 119 Eueides isabella 121 Eugonia alniaria 19, 66 Eupithecia absynthiata, 257 ; albipunc- tata, coronata, 35 ; jasioueata. 18 ; oblongata var. centralisata 20 Euploea desjardinsi, cuphon, goudoti 141 Eupoecilia vectisana 35 Euptychia hermes, hesione. 70 ; mollina, 121 ; phares, 69 ; pharella, saturnus.. 73 Euterpe critias 119 Everes argiades, 116, 141 ; coretas 141 Gelechia mulinella 35 Geometra papilionaria 19 Gnophos coelibaria var. spurcaria, 245 ; glaucinaria, meudicaria, 241 ; myr- tillata, 239; obscurata var. mundata 258 Gnophria quadra 34 Gorgythion begga 120 Grapta c-album 46 Hadena glauca 244 Eamiatera pyramus 121 Heliconius charithonia, 70 ; hydara, 118; numata 21 Heliopetes alana, arsalte, 72; domicella, 121 ; laviana 69 Hemerophila abruptaria var 18 Heodes hippothoe 239 Hepialus humuli, lupulinus 117 Hesperia malvse var., 209 ; syrichthus, 64; uniformis 74 Homreosoma binaevella, sinuella 35 Eydraecia lucens, nictitans, paludis 160 Hymcnitis andromica 76 Hypna clytemnestra 72 Hypoleria ocalea 74 PAGE Eypolimnas egesta 139 Eyposmocoma nephelodes 109 Eyria auroraria 22 Ino geryon var. chrysocephala, statices var. heydenreichii 241 rthomia agnosia, 76 ; andromica, 74 ; cy- mothoe, 76; iphianassa, 69; sylvella 76 JOsioi pha cruciata 120 Larentia multistrigaria var. 116 ; olivata, 93; salicata 18 Laverna subbistrigella 35 Leptidia siuapis 239 Leptogramma literana 35 Leptophobia aripa 70 Leptotes cassius ! 71 Leucania brevilinea, 280; comma, 244; favicolor, 35, 238 ; obsoleta, stra- minea, 35; vitellina 255 Leucothyris phemonoe 76 Limenitis Camilla, 161 ; lorquiui, 21 ; populi, 161, 244 ; sibylla 161 Lithocolletis stettiuensis 35 Lithosia cereola, 243 ; deplaua, lurideola 245 Lobophora halterata, 46 ; viretata 18 LycaBnaargus,242; ariou, 240; astrarche, 239; bellargus, 19, 240, 280; cory- don, 244, 280, var. syngrapha, 19 ; damon, 240 ; donzelii, eros, eumedon, icarus, minima, optilete, 242 ; orbi- tulus var. oberthuri, 47, 67 ; phe- retes, 242 ; semiargus 161, 239 Lymuas jarbus ng Macaria liturata var. nigrof ulvata 185, 258 Macrothylacia rubi 240 Mamestra abjecta 35 Manduca atropos 207 Marasmarcha phaeodactyla, 256; tntto- dactyla 47 Mechanitis veritabilis 70 Meganostoma cerbera 72 Melampias ephipron 47 Melauargia galathea var. leucoinelas, 20 ; iues 258 Melanippe fluctnatavar.,47; galiata, 20; tristata var 18 Melimea mneme 21 Melitrea athalia, 48, var. britomartis, 94; aurinia, 242; cynthia, 243; deione, 258 ; merope, 242 ; parthenie, pho?be, 258; varia 243 Morpho peleides 118 Myscelia cyaniris 71 Semophora metaxella 35 Bemotois cupriacellus 238 Nepticula acetosae 238 ■Teptis aceris, luciUa 161 Nicacanthara 121 Noctua castanea var. neglecta, glareosa, • 19; rubi var 260 Nonagria arundineti, 35 ; concolor, 19 ; geminipimcta 35 Notodouta tritophus 136 Nudaria senex 34, 140 Nychitona medusa 68 Nyctegretes achatiuella 35 Ryssia lappbnaria 19 Odouestis potatoria vars. 46 Odontopera bidentata vars. 19 jEEcophora lunaris 35 Ophiodes lunaris 257 Oporabia dilutata var. 22 Opostega chalcopepla (sp. n.) 228 Orenaia alpestralis, helveticalis, lugu- bralis, rupestralis 244 Oreopsyche pyreua-ella 46,47 Oressinoma typhla 73 Ortholitha bipuuctaria, limitata 245 Oxydia verulia 120 Paches geometriuus 71 Papilio astorion, 164; cymochles, 118; eurimedes, 71 ; dardanus, 164 ; lamp- sacus, 115 ; leucotaenia (sp. u.), 249 ; machaou, 239 ; philoxenus, 164 ; phorbanta, 68 ; polydamus, 71 ; sera- pis, 119; thoas, 21; warscewiczii ... 161 Pararge achine, 258; climene, 161; liiera, 242; roxelana 161 Parnassius apollo, 239 ; delius 241 Pereute calliauira, callinice, leucodro'sime 116 Perichares eorydou 121 Perittia calpella (sp. n.) 54 Peronea hastiana vars 93 Phaloe lorza 122 Phalonia reversana, 226 ; versana (sp. n.) 227 Phlccodes immundana 35 Pbyciodes anieta, 70; leucodesma, 69; lelex, liriope 70 Pbycis subornatella 35 Phyllouorycter nevadensis (sp. u.) 228 Pieris callidice, 242 ; calydonia, 122 ; daplidice, 258; uapi var. bryonise, 46, 242, gynandro, 259; pliileta ... Plusia am, 211 ; bractea, 246 ; gamma, 157; hochenwarthii, 211, moneta 19, 35 Polia chi, 256, vara. 93 ; flavocincta, 256 ; xanthomista 22 Polyniphe dunfenilii 70 Polyommatus dorilis, 258; icarus var. clava 20 Porthesia chrysorrhaea 238 Precis artaxia 115 ; laviuia 72 Preues evadues, 70 ; nyctclius 120 Pseudopieris nehemia 72 Pseudopontia paradoxa 68 Psodos alpiuata, 243 ; coracina, 243, 258 ; quadrif aria, trepidaria 2 1-3 Pteronymia latilla, 117 ; victorina 121 Pygaera curtula 19 Pyralis lienigialis 16,6/ Pyrameis cardui, 157, 207 ; huntera, 91 ; myrinna, 118 ; virgimensis 91 Pyrausta serealis 256 Retinia resinana 1"1 Rbodophaea formosa, suavella 35 Rumicia phlseas 150 Sarothripus undulanus 34 Satyrus cordula, 244, 258; semele var. .. 93 Srirocastnia praefecta 140 Scoparia angustea, 35; dubitalis, 1S6; truncicolella 139 Senta maritima 35 Sesia andreniformis, 140; culiciformis ... 162 Spbaenogona arbela, 70 ; gratiosa 69 Sphinx pinastri 34 Spilodes palealis 46 Spilonota iucarnataua 35 Spilosoma urticse 19 Steganoptycha pygmseana, subsequana ... 157 Stichopht halma howqua 1 15 Swammerdamia griseo-capitella 162 Synchloe lacinia 72 Syuia hypnosis 120 Tanagra atrata 161 Tapinostola extrema 19 122 Tasitia eresimus /* Terias albula, 69 ; delia, elathea, leuce, 118; nise, 70; pliiale 73 Thecla crolus, 119; ilicis var. cerri, 258; rufofusca, 71; spmi, 244; togarna, 119; w-album 258 Theclopsis tephraea H9 Theristis mucronella 35 Tinea semifulvella 35 Titanio phrygialis, schrankiana 244 Tithorea furia 121 Tmolus cambes, 69 ; palegon 119 Tortrix pronubana 68,256 Toxocampa pastinum 35 Triboloneura (gn. n.) constantinella, se- pnlchrella 55 Trirlioptilus pallidum 91 Tripbaena fimbria 35 Trochilium crabroniforme 162 Troides alexandrse, haliphron 68 Urbicola comma var 46 Utetheisa ornatrix J20 Vanessa io ' 256 Venusia cambricaria, melanic 185 Victorina stelenes 118 Xanthia aurago, 35 ; ocellaris 267 Xylina conformis, 22; semibrunnea, 237; socia 237, 256 Yponomeuta padellus, 251 ; rorellus 250 Zegris eupheme 258 Zenodochium monopetali (sp. n.), xylo- phagum (sp. n.) 53 Zezera gaika 71 Zopyrion satyrina 121 Zygaena achillese, 160; camiolica var. hedysari, 245; exulaiis var. flava, 257; fausta, 245; filipendulae var. hippocrepidis, 93 ; lonicerae, 245 ; nubigena, 240; transalpiua, 245; trifolii vars. hippocrepidis and ob- scura 46 NEUROPTERA. ^Eschna affinis, 37 ; cserulea, 150, 200 ; cyanea, 202 ; grandis, 203 ; juncea, 150, 200; mixta, 37, 202; rufes- cens = isosceles 203 Agrion lindeuii, puella 37 Auax formosus 37 202 259 Brachytron pratense 202 Calopteryx splendens, virgo 37 Crccilius atricornis 43 Cordulegaster aunulatus, 150, 202; bi- dentatus 37 Cordulia aenca 47 201 Enallagma cyathigerum 150 Erythromma uajas 37 Gomphus vulgatissimus 37 201 Halesus guttatipenuis 91 PAGE Hemerobius marginatus, orotypus, 17 ; quadrif asciatus 185 Hemianax ephippiger 37 [scbnura pumilio 37 Lestes barbara 37 Leucorrhinia dubia 200 Libellula depressa, 37, 199, 259 ; fulva, 43, 199, 259 ; quadrimaculata . 150, 199, 259 Limuophilus elegaus, 151 ; hirsutus 185 Onychogomphus forcipatus 37 Orthetrum cancellatum, 37, 199 ; caeru- lescens, 37, 199; ramburi 37, 199 Oxygastra curtisii 141, 201 Phacopteryx brevipennis 43 Platycnemis pennipes 37 Plectrocnemia conspersa 185 Pyrrhosoma nymphula, 47, 150 ; tenel- lum 47 Somatochlora arctica, 150, 201 ; metal- lica 201, 259 Stenophylax alpestris 185 Sympetruni flaveolum, 37, 43, 199 ; fons- colombii, 200, 259, 277 ; meridionale, 37, 200; sanguineum, 37, 47, 200; scoticum, 47, 200 ; striolatum, 37, 199; vnlgatum 200 Sympycna fusca 37 Tinodes dives 151 ORTHOPTERA. Blatta germanica 259 Leptophyes punctatissima 256 Meconema varium 256 Panchlora nivea 140 THYSANOPTERA. Aptinothrips nitidula, rufa, var. conna- ticornls 6 Eutbrips robusta 4 Heliothrips femoralis 3 Liotbrips setinodis 4 Megalothrips lativentris 3 Oxyothrips ajugre, parviceps 5 Parthenothrips dracssnae 6 Thrips communis, major 7 Trichothrips ca;spitis 4 Uzeliella lubbocki 5 ADDITIONS TO THE BRITISH INSECT FAUNA BROUGHT FORWARD IN THIS VOLUME. APHANIPTERA. GENUS. page Bbnithopsylla, Rothsch 231 SPECIES. Braithopsylla lsetitise, Rothsch 231 COLEOPTERA. SPECIES. Aleochara crassiuscula, Sahib Anisotoma flavicornis, Bris Aneocerus fasciculatus, De Geer (re-instated) Bruchus affinis, var. velutinus, Muls. ... Calodera protensa, Mann Ceuthorrhynchus moguntiacus, Schultze. , , parvulus , Bris Corticaria eppelsheimi, Reitt ,, linearis, PayJc ,, longicollis, Zett Cryptophagus hirtulus, Kr ,, l^vendali, Ganglb Dromius angustus, Bridle Dryops (Parnus) luridus, Er Helophorus porculus, Bedel Laccobius purpurascens, Newbery Litargus coloratus, Rossi Longitarsus nigerrimus, Gyll Meligethes viduatus, var. aestimabilis, Reitt.... Micrambe villosa, Heer Notiophilus aquaticus, var. strigifrons ?.. ,, hypocrita, Spaeth ,, pusillus, Wat. (re-instated)... Oxypoda perplexa, Muls Philonthus concinnus, Grav Phyllotreta diademata, Foudr Snnius angustatus, var. lyonessius, Joy... 194 174 265 1 225 2 195 127 127 127 178 123 124 102 88 30 104 104 89 105 271 103 103 51 51 148 177 Corticaria obscura, Bris., to be omitted from the British list. DIPTERA. GENERA. Apoliphthisa, Grzk 154 Brachypeza, Winn 132 Epicypta, ,, 130 Gnoriste, Mg 153 Hertwigia, Dziedz 153 Megophthalmidia, Dziedz , 152 Parastemma, Grzk 151 Paratinia, Mile 153 Phthinia, Winn 152 SPECIES. PAGE Acuemia longipes, Winn 152 Agromyza bicornis, Kalt 180 A ma urosoma armillata, Zett 138 ,, inerme, Beck 138 Anthomyza ungnicella, Zett 138 Brachypeza bisignata, Winn 132 ,, radiata, Jenkinson 132,151 Diadocidia valida, Mik 1 "> t Diastata inornata, Lw 138 Eccoptomera microps, Lw 180,277 Empheria lineola, Mg 154 Epicypta pnnctnm, Stan 131 ,, scatophora, Perris 130 ,, trinotata, Stxg 131 Gnoriste bilineata, Zett 153 Hertwigia marginata, Dzied 153 Hyadina nitida, Mcq 205 Leia variegata, Winn 152 Parastemma brevicornis, Zett 151 Paratinia sciarina, Mik 153 Pegomyia esuriens, Mg 128 ,, univittata, v. Ros 129,187 Phora albicans, Wood 172 ,, campestris, ,, 174,218 ,, costalis, v. Ros 13 ,, cubitalis, Beck 13, 171, 254 ,, dnbitalis, Wood 171,253 ,, emarginata, ,, 172 ,, flavicauda, ,, 253 ,, fuscinervis, ,, 173,217 ,, girandi, Egg 170,216 ,, intermedia, Malloch 204 ,, meigeni, Beck 170, 216 ,, nudipes, ,, 173,217 ,, paludosa, Wood 174,217 ,, projecta, Beck 13, 170 ,, pubericornis, Malloch 12 ,, rata, Wood 172 ,, retroversa, Wood 173,217 ,, rufa, ,, 170 ,, sexspinosa, ,, 169,216,254 ,, spinigera, ,, 174, 217 , , umbrimargo, Beck 13, 168, 216 Phthinia humilis, Winn 152 Pipunculus melauostolns, Beck 9 Polylepta undulata, Winn 153 Sapromyza quadrivittata, Lw 138 XVI. HEMIPTERA. SPECIES. PAGE Acocephalus sestuarinus, Edw., limicola, Edw 57 Aphalara pilosa, Osch 86 Athysanus sejungendus, Kb 69 Chlorita solanituberosi, Kol ,. 82 Deltocephalus formosus, Boh., forma steini 59 Dicraneura luteola, Fieb 81 Doratura impudica, Horv 58 Empoasca butleri, Edw., 82; populi, Edw 81 Eupelix depressa, F.,producta, Germ.... 5S Livia cref eldensis, Mink 85 Macropsis rubi, Boh 56 Notochilus hamulatns, Thorns 252 Pachycoleus rufescens, Sahib 8 PsyUa viburni, Low 85 Trioza silacea, Mey.-D., 86 ; velutina, Worst 85 Typhlocyba fratercula, Edw., frustrator, Edw 84 HYMENOPTERA. SPECIES. Antaeon aqualis, Kieff arcuatus, ,, barbatus, Chitty beaumonti, ,, brevicollis, Kieff brevifilis, ,, breviventris, Chitty 144, cameroni, Kieff carinatus, ,, claricollis, , , crassiscopus, , , crenulatus, ,, curvatus, ,, curvinervis, ,, declivis, ,, divisus, ,, ellimani, Chilly 143, filicornis, Kieff . flaviscapus, ,, flavinervis, ,, flavitarsis, ,, forsteri, ,, fractinervis, ,, 212 210 1 12 145 211 211 213 210 209 210 212 209 211 214 212 213 213 213 213 213 211 212 214 PAGE A ntaeon fuscicollis, Kieff 210 ,, fuscoclavatus, ,, 213 ,, fusiformis, ,, 211 ,, gaullei, ,, 210 ,, gracilicollis, ,, 211 halidayi, ,, 212 ,, hyabmpennis, ,, '. 214 ,, imberbis, ,, 210 ,, indivisus, ,, 213 ,, integer, ,, 214 kiefferi, Chitty 143,210 „ longifilis, Kieff'. 212 „ longitarsis, „ 210 „ luffnessensis, Chitty 145 „ melauocera, Kieff. 212 „ rniuutellus, „ 214 „ morleyi, Chitty 144, 214 „ nigroclavatus, Kieff 214 nitidellus, „ 213 „ obscuricoruis, „ 211,213,214 „ pallidinervis „ 213 „ parvicollis „ 214 parvus „ 213, 214 „ procericornis, Dhlb 212 ,, pyrenaicus, K ieff 214 „ rectus, „ 211 rufulocollis, Chitty 143,210 ,, scoticus, Kieff 211 ,, subapterus, , 209 ,, succiueipes, „ 213 suffolciensis, Chitty 144, 214 „ triangularis. Kieff 213 „ triareolatus, „ 211 „ tricariuatus, „ 210 „ trivialis, „ 213 „ vicinus, „ 210, 213 „ vitelliuipes, „ 212 „ vulgaris, „ 213 „ xanthostigma „ 213 C(elioxys afra, Lepelletier 178 Pa'cilosoma hungarica, Konow 265 ,, tridens, ,, 265 LEPIDOPTERA. SPECIES. Ypouomeuta rorellus, Hub 250 THYSANOPTERA. SPECIES. PAGE Aptiuothrips rufa, Gm., var. connati- cornis, Uzel 6 Euthrips robusta, Uzel 4 Heliothrips femoralis, Renter 3 Liothrips setinodis, ,, 4 Megalothrips lativentris, Heeger 3 xvn. PAGE Oxyothnps ajugsc, Uzel 5 Parthenothrips dracsenae, Heeger 6 Thrips communis, Uzel 7 ,, major, ,, 7 Trichothrips csespites, Uzel 4 Uzeliella lubbocki, Bagnall 5 LIST OF NEW GENERA AND SPECIES, &c, DESCRIBED IN THIS VOLUME. APHANIPTERA. GENUS PAGE Ornithopsylla, Rothschild 231 SPECIES. Ceratophyllus stygius, Rothschild, Rwwenzori 77 Ctenocephalus wollastoni, 76 Ctenopsyllus aethiopicus, 79 ,, hirsutus, 78 Ornithopsylla lsetitiae " Stilly Isles 231 Pygiopsylla torvus, Ruwenzori 77 COLEOPTERA. SPECIES. Laccobius purpurascens, Neivbery, England... 30 Sunius angustatus, var. lyonessius, Joy, Stilly Islands... 177 DIPTERA. SPECIES. Brachypeza radiata, Jenkinson, England. ..132, 151 Phora albicans, Wood, England 172 ,, campestris, ,, ,, ... 174, 218 „ dubitalis, ,, „ ... 171, 253 ,, emarginata, ,, ,, 172 Phora flavicauda, Wood, England 253 ,, fuscinervis ,, ,, ... 173 217 ,, intermedia, Malloch, Scotland ... 204 ,, paludosa, Wood, England ...174, 217 ,, pubericornis, Malloch, Scotland.. 12 ,, rata, Wood, England 172 ,, retroversa, Wood, England... 173, 217 ,, rufa, ,, ,, 170 ,, sexspinosa, ,, ,, 169, 216, 254 ,, spinigera, ,, ,, 174,217 HEMIPTERA. GENERA. PALiEOLECANICM, Side Parthenolecanium, Side. ... SPHiEROLECANICM, Side SPECIES. Acocephalus sestuarinus, Edivards, Britain ,, limicola, Empoasca butleri, populi, Typhlocyba fratercula, ,, frustrator, 36 36 36 57 57 82 81 84 84 HYMENOPTERA. SPECIES. PAGE tseon barbatus, Chitty, Britain . 142 ,, beaumonti, „ ,, 145 ,, breviventris, ,, ,, 144 ,, ellimani ,, ,, 143 ,, kiefferi ,, ,, 143 ,, luffnessensis ,, ,, 145 ,, morleyi ,, ,, 144 ,, suffolciensis ,, ,, 144 Opostega chalcopepla, Walsingham, Spain, France 229 Papilio leucotEenia, Rothschild, Africa... 249 Perittia calpella, Walsingham, Gibraltar 54 Phalonia versana, ,, Spain, France 227 Phyllonorycter nevadensis, Walsingham, Spain 228 Zeuodochium mouopetali, Walsingham, Spain 53 ,, xylophagum, ,, ,, 53 LEPI OPTERA. GENERA. Triboloneura. Walsingham 54 Zenodochium ,, 52 SPECIES. Anarsia ephippias, Meyrick, India 197 Hyposmocoma nephelodes, Walsingham, Hawaiia 109 THYSANOPTERA. GENUS. Uzeliella, Bagnall 5 SPECIES. Uzeliella lubbocki, Bagnall, Whitley Bay, Northumberland... 5 ERRATA. 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The following notes on various British beetles may interest Coleopterists : — Lathrobium elonqatum, L., var. nigrum, Joy, = L. elongatum, L., var. fraudulentum, Ganglb., see Eeitter, Wien. ent, Zeit., 1907, p. 209. Rydnobius punctatus, Sturm.— Dr. A. Fleischer (Wien. ent. Zeit., 1907, pp. 265—268) treats R. punctatissimus, Steph., as a variety of thi species. H. multistriatus, Gyll., is a very close ally of H. punc- tatus, Sturm, and may perhaps occur in Britain. Anisotoma curta, Eairm.-Mr. Gardner, of Hartlepool, has taken this rare British insect at Hesleden. He gave me a pair of it some time back, and they have remained in my collection as A. dubia var. ? till recently, when Commander Walker showed me a single female ex- ample of the same form that he had taken near Oxford on October 19th, 1907, A. curta may be known from large A. dubia, which has very similarly-formed posterior femora and tibiae in the male, by its more elongate shape, the more rounded sides of the prothorax, and the smaller apical joint of the antennae. I am indebted to Dr. Fleischer for confirming the identification of these insects, which agree perfectly with the example taken by myself at Esher in 1873. Bruchus affinis, Frol. (flavimanus, Boh.). - Some years ago Schilsky examined the so-called B. affinis of my British collection and pronounced them to be B. rufimanus, Boh., var. velutinus, Muls.* * Cf. Schilsky, in Kiister's Die Kafer Europa's, xxxxi, 22. NUABT, 1908. 2 [January, I have also seen specimens of this form in the British Museum and in the collection of Commander Walker. It occurs sparingly in various parts of Kent (Sittingbourne, Sheppey, and Chatham) in company with the true B. rufimanus, from which it differs in the greyer and more uniformly coloured vestiture of the elytra. The true B. affinis (which I have taken in Corsica) probably has no claim to a place on the British list ; it has two almost bare black spots on the pygidium as in B.pisi, L., as noted by Boheman. Ceu/J/orrJtynchidius chevrolati, Bris. in litt. — The name O. barne- villei, Gren. (1866), should be used for this species, that of Brisout being simply a '' nonien nudum.'1'' Ceutlwrrliynclius chalybceus, Germ. — Continental authorities are unable, I believe, to recognise C. cliaiyh&us with any certainty, but as Germar expressly states that the femora are " unarmed," it is evident that the species known under this name in British collections has been incorrectly identified. Our insect is, in fact, the C. timidus of Weise (Deutsche ent. Zeitschr., 1SS3, p. 325), originally described from Eastern Europe, but now known to be much more widely distributed. I have taken it in abundance on Sisymbrium officinale at Plumstead, Dartford, and elsewhere. Ceuthorrhynclms viridipennis, Bris. ? — This insect is mentioned (partly on my authority), but not described, in Canon Fowler's " British Coleoptera." It is the C. moguntiacus of Schultze (Deutsche ent. Zeitschr., 1895, p. 420), a species common on crucifers, especially BipJotaxis tenuifblia, in various parts of Germany. I have taken odd specimens of it on several occasions at Caterham, Mickleham, and Guildford, but never could be sure as to its food-plant, and Dr. Sharp gave me an example of it many years ago under the name C. viridi- pennis, Bris. These individuals are smaller, narrower, and less shining than C. timidus, Weise, and they have the head and prothorax a little less coarsely and more densely punctured, and (when the insect is in fresh condition) more pubescent. C. moguntiacus and C. timidus may, nevertheless, prove to be forms of one species, when a long series of each can be compared, and though both attack Crucifera?, it is hardly likely, to judge from my own experience, that their actual food-plant is the same. I am indebted to the late A. Schultze and to Dr. Karl Daniel for their assistance in determining these two insects. Poophagus nasturtii, Germ. — All recent continental authors, including Heyden, Rcitter, and Weise (1S91), refer this species to Geutdi orrhyn cli us. Horsell : November 2€dh, 1907. 1908.] NOTES ON SOME CrKNERA AND SPECIES OF THYSANOPTERA NEW TO THE BRITISH FAUNA. BY RICHARD S. BAQNALL, F.E.S. Very little attention has been given to the Thysanoptera by British Naturalists since Haliday's papers* on the subject were pub- lished more than half a century ago, though it is an Order of more than usual economic interest. An excellent Monograph of them has been written by Prof. Uzel and of the species which he recog- nises no less than one hundred are from his own country, Bohemia. Prof. 0. M. Eeuter, of Helsingfors, has also added much to our knowledge of the Thysanoptera, whilst more recently Mr. W. B. Hinds has contributed a paper towards a Monograph of the North American forms. f During my spare moments, unfortunately much limited, I have this year collected a large number of Thrips of which more than one half yet await identification, but of those named with reason- able certainty many are of special interest, and in a paper to be published shortly by the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham and Newcastle-on-Tyne, an account of these creatures will be given. The following species are now worthy of note, as, with the exception of Liothrips setlnodis, Reut., and Aptinothrips nitldida, Hal., all are, so far as I am aware, new to the fauna of Great Britain, whilst representatives of the genera Meyalothrips, TTzel, Uzeliella, mihi, Oxyothrips, Uzel, and Parthenothrips, Uzel, were previously unknown as British. Sub-Order TUBULIFERA. Megalothrips lativentris, Heeger. Phlaeothrips lativentris, Heeger, Sitzungsb. d. Akad. d. Wiss. Wien, is, p. 479, pi. xviii, 1852 : Phlaeothrips longispina, Reuter, Diagn. ofv. nya Thysanoptera f. Finland^ p. 8, 1878—79 : P. tibialis, Idem ibidem, p. 9 : P. longispina, Router, Thysanoptera Fennica,§ p. 8, 1880 : P. tibialis, Idem ibidem, p. 10 : Megalothrips lativentris, Uzel, Monographic der Ordnung Thysanoptera, p. 225, pis. iii and vii, figs. 20, 22, 23, 115, 116, and 117. 1895. One of the largest European species ; the sexes are very different * Entomological Magazine, vol. iii, 439—451 ; vol. iv, 144—146, 1S37 : and in Walker s '* List of the specimens of Homopterons Insects in the Collection of the British Museum, pt. iv, Order iii, Physapoda, pp. 1094— 1118, plates v-viii, 1852. t Proc. U. S. Nat. Museum, vol. xxvi. ; Of versight af Finska Vetanskaps-Societetens FGrhandlinger. Helsingfors, 21. § Bidrag till Klinnedom af Finlands Natur och Folk. A 2 4 [January, in structure, so much so that Reuter described them as two species, the ? under the name of tibialis, and the J as longispina. In June of this year (1907) Dr Randell Jackson sent me a large ? from Delamere Forest, and later he was fortunate enough 1o secure further specimens, including a single example of the <$ . They were found amongst fallen leaves lying on a bank clothed with heather and bilberry. Distribution. Vienna (a. d., 1818, Hitter v. Goldegg and later Heeger), Finland (Reuter), and Bohemia (Uzel). Liothrips setinodis, Reuter. Phlceothrips setinodis, Keuter, The Scottish Naturalist, v, p. 310, 1880 : Lio- thrips setinodis, Uzel, Mon. der Ordn. Thysanoptera, p. 263, pi. vii, fig. 147, 1895. Another fairly large species, of which I have taken a fine ? on elm (31.V1II.07), Gibside, Co. Durham. Uzel says that it is found on the under-side of oak leaves and, in the winter, in moss. Distribution. Scotland (Reuter) and Bohemia (var. pragensin only, Uzel). Tricliotlirips ccespitis, Uzel. Trichothrips csespitis, Uzel, Mon. der Ordn. Thysanoptera, p. 248, 1895. A single example, apparently referable to this apterous species, taken at Gibside in moss. It is one of the smallest forms, being less than a millemetre in length and is easily recognised from the closely allied T. pedicularia, Haliday, and T. semicceca, Uzel, by its small size, the absence (or abbreviation) of the ocelli, and by the comparatively short proboscis, which only extends to the middle of the prosternum. My specimen does not agree, however, with the published description in the coloration of the head. Uzel says that the species is a turf-dweller (Rasenbewohner), whereas others of the genus are invariably found under bark, or in Polyporus. Sub-Order TEREBRANTIA. Euthrips robusta, Uzel. Physojius robusta, Uzel, Mon. der Ordn. Thysanoptera, p. 104, pi. v, figs. 55 and 56, 1895. In the flowers of the field scabious (Scabiosa nrvensis) at Hart and near Blaydon-on-Tyne, Go. Durham, August and September. Apparently very local. Distribution. Bohemia (Uzel). 1908.] 5 Oxyothrips ajur/ce, Uzel. Oxyothrips ajugx, Uzel, Mon. der Ordn. Thysanoptera, p. 130, pi. v, fig. 67, 1895. Very local and scarce, in the flowers of the common bugle (Ajuga reptans), Eavensworth, Winlaton Mill, and Gibside, Co. Durham. May and June. Distribution. Bohemia (Uzel). Oxyothrips parviceps, Uzel. Oxyothrips parviceps, Uzel, Mon. der Ordn. Thysanoptera, p. 139, pi. vi, fig. 72, 1895. Apparently widely distributed, occurring in the flowers of heather and heath (Calluna vulgaris, Erica tetralix, &c), Brodick. A mm ; Colintraive and Ormidale in theKyles of Bute ; Annan, in the Solway district ; Gibside, Co. Durham, and Haydon Bridge, Northumberland. Distribution. Bohemia (Uzel). Uzeliella, yen. nov. On February 25th, 1907, at a Meeting of the Eoyal Physical Society, Edinburgh, I had the pleasure of provisionally describing under the name of Garinopleuris lubbocki an apterous and primitive creature which was then thought to be a new type of insect. It un- doubtedly belongs to the Thripidce. The $ is like Aptinotlirips, wingless and without ocelli, differing however from the species of that genus in having the abdomen laterally keeled, and in the form of the antennae, which are six-jointed, the third joint being strongly transverse and broader than the preceding, and the sixth joint broadly pear-shaped. Further, the saw-like ovi- positor is evidently laterally broader than in Aptinotlirips and has the front outwardly-curved edge more strongly serrate. Uzeliella lubbocki, sp. nov. Length, '75 mm., yellowish-brown, linear, parallel-sided, body smooth and shining, though slightly rugose transversely. Very much like a small example of Aptinothrips rufa, Gmel., but easily differentiated by the above generic characters. A single ? taken amongst thrown-up seaweed whilst searching for maritime Collembola at Whitley Bay, Northumberland, October, 1906. I have since that date repeatedly searched the locality for further specimens, but without success, the exact spot having un- (3 [January, fortunately been spoilt by drainage operations. It is as a rule very unsatisfactory to bave to describe a new species from a solitary speci- men and it is for that reason that I have withheld publication so long, even now, owing to the fact that the type-slide was slightly damaged in the post, I therefore prefer to regard the above descrip- tion as merely provisional. I have pleasure in naming the species in honour of Lord Avebury. to whose kindness I owe much. Aptinoihrips rufa, Gmel., var. connaticornis, Uzel. This variety differs from the type in having the three apical an- tennal segments connate, thus forming a single joint. Winlaton Mill, Co. Durham. Aptinothrips nitidula, Hal. A very small form described by Haliday in 1836 (Ento. Mag., vol. iii, p. 44G) which does not seem to have been met with by any other naturalist. In July of this year I found the species on the Arran coast, where it occurs on the Sea-Aster {Aster tripolium), and, I think, the Sea-Milkwort (Glaux maritima). Haliday suggested that its food-plant was the Sea- Plantain (Plantago maritima). Heliothrips femoral is, Reuter. Heliothrips femoralis, Reuter, Med. af. Soc. p. Fauna et Flora Fennica, xvii, p. 165, 1891 : Uzel, Mon. der Ordn. Thysanoptera, p. 170, 1S95 : Bergroth, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belgique, xl, p. 67, 1896 : Hinds, North American Thysanoptera, p. 172, 3, pi. v and vi, figs. 55 to 57, 1903 : Heliothrips cestri, Pergande, Ins. Life, vii, No. 5, pp. 390, 1, 1895. A hothouse species, very distinct from the common H. hcemorr- hoidalis, Bouche. Since taking this insect in one of Mr. Cookson's orchid houses at Wylam-on-Tyne, Northumberland (VIII.07), I have seen an example captured by Mr. C. O. Waterhouse at Acton (22. Y1II.0G) and now in the British Museum. Distribution. Finland (Reuter) and North America (Pergande and Hinds).* Parthenothrips draccena?, Heeger. Heliothrips draevnap, Heeger, Sitzungsb. d. Akad. d. Wiss. Wien, ix, p. 365, 1852 : Jordan, Zeitschr. f. Wiss. Zool., 1888, p. 47 : Reuter, Thysanoptera, i, Finska Orangerier, p. 166, 1S91 : Thrips draexnae, Regel, Bull. Pliys. Math. Acad. St. Petersb., 1858, p. 632, figs. 4 and 5 : Parthenothrips dracsente, Uzel, Mon. der Ordn. Thysanoptera, p. 170, pis. ii and vi, figs. 12—14, and 93, 1895 : Hinds, North American Thysanoptera, p. 176, pi. vi, figs. 62 — 65. Another typical hothouse form of wide distribution ; there is a single carded specimen in the British Museum, taken by Mr. C. O. VVaterhouse at Acton. I would here take this opportunity of expres- sing my gratitude to him for his kindness in allowing me to examine this and many more interesting species of Thrips. Distribution. Vienna (Heeger and von Frauenfeld), Finland (Reuter), Bohemia (Uzel), St. Petersburg (Regel), Germany (Jordan and Bohls) and North America (Pergande and Hinds).* Thrips communis, TJzel. Thrips communis, Uzel, Hon. der Ordn. Thysanoptera, p. 176, pi. vi, fig. 100, 1895. I have beaten a large number of this small insect from the bitter- sweet (Solatium dulcamara) and potato plant (Solatium tuberosum), Shalwell, Hart, and Blaydon, Co. Durham. This and the following species are apparently attached to the leaves and flowers of the So lanacece. Distribution. Bohemia (Uzel). Thrips major, Uzel. Thrips major, Uzel, Mon. der Ordn. Thysanoptera, p. 179, 1895. Taken in company with, and in the same localities as, T. communis, also at Hay don Bridge, Northumberland, October. Distribution. Bohemia (Uzel). It must be acknowledged that there is some considerable difliculty in the identification of the species of certain genera, notably Thrips sensu strictu and Eitthrips (Physopus). I have gone very carefully into the identification of the species herein noted and not only do they agree (so far as I may be allowed to judge) with Uzel's pub- lished descriptions, but the habitats of the different forms are identical. Prof. Uzel has very generously promised me co-types of a num- ber of his species, which will be invaluable in the working out of my own captures, as well as in settling the determination of some of Holiday's species which (owing to meagre descriptions) have not as yet been satisfactorily classified. The Groves, Winlaton-on-Tyne : November 20th, 1907. * In November of this year (1907) I discovered both H. fenwralit, Rent., and P. dracana: Heeger, in large numbers in Brussels and Antwerp, Belgium.— R. S. B. y [January, PACHl'COLEUS RUFESCENS, Sahlb. (FAM. CERATOCOMBID.E) IN DEVONSHIRE. BY 6. C. CHAMPION, F.Z.S. During a visit to my friend, Mr. Philip de la Garde, at Christow, South Devon, iu August last, he was kind enough to give me a few Remiptera-Reteroptera he had picked up at odd times in Devonshire. Amongst these I have recently detected a specimen of Pachycoleus rufescens, Sahlb., a genus and species not hitherto recorded as British. The insect in question, a minute fragile creature, was shaken from moss in a swampy wood near Dawlish last March, and the actual locality was visited by Mr. de la Garde and myself in company a day or two before I went to Christow. The genus Pachycoleus is closely related to Ceratocombus and Gryptostemma (= Dipsocoris, Halid), the only other European genera of the Family, but it may be known from both of them by the narrow, subquadrate,non-trapezoidal pronotum, the longer rostrum, and the comparatively short second joint of the antennae. P. rufescens is not unlike Gryptostemma alienum, H.-S., the upper surface being opaque and the head very little longer than in that species ; but it is reddish-brown in colour, much smaller (the size nearly agreeing with that of C. pusillimum, Sahlb.), less elongate, and not so depressed, and, as already stated, the pronotum is differently shaped. I have seen O. alienum in abundance amongst the shingle on the banks of the river at Watersmeet near Lynmoutb, and also sparingly at Christow, and it is probable that the Pachycoleus may be found in similar situations. The brief description appended, taken from Sahlberg's diagnosis (published in 1875), applies to the Dawlish insect : — Pachtcoleus rufescens. Obovate, reddish-brown, opaque, thinly pubescent, abdomen fuscous, antennae and legs flavous ; head large, triangular, somewhat convex ; pronotum distinctly broader than long, transversely convex ; hemelytra subcoriaceous, a little shorter than the abdomen, narrowly rounded at the apex ; legs sparsely, shortly setose ; anterior tibiae dilated at the apex ; tarsi short. Long., £ lin. Rah. : Finland. This species has also been recorded from other European localities, but is apparently rare. It is very nearly related to, and perhaps not 1908.] 9 really distinct from, P. waltli, Fieb., the hitter having the body gla- brous and the pronotum less transverse. I am indebted to Mr. E. Saunders for comparing the Dawlish specimen with a continental example received from M. Montandon. Horsell : December Utk, 1907. THE PUPAL AND ADULT 3TAGFS OF A FLY NEW TO BRITAIN, PIPUNCULUS MELANOSTOLUS, Becker. BY HUGH SCOTT, B.A. (Cantab). While collecting in the part of Epping Forest near Chingford on March 25th, 1907, I found a small dark puparium, from which emerged on May 10th a male of a species of Pipunculus. Dr. Sharp, after examining the fly, conclude 1 that it belongs to a species not previously recorded from Britain, P. melanostolus, described by Becker (Berlin Ent. Zeit., xlii, 1897, p. 40). Mr. Verrall, to whom also I am in- debted for examining the fly, agrees in his opinion with Dr. Sharp. The chief reason for recording the species lies in the fact that, so far as it has been possible to ascertain, there is no previous statement whatever of the finding of the pupal stage of any Pipunculid in Britain. On the whole the early stages of Pipunculidce may be said to be not very widely known. The life-history of the Family has been described, and several puparia figured, by Dr. E. C. L. Perkins, in a Eeport of Work of the, Experiment Station of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association (Bulletin I, Part IV, 1905), dealing with a number of Australian and Hawaiian species. The only memorandum which I have states that the puparium was found in rotten wood. Dr. Perkins who has examined it, states that it belongs to the common type of puparium of those Pipunculids which pupate in the soil or under debris on its surface (at any rate not exposed on the surfaces of living leaves). It is much of the same type as the puparium shown in PI. VII, fig. 3, of his work referred to. It is somewhat short and broad, very dark piceous, with the surface dull, finely and reticulately rugulose. It is somewhat flattened dorsally, the ventral surface being much more convex ; it has trans- verse furrows, more marked on the dorsal, scarcely at all on the ventral, surface. Dorsolaterally there is a longitudinal row of oblique impres- sions ; two other longitudinal rows of somewhat marked impressions 10 [January are borne laterally, and some rather vague ones ventrolaterally. The length, as far as can be judged from piecing together the ruptured puparium, is about 4 mm. ; greatest breadth just over 2 mm. The inner surface is smooth and shining. It was ruptured at the anterior end, in the manner which Perkins describes (op. cit. p. 129) for all members of the Family in which he has investigated the puparia ; the dorsal segment (fig. 1 d) bearing the respiratory processes becoming ,c detached from the rest of the pu- parium, and the ventral segment corresponding therewith (fig. 1 b) also being loosened along its hind border. In the specimen in ques- tion this ventral portion has siuce separated into two curved plates ; a small anterior piece (fig. 1 a), which in the bursting due to emer- gence of the fly remained attached to the above-mentioned ventral seg- ment, and this ventral segment (fig. 1 b) itself. This segment, the one corresponding to the dorsal plate bearing the respiratory pro- cesses, bears at its front margin, somewhat near the ventral middle line, two minute rounded prominences of lighter colour than the general surface (fig. 1 c, where they appear on the inner surface of the segment as circular light coloured areas). Presumably these mark the position of the anterior spiracles : Perkins (I. c.) states that in some cases he dis- tinguished the anterior spiracles, but in others .-t failed to do so in spite of the closest examina- tion. The respiratory processes (fig. 1 e, and see Perkins, /. c.) are fine and very small. The posterior stigmatic apparatus (fig. 2) consists „ t, , . .. of a black area with fairly smooth surface, with Fig. 2. — Posterior stigmatic J area of puparium;*, one of the a deep impression near its lower (ventral) edjre, lateral tubercles ; a, depres- 1 i «■ ' t> ' iSi^SS^LSSSSSL ™d a sinsle blullt Pale tubercle (%s- 1 ™d viewed in certain positions. ^ q Qn eith(?r gide rpj^ stjgrnatjc area j8 of the same type as that of the Australian P. hylams, floured by '-- t Fio. 1.— Outline of the ruptured puparium, showing the detached pieces. Explanation in text. '- T^'ilsMfek???.^ ^d 1908.] 11 Perkins (op. cit., PL VII, fig. S). It is borne slightly dorsal to the longitudinal axis of tbe puparium, on the somewhat flattened pos- terior surface, and a little ventral to it is another dark, but much less definite, area, marking the position of the larval anus. The following is Becker's diagnosis of the imago (op. cit , p. 40) : — "J ? . Nigro-fuscus opacus, abdominc maculis lateralibus griseis 5 frontc et facie nigris, albido-micantibus ; antennis nigris, tcrtio articulo ovato acuminato, sectmdo articulo in mare pilis longioribus ; pedibus totis nigris, halteribus con- coloribus ; liypopygio maris rima oblonga liorizontali ; liypopygio feminse magno, non sulcato, cum terebra curvata ; alarum nervo quarto longitudinali non furcato, costa? abscissa tertia in mare quarta duplo longiore ; stigmate complete Long. corp. 4, alar. 4 mm." With regard to other British species, Becker states that P. mela- nostolus in some points resembles P. (iter, Meigen (= P. campestris, Latreille). although the two species belong to different groups of the genus. The resemblance lies especially in the form of the third joint of the antenna ; but P. mclanostolus is readily to be distinguished by the dull, essentially differently dusted, abdomen,' and by the quite black legs. In the specimen under consideration the legs are entirely black, excepting a very small piceous portion at the bases of the tibiae, not in any way to be compared to the pale yellowish-white portions of the legs in P. campestris. University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge : November, 1907. PKORIDM IN DUMBARTONSHIRE ; WITH DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES.. BY J. R. MALLOCH. During the last two years 1 have devoted considerable time to the collection of the Phoridce, principally at Bonhill, with the intention of adding at least a few species to our local list, which has meantime not a single representative of this Family included in it. I fortu- nately met with fair success, and am able to record about half of the species at present in the British list and a few others that are new to it. One of these latter, i. e.,pubericomis, which is described below, is a new species which has occurred in considerable numbers at Mur- roch Glen, near here, on a fungus (Aoaricus sp. ?). I do not suppose 12 [January, that I have by any means exhausted the number of species in the district, but hope that, if the list may not encourage other collectors to take up this group, it may be of service to those interested in the distribution of our Diptera. Conicera atra, Mg., very common on flowers during the summer ; C. similis, Hal., occurring along with atra. Gipnnophora arcuata, Mg., common in woods among ferns and undergrowth. Trineura aterrima, F., not uncommon ; T. velutina, Mg., common on flower heads in summer; T. schinerl, Beck., common in fir planta- tions on the hills. Phora opaca, Mg., not uncommon among furze bushes in an old pasture at Murroch Glen, April and May; P. lugubris, Mg., common almost everywhere during April, May and June ; P. sublugubris, Wood, one of each sex taken September 2 1st, 1907 ; P. curvinervis, Beck., very common, especially under the stones forming weasel traps on the hill. One specimen was taken with the wings still undeveloped, which evidently goes to show that the larva? had fed upon the bait of the previous year. Some specimens have an additional bristle situated between the upper two on the hind tibiae ; P. thoracica, Mg., very common upon the trunks of beech trees in a wood here, the males have the wings either entirely clear, or very faintly infuscated at the tips ; P. urbana, Mg., two of each sex taken upon fence posts and tree trunks ; P. fennica, Beck., one of each sex taken upon tree trunks ; P. crassicomis, Mg., very common ; P. concinna, Mg., very common, extremely variable in size ; P unispinosa, Ztt., common ; P. nudipalpis, Beck., as common as unispinosa, occurring along with it. PlIORA PUBEBICOENIS, 11. Sp. Black ; frons shining, of the male about I5 times as broad as high, of the female about equal in height and width ; antennae of the male with the third joint large, somewhat sharply pointed, and covered with a thick yellowish pubescence, of the female much smaller, but also pubescent ; arista almost apical ; palpi of the male inconspicuous, yellow, with weak marginal bristles, of the female very small ; proboscis of the female very prominent, projecting straight downwards, as long as the height of the head ; thorax shining ; mesopleura bare ; scutellum with two bristles ; halteres yellow ; abdomen dull black ; hypopygium yellow, lamella; sym- metrical; legs yellow, hind femora and tibiae darkened at the apices; fore coxae yellow, mid and hind coxae darkened ; fore tibiae without a bristle on the middle, mid tibiae with two on the basal third and the very weak apical bristle present, hind tibiae with a bristle on the basal third ; wings greyish, veins, with the exception of the fourth thin vein, very distinct ; costa to beyond the middle of the wing of equal thickness for the whole length, first division about 1J times the second ; costal fringe 190S.] 13 moderately long and dense ; mediastinal vein incomplete ; first thin vein starts at a little less than half way from the base of the fork with a distinct curve and ends nearly straight at about the wing tip. Long., 2 — 3 mm. The species belongs to the same group as unispinosa, nudipalpis, gracilis, Wood, and autumnalis, Beck. It is most like the last named, but may be distinguished by the antennae, the colour of the legs, and the equal thickness of the costa, from that species. The female has a striking resemblance to a species of Tachydromia, with its long pro- boscis. Taken at Murroch Glen in September. P. abdominaJis, Fin., very common, along with eurvinervis at traps on the bill in April and May ; one female taken with wings unde- veloped in the trap, it afterwards developed fully, showing that it had newly emerged, having in all probability fed in the larva stage upon the bait in the trap ; P. cari?iifrons,7At , very common in the autumn ; P. femora /us, Mg., scarce, I have only taken four males and one female ; P. citreiformis, Beck., not uncommon on Heracleum flowers in autumn ; P. vitreipennis, Mg., one male only in August ; P. pZava, Fin., two males, one female, the males are very dark ; P. lutea, Mg., common, one specimen occurred with the third vein unforked on one wing ; P. cubitalis, Beck., common among aspen ; P. projecta, Beck., common, very variable in size and colour ; P. costalis, v. lios., five females ; P. sordida, Ztt., common among fungi in the autumn ; P. riifipes, Mg., common everywhere ; P. umbriinargo, Beck., not uncommon in the autumn. Metopina galeata, Hal., this very minute species occurred among flowers during May and June in fair numbers. All the species, unless otherwise stated, were taken at Bonhill. Bonhill, Dumbartonshire, N.B. : October, 1907. Notes on Coleoptera at Christoio and other places in South Devon, 1907.*— Christow is a little village in the valley of the Teign, about nine miles south-west from Exeter, a word of rather necessary information ! With the exception of one or two records in Parfitt's Catalogue nothing seemed to be known of the beetles of this neighbourhood, which, by virtue of being in a different river valley, is abun- dantly distinct from the Exeter District he quotes so much. I therefore settled down to work it as well as might be when, at the end of April, I went into lodgings on the river bank. • See previous note, Ent. Mo. Mag., xlii, 230. In this paper the records of H>/,lnobius perrisi and H. pvnctatissimus from Shaldon are erroneous, and should be expunged. 14 [January, During the first part of my stay the river was in a constant state of flood, the rubbish therefrom producing a large "proportion of the total species I tojk. At the very outset a single Hydrochus nitidicollis (Ent. Mo. Mag., xliii, 136) and Hydra; ha longior occurred in it, giving a useful warning : amongst many others there were — Notiophilus rufipes ; Calodera umbrosa ; Myrmedonia humeralii, 31. laticollis ; Callicerus obscurus ; Homaluta insecta, H. pavens, H. cambrica (several), H. fra- gilis (2), (a northern species this), H. luteipes (1), H angustula (2) ; one Aclobius procerulus and several A. signaticornis ; Lathrobivm angustatum (3) and L. quad- ratum (1) ; Ancyrophorus omalinus and A. aureus; Trogophlaeus arcuatus (common generally), T. fuliginosus (3) ; Lesieoa longelytrata, L. pubescens, L. sicula, L punctata ; one Rhizophagus coeruleipennis as previously reported (Ent. Mo. Mag., xliii, 158) ; Cryptohypnus A-guttatus ; Larinus carlinse (1) ; Cosliodes ruber (1) ; and Phgtobius 4-ttiberculatus. From a little rubbish brought down by a thunderstorm in July, one Brachinus crepitans was obtained — this capture is noteworthy, as the species has only, I believe, been recorded from one place in Devon previously, Ashburton (S. M., 43). During May and June the river shingle swarmed with Bembidia, particularly B. punctulatum and B. decorum, but of much greater interest was Perileptus areolatus, which at intervals was abundant in two exceedingly restricted spots until a day when the otter hounds passed along, disturbing the whole bank, and after that not a specimen was to be found. Searching for the Perileptus assisted me in finding a few Oeoryssus pygmseus and one Homalota currax. Moss " between wind and water " gave me ample employment at any time during my four months' stay. Though the number of species to be found therein was strictly limited — perhaps not more than 35 or 5. Mr. II. J. Turner, cases showing the life-history of Coleophora onosmel/a, with photomicro- graphs by Mr. F. N. Clark ohowing the surface of the ova and the structure of the micropylar area. Dr. F. A. Dixey, several species of five African genera of Pierine butterllies for the purpose of showing the strong mimetic parallelism that existed between them. Mr. Willoughby Gardner, a remarkably small specimen of Meloe proscarabaeus with an example of the normal size. Mr. W. G. Sheldon, many examples of Araschnia levana var. prorsa and intermediates, bred from larva? found in the department of the Aisne, France, in June last. Out of 176 indivi- duals that emerged from the pupa? 109 were var. prorsa, 4 approached nearly to ab. porima, the rest were intermediate between prorsa and porima. To give a fuller view of this form in assistance to Mr. Sheldon's report, Dr. T. A. Chapman also exhibited specimens of Araschnia leoaua, type, bred 1897. Mr. G. Arrow, 1908 J 21 a specimen of a handsome oxotic Cockroach (Dprylaea rhombifolia) found alive in the Natural History Museum, an apterous species inhabiting China, [ndia, Madagascar, South Africa, &c., and also recorded houi Tropical America. Dr. G. B. r/ongstaff, a oa^e containing 35 [thomiine butterflies of 11 Bpecies, belonging to {'> genera, taken near Caracas, Venezuela, some 3600 feet above sea-level. They afforded a striking exception to Darwin's principle that closely allied forms are not usually found together. Lieut. -Colonel N. Manders, a collection of some 200 specimens of tropical butterflies belonging to the genera Melanitis, Mycalesis, Atella, Papilio, and Catopsilia, which had been subjected to abnormal degrees of temperature mostly in the pupal stage. The object, of the experiments was to ascertain the effect of climate on the colours of tropical butterflies. Mr. W. J. Kaye, a convergent group of Ileliconine butterflies, from the Potaro River, British Guiana, lie said that hitherto there had not been detected any species of Danaine or Ithomiine butterfly that might serve as a model or mimic of these species, and if at anytime the large Melinxa mneme — Heliconius numata group oxerted any influence on these red and yellow and black species, it was unlikely that it did so now, because they have not the same flower-frequenting habit and are not found in company with them. In illustration of his paper " Mimicry in North American Butterflies of the genus Lime nit is {Basilar chia)," Professor E. B. Poulton showed specimens of Adelpha {Heterochroa) bredowi, ranging from Guatemala to Arizona, and its northern form, named californica by A. G. Butler, from California and Oregon. With these he exhibited specimens of Limenitis (Basilarvhia) lor qui ni, Boisd., taken together with the Adelpha's, by Mr. F. D. Godman, in the two last- named States. A specimen of L. lorquini from Esquimalt, Vancouver Island, was also exhibited for the purpose of comparison with the southern individuals. These mutual resemblances appeared to offer a striking example of Dr. F. A. Dixey's principle of the Reciprocal Mimicry. Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe read a paper on the Life-History of Lomechusa strumosa, F. Wednesday, December Uh, 1907. — Mr. C. O. Waterhouse, President, in the Chair. Mr. Walter Feather, of 10, Station Grove, Cross Hills, Keighley, Yorkshire, and the British Soinaliland Fibre and Development Company, Berbera, Somaliland, British East Africa, and Mr. Rupert Wellstood Jack, Assistant Entomologist in the Department of Agriculture of the Cape of Good Hope, Cape Town, South Africa were elected Fellows of the Society. Dr. G. C. Hodgson exhibited a number of examples of Anthrocera trifolii, collected on the same ground in Sussex, and showing a wide range of variation, including three fine melanic forms, and several showing six spots on the upper- win 'Ts. Mr. W. J. Kaye, a specimen of Papilio thoas with the central portions of both tails removed apparently by a narrow-billed bird. The injury appeared so symmetrical that it was thought likely that the specimen was an abnormality. But a careful microscopical examination showed that this was not the case. With it were several species of butterflies from British Guiana with injuries to the wings in the region of the abdomen, such injuries to Danaine butterflies being quite rare. The President, two photographs of an African Locust, which had apparently caught a mouse and was preying upon it. The specimen was found in the Congo 22 [January, State. Mr. R. S. Bagnall exhibited and read notes on many rare species of Coleop- tera, Thysanoptera, and Aptera from Northumberland, Durham, and Scotland, of which ten were new to Britain. Mr. L. W. Newman, a long and varied series of Ennomos autumnaria (alniaria), a series of Polia manthomi&ta (nigrocincta) bred from ova and fed on carrot, the specimens unusually large (N. Cornwall), three pairs of hybrid Notodonta ziczac 9 ATTJBE, A WEEKLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OP SCIENCE. PRICS 6a. " Nature " contains Original Articles on all subjects coming within the domain of Soience, contributed by the most eminent sciontific writers of the day. 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A detailed Obituary Notice will appear in our next Number. January, 1908. February, 1008.] 25 10. Syromastes marginatus, L.,= Mesocerus (Kent.) id. 11. Verlusia rhombea, L , = Syromastes quadratus, F. The genus Syromastes was set up in 1825 by Lutreille without indicating any species, with a diagnosis which only mentioned that the structure of the antenna* distinguished it from Gonocerus. In 1832 Laporte set up Coreus quadratus as a type for the genus, and it was not before 1835 that Burmeister brought in C. marginatus, L., here. The name Syromastes ought therefore indisputably to be maintained for the species of Verlusia. PSEUDOPHLCEINA. 12. Coreus, Burm., Saund., nee Fab., = Coriomeris, Westw. Coreus denticu- laltts, Scop., = Coriomeris id. BERYTINA. 13. Neides, auct., = Berytus, Fabr. Berytus, auct., = Neides, Latr., Reut. The genus Neides was founded by Latreille, 1802, for two species {tipularius, L., and clavipes, F.) without indication of the type. In 1803 Fabricius erected the genus Berytus with the type tipularius, thus indirectly fixing clavipes as the type of Neides " (Kirkaldy, Entomol., 1900, p. 26). Conformably to this I have already in Rev. Synon. used the above mentioned names. Later on (Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., vii, 1905, p. 28) Kirkaldy has certainly, applying the s. c. " historical" method, fixed tipularius as the type for Neides, and formed a new genus name Berytinus for clavipes and others of the same genus. In conformity with Bergroth (Wien. Ent. Zeit., 1906, p. 10), I consider, however, the former proceeding more simple. " Die historische Methode laitet nicht zu befriedigenden Resultate " (Bergroth, /. c, p. 9). LYGJEINA. 14. Lygxus equestris, L., = Eulygxus id. Kirkaldy has (Entomol., 1899, p. 220) pointed out how Fabricius' type for the genus Lygieus is a Coreid, L. valgus, L. (= Ho/opterna, id.), and that thus the genus Roloptema, Stal, ought to be called Lygseus, F. For Lygieus, auct. (Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital., xxxvi, 1904, p. 96), he has proposed the name Stalagmostethus. I have, however, previously (Rev. Syn., p. 550) called this genus Eulygxus. But Bergroth says (Wien. Ent. Zeit., 1906, p. 10) : " Das sogenannte Gesetz der ' bon sens ' kommt selten zur Anwendung, lasst sich aber wohl nicht ganz umgehen. Kirkaldy's Einfuhrung des inveterier- ten Nainens Lygxus, Fabr. fur die Coreiden Gattung Hoploptema, Stal, und die daraus als Konseguenz folgende Umanderung der Familien— Namen Coreidx und Lygxidx in resp. Lygseidse und Geocoridx dur fur wohl niemals allgemein akzep- etiert werden." APHANINA. 15. Stygnus arenarius, Hahn, =fuligineus, Geoff r. I avail myself of this oppor- tunity to point out the incorrectness in quoting, as Saunders also has done in his article, Fourcroy as the author instead of Geoffroy. The former was only publisher of Entoinologia Parisiensis, 1785, which was an abridged edition of Geoffroy's " Histoire abregee des Insectes qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris " (1762), in which latter work the binary nomenclature was not yet in use. Geoffroy has him- self given all the new names in Entom. Par., and therefore he and not Fourcroy ought to be mentioned as the author. See Reuter, Rev. Syn., p. 287. 16. Aphanus rolandri, L., = Aphanus id. This species is the type for Laporte'a C 26 [February, genua Aphanus (see Kirkaldy, Entom., 1001, p. 177). The generic name Calgpto- notus of Douglas cannot then be accepted for this species. When Stal, in 1872 (Gen. Lyg. Eur., p. 57), separated rolandri from the other species, he ought to have re-introduced the older name by Laporte instead of the one given by Douglas and Scott much later. As the genus Calyptonotux, Dougl. and Scott also includes other allied species, it may hereafter, when the rolandri group has been separated, be used for the species now wrongly included under Aphanus, which species otherwise will lack a common generic name for their many subgenera. TINGIDINA. 17. Monanthia ciliata, Fieb., = Tingis reticulata, H.-S. See Horvath, Synops. Tingit., 1906, p. 70. 18. Monanthia ampliata, H.-S., = Tingis id. 19. Monanthia carditi, L., = Tingis id. The type for the genus Tingis, Fabr., 1803! 20. Monanthia angustata, H.-S., = Tingis id. 21. Monanthia costata, H.-S. , = Catoplatus fabricii, Stal. Acanthia costata, Fabr., which has been wrongly considered as identical with Herrich-Schaeffer's species, is a species of Copium. See Horvath, Syn. Ting., p. 91. The specimen which Horvath mentions is Fabricius' type-specimen, and belongs to the University Museum in Copenhagen, from where I have had it lent to me. 22. Monanthia dumetorum, H.-S., = Physatochila id. 23. Monanthia qnadrimaculata, Wolff, = Physatochila id. 21. Monanthia simplex, H.-S., = Oneochila id. EMESINA. 25. Ploiaria, auct., nee Scop., = Ploiariola, Eeut., Rev. Syn., p. 711. Saunders has, in this following Champion, identified this genus with the exotic Ploiariodes, Buch. White (from the Hawaiian Islands), which, however, is a quite distinct genus. See Bergroth, Verh. Zool.-bot. Gesellsch. Wien, lvi, p. 305. NABINA. 26. Nobis, auct., Saund., = Iteduviolus, Kirby. N. gutlula was fixed in 180-4 by Latreille as the type for Nabis, which name therefore ought to be used instead of the current Prostemma. See Kirkaldy, " The Entomol., 1900, p. 264." Stal already held this opinion (En. Hem., iii, 1873, p. 108), and adopted Corisais, Schrank, for the species usually represented under Nabis. The type for Corisctts however was dauci (= Alydus calcaratus, L. ?), fixed in 1801. (See Kirkaldy, I. c, 1900, p. 263). The genus Reduviolus was (1837) set up by Kirby, Richardson's Fauna Bor.-amer., iv, p.#280, for a species nearly related to ferns, L. SALDINA (= ACANTH1INA). 27. Salda = Acanthia, Latr. In 1797 (Pn'e de car. gen., p. 85) Latreille says expressly : Je ne rapporte a ce genre que les especes de Fabr. que Ton trouve ordinaireinent aux bords des eaux. Kirkaldy says (Entomol., 1899, p. 218) : " Reuter indicates zoster se, Fabr., and litloralis, Linn., as the types of Acanthia, Fabr., but as this has been accepted neither by Saunders, Lethierry and Severin, nor Puton, nor yet by Horvath, it may be worth while to recapitulate the reasons 1808.] 27 for this stepi Acanthia, Fabr., 1 7 7 r> , contained a heterogeneous assemblage, but it was not till 1797 that Lutreille indicated littoralis and its congeners as the types of the genus. It is, I think, indisputable that (1) Acanthia was not broken up, nor was any type fixed till 1707, and (2) that Latreille did fix the type. I therefore see no alternative to adopting the name Acanthia for littoralis, as Renter has already done in his monograph of the Paleearctic species." CIMICINA (= CLINOCORINA). 28. Cimex auct. = Clinocoris, Fall., 1829. As neither the genus name Acanthia nor Cimex, as Kirkaldy has shown (see above), can be maintained for our common bug, the one proposed by Fallen already in 1829 (Hem. Svec, p. 141), ought to be adopted for it, viz., Clinocomis. Ou this point Kirkaldy, Nature, 1903, p. 464; Entomol., 1905, p. 77 ; and Girault, Psyche, Journ. Cambr. Ent. Club, xii, 1905, p. 61. The Pentatomid genus Clinocoris, Halm (1834), Sta.1 (1872), must therefore be exchanged for Elasmucha, Stal. CAPSINA. 29. Leptopterna = Miris, Fabr. 1803. Type : dolobratus, L. ! 30. Therefore Miris, auct., nee Fabr. == Stenodema, Lap. 31. Trigonotylus brevipes, Reut. nee Jakovl. = T. psammxcolor, Rcut. The true T. brevipes, Jakovl., from the Steppes of South Eastern Russia is a different species. See Rent., Caps, persicse, in Ann. Mus. Zool. Acad. Sci. St. Petersb., ix, 1904, p. 5. For the British species, that also lives in great quantities on Elymus and Psamma in the islands in the North Sea and the south of Baltic, when it was still thought to be a variety of T. ruficornis, I proposed the name of psammxcolor (Berl. Ent. Zeitschr., xxix, 1885, p. 45). Later on the species has been described by Thomson as Miris elymi. 32. Lopus, Spin, nee Hahn, auct. = Lopistus, Kirk., 1905. The type for the genus Lopus, Hahn, is chrysanthemi, Hahn (= decolor, Fall.). See Reuter, Wien. Ent. Zeit., 1906, p. 216. Kirkaldy has (I.e. 1905, p. 267) wrongly understood hier- acii, Hahn (= thunbergi, Fall.), as such. The name Capsodes, Dahlb., 1850, which was given to gothicus, L., may perhaps not be used for Lopus, Spin, nee Hahn, as it was not accompanied by any description. 33. Olobiceps cruciatus, Reut. This name ought to be maintained instead of Jlavomaculatus. So also : — 34. Globiceps Jlavomaculatus, Fabr., Reut., Saund., instead of selectus, Fieb., D. and Sc. Puton has without any valid reason in his catalogue re-introduced the wrong names that were already rejected. The types of Fabricius belong exclusively to the species for which I have proposed to maintain the name Jlavomaculatus. And the author, who next to Fabricius used the name, fixed it also for the same species, " in floribus pralorum " common in Sweden. Whereas of cruciatus, Reut. (= Jlavomaculatus, Fieb , Put. nee Fabr.), which lives on Salices, a couple of speci- mens only have occurred on Oland. See Reuter, Rev. syn., p. 257. 35. Macrocoleus tanaceti, Fall. = Megalocoleus pilosus, Schr. This alteration has also been accepted by Puton. 36. Onychumenus decolor, Fall. = Lopus, id. See above at Lopus = Lopistus. 37. Agalliastes = Chlamydatus, Curt. Already in 1886 (Rev. d'Ent., v, C 2 28 [February, p. 122) I have pointed out that A. saltitans, Fall. (= marginatus, Curt.), in Ent. Mag., 1833, p. 197, has been described by Curtis as the only species of the genus Chlamydatus and thus ought to be considered as the type of it. Puton, too, has resumed the name Chlamydatus for Agalliastes. Also the combination of genera, of which the former genus Agall tastes makes a part as subgenus (by Saunders) ought therefore to get the name Chlamydatus 1833 instead of Plagiognathus (Fiebcr 1859). CORIXINA. Kirkaldy has (Entomol., 1898, p. 252) called attention to this, that the geno- type of Corixa, Geoff r., is striata, Geoff r. (geoffroyi, Leach). The subgenus, to which this species belongs, ought thus to retain the name of Corixa. The names of the different subgenera are thus : Corixa, Geoff r., 1762 {Macro- corixa, Thorns., 1869). Glxnocorisa, Thorns., 1869 (Oreinocorixa, B. Wh., 1873 ; Saund., 1892). Type : cavifrons, Thorns. Arctocorisa, Wallengr. (Ghenocorisa, p. et Corisa, Put., 1880 ; Glasnocorixa et Corixa, Saund., 1892 ; Basileocorixa, Kirk., 1898). Type: carinata, Sahib. See Kirkaldy, Kntomol., 1900, p. 28, Note. CalUcorixa, B. Wh., 1873. Cymatia, Flor., 1860. To the above-mentioned changes there ought to be added still a few more, in view of the principle to be followed, which I consider to be the most correct, i. tera were taken, including Mesovelia furcata, at Slapton, and a list of them is appended at the end of this paper. The species marked thus f are not included in the Devonshire list of the Victoria County History. COLEOPTERA. Cieindela hybrida, v. maritima, Braunton Sands. Nebria complanata, not un- common, under loose pieces of drift wood on the sandy beach, Woolacorabe and Braunton. Leistusfitlvibarbis,Woo\>icombe. Carabus arvensis, Woolacombe. Ba- dlster sodalis, Mortehoe. Dysrhirius thoracicus and safinus, Dawlish. Harpalus azureus, under stones, Saunton ; II. discoideus, at roots of heath, Dawlish Warren. Stomis pumieatus, Woolacombe. Ptero.it ichus dimidiatus, Saunton. Amara patri- cia,f Shaldon and Woolacombe ; A. consuIaris,f Shaldon ; A. acuminata, Lynmouth. Taphria nivalis, on tho high ground at Haldon, above Teignmouth. Pristom/chus * Dr. Longstaff has enumerated must of the insects taken by us at this locality in the 3rd edition of his " Lepidoplera and other Insecta observed in the parish of Mortehoe." [London : Mitchell, Hughes, and Clarke, 140, Wardour Street. 1907]. 1908.] 33 terrirola, Woolacombe, under drift -wood on the sands. Lymnseum nigropioeum, in Die shingle at Toreros?. Bembidium rufexcenx, Woolacombe; B. filiate and decorum, in abundance, on the river hunks, Lynmouth and Ohristow ; Ti. monticola, Christow ; B. xaxatite.f common on (he beach, Shaldon ; B. normannum, Dawlish. Aepux marinvs, Shaldon Dromiu* vectensis, in the shingle Torcross. Bides/tux minuHssimvx, in plenty in its old locality, Clapton Ley. Catambux insequalix, Slapton. Mydroporux rivalix, in the river, Lynmouth ; R. septentrional is, Chris- tow ; R. longnh at Beccles ; this last was recorded by Curtis from Wrentham, but had not been taken since. TherisUs mucronella, Scop., Depressaria umbellana, St., D. ciliella, St., D. chserophylli, Zell., and Gelechia mulinella, Zell., at Bungay, CEcophora lunaris, Haw., Butalis incongruella* St., Coleopliora, therinella, Tgstr., and Chau- liodus illigerellus* Hb., at Beccles; C. chwrophyllellus, Goze, Monks Soham, Argyresthia curvella., L., Waldringfield, Lavcrna subbistrigella, Haw., and Asy- chna. modestella, Dup., Bungay, and Lithocolletis stettinensis* Nicelli, Fox hall, May 27th, 1907. The species marked * are new to the Suffolk list. G-uestling, Sussex : January 3rd, 1908. 36 [February, TOWARDS THE BETTER KNOWLEDGE OF THE GENUS LKCANIUM. BY DR. KAKEL 8ULC. The greatest number of our Palsearctic, Bohemian, and also British species (not introduced in hothouses) of the genus Lecanium (sensu Signoret) are grouped now in the new generic division Eulecanium, of Cockerell (1901), which is also used in the Catalogue of the Coccidce of the world by Mr. E Fernald (1900). The following may be specially mentioned: L. persicce, Geoff., coryli, L., caprece, L., douglasi, Sulc, prunastri, Fonsc, bituberculatum, T. T. (sensu Newstead, British Coccidce, 1903). I will speak only of the truly Bohemian species, known to me at the present time, treating the males alone ; the females being well described and figured by Newstead. The results of my many years studies are, that the above-men- tioned species could not be contained in a single genus having salient generic differential characters, and I propose therefore the following distribution : — Parthenolecanium, n. gn. There is no male ; female parthenogenetic. Type, coryli, L., persicce, Geoff., both closely allied, and perhaps one and the same species. Eulecanium, Ckll., Defin. emend. The male with six pairs of eyes, wings present, with pockets for hooks of the halteres ; halteres present. Two pairs of waxy abdo- minal filaments. Type, caprece, L. (Syn. tilice, Sign. ; pyri, Goethe), douglasi, Sulc, ciliatum, Newstead, alni, Mod. ; the last three names being perhaps synonymic. Sl'IEiEROLKCANlUM, n. gil. The mule with three pairs of eyes, wings present, but without pockets ; halteres wanting. Two pairs of waxy abdominal filaments. Type, prunastri, Fonsc. Paljeolecanium, n. gn. The male with three pairs of eyes, wings present, with pockets for hooks of halteres: halteres present. Two pairs of waxy abdominal filaments. Type, bituberculatum, T. T. A more extended illustrated treatise on the subject will appear in the already prepared continuation of my Studies on Coccidce. Ostrava-Micluiikovice, Austria : December 1st, 1907. 1908.] 37 ODONATA COLLECTED BY MISS FOUNT A1NE IN BOSNIA AND HERCEGOVINA. BY KENNETH J. MOUTON, F.E.S. Our information regarding the Odonata of Bosnia, and Ilerce- ^ovina is still sufficiently meagre to warrant a short notice of a collection made by Miss Fountaine in these provinces during the past summer. The only previous British reference relating to Bosnian Odonata that I know of, is a note by Mr. McLachlan on a few species taken by Mr. Malcolm Burr (Ent. Mo. Mag , 2nd ser., vol. ix, p. 249). Pro- fessor Klapalek however took a number of species (14) on a journey through the same region in 1897, and a list of these appeared in Vestn. Ceske Akad. cisare Fran. Josefa, 1898, cis. 2. The majority of Miss Fountaine's captures were made at Pale, in Bosnia, described by her as a small village at 3000 ft. s. m., 12 kilometers by train, and 29 by road north of Sarajevo, situated amongst pine-woods and hay fields. The other localities are Mostar and Jablanica, both in Hercegovina. The species are as follows : — Orthetrum cwrulescens, F. — Pale, l.VIII (teneral). Sympetrum meridionale, Selys. — Mostar, 13. VI. S. striolatum, Charp.— Palo, 5.VIII. S. flaveolum, L.— Pale, 8.VIII. Onychogomphus forcipatus, L. — Jablanica, 29. V, teneral ; Pale, 29.VII. Gomphus vulgatissinms, L.- — ? , Mostar, 15. VI. CorJulegaster bideniatus, Selys.— $ , Mostar, 6.VI ; ? , Jablanica, 27-V. Tliese differ from Swiss examples, especially in the much broader black margins of the labrum, and the central thoracic lateral band is practically obsolete. JEschna affinis, V.d.Lind.— Pale, 20.VII. M. cyanea, Mull.— Pale, 11— 29.VII. Calopteryx virgo, L.— Pale, 20— 31.VII. A very fine form ; remarkable for their large size, and the dark colour of the wings of the mophloeus monilis, F., near Streatley on November 8th and 18th, 1905, 1 have visited the same tree on several occasions. The following spring I found one dead specimen under a small piece of bark. In the autumn of 1906 there were large numbers of Litargus bifasciatus, F., Diplocwlusfagi, Chevr., and the three species of Rkinosimus on the tree, but I was disappointed at not taking the Lxmophlceus. Last year the tree, a medium sized beech, still seemed in very good condition, but unfortunately I was unable to visit it after August until December 21st, when, however, I was delighted in finding four specimens, one of which was dead, a fact which makes me think that perhaps it was considerably more common earlier in the autumn. This makes a total of seventeen specimens that have been taken, but I have strong reason to sus- pect that it will not occur again on that particular tree.— Id. Why should not Teretrius picipes, F., be commensal with Lyctus canaliculatus, F., as well as with L. brunneus, Steph. ?— In his short note (Ent. Mo. Mag., Ser. 2, xviii, p. 275) entitled "Is Teretrius picipes, ¥., parasitic on Lyctus canaliculatus, F., as well as on L. brunneus, Steph. ? " Mr. Bedwell states the fact that the interesting little Histerid beetle, T. picipes, was taken by himself with L. canaliculatus, at the same time pointing out that his brother Coleopterists regard this association as improbable. We all know that T. picipes is parasitic (in the broadest sense of the word) on L. brunneus, and some Entomologists seem to think it cannot be found with another beetle, however closely allied, thus expressing (perhaps unintentionally) serious doubts when they learn that it is found with L. canaliculatus, a beetle belonging to the same genus as L. brunneus, of about the same size and practically 40 [February, identical habits. Colydium e!ongalum,F.. is not. attached to Platypus cylindrus,¥., alone, but is found in the burrows of beetles not nearly so closely allied as the two species of Lyctus just mentioned. Mr Donisthorpe has taken it with Dryocoztes villosux, F., and another species of Scolytid, as well as in the burrows of Melasis buprestoides, L. In conclusion, finding Epursea angustula, Er., and Acrulia inflala, G-yll., in the borings of Try pod en droit domesticum, L , shall we say that these two species will be found with T. domesticum alone and with no other beetle, however closely related ?— R. S. Bagnall, The Groves, Winlaton-on-Tyne : December llth, 1907. Bruchus affinis, Frohl., a British insect.— In the Ent. Mo. Mag. (antca, p. 2) Mr. Champion expresses the opinion that " the true Bruchus affinis probably has no claim to a place on the British list." This, however, is not the case. On May 14th, 1893, when in company with my old friend, the late Arthur Chitty, I swept a specimen in Darenth Wood It has a strong tooth on the thorax, the anterior legs are all red, and the bare black spots on the pygidium are very con- spicuous.— Horace Donisthoupe, 58, Kensington Mansions, S.W.: January, 1908. Rhizophagus parallelocollis, Er., in seed potatoes. — It may be of interest to add a further confirmation of the subterranean habits of this beetle, as referred to by Dr. Joy and Dr. Bailey (Ent. Mo. Mag., vols, xlii, p. 256, and xliii, p. 3). While digging up potatoes in my garden during August and September in the past season I several times met with the insect in the rotting seed potatoes. They occurred in potatoes which were in all stages of decay, from some that were still hard and but little changed from what they were when planted, to others that were a semi-fluid mass of corruption and most offensive. Those which were found early in August were of a paler colour than those met with later, and had apparently not long been disclosed from the pupa?. Bathyscia wollastoni occurred with the Rhizophagus in the earlier finds, but not in the later ones. The only other beetles were a few " Staphs," but the Rhizophagus was the characteristic species — E. A. Hutlek, 56, Cecile Park, Crouch End, N. : November IQth, 1907. Fresh-water Mollusca disseminated by water-beetles. — That insects play a part in the dissemination of Mollusca is well known, but records of observations are by no means numerous. It is interesting therefore to note that Canon Horsley took a Dytiscus marginal is last summer, in the Ravcnsbourne stream near Catford, with two specimens of the little freshwater limpet Ancylus lacustris attached to its elytra — J. R. le B. Tomlin, Stoneley, Reading : January, 1908. Melanism, Sfc, in Abraxas ulmata. — During the early part of last summer a non-entomologist brought me a specimen of Abraxas ulmata, with the information that on the rough pathway and adjoining ground outside Harden Clough Wood, near here, the moth was so abundant that one could scarcely avoid treading on them as one walked along. Knowing that the species was every year more or less common in that, wood, I regarded the report of its excessive abundance as probably a mild exaggeration, and thought no more about it. But about the same time, as I after- 1908.] 41 wards learned, in another wood a few miles away, Mr. 15. Morley was also astonished to find the species in immense multitudes; indeed, in a paper on tlie subject (Naturalist, November, 1907, pp. 392-4) lie states that the species was " in a count- less swarm. * * * To walk about tin: wood meant killing them at every step. The herbage and bushes were simply alive with them, everything was spangled all over with their white wings. But evidences of tragedy abounded everywhere — bodiless wings littered the ground ; thousands were drowned in the stream ; hope- lessly deformed examples were crawling about on every hand, crippled in every conceivable way." The large number of specimens suggested to Mr. Morley the probability of '' varieties " among them, and he was not disappointed, for he was able to pick out a magnificent series comprising " all sorts of forms," from very pale with few marks, to the fine melanic lead-coloured form which was found in some abundance a few years ago by the York collectors at Sledmere on the Yorkshire Wolds, and of which form Mr. Morley picked up a few beautiful examples among the hosts of the species. My primary object in writing this note is because in the " List of Yorkshire Lepidoptera " I specially note this lead-coloured form as an illustration of melanism not occurring in the smoky South-west Riding of Yorkshire, i.e., in the area where melanism has been chiefly noticed ; but as occurring in the Sledmere district, where there is no smoke, and but little other melanism. Now, of course, the illustration will no longer hold good, for although no trace of melanism in ulmata has ever previously been seen in the Huddeisfield district, apparently there only wanted either a suffi- cient number of specimens to bring it out, or else it is the direct result of some exceptional circumstance. I think the latter supposition the more probable on account of the large percentage of crippled or diseased specimens which has always accompanied the melanism in this species. Exactly the same thing occurred at Sledmere. For several consecutive seasons prior to 1901 the species occurred in profusion, with the melanic and intermediate forms common, but always accompanied by thousands of crippled examples. About that date the disease apparently worked itself out, for since then the- insect has been quite a scarce species in the wood, and scarcely a variety to be found. This points to the variation in this species as being caused by disease, and it will be interesting to observe whether Huddersfield will furnish a parallel case. Why too this particular insect should occur in such extra- ordinary numbers in a season when nearly all other species were exceptionally scarce is a problem which is probably beyond solution at present. — Geo. T. Pokkitt, Edgerton, Huddersfield : January 6th, 1908. Note on the genus Antecerococcus, Green. — In the Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., p. 560 (1900), I erected the genus Antecerococcus to contain a species (A. puncti- ferns) in which the test of the adult female was incomplete and not separable from the body of the insect. The test was also characterized by the presence of tufts of glassy filaments. The insect itself was in no wise distinguishable from a typical Cerococcus. The subsequent examination of further material in a more advanced stage of development shows me that A. punctiferus eventually develops a complete test freely separable from the body of the insect, and that it then loses more or less D 42 [February, completely the earlier tufts of filaments. I am now, therefore, of opinion that Antecerococcus must be considered a synonym of Cerococcus, and represents only the early adult stage of the species for which the name was founded. Recent examination of an allied form from India has confirmed me in this opinion. Maskell's Planchonia bryoides, which — on my authority — was relegated to Antecerococcus, must also be removed to the genus Cerococcus. It passes through similar stages of incomplete and complete test, but retains the characteristic tufts of filaments that suggested the name of the insect. I have recently received from the author an interesting paper entitled " On Cercococcus eremobius, gen. et sp. n., an aberrant form of Coccidx " (Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., vol. ix, part 12, p. 455 (19U7). A careful study of the description and excellent figures of the supposed new genus lead me to suspect very strongly that this also has been similarly founded upon the early adult stage of an insect that is perfectly referable to the genus Cerococcus. The author himself, after describing the cup-shaped test (or ovisac) with " sometimes a slight spout-like prolongation," remarks (p. 462), '' Such is the structure in the great majority of specimens. But in a very few of the dried specimens the ovisac has proved to be completely closed except for an opening on the somewhat spout-like prolongation corresponding to the tail of the insect. ... It appears as if, at a later stage in the life-history than that attained by most of these specimens, more secretory material is added to the open cup, so that the latter becomes a closed structure, as is the case in the allied genus Asterolecanium." This being the case, there is nothing in the character of the contained insect to separate it from its still nearer allies in the genus Cerococcus. In any case, the adoption of a name so closely resembling that of a nearly related genus is unfortunate. — E. Ernest Green, Peradeniya, Ceylon : December 10th, 1907. Pachycoleus rufescens, 'Sahib., at Loddiswell, South Devon. — I have pleasure in noting another locality, as above, for this interesting little llemipteron recorded as new to Britain by Mr. G. C. Champion in last month's issue of this Magazine. Five or six specimens were shaken out of moss from a streamlet in the woods, but of these I regret to say I brought home but a single example. The fact was that I examined and discarded the first individual I put into a tube, as it seemed imma- ture. I have wondered since whether the strong transverse nervure on the hemelytra may have deceived me in this respect. Like Mr. Champion I was under the guidance of our mutual friend, Mr. P. de la Garde, to whom I instantly wrote on my return, as soon as the specimen was set and found to be mature, urging him to search for more. Up to the present, however, his endeavours have not been rewarded. Although so small, 1'. rufescens is readily discernible on the collecting sheet by its fleshy colour, as well as by its Salda-like power of leaping ; the latter propensity and its fragile structure, however, render it rather uneasy to capture. — James 11. Khys, " Morwell," Lipson Road, Plymouth: January Ibth, 1908. Some scarce British Neuropteroidea from Suffolk. — I am much obliged to Mr. Claude Morley for submitting to me recently quite a large number of Neuropleroidea taken by him in various localities, but chietly in Suffolk. There are at least three or four species which call for special mention. 1908.] 43 Phacopferi/.v breoipennis, Curt. A perfect ? which flew into light one evening in September, 1900, in Mr. Morley's house at Monks Soham. For some reason this remains one of our rarest species of Neuroptera (cf. McLachlan, Knt. Mo. Mag., 1902, p. 185, where the British occurrences of this insect are discussed). CcecUius atricornis, McLach., is another scarce species. The present specimen (which is Mr. Morley's second capture) was swept by him from a ditch at Milden- hall, Suffolk, on September 25th, 1907. The ditch was just dry enough to allow of his walking along the bottom. Libel lul a fill va, Miiller, although not so uncommon as it was once considered, is still a fine species to take. The specimen (also a second capture) is from Barnby Broad in Forth Suffolk on July 5th, 1900, the earlier one being from Beccles in the same neighbourhood in 1892 (see Ent. Mo. Mag., 1897, p. 106). Sympetrum flaveolum, Linn., from Tuddenham Fen, Suffolk, August 12th, 1906. I have no recollection of having seen any record of a more northerly point being reached by this species in the 190fi immigration. — Kenneth J. Morton, 13, Black- ford Road, Kdinburgh : January 6th, 1908. leuiciu. Lepidoptera and other Insecta observed in the Parish of Mortehoe, North Devon .- by Gr. B. Longstaff, M.D., K.R.C.P. ; Third Edition. To which is added a List of Lepidoptera noted in Lundy Island by the same : together with a First List of the Land and Fresh Water Mollusca of Mortehoe, by Mrs. G. B. Longstaff (Jane Donald). 8vo, pp. 68. London : Mitchell, Hughes, and Clarke, 140, Wardour Street. 1907. This well-printed and excellently got-up little brochure treats of a part of the insect-fauna of a particularly interesting district in North Devon, and the very full list of the Lepidoptera (many of which have been already recorded in our pages) differs from most others in the valuable bionomic details appended to many of the species, especially in the butterflies. The lists of Coleoptera, Hemiptera, and Hymenoptera are much less complete, but include a good many interesting and local species, and that of the terrestrial and fresh-water Mollusca by Mrs. Longstaff, though admittedly only a provisional one, shows clearly the exeeedingly good work that has been done in this group. Dr. Longstaff's excellent paper on the Lepido- ptera of Lundy Island, which appeared in our last volume (p. 241, et seq.), is incorporated in the work, which may be said to rank very high among local lists of its kind. ituarjj. Arthur John Chitty, M.A., F.E.S.— The grief we feel in recording the death of this well known and popular Entomologist will we are sure be shared by all who knew him. After a comparatively short illness he passed away on January 6th at D 2 4=1 I February, the age of 48. The eldest son of the Kt. Hon. Lord Justice Chitty, be was born in London on May 27th, 1859, and was by profession a Barrister-at-Law, but in the spare time which his legal duties allowed him he devoted himself most assiduously to Entomology, and he was a keen and most successful collector; although mainly a Coleopterist, he interested himself in most Orders, and there are few which'have not; been enriched by his researches and discoveries. His brother remembers him collecting butterflies as early as 1869, and during his Oxford days he used to set up ants' nest for observation, isolating them in sponge baths containing water. The Hymenoptera and Hemiptera especially attracted his attention, and of these he made extensive collections, capturing and recording many rarities which would in most eases have escaped the eye of any but an experienced specialist. The writer of this notice was often struck by his power of rapidly appreciating minute characters which to many Entomologists are a stumbling block for years. His first note in this Magazine, "Coleoptera from North Wales " (vol. xxvii, p. 331) was pub- lished in 1891, and from that time he was a frequent contributor to our pages. Amongst his more important communications are those dealing with the fauna of the neighbourhood of Huntingfield and Faversham, at the former of which places he had a country house ; these include the re-discovery of Andrena • ferox (vol. xxxv, p. 13) and Nomada guttulata (vol. xxxix, p. 282) ; " Collecting (chiefly Coleoptera) in old hedgerows near Faversham, Kent " (vol. xl, p. 100), in which he records the occurrence in some numbers of the rare Anthribus albinu.i, L., and the still rarer Tropideres niveirontris, F. ; and his notes on the habits of Ponera contracta, in whose company he used to find the rare Machrerifet glabratus. Besides the above contributions there are many others which deal chiefly with the records of captures. In vol. xxxix, p. 143, he records the first discovery in Britain of Hydroporus biline- atus, and points out the differential characters between it and H. granularis ; and in the volume for last year he published an important synoptical table of the British species of Cryptophagua, which has been already of great service to the students of that genus. A few years ago he took up the special study of the obscure group of Hymenoptera, Proctolrypid;e, and in vol. xlii, p. 148, described a new species Pseudisobrachium cantianum. We hoped he might have lived to have given us many contributions towards the elucidation of this little known family. Several communications on Coleoptera are to be found in the pages of the " Entomologist's Record," the staff of which he joined in March last. Amongst these his "Note on Killing and Setting Coleoptera" (vol. xviii, p. 134, 1906), describing for the first time the so-called " ether process," is of special interest. He joined the Entomological Society of London in 1891, serving on its Council from 1902-4, and again from 1906 to the time of his death. In its concerns he took an active interest, and rendered valuable assistance in drawing up the alterations and the by-laws which came into force in December, 1902. He was educated at Eton, where be became the head of his house, and was in the cricket eleven, and at Balliol College, Oxford, taking honors in his final B.A. examination, and he was well known at the University as a boating man and a cricketer ; he was for many years Secretary of the All England Lawn Tennis Club ; and was a good performer on the violin ; he had also a pood practical knowledge of astronomy1and made for himself more than one reflecting telescope. He married the daughter of Sir John Croft, Bart., of 10081 45 Doddington, Kent, and his wife and three children survive him. The above short, account shows what a loss Entomologists have Buffered ; but those wlio knew him well feel the loss not only of a fellow Entomologist, but of a personal friend whom they can ill afford to spare. — E. S. Martin Jacob i/. — It is with sincere regret that we announce the death of this well-known Coleopterist, which took place on December 21th last. Although he had been in but indifferent health for some time past, his last illness was very brief, as we understand that he was engaged in his professional work up to within a very few days of his decease. Born at Altona on April 12th, 1842, Mr. Jacoby came to Manchester as a member of Halle's famous band in his twenty-first year, and from that time continued to reside in England. For several years he was a member of the orchestra of the Royal Italian Opera, afterwards becoming a tutor of the violin, in which career he was well known and highly appreciated in the musical world. From his early youth he was an enthusiastic collector and student of insects in general, but he gradually concentrated his energies on the Coleoptera, and es- pecially on the Phytophagous section of that Order. Many valuable memoirs on these insects, on which he was recognised as the leading authority in England, if not in Europe, are embodied in the publications of the Zoological and Entomological Societies, and other associations of like nature on the Continent. His most im- portant work is perhaps to be found in the " Biologia Centrali-Americana " of Messrs. Godman and Salvin, in which the Pkytophaga of that region are described in one large volume, with an almost equally bulky supplement. His last completed work, which unhappily he did not live to see in print, is the volume on the Phyto- phaya in the '" Fauna of British India," now on the eve of publication. Some years ago he parted with his valuable collection of his favourite group of beetles to M. van de Poll, of Haarlem, but had since accumulated an almost equally extensive series of these insects. In private life Mr. Jacoby was one of the most genial and amiable of men, and his loss is greatly felt by his numerous friends, especially at the Entomological Society, where he was one of the most regular attendants at its meetings since his election as a Fellow in 1S86. Even more will he be missed at the annual gatherings of the Entomological Club, where his masterly solos on the violin have been for many years one of the most enjoyable features. Married in 1869, he leaves a widow, as well as a son and two daughters, with whom we sincerely sympathise. — J. J. W. Roddies. Birmingham Entomological Society : December \Sth, 1907. — Mr. G-. T. Betiiune-Baker, President, in the Chair. Mr. Leslie Frederick Burt, Edgbaston, was elected a Member. Mr. J. T. Fountain exhibited a long and variable series of Apamea testacea, Hb. Mr. H. W. Ellis, various Coleoptera : — Latkrobium leevipenne, Heer, a species not long known as British, of which he found six specimens in the Blatch Collection from Knowle, Bewdley, and Cannock, and he had also taken it himself at Knowle ; 4G [ February , Agabus affinis, Pk., from Sutton ; he said that he liail previously also recorded A. wnguicularis, Thorns., from thence, but that on sending the specimens to Mr. Balfour Browne they had all proved to be afllnis ; Dermestes vulpinus, F., from Fareham, where the larva? were eating the wooden beams in a manure factory. Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, butterflies of the genus E/nnephele, chiefly from Turkestan. Mr. Hubert Langley, Lobophnra carpinata, Bkh., from Princethorpe Wood, and said that he had also taken L. halterata there this year. — Colbran J. Wainwkight, /fow. Sec. The South London Entomological and Natural History Society: Thursday, November \Uh, 1907. — Mr. R. Adkin, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. Mr. Hugh Main exhibited imagines of Charaxes jmius bred from ova. Mr. Newman, series of (I) Plusia bractea captured in Aberdeenshire ; (2) P. chryson (orichalcea) bred fram Cambridgeshire larvse. Dr. Hodgson, (I) a varied series of Spilodes palealit from Dover ; (2) specimens of Plebeius argus (cegon) destitute of orange markings on the upper-sides ; (3) several aberrations of Agriades corydon, including ab. semisyngrapha and instances with no orange mai'kings ; (4) A. bel- largus, forms without orange on the hind-wings ; and (5) a series of Urbicola comma from Clandon, including pale and dark forms and a beautiful cream-coloured aberration. Mr. H. Moore, a specimen of Xylocopa violacea captured alive in the London Docks. Mr. R. Adkin, for Mr. C. E. Young, a Sirex juvencus found at Rotherham. Dr. Chapman, specimens of Oreopsyche pyremrella bred from cases collected at Gavai-nie, July, 1907. Mr. R. Adkin read a paper, "Notes on Porthesia chrysorrhxa," and exhibited a selection of those bred by him at East- bourne. Thursday, November 28th, 1907.— The President in the Chair. The Annual Exhibition of Varieties. Mr. Austin, of Highbury, was elected a Member. Mr. E. C. G-oulton exhibited a very varied bred series of Hypsipetes sordidata from Surrey localities, and two $ Cosmoiriche potatoria of the pale female colour, captured at Wicken. Messrs. Harrison and Main, (1) series of Odontopera biden- tdta, bred from black Yorkshire parents, from dark Yorkshire parents, and from a very light Wisley ? , with numerous collected specimens from many localities, and compared the variations shown ; and (2) four broods of Pieris nwpi, bred from 9 s from the Klein Scheidegg Pass, Switzerland, and remarked on the bryonias forms obtained. Mr. Tonge, (1) a bred series of Orapta c-album from ova laid by a ? taken by Mr. Barraud in the Wye Valley, and gave notes on the variation produced, including var. hutchinsoni ; (2) a series of Dipterygia scabriuscula taken in his garden at Reigate ; and (3) a series of stereographs of entomological subjects by himself. Dr. Hodgson, a series of Anthrocera trifolii from Sussex (one locality), including var. hippocrepidis and ab. obscura ?, typical of the results of four days' collecting of Mr. Grrosvenor and himself, and gave notes on the selective processes 1908.] 47 used, and the results of bbeir observations. Mr. Scollick, varieties of Abraxas sylvata, including a broad dark-banded form, a smoky form almost, devoid of markings, forms approaching var. pantaria, and one with an entire absence of ochreous, all from Bucks. Mr. Newman, (1) a fine inelanic Oporabia dilutata from Kent; (2) long series of Melitxa awrinia from various English and Irish localities ; (3) very varied series of Notodonta chaonia from Irish and Scotch localities j (4) hand paintings of sundry forms bred by him during the season ; and (5) three wild cocoons of Cerura bicuspis from Tilgate Forest. Mr. Grrosvenor, picked series of I'olyommatus icarus from various localities, chiefly North Downs, and gave notes on the aberrations. Mr. VV. J. Lucas, the following varieties from the New Forest : Pyrrhosoma nymphula v. ssnealum ? , P. tenellum v. xneatam ? , and P. tenellum v. ruberatum. Mr. Turner, the life-histories of Coleophora ovosmella and 0. bicolorella from Surrey and Kent localities. Mr. Pratt, a short series of Mellinia ocellari* captured in Surrey on sugared leaves of black poplar. Mr. Edel- sten, specimens of JEgeria andrenxjormis, bred from collected pupae, with the Ichneumon Meniscus bilineatus. Messrs. F. and H. Campion, (1) the rare grass- hopper, Chelidoptera rosselii from Heme Bay ; and (2) the dragonflies Sympetrum sangwineum from Epping Forest, Sept. 15th, 6'. scoticum irom Esher, Sept. 3rd and 20th, the last small, and the ? of Cordulia aenea from Epping Forest. Mr. J. Alderson, (1) short series of Melitxa aurinia bred from Cumberland, much under- sized and darker than usual ; and (2) Melampias epiphron, three second brood specimens bred from ova laid by a Honister ? , the remainder of the brood hiber- nated. Mr. Garrett, Argynnis adippe from Arundel, and Anticlea sinuata from the same place. Mr. Andrews, varieties of Diptera: (1) Cyrtoneura stabulans with an extra cell in each wing ; and (2) specimens of Syrphus and Platycliirus lacking the usual yellow abdominal markings. Mr. South, for Mr. Pope, of Exeter, (1) ok a small Anisotoma in Chalo Chine, Isle of Wight, when evening sweeping, which A have never been able to make out satisfactorily. I have shown it lo various British Coleopteriste who did not agree about it. It was suggested thai it might be a small A. dubia, but I did not think so, and Dr. Joy said he was sure it was one of the better and more obscure species. I have now sent it to Uerr Ganglbauer, and he returns it to me as A. brunnea, Stm., with the description of which it agrees. There appear to be very few records of this rare species. See Fowler, " British Coleoptera," vol. iii, p. 30, and Rye, Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. is, p. 135. — Horace DoNisTiiourE, Kensington Mansions, S.W. : February, 1908. Meligethes subrugosu.s, GylL, in South Devon. — -I have to record the capture of a single specimen of the very rare Meligethes subrugosus, Gyll., by general hedge sweeping near Ugboro' Beacon in September last. Mr. J. H. Keys, himself the fortunate captor of one some years ago in the same district, very kindly identified the insect for me.— Philip de la Garde : February loth, 1908. Coloration of Laccobius jiurpurascens. — In Mr. Newbery's paper on Laccobius purpurascens in the last number of this Magazine there is a point which, with his concurrence, I should like to make more prominent — I refer to the " green " tinge. In some examples, two per cent, perhaps, the whole of the red ground-colour is replaced by a green (somewhat similar to that of Ischnomera cuerulea), which is clear and decided when the insect is fresh, but appears to gradually give way to nearly the normal colouring after the lapse of a considerable time; intermediate forms occur, but I have not yet seen a ease where the thorax alone was green. This green is a ground- colour, and does not prejudice the peculiar purplish bloom which is, I believe, invariably present on fresh specimens. The type of the species is in the British (Natural History) Museum. — Id. He-occurrence of Hydroporus bilinealus, Sturm, in Britain.— -This species does not appear to have been recorded in this country since it was added to our fauna by the late Mr. A. J. Chitty in 1903 (bint. Mo. Mag., vol. xxxix, p. 113). I am therefore pleased to be able to put on record that, whilst collecting in the Hastings district in September last, I captured a single specimen at Pett whilst washing my hands in a pool after a day's " grubbing." If I had realized the importance of my capture I could doubtless have secured more, even without a net, for I distinctly remember disturbing a number of small Hydropori. In addition to the above species I am able to add to the Hastings list of Coleoptera , Rydrsena pyymxa, Wat., two specimens of which turned up under a stone at Fairlight, Xenusa uvida, Er., and Phalacrus hybridus, Elach, single specimen at Pett, and Fhilonthus ebeninus var. corruscus, Grav., at Bexhill High Woods. llebrus pusillus, Fall., proved to be an addition to Mr. E. A. Butler's local list of the Hcmi ptera- FLetero- ptera (" Hastings and East Sussex Naturalist," Vol. 1, No. 1, p. 23) ; it occurred singly at Bye, and with it. were two developed specimens of Microvelia pygmxa, Duf., the only other species worth recording. My thanks arc due to Mr. W. li. Bennett for putting me in the way of finding a large number of local and interest- ing species, and to Mr. E. A. Newbery for assistance in identifying my captures. — E. C. Bkdwell, The Grove, Coulsdon, Surrey : February, 1908. 1908.1 61 Lacoobius sintialus, Mots, foblongus, QorhamJ. — On looking through my material in this genus in the light of Mr. Newbery's tabic (anted,, p. 30), 1 find that I have taken this species on the following occasions : — Cley, Norfolk, August 6th, 1888, Horsford Heath, Norfolk, April 30th, 1890, and Colesborne, Glos., May 8th, 1905. From the Horsford locality, which is one of the characteristic East Norfolk wet heaths, 1 did not at the same time bring L. nigriceps, though I got both Hnuatus and nigriceps in a coast marsh at Cley. In the Colesborne locality, winch is a venial swamp on the Upper Lias at about 500 feet elevation, both species occurred, though I have not at this moment, specimens of each taken at the same time— J. Edwahds, Colesborne, Cheltenham : February \2th, 1908. Coleoptera and Kemiplera-Ileteroptera in various localities in, 1907. — Although I was not fortunate enough to make many really rare captures last season, still I have met with some species which are, at least, not common everywhere, besides a few interesting aberrations, so that my finds are perhaps of sufficient importance to enumerate. I owe to the kindness of my friend, Mr. C. J. C. Pool, several good insects from the neighbourhood of Enfield, in which district I personally met with the following -.—Amain conve.viusciila, one specimen amongst, a large number of Harpalus seneus under vegetable refuse; Ulster purpurascens, a series from the same spot showing great variation in the amount of red coloration on the elytra, and including one specimen of the unicolorous black form (ab. niger) ; Scgmnus minimus, rarely, by beating hedges ; tf. capitatus, common on oaks ; Omias mollinus and Gis pygmseus, one specimen of each, obviously wanderers, beaten from a hedge, and another of the former grubbed at roots of grass; Magdalis barbicornis, a short series obtained from two different hedges at some distance apart, all £ s ; Clytus mysticus and Ischnomera ccerulea, out of hawthorn in May ; Phlaeotrya rufipes, a fine specimen running on an old beech towards dusk one evening in July ; Haplocnemus impressus (one) beaten out of a hedge in the same month. I was especially pleased to find a specimen of Phyllobius maculicornis with both the deciduous mandibles intact, and another of P. urticse with one remaining ; in both these species, and probably in all the rest of the genus, they are semicircular in shape short and rather broad, with a distinct blunt tooth extending outwards from the centre of the inner margin of each mandible, the extremities of these teeth almost meeting. In the specimens of the genera Otiorrhynckus, Trachyphlceus, Tropiphorus, and Barynotus retaining these mandibles which I have seen the teeth are wanting. I shall look forward with interest to solving the question whether or not they are present in the closely allied genus Polydrusus ; probably they are. By sweeping Ranunculus bulbosus in Bush Hill Park in June I got a fair number of Exomias pellucidus, a species very liable to be passed over in the net by the unwary Coleopterist in mistake for the more generally distributed E. araneiformis. Aphodius sordidus, one, ex sterc. equino, in July. On the marshes of the Lea between Cheshunt and Broxbourne I took several specimens of Apion affine, three in March in a stack, and three in September by sweeping, and hope another season to trace the species to its apparently unknown food-plant. At Broxbourne, on the stormy morning of Whit Monday, the few minutes' collecting allowed by the weather resulted in the very unexpected capture of a fine , one without a rudiment of the right hind-wing, and the other with an extremely small left fore-wing. Mr. Turner, Dereas verhuelli, a Pierid near &. rhamni and the " map " butterfly, Cyrestis thyodamas, both from the Khasia Hills, India. Dr. Hodgson and Mr. Grosvenor, series and specimens of Aricia agedis (aslrarche), including var. salmacis, ab. obsolela, ab. alpina, var. artaxerxes, ab. allous, &c , from Reigate, Sussex, N. England, and Aberdeen. Mr. Adkin, series of Tortrix pronubana, T. podana, T. heparana, T. rosana, T. forsterana, and Batodes angudlorana, reared from larvae taken on Euonymus japonicus at East- bourne in May and June, 19o7, and read a paper entitled "Further Notes on Tortrix pronubana, including its Life-History in Britain." Reports of the various Field Meetings held in 1907 were submitted and read. Annual Meeting, Thursday, January 23rd, 1908.— The President in the Chair. The balance sheet and Committee's Report were read, and showed that the Society had closed another year of usefulness. The retiring President, Mr. R. Adkin, then read the Annual Address, in which, after dealing witli recent Entomo- logical discoveries, observations, &c, he reviewed the past history of the Society at some length. 1A08.] 67 The following is n list of the Officers and Council for the ensuing year:— President, A. Sicli, F.E.S. Vice-Presidents, 11. Adkin, F.E.S., and W. J. Kayo, F.E.S. Treasurer, T. W. Hall, F.E.S. Librarian, A. W. Docls. Curator, W. West (Greenwich). 17o». Corresponding Secretary, Stanley Edwards, F.L S., F.Z.S. lion. "Reporting Secretary, Hy. J. Turner, F.E.S. Council, S. R. Ashby, F.E.S, T. A. Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S.. F.E.S., FT. Main, B.Sc, F.E.S., A.L.Ray- ward, F.E.S., E. Step, F.L.S., and A. E. Tonge, F.E.S. In taking the Chair, Mr. Alfred Sich proposed, and Mr. Step seconded, a vote of thanks to Mr. Adkin, and Mr. Tutt at some length paid a warm tribute to the appreciation of Mr. Adkin's services in the Society for so many years. Mr. B. Smith, of Upper Norwood, and Mr. E. R. Goffe, of Wandswortli Common, were elected Members. Mr. Bay ward exhibited the hibernating larva of Pseudoterpna pruinata on the stems of Genista anglica. Mr. Newman, a large and varied series of Amorpha populi, mostly from captured larvae.— Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Sec. Entomological Society of London.— Wednesday, February bth, 1908. Mr. C. O. Wateriiouse, President, in the Chair. The President announced that he had nominated Dr. Thomas Algernon Chapman, M.D., FZ.^., Professor Raphael Meldola, F.R S., F.C.S., and Mr. Henry Rowland-Brown, M.A., as Vice-Presidents for the Session 1908-9. The President announced that the Council had elected Mr. James William Tutt to serve as a Member of the Council in the place of the late Mr. Arthur John Chitty, deceased. Mr. C. Gordon Hewitt, M.Sc, of the University, Manchester, was elected a Fellow of the Society. Dr. T, A. Chapman exhibited a collection of butterflies made last summer at Gavarnie, in the Pyrenees, including a number of specimens of Erebia lefebvrei, with E. melas from South-east Hungary, for comparison. He pointed out, and illustrated by means of enlarged photographs the superficial differences in the wing-markings between the two species, and also drew attention to the fact that specimens of Lycxna orbitulus taken on the Simplon, Switzerland, are identical with L. orbitulus var. oberthilri of the Pyrenees. Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe, eleven species of ants taken in the hothouses in Kew Gardens in December, 1907, and January, 19C8, eight being new to the published Kew list, and six species not before recorded as introduced in Britain. Mr. J. E. Collin, microscopically mounted specimens of Epldapus scabiei, Hopk , a potato pest in the United States, and recently discovered in England attacking narcissus bulbs by Mr. H. J. Charbonnier, of Bristol. Com- mander J. J. Walker, on behalf of Mr. A. II. Hamin, very young larvae of Sitaris muralis, hatched at end of October and beginning of November from ova laid by ? s in captivity (the natural place of deposit of these eggs being at the entrance to the burrow of the bee, Anthophora pilipes, in stone walls near Oxford). He also exhibited two specimens of the rare Pyralis Uenigiah's, Zell., ? , taken at light in his house, Summertown, Oxford, August, 1906 and 1907- Mr. Rowland E. Turner, a box of Thynnidm from South America, mostly from Chile, and new species from Mendoza P2 68 I March, and the Peruvian Andes. Prof. T. Hudson Beare, a specimen of Tracht/phlmus scabri- cuius with the two deciduous mandibles still in place, taken at St. Margaret's Bay. Lieut. -Colonel Manders, the ? of Papilio phorbanta from Bourbon, an aberrant member of the nireus group of Papilios, and compared it with the other members of the same group from the African mainland, Madagascar and Mauritius kindly lent for the purpose by Profess >r Poulton. The case is dealt with more fully and the insects figured in his paper on " The butterflies of Mauritius and Bourbon," in the Trans. Ent. Soc , 1907, pp. 449—451. Dr. K. Jordan, on behalf of the Hon. Walter Rothschild, some interesting Papilionids: (a) Troides alexandrse, Rothsch., remark- able for the beauty of the $ and the gigantic size of the $? , a new discovery by A. S. 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We climbed on horseback up the once fine road to La Guaira ; its cobble paving is fast disappearing, and the road itself much cut away by impetuous water-courses now left free to worl< their wild will, since the railway built by English engineers has given the Venezuelans an excuse for not repairing the old Royal Road. We went up and up, but no signs of forest appeared. Meanwhile threatening clouds came down the mountain, as if to meet us ; the guide took us a turning towards the West and proudly showed, what he thought much better than any forest- a somewhat miserable nursery gard en ! We lunched in glo<>m at about 5000 feet, and then the rain began. There was nothing for it but to hurry down again, and we reached Caracas to find the streets in the suburbs rushing rivers and ourselves like drowned rats. Bt\g: — Phyciodes anieta, Hew., one ; Eupfychia pharella, Butl., one ; E. Jiermes, Fabr., one ; Terias phiale, Cram., a male ; Sphcenoyona arbela, Hiibn., a female of the usual yellow form, and five specimens of the elegant Oressinoma typhla,~Db\. and H.,a delicate Saty rid with a broad white stripe across both wings, which often flies when the sun is not shining. When climbing up the old La Guaira road I had noticed a wooded gorge far below on my right hand and took an early opportunity to investigate it. It proved to be a waterworks con- servation and w:as partly enclosed. The collecting ground may be said to be from o500 to 3700 ft. above sea-level. The shaded path was just the place for Satyrines, which were fairly numerous, being represented by Euptychia saturnus, Butl., three, a species that I did not find elsewhere; E. Jiermes, Fabr. (camerta, Cram.), five; E. pharella, Butl., three ; and Oressinoma typhla, Dbl. and H., three, one of them very small. Nymphalines w-ere quite unusually scarce, the only species cap- tured were Phyciodes lelex, Bates, and P. anieta, Hew. The sole Lycsenid was Polyniphe dumenilii, Godt. No Papilio was taken. Of the Pierines, those taken were Pseudopieris nehemia, Boisd., six males and a female ; Sphcenoyona arbela, Hiibn., a male of the usual yellow form ; also three males of Terias phiale, Cram , one of them an aberration having more black than usual on the hind-wing and but little yellow. Heliconius was poorly represented by a single charithonia, Linn., bnt the Ithomiines were more numerous, and included Ithomia G 74 [April, andromica, Hew., two ; Aeria eury media, Cram., one ; Uypoleria ocalca, Dbl. and If., one ; and Athesis clearista, Dbl., a female. Actinote antceas, Dbl. and H., was of course present, and tbere were a few Skippers, to wit, Hesperia syrichthus, Linn., one; Eudamas eurycles, Latr., one ; Hesperia uniformis, Ploetz, one ; and a worn insect that is probably Chiomara gesta, H.-S. I also secured a specimen of the pretty orange, black-bordered, day-flying Geometer, Devarodes hypocritaria, Guen. But I reserve to the last my favourite hunting ground ;it Caracas, which I visited altogether four times during my short stay. A. few minutes' walk beyond the Puente 9 de Febrero brings one to the closed Cementerio Hijos de Dios, to the right of which the path crosses a deep '"barranco" where there are usually a number of Actinote anteas, Dbl. and H. : this is an unmistakeable Acraeine ; it has a slow flight, and when at rest the fore-wings are always drawn back completely within the hind-wings, so as to give the insect a very long, drawn- out look. It is tenacious of life, but I did not detect any scent. Beyond the barranco the path leads across a field past a cottage and round the head of another smaller barranco — where the effects of denudation with fairly well-formed " earth-pillars " may be studied — it then strikes a small water-course* cut along the mountain side. The path may be followed eastwards, beside the channel, along the contour at a height of about 3600 feet above the sea. A more delightful walk can scarcely be imagined with the city at one's feet, yet for all practical purposes miles away, since the numerous bar- rancos keep all but a few farmers well out of reach. There are plenty of flowers along the water-course and plenty of insects. About a mile brings one to the source, a small mountain torrent rising in the cloud regions far above, but compelled by the patient fai*mers to water their lands below. It is easy to scramble down the bed of the stream, but I found it better to take a path to the right leading through a picturesque farmyard, below which another water-course is reached, about 120 feet lower down the mountain. Here Leptophobia aripa, Boisd., was usually in abundance, together with the beautiful day-flying Arctiid, TJtetheisa (Deiopeia) ornatrix, Linn. Turning again to the left along the channel the source was soon reached. A strip of forest on either bank hides the torrent from view, presumably to preserve the water. Here was all that a tropical Collector could desire — trees, flowers, shelter from wind, sunshine (in the forenoon), and * This is just what a Madeiran Portuguese would call a levada ; I have had much difficulty in learning the Spanish equivalent, perhaps toma or acueducto. lv>08.] 75 aqave all moisture. It was a little before 4 p.m. on the rather dull afternoon of March 20th, 1907, that I first scrambled up this gully. I had met with a few Ithomiines previously, but only odd ones, here and there ; now it was my pleasure to see what I had read of. Bates, in his classical paper on the Heliconiida, writing of the genus Ithomia, says : — " They are prolific insects, and gregarious in their habits, flocks of many different species associating together. Their flight is low and weak ; and they affect only certain parts of the forest, generally shady hollows, where many hundreds may often be seen sporting together, though not an individual is found in any other part of the neighbourhood." — Trans. Linn. Soc, vol. xxiii, p. 539. Again :— " The flocks of Butterflies, all of the same colour, and undistinguishable from one another when on the wing, which fly together in the same dry hollows of the forest. . . ." Ibid., p. 541. Alongside the right bank of the mountain stream was a com- paratively level strip of ground, some six or eight yards wide, damp, and in placi s swampy, covered for the most part with the " Life- plant " (BryopJiyllum calycinum, Salisb.). The place was over- shadowed by what appeared to be a species of " Coral-tree," or " Bois immortel," as it is called in Trinidad {Erythrina sp.), and there was an undergrowth of Wild Coffee and a few Bamboos. As I pushed along, my movements suddenly disturbed a number of butterflies, which fluttered about in clouds, looking with their trans- parent wings almost like Tipulce, only more ghost-like. Sometimes their wings would catch the light with an iridescent gleam, but more usually little could be seen save the opaque white marks upon their wings. Of course the more thickly scaled forms were more con- spicuous, but as a rule all the black portions of the insects were invisible. It was a wonderful sight, but quite bewildering. Two or three sweeps of the net entrapped a dozen or so. I only took back that afternoon thirty-five specimens, which I imagined included three or four, possibly five or six species. In truth, there were eleven species belonging to eight genera. A visit to the same spot the next day produced a similar result, the hour was earlier and the Ithomiines were not so closely packed, yet I took home thirty specimens, which proved to belong to rtine species, three of which I had not taken on the first day. A third visit failed to add further to the list which stands as follows : — G -z 76 [Ap"1- Athesis clearista, Dbl. and H 3 Ceratinia coeno, Dbl. and H 17 (abundant). Ceratinia dioncea, Hew 2 Pteronymia latilla, Hew 16 (very common). Pteronymia asopo, Feld 3 Pteronymia victorina, Hew 2 Ithomia agnosia, Hew 6 Ithomia cymothoe, Klug 8 Ithomia iphianassa, Dbl. and H 6 Ithomia sylvella, Hew 1 Hymenitis androviica, Hew 19 (abundant) . Leucothyris phemonoe, Dbl 3 Hypoleria ocalea, Dbl . and H 1 Aeria aqna, Godm. and S 1 A total of eighty-eight specimens, belonging to fourteen species divided amongst eigbt genera of one group of butterflies, is a suffi- ciently remarkable record for three visits to a strip of ground which certainly did not exceed 50 yards in length by 10 yards in width. While fully bearing out Bates' account, it forms a striking exception to Darwin's rule that nearly allied species are seldom found in close competition on the same "round. {To be continued). NOTES ON A COLLECTION OP SIPHONAPTEBA FROM THE RUWENZORI, UGANDA. BY THE nON. N. CHARLES ROTHSCHILD, M.A., F.L.S., F.E.S. PLATE I. The species mentioned in the following article were collected by Mr. A. P. R. Wollaston from Mammalia secured by the British Museum Ruwenzori Expedition, 1906. 1. — Ctekocephalus wollastont, spec. nov. (PI. I, figs. 1, 2). This species, of which we know only the £ , is distantly related to C. leporis. Head.— The frons is very strongly convex, but not angulate (PL 1, fig. 1). There are two bristles in front of the eye. The genal edge bears a comb of 10 or 11 teeth. The genal process is large, being provided with a tooth at the apex, as in C. canis, felis, Madagascar Len.si.s, &c. The occiput bears three rows of bristles, there being also a row of short, stout, hairs along the hinder edge of the antennal groove. The rostrum reaches to three-fourths of the fore coxa. 1908) 77 Thorax. — The comb of the pronotum consists of 28 lo 30 teeth. The mesonotum bears three rows of bristles, and in front of them several more small hairs. On the metanotum there are two rows of bristles. The metathoracical cpinaerum bears two rows of six each. Abdomen.— The sternites of segments -1 to 6 bear one bristle on each side, the sternite of segment 7 bearing two. Legs— The hind coxa bears three bristles posteriorly at the apex, and a patch of spines on the inner surface. The mid and hind femora have two bristles ventrally before the apex on the outer side, and a subventral row of bristles on the inner side. The hind tibia bears numerous bristles on the outer surface. The longest apical bristle of the second hind tarsal segment reaches to the apex of the fourth segment. The fifth segment bears four stout bristles on each side. Modified segments. — $. The eighth sternite of the abdomen (PI. I, fig. 2, VI I I.st)* is very large, the tergite being small. The clasper bears a movable flap which is visible without the removal of the eighth segment. This flap (PI. I, fig. 2, F1) is densely covered with hairs. The ninth sternite (PI. I, fig. IX.st) is not completely divided in the ventral line, the right and left side halves remaining attached to each other proxiinally. In lateral view, as here represented, the free apical lobe of each side is curved upwards, the tip itself being rounded and slightly curved downwards. Length 2'7 mm. Two <$ J from the Buwenzori, 6,000 ft., March 10th, 1906, off a mouse. 2. — Pygiopsylla torvus, spec. nov. Very close to P. ahalx, Rothsch. (1904), from India. The rostrum, however, reaches only to two-thirds the fore coxa, the fifth segment of the labial palpus being as long as the three preceding segments together. The bristles of the eighth sternite are less numerous ventrally than in P. ahalse. The long movable process of the clasper has the same shape as in P. ahalx, except that the apical portion, which is curved downwards, is longer, there being also fewer minute hairs at the dorsal angle of this process. The ninth sternite is similar to that of P. ahalx, but the central lobe, which bears, as in ahalse, a number of stout spine-like bristles, is more rounded, and the lateral lobe is pointed. One S i"i'om the Euwenzori, 6,000 ft., March 1st, 1906, off a mouse. 3. — Ceeatophyllus stygius, spec. nov. (PI. 1, fig. 3). Head. —There is a row of seven bristles in front of the eye, the uppermost bristle standing at the antennal groove. The upper edge of the genal process is slightly elevate, a narrow channel extending from the eye to the apex of the genal process separating the edge from the rest of the process. The frontal tubercle is small, being elongate-elliptical in dorsal aspect. The occiput bears two fairly long bristles above the antennal groove, and a subapical row of bristles, the occiput, moreover, being covered like the frons with numerous punctures bearing minute hairs. The rostrum reaches beyond the apex of the fore coxa. Thorax. — The pronotum bears two rows of bristles and a comb of 30 teeth. * The figure has been drawn from au unmounted specimen. 78 [April, The mesonotum is densely covered wilh hairs, besides hearing the usual postmcdian row of long ones. On the pleural sclerite of the mesonotuin there are about 14 bristles. The mctaiiotum has three rows of bristles. Tho metathoraeical epimerum has numerous bristles arranged in four irregular rows. Abdomen. — There is a comb of short apical spines on tergites 1 to 5, the spines standing close together and numbering over 20 on the first tergite, while they are farther apart and fewer in number on the other segments. The seventh tergite has three long and strong apical bristles. The sternites of segments 2 to 6 have a row of four bristles, besides some minute hairs, the second bristle from above being the longest. Legs. — The hind coxa has four bristles posteriorly at the apex. The foro femur bears two bristles ventrally near the apex, while the mid and hind femora bear three in that place. The hind tibia lias on the outer surface two rows of bristles near the stout dorsal bristles, there being also numerous short hairs on the ventral (= anterior) surface of this tibia. On the fifth tarsal segment there are four lateral bristles and a subbasal ventral pair standing in between the first lateral pair. The first segment of the mid and hind tai-si is longer than the second and third segments together. The longest apical bristle of the second hind tarsal segment reaches nearly to the middle of the fifth segment. The proportions of the mid and hind tarsal segments are as follows : — 1st. 2nd. 3rd. 4th. 5th. Mid tarsus 35 ... 19 ... 11 ... 8 ... 18 Hind tarsus 60 ... 38 ... 19 ... 11 ... 19 Modified segments.— £ . The eighth sternite (PI. I, fig. 3, VIII. st) is large and bears ventrally a number of bristles, of which the most distal one is much the longest. The process (P) of the clasper is sinuate, each angle bearing a bristle, a very long bristle, moreover, standing dorsally of the process. The movable process (F) is widest in the centre, the apex being curved ventrad. There are a small number of minute hairs at the dorsal edge of this " finger," as well as on the outer surface, several longer hairs standing close together in the centre of the dorsal edge. Ventrally there is a long and a short bristle standing on the inner surface close to the edge. The ninth sternite (PL I, fig. 3, IX.st) is slender and bears at the incrassate apex two stout spine-like bristles on each side, there being two longer bristles further proximad at the ventral edge. Length 3d mm. One <$ from the Ruweuzori, 13,000 ft., off a mouse. 4. — Ctenopsyllus hihsutus, spec. nov. (PI. I, fig. 4). A large and hairy species bearing three vestigial lateral combs on the abdomen. Head. — There are five spines at the edge of the antennal groove (PI. I, "g- 4), the fourth being the longest and lying flat on the large genal process ; the fifth spine is narrow and almost coalescent with the lower oral lobe. The rostrum neai-ly reaches to the apex of the fore coxa. Thorax.— The pronotum bears three rows of bristles and a comb of 42 teeth. The meso- and metanolum have each four rows of bristles, there being also four more or less irregular rows on the epimerum of the metathorax. 1908.] 79 Abdomen.— The abdominal fcergites hare four rows of bristles, the anterior row being irregular. There are, moreover, on the sides of the second, third and fourth tergites some short apical teeth (4 or 5,:}, 2) homologous to the combs of Ht/dri- chopsylla. The seventh tergite bears three long apical bristles on each side. The Bternites bear all a patch of numerous bristles, which are arranged in four or more rows. Legs.— The posterior apical sinus of the mid and hind coxae is nearly semi- circular. The mid and hind femora bear five bristles externally before the apex. The spine-like bristles of the ventral tibise and tarsi are black. The fourth hind tarsal segment is nearly thrice as long as it is broad. Proportions of segments :— 1st. 2nd. 3rd. 4th. 5th. Mid tarsus 45 ... 25 ... 13 ... 10 ... 22 Hind tarsus SO ... 55 ... 33 ... 19 ... 24 Modified segments.— The eighth tergite is very hairy, bearing numerous bristles above the stigma, and from the stigma to the ventral edge. Three long and stout bristles stand at the apical margin, the row being continued ventrally by several long bristles. The seventh sternite is sinuate. The sinus is broad and shallow, the upper lobe of the sclerite being very short and broad, and the lower one strongly rounded. The stylet is long and slender. Length 58 mm. One ? from the Ruwenzori, 8,000 ft., January 1906, off a mouse. 5. — Ctenopstllus iETHiopicus, Rothseh. We described this species originally from both sexes, collected by Professor Yngve Sjostedt on his Kilimandjaro Expedition at Kibonoto. The species is similar to C. musculi, Duges (1832), but differs very essentially in the genitalia. In the J , of which sex Mr. Wollaston did not procure a specimen, the long movable " finger " of the clasper is dilated towards the apex, the eighth sternite is triangular in lateral aspect, bearing several long bristles at the apex, and the horizontal arm of the ninth sternite terminates in a hook. The bristles on the eighth abdominal tergite of the ? are more numerous than in C. musculi, and the apical edge of this sclerite is more deeply sinuate than in that insect. The head bears three genal spines in both sexes. Two or three bristle- of the frontal row of the head are spine-like, being shorter and thicker than the other bristles of the same row. Mr. Wollaston obtained one ? off a mouse, Ruvvenzori, January loth, 1906. EXPLANATION OF PLATE I. Fig. 1. Head of Ctenocephalus wollasloni. ,, 2. Genitalia of the Pri1' ON SOME BRITISH ROMOPTERA HITHERTO UNDESCRIBED OK UNRECORDED. BY JAMES EDWARDS. {Concluded from page 59). D. minki, Fieb. Scott introduced this species to the British list on specimens named for him by Fieber, so I now give it a place here. I cannot learn that any one has ever seen a specimen of D. minki with the horn of the pygofer simple, as figured by Fieber ; and Professor Then, the great authority on Deltoceplialus, is of opinion that Fieber had specimens of pascuellus before him when he described his D. minki. Melichar (Cicad. von Mitt. Eur, p. 246) and Oshauin (Cat. Pal. Hem., ii, p. 129) both treat the pascuellus of my Synopsis (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1888, p. 46) as a synonym of minki, Fieb. ; this is a mistake. A specimen sent to me by Dr. Puton as minki, Fieb. (the one to which I referred I. c), had a lateral tooth near the apical third on the horn of the pygofer, the form proper to pascuellus, Fall. Thamnotettix striatulella, mihi. Professor Then, in his " Bemerkungen zu vier Cicadinen-species " (Mitth. JS'aturw. Vereines Steiermark, 1900, pp. 258-262), has a notice of sfriatulus, Fall., in which he treats of four varieties of that species. The second of these is the insect which I described as striatulella, and in this connection it may be well \o point out that his figure of the membrum virile of sfriatulus (t. c. p. 260, fig. 3), though it may represent an object similar to that which I have figured as the cedeagus of striatulella (Ent. Mo. Mag., xxx, p. 106, fig. 2), cannot also represent an object similar to that which I have figured (/. c. fig. 5) as the cedeagus of siriatulus. I think that the sfriatulus of Professor Then and sfriatulus of English writers are not the same species, and I have not at this moment the means of determining which is really the insect described by Fallen. ClCADULA WARTONI, Leth. According to Puton and Oshauin, this name is to be used for the insect which Dr. Melichar and myself regarded as fasciifrons, Stal. I do not find in the description of toarioni any justification for the change. ClCADULA livida, mihi. In view of Dr. Horvath's opinion (Ann. Mus. Hung., i (1903), 1908. I 81 p. 556) that this is a variety of fieberi, I mav say that I find nothing in the insects themselves which would justify this view. As they both live in coast-marshes I would not be surprised to find fieberi and livida together, but, as a matter of fact, T did not ; the former occurred in great numbers by sweeping Pol//poqon monspeliensis and other grasses, and was quite mature in August ; the latter, a much darker and more robust-looking insect, occurred sparingly on October 18th, when there were still nymphs of it about, at a place a few miles distant, and quite unaccompanied by fieberi. DlCRANEURA LUTEOL A , Fieb. In his catalogue of 1872, Fieber has Notus luteolus, Fieb., from " Anglia " only ; Douglas and Scott in their catalogue of 1876 make no mention of that species, and it is clear from the synonymy given under Erythria citrinella, the name used for luteolus, Fieb., in Cicad. d'Eur. (Typhlocybini), p. 5, that variata, Hardy, was intended. Puton and Oshanin, however, both give luteola, Fieb., as a distinct species. FImpoasca, Say (Kybos, Fieber). It has long been evident to me that our species of Empoasca which lives on poplars is different from the one which lives on alders, willows, &c, and Mr. E. A. Butler has lately sent me a third, which he found on Salix repens on the Towyn and Pendine burrows on the Welsh coast. The index characters of the three species are as follows : — 1 (2) Claval suture fuscous. Both rows of bristles in the outer series on hind tibiae whitish, arising from dark points. Third wing-vein much darker than the second. S ■ lower distal angles of the anal lobe produced into a large, broad, flat, curved horn, which is directed inward and forward. ? : last ventral segment produced in the middle into an oblong tube about half as long as the segment and notched at the tip ; bristles in the rows on the lower side of pygofer white smaragdula, Fall. 2 (1) Claval suture concolorous. 3 (4) Dorsum of elytra concolorous, or at most suffusedly fuscous. Both rows of bristles in the outer series on hind tibiae whitish, arising from dark points. Third wing-vein not darker than the second. $ : lower distal angle of the anal tube produced into a large, thin, sickle-shaped horn, which is directed inward and forward. ? : last ventral segment pentagonal, the distal half produced into a triangle, of which the apex is broadly rounded and entire ; bristles in the rows on the lower side of pygofer white. Lives on poplars (P. tremula, P. canescens, P. serotina) populi, n. s. 4 (3) Dorsum of elytra with a broad determinate fuscous stripe. Upper row of bristles in the outer series on hind tibiae black or blackish. Third wing- 82 [April, vein not darker than the second. 3 : lower distal angle of the anal tube produced into a large, thin, sickle-shaped horn, which is directed inward and forward. ? : Inst ventral segment pentagonal, the distal half produced into a triangle, of which the apex is broadly rounded and feebly notched ; bristles in the rows on the lower side of pygofcr blackish. Lives on Salue repens butleri, n. s. The dorsum of the elytra is often suffusedly fuscous in smaragdula, but I have not found the claval suture fuscous in either populi or butleri. With regard to the application of the name smaragdula, Fallen's original description (Hem. Suec. ii, p. 53, 46) is not very conclusive, but I think that the phrase " In aln 'tibus . . . sat frequens " leaves little room for doubt that the insect which I have called smaragdula was intended ; neither populi nor butleri would be found on alder except by accident. Moreover, the description of the last ventral segment in the female given by Flor, Sahlberj;, Kirschbaum, Fieber, and Melichar evidently refers to the species here called smaragdula, Fall. ClILOIUTA APICALIS, Flor. 1 now think that this species should not be expunged from our list. It is true that Marshall's material standing under that name in 1887, when he was good enough to send it for me to see, did not comprise a specimen of it ; but having regard to the shipwreck of his collections several years before, it is nearly certain that the specimens in question did not include the insects which he had before him when writing on the group twenty years previously ; and, more- over, he had not then for many years concerned himself actively with the Auclienorhyncha. I have never seen an example of this species, British or otherwise, but it should be easily recognised by the dark smoke-coloured membrane. Flor says that it is found at the end of July and beginning of August on limes and elms. Chloeita solani-tuberosi, Koll. By beating spruce firs and other conifers in winter one obtains two kinds of Ghlorita, both having the suprabrachial area of the elytra hyaline throughout, and the white silky hairs on the apex of the male genital plates twice as long as the bristles on the other parts of the plates, but quite distinct in colour and habitus when alive or recently dead. One is a little the larger and more robust-looking, of a blue-green (that of a leek leaf), with the crown more broadly rounded in front, and should be called Jlavescens, Fabr. ; the other is comparatively smaller and more slender, of a yellow-green (that of an 1008.] 83 unripe crab-apple), with the crown more pointed in front, and must be, I think, the ftolani of Continental writers. I have not been able to satisfy myself that the head of our yellow-green insect is really narrower than its pronotum, as it should be in the sol an i of Conti- nental descriptions, but the difference between the two in the shape of the crown I have verified by careful drawings to scale under the microscope. The colour distinctions do not entirely disappear in dried specimens, though they are, of course, much more obvious m fresh ones. Euptertx vrthcm, forma leucocnema, Oshn. Oshanin (Catalogue des Homopteres du gouv. de St. Petersbourg, p. 27, 1907) gives this name to the form of urticce which has the hind tibise entirely pale. In a numerous gathering of urticcs one generally finds a few specimens of this form ; at least, I have done so quite recently, and my recollection is that in times past I have frequently discarded pale-legged specimens as immature. It would appear from Sablberg's description that the form with entirely pale legs was the only one known to him. Typhlocyba debilis, Doug. The hitherto undescribed male of this species differs from the other sex in wanting the two round black spots on the forehead, and the black point proper to the front edge of the pronotum is frequently obsolescent ; the colour differences between the sexes are thus similar to those which obtain in T. ulmi. In a numerous gathering of the latter one finds a few male specimens which have the two black points on the forehead that are usually found in the female only. I have not yet found out what is the actual food-plant of T. debilis, but on November 6th last I beat from a solitary hazel bush here, with no bramble within sight, sixteen small Typhlocybce, of which thirteen were T. tenerrima, mostly males, and three T. debilis, of which two were males. The latter, in the umbrella, are absolutely indistinguish- able from the former. Typhlocyba hippocastani, mihi. This name must sink as a synonym of lethierryi. In view of the recorded similarity of the app. ant. in the latter and hippocastani, and of the fact that these appendages are in all other cases known to me paired organs, it occurred to me to re-examine these parts in lethierryi, which appeared from the type specimen mounted in balsam with much pressure, to have three or five appendages. With the 84 CAijri1' better optical apparatus now at my command I saw at once that I had been the victim of what microscopists call an '"error of interpre- tation," and that the appendages were absolutely the same in both hippocastani and lethi"rryi ; I had been misled by the circumstance that in my type slide of the latter the long arm of the right appendix posterior had become superimposed upon the left, whilst the outline of the short arm on both right and left appendices had remained distinct, hence the appearance of three app. post., two short and one long. An error of this kind would have been impossible if I had examined the parts in question in situ, but in 1SS0 it had not occurred to me that such a course would be practicable, nor had I then realized that the natural orientation of the parts is more characteristic than their outline as one sees it after they have been squeezed flat in Canada balsam between two pieces of glass. The following is an amended description of the appendages of the oedeagus in T. lethierryi (and T. hippocastani) : — App. sup. ascending divergent subterete, furcate before their half-length, the branches acuminate, the outer one about thrice as long as the inner ; app. inf. subequal in length to the app. sup., furcate from a very short base, the branches falcate approaching at the tip, the upper one ;ibout one-third shorter than the lower. So far as I know, the unequally-forked app. sup. is absolutely diagnostic of this species. TyPIILOCYBA FRUSTRATOR, H. sp. An entirely pale species of the ronx group. & : crown, pronotum, and scutellum ivory-white ; corium canary-yellow ^chrome-yellow), more or less inclining to orange, membrane not obviously fumose. CEdeagus : app. .sup. simple, sword- shaped, acuminate, directed outward, forward, and, in their ultimate third, upward ; app. inf. a little longer than the app. suj)., furcate from a base which is about one- half as long as the branches, the latter falcate, moderately curved, approaching at the tip, subequal in length. $ : crown and pronotum ivory-white, scutellum reddish-white, corium canary-yellow (chrome-yellow), membrane not obviously fumose. This species forms a moderate proportion of the clouds of yellow Typhlocyboe which one beats from various broad-leaved trees, especially elms and beeches, towards the end of the year. 1 have found it here and in Norfolk. Typhlocyba fratercula, n. sp. Another entirely pale species of the rosse group. $ : crown, pronotum and scutellum ivory-white, corium canary-yellow (chrome-yellow), more or less inclining to orange, membrane not obviously fumose. CEdeagus: app. sup. simple, divergent, 1908. 1 85 strap-shaped, acuminate, bisinuate, ascending in their apical third, more than twice as long as the app. inf. ; the latter lying in approximately the same horizontal plane as the former, furcate from a short, base, the branches arcuate, pointed, approaching at the tip, the outer one-third longer than the inner. ?: crown and pronotum ivory-white, scutellum reddish-white, corium canary-yellow (chrome- yellow), membrane not obviously fumose. T took this species off beech at Colesborne in October, 1895, and bave not met with it since. LlVIA CREFELDENSTS, Mink. Distinguished from L. juncorum. by its paler color and much smaller second joint to the antenna?, the latter being only sub-equal in length to the second and third joints together. The food-plant of this species appears to be unknown, but it is said to occur on grasses in wet places. I have seen a pair taken by Mr. 0. Morley at Tuddcnham, Suffolk PSTLLA VIBURNr, Low. An entirely p le species, greenish- or yellowish-white, with the distal half of the last joint of the antennae black. Its food-plant Viburnum lantana. on which it occurs in the perfect state in June, is common in this district, but I have only found the insect on some plants which grow amongst scrubby underwood on a dry hill-side ; I have never found it on those growing in hedges. Trioza velutina, Forst. Scott (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1876, p. 555) treats this as the same as T. galii, but this is a mistake, probably due to the fact that he had never seen velutina. For many years past I have taken at irregular intervals a few specimens of a Trioza which I regard as T. galii, and whenever the shelter-plant could be noted it was always Galium verum. On August 27th last, however, from some extensive patches of Galium cruciatum growing just outside a wood here, I swept up a number of specimens of a Trioza which agree well with the description of T. velutina. The two species may be distinguished as follows : — Elytra as a rule absolutely hyaline, nearly three times as long as broad, less sharply pointed, the costa from behind the middle gently sloping towards the dorsum. Hind thighs entirely black galii. Elytra generally yellowish-hyaline, but little more than twice as long as broad, attaining their greatest width near the middle and consequently more sharply pointed, the costa from the middle abruptly sloping to the dorsum. Hind thighs brownish-yellow at the apex velutina. 86 [April, Aphalara pilosa, Oshn. Scott gave a descriptioti of Aphalara artemisice, Forst., in Ent. Mo. Mag., xiii, p. 67, and subsequently, on page 282, he introduced the species as British on material taken by J. C. Dale on July 27th, 1843, and he expressed his opinion that these specimens, the locality for which he did not mention, were probably found on Artemisia maritima. Naturally I concluded that the Aphalara which I found on Artemisia maritima at Weybourne, Norfolk, belonged to the same species as those mentioned by Scott, particularly as my specimens agreed very well with his description of A. artemisice, Forst., so far as it goes. My description of Aphalara artemisice (Hem. Horn. Brit. Isl , p. 232) was made from Weybourne specimens, and Professor Oshanin recognised in it his Aphalara pilosa. I have not been able to trace the specimens recorded by Scott, but Professor Poulton has kindly allowed me to examine specimens from the Dale Collection, taken in the Isle of Portland in 1877, which appear to be the true A. artemisice, Forst. The two species may be readily distinguished as follows : — Elytra naked ; cell 4 subequal in length to the width of its distal edge... artemishe Forst. Elytra with scattered pale hairs ; cell 4 nearly twice as long as the width of its distal edge pilosa, Osh. A. artemisice, Forst., lives on Artemisia absinthium and A. cam- pestris ; Dale's Portland specimens could not have come from the latter, but as Mansell-Pleydell (Flora of Dorset, ed. ii, 1895, p. 155) says that the former occurs by the roadside on ascending to the Verne, and among the quarries at Portland, there seems a reasonable probability that they came from that plant. Trioza silacea, Meyer-Dur. munda, Flor (nee Forst.). T do not know this as a British species, though " Britannia " is given for it by Oshanin. Flor, writing of silacea, Meyer-Dur, under the impression that it was the same as munda, Forst., gives amongst other localities England (Walker) and Ireland (Haliday), but it seems likely that he copied these particulars from Forster's account of his munda. T. silacea was found by Flor abundantly on nettles in July and August ; it may be distinguished from our common nettle- feeding species by the forceps of the male, which are gradually narrowed and little more than twice as high as their width at the base. 87 EXPLANATION OF FIGURES. Athysanus sejungendus $, upper fore-parts fig. 3 Empoasca smaragdula, horn of anal tube, S „ 4 „ „ last ventral segment, 9 „ 5 „ butleri, horn of anal tube, 2. Tibife and tarsi black almost throughout lugens,'!KX. — Tibiae and tarsi only ringed at their apices with black 3. 3. Mesonotum very shining, with very sparse hardly noticeable punctures, and for the most part quite glabrous (only " antice pube parca tenui vestitum " according to the author's description). Under-side of thorax without black marks glabricollis, Thorns. (= ancilla, Cam.). — Mesonotum covered with a very close though fine and short pilosity clearly visible in certain lights, its surface distinctly and more or less closely punctured, hence less shining than in glabricollis. Under-side of thorax (especially the breast) often more or less largely black 4. 4. Clypeus large, its apex produced into a blunt angulation at the centre, and red, as is also the labrum. Breast and dorsal surface of 1st abdominal segment usually, perhaps always (?), black. Anterior tarsi pale testaceous, not (or at least not conspicuously) ringed with black at the apices of the joints.., annulata, F. — Clypeus comparatively small, and truncate (without production) at the apex, whitish (not red !) as is the labrum. Breast in some varieties black, in others testaceous. Abdomen commonly without black (except the saw-sheath). All the tarsi (and tibia;) whitish, each joint conspicuously ringed at its apex with black lincolata, Lep. (= rosce, C). NOTES ON THE ABOVE SPECIES. A. spinarum is the Atlidlia centifolias of Newport's celebrated essay, the famous or infamous " turnip-fly," whose ravages are mentioned in almost every general work on Entomology, and were the terror of farmers throughout South and East England in the reigns of the last two Georges and of Williain IV, but seem to have ceased entirely (perhaps owing to change in the methods of agricul- ture) since the accession of the late Queen Victoria ! At present the insect is quite a rarity. I know of no one who has taken more than an occasional specimen in recent years, and have myself only met with it three or four times in England, never at any great distance from my own house, and never on turnips or in turnip-fields, but on umbellifers beside the roads which cross our commons. Lineolata is extremely common everywhere, and often occurs in considerable numbers ; but I never heard of any mischief done by its larvae, even in fields or gardens where it abounds. Like Mr. Cameron, I have noticed its attachment to Ajuga reptans, but it also haunts many other low-growing flowers, and is frequent on umbellifers. Lugens and glabricollis are less common, but neither can be called rare. The former occurs in this neighbourhood from time to time ; the latter I seem not to have found here, but at various seaside localities and also quite in the heart of the Midland counties, so no doubt it occurs here too, though I have overlooked it. 1908.] 99 Annulata seems to be really rare. I once took it at Merrow, near Guildford ; but all uiy other specimens are foreigners (Algiers, Tirol, N. and S. Italy, &c), and I cannot remember its occurrence in the " sendings" of any of my correspondents. FURTHER NOTE ON A. SCUTELLARIA, Cam. A. Scutellaria?, C, is described by the author as allied to rosce (/. e., lineolata), but having, besides other differences, a longer third antennal joint (" more than double the length of the fourth ") and (but this only in the ?) a " luteous scutellum and sternum." Of the middle lobe of the mesonotum, Mr. Cameron says that it has a luteous apex ; but in the " Synopsis of Species " he separates it from spinarum as having the " middle lobe of the mesonotum black," so that I presume this last character is either inconstant or inconspicuous. Konow has always considered Scutellaria, C, to be a good species and identical with one known to himself from France and Germany. But he says also that the characters of the latter do not quite agree with those attributed to Scutellaria?, C, by its author, and I do not at present understand the reasoning of a passage in the Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift for 1886, in which he argues for its identity with the species now under consideration. I have long been very wishful to see a British specimen of Scutellaria?, C. ; and in the autumn of 1906 my hopes were raised high by receiving from Mr. T. A. Coward, of Bowdon, Cheshire, living larvae, which he naturally thought belonged to that species, since they were found on its recorded food-plant, Scutellaria galericulata, and exactly agreed with the description aud figure of the larva in Mr. Cameron's Mono- graph (see Ent. Mo. Mag., Oct., 1906). From these, however, in the following spring, one imago only resulted, which was an undoubted and perfectly normal ? of lineolata. And Herr Konow, to whom I sent it and who agreed that it was nothing but lineolata, then told me that he did not believe that either species was really attached to that plant in particular, but that the polyphagous larvae of either species might be found on it merely by accident in places where it happened to be frequent. It is much to be wished that further captures may throw light on the identity of Mr. Cameron's species and the validity and constancy of the characters on which it has been separated, for the types were bred by the author (from larvae taken by Mr. Ilarker at Gloucester) as long ago as 1880, and it is therefore high time that we should have some later record of it, if it is to be retained in future British lists. I 2 100 [May, I fear I must postpone consideration of our other Selandriads to a fresh instalment of these Notes. But I should like here, if I may, to insert a few remarks in completion or correction of what I have said in earlier papers about certain species in the groups there dealt with. Ncurotoma flavivenfris, Ketz. — In the table of generic characters I have said that the intercostal n. of Neurotoma is " not forked," and this is generally true ; but on examining further specimens I find that the nerve is sometimes forked, but with the upper limb of the fork broken off short, so that it does not reach the costa as it does in Pamphilius. Pamphilius betula?, L. — I was very glad to hear last spring from the Eev. E. 1ST. Bloomfield that this fine insect had again ap- peared in England, the latest previous record known to me being that of Stephens (published in 1835 !) It was taken at Ore, Hastings, on July 1st, 1906, by the Eev. F. de Belamy. The insect (a ? ) has since been forwarded to me, and is now in my charge (February, 1908). I have already recorded in this Magazine, but not in the present series of papers, the receipt from Mr. Bloomfield of a British ? of Pamphilius r/yllenhali, Dhlb., the species most closely allied to betulcey having like that sp. the character of a strongly bituberculate " frons." (See Ent. Mo. Mag., March, 1905, p. 63.) Pamphilius pallipes, Zett. — In tabulating British Pamphilius I felt and expressed some doubt whether this species should be accepted as native, since I had failed to verify any of our records. Now, however, Mr. E. A. Atmore has sent me a ? which may safely, I think, be referred to it. He took it "in May, 1907, near King's Lynn, Norfolk, by beating birch." Janus cynosbati, L. — This insect occurs in the Woking district, though I never found it myself. My kind and valued friend, the late Mr. A. J. Chitty, took it there last year, and presented me with the specimen, on what I little thought would be the last occasion of my visiting him. Janus lutcipes, Lep.— I mentioned this (in November, 1903) as a form of cynosbati, but in Konow's Monograph of Chalastogastra, now in course of publication, it is treated as a distinct species. Mr. Edelsten has been good enough to give me a $ which he obtained in a strange situation, viz., from cocoons of Sesia andreni- formis on Viburnum. He naturally thought it must be an Ichneumonid ; 1908.] 101 but it is certainly J. luteipes, and its occurrence under such circum- stances is remarkable and interesting. Sirex (Paururas) juvencus, F.— I stated in Ent. Mo. Mag., February, 1904, that most British insects recorded under this name were probably to be referred to noctilio, F. (= melanocerus, Th.), and I find tbat this was suggested as long ago as 1880 in Trans. Torksh. N. U. by Mr. W. D. Roebuck. But I can now say that I have at last seen a real juvencus from a British locality. This is a ? sent to me for examination by Mr. E. G. Bay ford, which had been taken at Doucaster, and recorded by Dr. Corbett in the Naturalist, 1904, p. 34S. (See a paper by Mr. Bayford in the same journal, April, 1905, p. 100). Of course, in the case of this or any other Siricid appearing in this country, there is more than a possibility that the specimen may have been imported with the timber from which it issued. But I am glad that I need no longer question the right of so often-recorded a species to a place in at least the " Visitors' List " of our native fauna. Schizoceros fureatus, Vill— In Ent, Mo. Mag., June, 1904, I expressed doubt as to its occurrence in Britain of recent years. But I need not have done so, for I shortly afterwards saw a specimen recently taken in Kent by Mr. Chitty ; and several other undoubted " Britishers " have since come under my observation, one of which (" taken by Mr. C. J. Wainwright in Wyre Forest on May 26tb, 1890") was exhibited by Mr. A. H. Martineau to the Birmingham Ent. Soc. in May, 1905, as recorded in this Magazine, July, 1905, p. 165. Holcocneme ericJisoni, Htg. — I am greatly indebted to Mr. A. T. Gillanders, of Alnwick, ftrr two ? ? of this large and handsome Nematid, which he reared (with four others) between May 11th and June 8th, 1906, from larva? taken by himself at two places in Northumberland in July of the previous year. The species comes next to and much resembles H. lucida, but is easily separated as follows : — The pronotum and teguke are black, the tibia? whitish with dusky apices. (All these parts are red in H. hccida.) The vertical area is long (as long as the two basal joints of the antenna? taken together) in erichsoni. It is short in lucida (about equal to the 1st joint taken alone). I am sorry that I had not seen these beautiful insects when I tabulated British Holcocneme spp. in Ent. Mo. Mag., April, 1900. 102 [May, Erichsoni is the very first species enumerated under " Nematus " in Mr. Cameron's Monograph, but I was (and, indeed, still am) in some doubt whether N. erichsoni, C, can be the real erichsoni, Htg., above recorded, because Mr. Cameron not only in Vol. II groups his erichsoni with quercus (a Pristiphora) and says nothing of its much closer affinity to lucida, crassa and cceruleocarpa, but also in Vol. IV, p. 199, refers it to Lycjceonematus, Kuw., a genus with whose species the true erichsoni can hardly be said to agree in a single character, except those which all Nematids have in common. (To he continued). DRYOPS (PARNUS) LURIDUS, Er., A SPECIES NOT HITHERTO RECORDED AS BRITISH. BY JAMES EDWAltDS, F.E S. On looking through Ganglbauer's account of this genus (Kafer von Mitteleuropa, iv, pp. 102-107), it appeared to me probable that we had in Britain both luridus, Er., and auriculatus, Fourc. (prolife- ricomis, Fab.). The two species are only to be distinguished with certainty by refereuce to the male genitalia, though here the differences are well marked and easy to appreciate : in auriculatus the basal half of the penis is compressed into an almost knife-like edge, and the side-pieces {paramera), which form the bound- ary of the suboval opening at the apex of the a.u.Ticuli.tu£, Fouic ^ a?deagus, are thickened and widened at the base ; in luridus the penis is not compressed on its basal half, and the paramera are not llx.YLdii£,EY.cK*. thickened or widened at the base. I give an outline diagram of the lateral aspect of the sedeagus in each, x 27. It may possibly be useful if I describe, for the benefit of those of my colleagues who have less experience in this kind of investigation, the rough method which I find sufficient to display the parts in question. Eelax the specimen, take off the abdomen, and then from its upper surface dig out the sedeagus (a large subcylindrical corneous body), and fasten it for future reference on the same card as the spe- cimen to which it belongs. These remarks apply to dry specimens ; I believe that in fresh ones the axleagus might beexserted by pressure. The sexes cannot be distinguished until the abdomen is taken off, but one may save oneself the trouble of getting out the knife-like appa- ratus of the female by noticing beforehand the upper surface of the last dorsal segment ; in the male this is evidently more closely pubes- 1908. J 103 cent than the remainder of the dorsum, in the female it is not so. The penis is the small oblong body which occupies the long axis of the suboval opening enclosed by the paramera. In auriculatus the apex of the a?deagus is drawn out into a beak-like point ; in luridus it is rounded. Owing to the small number of male specimens at present availa- ble, it is impossible to say whether one of these species is more prevalent than the other ; luridus I have from three widely separated stations in Norfolk ; auriculatus was common at Homing in May, 1888, and I have it also from a pond on a gravelly common in Mid- Norfolk. I should add that I am indebted to Herr Ludwig Ganglbauer for confirming my determination of this species, and for a beautiful drawing of the parts in auriculatus, which enabled me to fully appre- ciate the aptness and accuracy of his descriptions. Colesborne : April Uth, 1908. TWO UNRECOGNISED BRITISH SPECIES OF THE GENUS NOTIOPRILUS. BY NORMAN U. JOT, M ECS , F.E.S. When corresponding with Capt. Deville lately he has very kindly on several occasions communicated to me species of Coleoplera which are not on our lists, but which, from their abundance in France, one would expect to find here. Among these were specimens of Notiophi- lus pusillus, Wat. (bigeminus, Thorns.), and N. Jiypocrita, Spaeth, and a careful examination of my short series of N. aquaticus, L , and AT. palustris, Duft, established the fact that both these species occur in Britain. Among my eight supposed examples of A", aquaticus half are A", pusillus (labelled Bradfield and Southport), and among the same number of N. palustris there are five N. Injpocrita (labelled Bradfield, Wellington College, Lundy Island, and Garve, Ross.). They are common species on the Continent, and are probably generally distri- buted here. N. pusillus resembles N. aquaticus in having dark tibia?, but is distinguished, according to Ganglbauer, by being smaller and nar- rower ; the labial palpi have the base testaceous ; the striae of the elytra extend further towards the apex, where there is a double im- pressed pore; in the $ the last joint of the maxillary palpi is 104 [May' somewhat securiform, and the first joint of the middle tarsi is not thickened. In my specimens the elytra are not widened behind as in 2V. aquaticus, but are more gradually narrowed towards the apex. 2V. lujpocrita has the tibiae reddish ; it is narrower and more con- vex than N. palusfris, and the external interstices of the elytra are distinctly alutaceous. It bears somewhat the same relationship to N~. palusfris as N. substriatus, Wat., does to i\T. biguttatus, I\ April, 1908. TWO NEW BRITISH BEETLES. BY J. It. LE B. TOMLIN, M.A., E.E.S., AND NOEMAN II. JOT, M.E.C.S., F.E.S. LlTARGUS COLOBATUS, Rosenh. Resembles L. bifasciatus, F., in general colouring, but is easily distinguished by its shape, smaller size, and more shining appearance ; it is broader in proportion to its length, not so parallel-sided, and more abruptly narrowed in front and behind ; the pubescence is longer and yellower, and the punctuation is much finer ; the club of the antennse is narrower, the last joint in particular being much longer ; the thorax has only a very slight trace of a longitudinal impression at the base. Long., 2-2-2 mm. Mr. J. Ray Hardy took fourteen specimens of this species in June, 1907, in Sherwood Forest, from a fungus growing on a dead holl}r log, and from the leaves about it. LONGITAESUS NIGEERIMUS, Gyll. A very distinct, moderate sized species; colour entirely black, with a slight aeneous reflection on the upper side ; tarsi pitchy ; antennae rather long and slender ; thorax distinctly and diffusely punctured, but sometimes almost smooth; elytra broad, with well-marked shoulders, strongly and rather thickly punctured. Long., 2'5 mm. Easily distinguished from all our other dark coloured species by its large size and black antennae and legs. Dr. W. Wallace, of Grimsby, took four specimens by sweeping at night on September 7th, 1907, near Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, and there is an example in Mr. Tomlin's collection labelled " Greathide." In the 1891 European Catalogue, L. nigerrimns is recorded from Britain, but we do not know on what authority ; the last Catalogue gives " Northern Europe " only. April, 1908. 1908] 105 MICRAMBE VILLOSA, Hebe, =- PILOSULA, Er., AN ADDITION TO THE BRITISH LIST OF COLEOPTERA, BY E. A. NEWBERY. For some years past I have had an insect in my collection which I referred to the above species, but hesitated to bring it forward as new upon a single specimen. On the appearance of Ganglbauer's " Kfifer von Mitteleuropa," vol. iii, finding that M. villosa was reduced to a synonym of M. vini, Pz., it appeared that the insect — which was evidently distinct from both M. vini, Pz , and M. abietis, Pk. — must be referred to M. perrisi, Bris., the only other known European species of the genus. With a view to settling the question, I have recently sent the insect to Capt. Sainte Claire Deville, acquainting him with what is stated above. He tells me that Ganglbauer was in error in uniting M. villosa, Heer, and M. vini, Pz. ; that the former is a good and distinct species, and that Ganglbauer has now recognised this from his (Capt. Deville's) observations. As M. villosa will probably be found in other collections, it seems now to be desirable to bring the insect forward as new to our fauna. The British species of Micrambe may be separated by the follow- ing table : — I. Anterior angles of thorax narrowly explanate, forming only a small, obtuse, and but little projecting tooth at anterior third of sides of thorax, which is scarcely narrower immediately behind this tooth ; length, 2 mm.... abietis, Pk. II. Anterior angles of thorax more broadly explanate, forming an angular and projecting tooth at anterior third of thorax, which is much narrower im- mediately behind this tooth. a. Pubescence of elytra decumbent, without conspicuously longer hairs ; average size smaller ; length, l^-lj mm vini, Pz. aa. Pubescence of elytra with conspicuously longer upright hairs mixed with the decumbent pubescence; average size larger; length, lj-2 mm. villosa, Heer. M. abietis, Pk., occurs on various species of Abietinece, and is rare in Britain. The late Mr. A. J. Chitty found it in some numbers last year in a fir plantation near Huntingfield, Faversham. M. vini, Pz., is common on Ulex europceus eveiywhere in western Europe. 31. villosa, Heer, appears to be rare. Capt. Deville tells me that it is found on the flower heads of several species of Carduacea? (Cir- sium palustre, Cardaus nutans, &c). Tbe only British example that I have seen of it was beaten by me off hawthorn flowers in June, 1895, at Chingford. Essex ; but Capt. Deville has sent several French specimens for comparison. 12, Churchill Road, Dartmouth Park, N.W. : April I2lh, 1908. 106 Ma>"> NOTES ON THE GENUS E P U R M A. BY NORMAN H. JOT, M.R.C.S., F.E.S. So impressed am I with my indebtedness to Canon Fowler's famous work on British Coleoptera that it is almost with a feeling of awe that I suggest altering one of his generally most accurate and useful tables. However, I have the satisfaction of knowing that he approves of the alteration, and I do not take any credit for the new table, as it is only a modification of the one given in Herr Gangl- bauer's " Die Ivafer von Mitteleuropa." I expect we have most of us realized that Fowler's plan of dividing the genus Epurcea by the presence or absence of dark markings on the elytra does not hold good, most of the usually unicolorous forms often being flecked with black, while some of the usually dark species are sometimes quite light. In Ganglbauer's table the main divisions are formed on quite distinct and easily recognised structural characters, and I have had no difficulty in working out all the British members of the genus from it (except E. silacea, Er., which I have not been able to obtain from Herr Reitter). Ganglbauer, like Fowler, divides off E. decem- guttata, F., and E. diffusa, Bris., into the sub-genus Dadophora, Thorns., so I need not include these in the following table, especially as I do not wish to discuss here whether E. diffusa is specifically distinct from E. decemguttafa. I have not followed Ganglbauer's nomenclature, simply because I prefer to call well known species by their old familiar names ; but in the case of E. oblonga, Herbst, of our collections the altering of the name to E. thoracica, Tourn., is not, I think, simply a case of synonymy, this species having been wrongly identified by us. The true E. oblong a is more closely related to E. pmsilla, Er., and Fowler's description of E. oblonga is quite correct for E. thoracica. TABLE OF THE BRITISH SPECIES OF EPURMA. I. Thorax broadest behind middle of sides, much more narrowed in front than behind, i. Species convex ; middle tibial of S simple. 1. Club of antennae concolorous, last joint broader than penultimate ... E. xstiea, L. 2. Club of antennae dark, last joint narrower than penultimate. A. Size larger, more parallel-sided E. melina, Er. B. Size much smaller, sides more rounded E. nana, Reitt. ii. Species more or less depressed. 1. Thorax with anterior margin strongly emarginate. 1908.] |07 A. Elytra with very broad flattened sides. a. Brown or brownish-black, thorax and elytra reddish at the sides ; club of antenna? dark E. parvula, Sturm. b. Beddish-yellow, elytra sometimes to a greater or less extent blackish ; club of antennae concolorous. a* Narrower; more strongly and diffusely punctured ; apex of elytra more rounded; middle tibiae of J1 simple... E. deleta, Er. b* Broader ; less strongly and more thickly punctured ; apex of elytra more truncate ; middle tibiae of $ sinuate E. silacea, Er. B. Elytra with moderately broad, or quite narrow sides. a. Apex of elytra broad and truncate E. neglecta, Sturm. b. Apex of elytra rounded. a* Elytra with very short shining golden hairs ; rust-red or reddish-yellow, elytra generally with a small dark discal spot ; middle tibiae of $ simple... E. variegata, Herbst. b* Elytra with longer, not shining hairs ; middle tibiae of $ sinuate. rtf Narrower, less sinning; anterior margin of thorax less emarginale ; last joint of antennae dis- tinctly narrower than penultimate... E. obsoleta, F. h\ Broader, more shining, anterior margin of thorax less emarginate ; last joint of antennae about as broad as penultimate ...E. immunda, Er. 2. Thorax with anterior margin very slightly emarginate. A. Apex of elytra broad and truncate; club of antennae concolorous... E.florea, Er. B. Apex of elytra rounded ; club of antennae darker... E. longula, Er. II. Thorax broadest at middle of sides, not or not much more narrowed in front than behind ; elytra parallel-sided as far as middle. i. Punctuation extremely fine ; last joint of antennae infuscate... E. thoracica, Tourn. ii. Punctuation much stronger. 1. Size larger ; club of antennae concolorous ; thorax a little broader at base than at apex E. pus ilia, Er. 2. Size smaller; club of antennae infuscate; thorax a little narrower at base than at apex E. augustula, Er. The shape of the thorax is a very good character for the two main divisions of the genus, as there seem to be no intermediate forms. The marked convexity of E. melina, E. asstiva, and E. nana is also a most useful character, as it can be so easily seen in the field. One need never take home large numbers of the two commonest species, E. melina and E. estiva, if this is remembered, and the very 103 [May, small E. nana (described by Mr. Champion in the Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xxxii, p. 4) is hardly likely to be mistaken for either of them. There is not another species of this group at all likely to occur in Britain. I have had small specimens of E. xstiva doing duty for E.jlorea in my collection, and have seen it in others, as the former sometimes has the anterior margin of the thorax very slightly emarginate, but its greater convexity will at once distinguish it. E. parvitla is easily recognised by its dark colour and lighter margins, the very broad sides of the elytra, and the fuscous club of the antennae. E. deleta is distinctly broader and less parallel-sided than the last. It is often unicolorous testaceous, or the suture and apex of the elytra are broadly fuscous. Ganglbauer compares it with E. immunda, from which, however, it may be easily recognised by the broader margins of the elytra, finer and more diffuse punctuation, and more emarginate anterior margin of thorax. E. neglecta is, as Fowler points out, a very distinct species, although the thorax is hardly broadest at the base as he describes, the sides being slightly and evenly contracted just before the base. The shape of the thorax, strong punctuation, and truncate apex of elytra will at once distinguish it. E. variegata, which is distinguished by its very short but conspicuous shining pubescence, is a broad species with the thorax strongly narrowed in front, and the elytra rounded at the sides ; in general shape it most closely resembles E. deleta. E. pusilla has very short somewhat shining pubescence, but the hairs are much less conspicuous, and this species is almost parallel-sided, with a very differently-shaped thorax. There should be no difficulty in identifying the very variable E. obsoleta, if the table is carefully followed, and also the description given by Fowler. E. immunda is rather more distinct than Fowler's description would imply. Besides the characters given in the table, it differs from E. obsoleta in being less parallel-sided, and the sides of the thorax are more rounded and not so abruptly narrowed at the base. E. longula and E. florea. Wtien it is realized that in these two species the anterior margin of the thorax is much less emarginate than in any of the others (except, perhaps, small E. sestiva), and, indeed, is practically straight, no difficulty will be found in separating them, and the characters given in the table are sufficient to identify them individually. In E. longula there is often a dark spot at the apex of each elytron. E. thoracica has very parallel-sided elytra, and is easily distinguished from all the other British species by its extremely fine punctuation.* E. pusilla is another of the narrow parallel- sided species. Besides the differ- ence in the shape of the thorax, it may be distinguished from E. obsoleta and E. immunda by the concolorous club of the antennae, and from E. parvula by the much narrower border of the elytra. There are three species described by G-anglbauer as occurring not rarely in North and Middle Europe, which are perhaps worth describing briefly, in case they should occur here at some future date :— „on*Thisis the species recorded by me as E. oblonga. Herbst (But. Mo. Mag , vol. xliii, pp. 184, 234). from Chobham, where the var. sutumlis, Reitt., also occurs. Its identity with E. thoracica, Tourn., was suspected at the time.— G. C. C. 1908] 100 E. abietina, Sahib., is very closely related to E. florea, and could easily be mistaken for that insect. It is slightly broader, shorter, and more finely punctured, the anterior margin of the thorax is rather more emarginate, and in the 3 the middle tibiae are more emarginate. It also comes near E. immunda, but is distinctly narrower and more parallel-sided, and the thorax is much less contracted in front. E. boreella, Zett., is a very dark species allied to E. pusilla, but has the sides of the thorax strongly sinuate just before the posterior angles. E. pygmxa, Gyll., is another dark species near E. pusilla, but is distinguished by having distinctly broader borders to the elytra, which are more evenly rounded at the apex. Bradfield, Berks. : January 26th, 1908. FAUNA HAWAIIENSIS : MICROLEPIDOPTERA—A CORRECTION. BY THE RT. HON. LORD WALSINGHAM, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., &c. 293. (157) Hyposmocoma nephelodes nn. = § nebulifera Wlsm. no. 293 (nee nebulifera Wlsm. no. 147). Hyposmocoma nebulifera Wis in. Fn. Hawaii. I. 628, 735, 750 no. 293. PL 2326 (1907) CD. Rab. HAWAIIA 0)— Oahu CD-Maui CD. When combining tentative MS. genera, abandoned through the occurrence of intermediate forms, the idionym nebulifera was inadvertently included twice in the genus Hyposmocoma. The dionym Hyposmocoma nebulifera must be employed to designate no. 147, while, for no. 293, which requires a new name, nephelodes nu. is suggested. Merton Hall, Thetford : January 1st, 1908. Notes on Cumberland Coleoptera in 1907. — The season of 1907 will long be remembered among Entomologists for its coldness, wetness, and the general back- wardness of insects in appearing. Carefully planned expeditions were sadly inter- fered with or abandoned altogether, so that one's captures by the end of the year yielded less than the usual amount of interesting material for winter study. I must say, however, that on the few rare occasions when the weather conditions were favourable beetles were fairly abundant, and on the whole my collecting over a number of years leads me to the belief that a damp season is more productive of beetles than a hot, dry one. One may not capture so much in a wet season for the reason that one has fewer outings ; but comparing the limited time spent in the 110 [May, field in such a season with the greater amount spent in a dry one, one finds that, the wet season gives relatively better results. As before, the species recorded for the first time from the county are indicated by an asterisk. In January a few things occurred, including Orobilis cyaneus, L., at grass roots, Quedius vexans, Epp., in the usual habitat, Aphod'uts tessulatus, Pk., in abundance in sheep dung, and Mycetoporus splendidus, Gr., under a haystack. In March I took Cryptophagus pallidus, Sturm, in numbers under haystacks, and I may here remark that all my Cumberland dentatus, Hbst., are referable to the pallidus form. One or two Ilomalota exilis, Er., occurred in moss with an occasional Ocyusa inerassata, Muls. In April moss, especially that growing on the edges of boggy ponds, harboured a host of species, including Calodera riparia, Er., Gymnusa brevicollis, Pk., Tacliy- poms transversal is, Grc, Philonthus nigrita, Nordm , Cryptobium glaberrimum, Hbst., Erseslhetus Ixviusculus, Mann., Stenus argus, Gr., S. foveicollis, Kr.,* Neuraphes elongatulus, Mull.,* Eupleclus ambiguus, Reich., Euconnus hirticollis, 111., Phytobius comari, Hbst., and many more. In boggy ponds, with other species, were JTydro- porus tristis, Pk., H. nigrita, F., H. obscurns, Sturm, Rhantus exoletus, Forst., Philydrus minutus, F., P. nigricans, Zett., and Laccobius nigriceps, Th.* In fungi on a fence post I took Cis festious, Pz., an insect not taken in the county since Bold's time. Of Lathridius bergrothi, Rcitt.,* I met with a single specimen in my back yard. In May moss continued to be productive. On a moor not far from the Solway I had four species of Bradycellus on the sheet at once, viz., placidus, Gyll., cognatus, Gyll., harpalinus, Dej., and similis, Dej. A pair each of Silpha nigrita, Cr.,and S. opaca, L., were secured running on roads. Bembidium bruxellense, Wesm., was rather common on a damp part of a moor. Usually this species occurs on shingle by stream sides, I believe. Anchomenus viduus, Pz.,* occurred on the edge of a small lake ; hitherto the var. moestus, Duft., only has occurred in Cumberland. By sweeping the long grass overhanging a muddy stream I took a nice series of Micro- pepltis tesserula, Curt.,* and by roadside sweeping, Agathidium hcvigalum, Er. In carrion I got one Homalium exiguum, Gyll. A cold afternoon on the banks of the Irthing yielded Ilyobates nigricollis, Pk., one of Bold's captures there, Tachyasa scitula, Er., and Laihrobium multipunclum, Gr. Sweeping in ditches produced Psylliodes picina, Marsh., Ceuthorrhynchus cochlear'ue, Gyll., lihinoncus gramineus, F.,* R. perpendicularis, Reich.,* and in meadows Gymnetron labilis, Hbst., in plenty. Limonius minutus, L., occurred freely on fir trees. Cryptophagus acutan- gulus, Gyll.,* I took in the town. In June Quedius brevis, Er., was taken in the nests of Formica rufa, with other species recorded from Cumberland. Ilomalota parallela, Mann., it may be remarked, was present in great numbers. Necrobia rufipes, De G.,* occurred on bones, the last of the genus to turn up in Cumberland. Sweeping produced many species, including Apion gyllenhali, Kirb., Meligethes umbrosus, Stm.,* and Ceuthorrhynchus setosits, Boh.* ; the last named is very like C. contractus, Marsh., in the net, and it is necessary to take all contractus for examination at home or the rarer insect wil not be detected. In the nest of a great tit in a hole in a tree I secured a series of Microglossa pulla, Gyll. From broom a few Phytodecta olivacea, Forst., var. nigricans, Weise, were taken. On sandy banks by the River Petheril I took 1908.] 1 1 1 Ochthebiiix rufimargtnatus, Steph., Tacky usa comtricta, Er., Philonthus falvipes, F., a specimen of the small form of P. ebeninus, Gr., and Xantholinus ochraceus, Gyll. Early in July I had a day's collecting at the mouth of the River Wampool on the Solway Firth. Hindus atricapillus, Germ., taken but once previously in the county was abundant on mudbanks with Trogophlwus halophilus, Kies.* I was glad to get Dyxchirius politus, Dj., here. Inland it has occurred on the Irthing and Eden. Bembidium was well represented, including lampros, Hbst., var. velox, Er., concinnum, Stcph., normannum, Dj., and monticola, Stm., the last species probably brought down so near the coast in floods. Dry Hood refuse, which had evidently lain some time, yielded Atomaria atra, Hbst.,* and Polydrusus chrysomela, 01. Telephorus darwinianus, Slip., was present under clods. A fine series of Chrysomela fastuosa, Seop., was picked off Gafeopsis in a ditch on the margin of Bowness Moss. Later in the month I met with a large colony of Bemhidium saxatile, Gyll., among shingle near the Solway Viaduct at Bowness. I was away from home part of August, and my only capture of any consequence was a series of Homalota orbala, Er., at Silloth. In September I had a couple of hours' collecting at Thurstonfield Lough. Coelambus quinquelinealus, Zett.,* was common, C. novemlinealus, Steph.,* less so. A single specimen of Saliplus con fin-is, Steph., was of interest as it has not occurred in Cumberland since Bold's time, while Hyphydrm ovatus, L., which was common, has not been recorded for an even longer period. Deronectes assimilis, Pk., was also common. These water beetles, I may say, had but recently emerged from pupa, and many of them were rather soft and immature. Eubrychius velatus, Beck, was present in numbers under refuse on the sides of the lough, and could also be seen swimming in the clear water and climbing up the water plants. It is a weak swimmer and at once rises to the surface when it ceases to move its legs. In fungi I took Philonthus proximus, Kr., P. pitella, Nordm., Quedius lateralis, Gr., Megarthrus sinuatocollis, Lac.,* and Cryptophagus setulosus, Stm. Although not taken in 1907 the following may be here recorded : — Agarico- chara Issvicollis, Kr.,* from Penton, Cryptophagus punctipennis, Bris.,* from the Eden Valley, Atomaria versicolor, Er.,* from Silloth, Longitarsus distinguendus, Rye,* from Carlisle, and Dyschirius xneus, Dej., from Burgh Marsh. — F. H. Day, 151, Goodwin Terrace, Carlisle : March, 1908. Aphodius constans, Dufts., at Oxford. — This beetle, usually regarded as one of the more local and less common members of its genus, is just now, with the excep- tion of A. punctatosulcalus, quite the commonest Aphodius in the neighbourhood of Oxford. I first found it in plenty about a week ago on the hills near Cumnor, Berks, but it has since occurred freely wherever looked for, even in the low-lying pastures within a quarter of a mile of my house. Its favourite, in fact almost ex- clusive pabulum, appears to be partly dry cowdung. — James J. Walker, Oxford : April 18th, 1908. Notes on collecting Tlymenoptera (Aculeata) during 1907. — Last year as a whole was so deplorable for the Lepidopterist that it is a pleasure to record a very successful one, in my experience, for the Hymenopterist. During the cold early 112 tMay- months of January and February I collected any perforated slicks that looked promising, and placed them indoors in large glass bottles with leno covers in a good light. Several good species emerged from these in due course, as noted below. March was very fine and warm, and most of the early species of Andrena were to be seen, such as clarkella, Kirb., gwynana, Kirb., nigroxnea, Kirb., &c. On April 1st two Osmia pilicornis, Sin., $ and f? , were taken on the Guildford Downs, together with H allot us laeoigatus, Kirb., villosulus, Kirb., eglindricus, Fab., and Podalirius pilipes, Fab. Later on Andrena spinigera, Sm., a light brown variety f tibialis, Kirb., bimaculata, Kirb., nitida, Fourc. , thoracica, Fab., fuloicrus, Kirb., and dorsata, Kirb., occurred at Cobham. In May I took the rare Andrena bucephala, Steph., at Box Hill, also spinigera, Sm. (worn), and helvola, L. ; in my garden at Cobham Andrena angustior, Kirb., ambigua, Ferk.,Jlorea, Fab., humilis, Imh., wilkella, Kirb., Crabro vagabundus, Panz., Odynerus trifasciatus, Oliv., and Nomada ochrostoma, Kirb. Andrena lapponica, Zett., was seen at its old locality at Horsley. On May 21th I received from my friend, Mr. C. Reuss, three fine males of the very scarce Andrena ferox, Sm., which had fallen into his tray whilst beating for larva; in the New Forest. A short visit to Criccieth aud Abersocli in early June for Osmia parietina, Curt., and xanthomelana, Kirb., was successful, though the insects were scarce. The females of Eombus soroensis, Fab., were abundant at Abersocli on the flowers of the currant. On my return home I found that a number of Osmia leucomelana, Kirb., had emerged from one of the perforated bramble stems, together with Stelis 8-maculata, Sm., one $ and two $ ? . On cutting this stem open I found the first two cells were Osmia, the third Stelis, the fourth Osmia, the fifth Stelis, the sixth and seventh Osmia, the eighth Stelis, the ninth Osmia, and the tenth an imprisoned Pemphredon, dead but fully developed. In another stem, containing leucomelana cells, I was astonished to find in the two bottom cells a dead Stelis 8-maculata, Sm., and a male leucomelana, head down- wards, both fully developed. This is very remarkable, as the bottom cells usually contain females. A day at Oxshott produced Sapyga ^-punctata, Fab., c? $ > Pompilus cinctellus, Spin., Salius parculus, Dhlb., Psen shuckardi, Wesm., the uncommon Pemphredon wesmaeli, Mor., Caelioxys quadridentata, Linn., elongata, Lep., and Osmia ccerutescens, Linn. Towards the end of the month Mr. Q. C. Vaux sent me five Psenulus concolor, Dhlb., bred from perforated ash-stems taken at Ockley, the first of this rarity bred in England ; also Crabro capitosus, Shiick., $ , from the same locality. My captures for July include among others, Agenia hircana, Fab., Nysson trimaculatus, Rossi (on bramble leaves), and Psen shuckardi, Wesm., equestris, Fab., bicolor, Jur. (Daucus carota flowers), Crabro palmarius, Schreb., vagus, Linn., panzeri, v. d. Lind , Andrena rosx, Panz., bimaculata, Kirb., nigriceps, Kirb., denticulata, Kirb., argentata, Sm., and dorsata, Kirb. (second brood) ; Nomada solidagiuis, Panz., lineola, Panz. (second brood), jacobaza;, Panz., albo- gutlata, H.-S., and Stelis phceoptera, Kirb. Towards the end of the month the very scarce Goryfes bicinctus, Rossi, and lleriades truncorum, Linn., appeared in the garden. (For my note on the latter see Ent. Mo. Mag., xliii, p. 276). Most of the above insects occurred also during the first weeks in August, with Pompilus minutulus, Dhlb., chalybeatus, Schiodte, Stiamus solskyi, Mor., Pem- phredon morio, v. d. Lind., Nysson dimidlatus, Jur., Cerceris rybyensis, Linn., 1908.] 113 5-fasciala, Linn., Crabro podaffricus, v. d. Lincl., and gonager, Lcp., in addition. At Wisley I look Pompilus bieolor, Lcp., Salius notatulm, Sannd., Miscophus eoncolor, Dhlb., Crabro i-maculalus^&h. (with var. geniculates), scutellatus,Sc\\ev., Epeolns productus, Thorns., and Ccelioxys rufescens, Lep. The females of Pserc equestris, Fab., were abundant, at Cobham on Daitcus carota flowers about the 15th, together with SaZias exaltatus, Fab., oblttsinentris, Schiodte, pusillvs Schiodte, parwlus, Dhlb., CraJro boi-mm, Lep., albilabri*, Fab., 6*-e»i*, v. d. Lind., and Cili.ua leporina, Panz. A few hours' sunshine at Oxshott revealed the rare Pompilus unicolor, Spin., bieolor, Lep , a huge" colony of Andrena argentata and Nomada alboguttata, also Epeolus rufipes, Thorns., in abundance. On the way home the scarce Prosopis cornuta, Sm., and dilatata, Kirb., were netted. I took Macropis labiata, Fab., in some numbers at Beaulieu, in Hampshire, on the 24th, also Cihssa hemorrhoid alls, Fab., and Andrena cetii, Schr., but not the Nomada argentata, H.-S. On my return home at the end of the month, Calicurgus hyalinatus, Fab., was taken in the garden. Most of the above were still on the wing during September, the last capture of Gorytes bicinctus being on the 9th. My last entry is Cerceris rybyensis, Linn., on October 12th, surely a very late date for this insect. — Edw. B. Nevinson, Morland, Cobham, Surrey : March, 1908. Sehirus morio, L., and luctuosus, 31. 2?. -Mr. E. A. Butler has written asking me if our black species of Sehirus should not be referred to luctuosus, M. E., instead of to morio, L. At first I thought he was certainly right, and wrote and said so, but on looking again at my specimens I find I have two old ones, " ex coll. Kirby," which are certainly referable to morio, whereas my more recent ones are clearly luctuosus. Before turning morio out of our list, I should be glad if any one who has specimens of our black species would examine them, and if they are larger than usual, deep black, and have the membrane white, would let me have them to examine. There is no indication of locality on Kirby's specimens, so that further evidence is much wanted if we are to retain morio as a British species.— Edwahd Saunders, St. Ann's, Woking : April \5th, 1908. A correction.— In the report of the meeting of the Entomological Society on March 18th (p. 94), it was stated that the deciduous appendages to the mandibles in the specimens of Otiorrhynchus tenebricosus, exhibited by Mr. Jennings on behalf of Mr. Pool, were toothed. This, however, is a mistake, as these appendages in this species as well as in Barynotus obscurus are simple.— F. B. Jennings, 152, Silver Street, Upper Edmonton : April, 1908. (Statuaries. Francis C. Lemann.—Jt is with very great regret that we have to record the death of Mr. Francis C. Lemann, after a short illness, from pneumonia following an attack of influenza. Owing to the distance at which he lived from London, he was probably not personally well known to many of the readers of this Magazine, or to the members of the Entomological Society, which he joined in 1883. His name K 114 [May was, however, familiar to all interested in European Butterflies, through his trans- lation of Dr. IT. Frey's "Die Lepidopteren der Schweiz " on this fascinating subject, and his papers on Entomological excursions to various parts of the Continent. In his youth he spent some years at school in Hussia, where he acquired a knowledge of French and German, which in after life added greatly to his pleasure when making his Continental journeys. lie wa9 well acquainted with Switzerland and Carinthia, and visited other parts of the Tyrol, Basses Alps, the Pyrenees and Corsica. The last -mentioned locality twenty-five years ago was, as far as British Entomologists were concerned, a terra incognita, and it was due to Mr. Lemann's instrumentality and to his great personal influence that so many have since made excursions to that island. His early business experience was gained in London, and in 1881 he joined the well known firm of Coatcs and Co., Plymouth, in which town he resided until his death. Mr. Lemann was a keen collector of butterflies, and had not only an excellent knowledge of his subject, but was exceptionally well versed in field work, in which he delighted — his extensive botanical knowledge being of great assistance to him in his collecting. He made no collection himself, but gave all his specimens to his friends. Mr. Lemann was a man of singularly fine character, who inspired not merely friendship, but affection, among his friends, and to those of us who have travelled with him abroad and knew him intimately, his untimely death leaves a blank which can never be filled. In Plymouth, where he was most popular, and where in his quiet way he did much good work, his genial presence and kind heart will be greatly missed by all who knew him. — A. H. J. and E. W. L. Francis Ford Freeman. — After a long and painful illness, Mr. Francis Ford Freeman died at his residence, Abbotsfiekl, Tavistock, at the age of 60. Like his friend, Mr. Lemann, he took a deep interest in European Ehopalocera. Unfor- tunately, owing to being a martyr to chronic asthma, he was unable, much to his disappointment, to explore the mountainous parts of the Continent. He leaves a widow and family, and a large circle of friends to mourn his loss. He was elected a Fellow of the Entomological Society in 1883.— A. H. J. Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society: Meeting, held Monday, February \lth, 1908, Mr. E. Wilding in the Chair. Mr. W. Mansbridge read a paper, entitled " Variation in Lepidoptera," in which he enumerated the different classes of variation as generally understood by Lepidopterists, and referred especially to a phase of variation which has not evoked the amount of interest its importance warrants, viz. : — colour changes from yellow or ochreous to red or brown and modifications of these. The Author showed how practically all definite melanic forms have, when first noticed, been of very local occurrence — as the majority still are — a few only having spread in comparatively recent times over large areas, and noted that when this had been the case that the particular species, e.g., Tephrosia biundularia var. delamerensis, Amphidasys betu- laria var. doubledayaria, Hibemia marginaria var. fuscata, and Diurnea fagella, 1903.] 115 black forms, are common and generally distributed so that transported specimens could easily continue their race wherever they might be carried. A capital exhibition of local forms of Lepidoptera was made by the Members in illustration, and a discussion ensued, in the course of which Messrs. F.N. Pierce, Dr. J. Cotton, Dr. Tinne, Robert Tait, Junr., Dr. Win. Bell, and R. Wilding con- curred generally in the views set forth in the paper. — H. R, Sweeting and Wm. Mansbridge, Hon. Secretaries. The Soutu London Entomological and Natural History Society: Thursday, February 27th, 1908.— Mr. A. Sicii, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. Mr. Edwards exhibited specimens of Papilio lampsacus and the rare P.priapus from Java. Mr. Raynard, the ova of Miselia oxyacanthw in situ on twigs of haw- thorn ; all were solitary, except in one instance of two ova. Mr. Pratt, a larva of Oeometra vernaria, which had passed two winters in that stage. Mr. Newman, living melanic $ ? of Hybemia leucophearia from Bexley, and a bred melanic form of Larentia multistrigaria from Huddersfield. Mr. Sich, a transparent m.m. and cm. measure for obtaining the alar expanse of insects. Mr. Tonge, slides of Lepido- pterous ova, larvae, cocoons, pupae and imagines. Mr. Main, slides showing details of the osmateria of P. machaon, and various larvae and pupae. Thursday, March 12th, 1908.— The President in the Chair. Mr. R. Adkin exhibited the Tortrices Redya aceriana, H. ocellana, Grapho- litha minutana, and Semasia wmberiana, as common metropolitan species taken by him from fences on his way to and from the station. Mr. Hy. J. Turner, four specimens of Stichophthalma howqua, a large species of Morphina from South China, and specimens of West African Precis artaxia. Mr. Hugh Main, ? s of several species obtainable at the present time with their ova, viz., Hybemia pro- gemmaria, Anisopteryx xscularia, and Phigalia pedaria. Mr. Andrews, the Diptera, Pipiza lugubris,a, scarce Syrphid, and four examples of Caricia tigrina with its prey. Mr. Joy, a collection of Butterflies made by him near Calcutta during the last two seasons, and read notes. Mr. Stanley Edwards, two species of Scorpions, Heterometrus stvammerdami from India, and Tityus insignis from the West Indies. — Uy. J. Turner, Hon. Secretary. Entomological Society of London : Wednesday, March 18th, 1908. Mr. C. O. Waterhouse, President, in tho Chair. Mr. Edwin Goldthorp Bayford, of 2, Rockingham Street, Barnsley ; Mr. Edgar L. Clark, of Congella, Natal ; Mr. G. W. Jeffrey, of the Alpine Gold Mining Company, Barberton, Transvaal Colony ; Mr. G. W. Lawn, of Tudor House, Wealdstone, Harrow ; and Mr. D. Langsdon, of 20, Holland Park, W. ; were elected Fellows of the Society. Dr. T. A. Chapman exhibited photographs of the empty egg-shells and young larvae of Papilio homer us. Mr. C. J. Gahan. a larva of the genus Trictenotoma. 116 [May, This larva belonged undoubtedly to the Heteromera, and bore most, resemblance to the larva? of Pyrochroidx and Pythidse. He also showed a larva of Dascillus cervinus from Ireland, which had been received at the Natural History Museum by Mr. Waterhouse, a species little known in this stage. The President said that the larva in question was just now the subject of experiment, it being reported doing much damage to grass-land. It was important, therefore, to determine whether it was really destructive or parasitic on some other pest like Melolontha. The President, a drawing of the larvae of Coniopteryx, a small Neuropteron common enough in its perfect state, but rarely found as a larva, when it may be beaten out of fir trees. Mr. W. J. Kaye brought for exhibition three Pereute species from the Chanchamayo district of Peru, viz , P. leucodrosime, P. callinice, and P. callianira, together with specimens of the Nymphaline Adelpha lara. He called attention to the fact that these Pierines and the Nymphaline occurred together at an elevation of from 2500 to 3000 feet. It was wrong to suppose that any Heliuonius melpomene- like species entered the association as Heliconius species of this pattern did not ascend to such an elevation, or if they ever did it was only as a rare exception. Mr. L. W. Newman exhibited a long and varied series of Smerinthus populi bred from wild Bexley parents in June, 1907, the series ranging from extreme dark specimens (about six per cent.) to very light (about ten per cent.), and pink shaded or tinged (about twenty per cent.) : the remainder being intermediate forms. It also included three gynandromorphous specimens. Mr. J. W. Tutt asked for information from any Fellows who had collected abroad relative to the suggested distinction of species in Everes arglades, Pall. He said that the question had been raised by M. C. Oberthiir whether we have under ab. coretas, Oberth., and arglades two separate and distinct species. A discussion followed, in which the Rev. G-. Wheeler, Dr. T. A. Chapman, Mr. H. Rowland-Brown and other Fellows took part, the Fellows having specimens in their collections were asked to bring series for comparison and discussion. Mr. C. J. Gahan, M.A., communicated a paper, " On the Larvae of Trictenotoma childreni, Gray, and Melltomma insulare, Fairmaire." Wednesday, April 1st, 1908.— The President in the Chair. Mr. F. B. Ackerley, P.O. Box, 159, Port Elizabeth, South Africa ; Mr. Charles G-. Clutterbuck, Heathside, Heathville Road, Gloucester ; Mr. P. A. Clutterbuck, Indian Forest Department, Naini Tal, United Provinces, India ; Mr. Walter W. Froggatt, F.L.S., Government Entomologist, New South Wales ; Mr. II. A. Nurse, Botanical Department, Trinidad, B.W.I. ; Mr. William Boulton Pratt, 10, Lion Gate Gardens, Richmond, Surrey ; Mr. Edward Richard Speyer, Ridgehurst, Shenley, Herts., and New College, Oxford ; Mr. G. Talbot, Vine Cottage, Raleigh Road, Enfield, N. ; and Dr. F. Creighton-Wellman, Cuidado de Senhores Silva and Lopes, Benguella, Africa Occidental ; were elected Fellows of the Society. The decease was announced of Mr. F. C. Lemann, and Mr. T. P. Furnival, Fellows of the Society. Mr. F. B. Jennings exhibited on behalf of Mr. R. A. R. Priske a melanic aberration of the stercorarious beetle, Aphodius scyhalarius, Fabr., taken at Deal, in June, 1907. Professor E. B. Poulton, F.R.S., for Mr. E. E. Green, a preparation for the microscope of the tongue of Ochromyia jejuna. Mr. E. R. Bankes sent for 1908.1 117 exhibition : — (1) Four specimens of Eepialus /tumuli, L., more or less covered by a sprouting fungoid growth, which was said by the editor of the " Field " newspaper, in 1880, to be possibly an early stage of a species of Claoaria, and to have attacked the mollis after death. Mr. Bankes had only met with eight Lepidopterous ima- gines thus affected, all of which appeared to be referable to II. humuli. They were found in the heath district of South-East Dorset, mostly attached to shoots of Ulex europxus. (2) Many dead larva of Hepia/us lupuUnus, L., infested with the fungus Cordiceps entomorrhira, and received from Mr. W. II. B. Fletcher, in whose flower-garden at Bognor they had been found. The larva of this species proved de- structive there, feeding on the roots of Ilelleboru?, Iris, and Paeonia, but the infested larvae were only obtained from clumps of Paeonia officinalis, working to the surface during the winter months. The larva? were of two classes, some showing anteriorly much fibrous net-like mycelium growth, accompanied by a drumstick-like process often more than half the length of the larva ; others showing no fungoid growth externally, and these work completely out of the soil, and lie about on the surface. Mr. J. E. Collin communicated a paper entitled " The Systematic Affinities of the Phoridse, and of several Brachycerous Families in the Diptera," by Mr. W. Wesche', F.R.M.S. Dr.T. A. Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S., read a paper on " Stenoptilia grandis, n. sp."--H. Rowland-Brown, Hon. Secretary. A FORTNIGHT'S WINTER COLLECTING IN VENEZUELA. BY G. B. LONGSTAFF, M.A., M.D., F.It.C.P , F.E.S. [Concluded from page 76). On another occasion 1 met with a similar experience. On March 28th, 1907, a hot sunny morning, as I was walking along the upper water course where it runs through the wood almost clinging to the face of the cliff (perhaps a quarter of a mile from the pre- viously described locality), passing under the shade of a large tree I disturbed a crowd of butterflies so dense that fourteen were easily netted in two or three swoops. Ten of these were pinched, which all proved to be Ithomia sylvella, Hew., four of them got away. In this instance the butterflies were confined to some four or five yards of the narrow path, audit was almost a " pure culture " of that singu- larly delicate little species, indeed, the only exceptions were two specimens of Athesis clearista, Dbl., and single specimens of Ptero- nymia latilla, Hew., and Dircenna jemima, Hiibn. I may add that I have no reason in either case to think that the Ithomiines were drinking at the stream. But besides Ithomiines there were plenty of other butterflies along the banks of that stream and the water-courses leading from it. To begin with the less exciting Satyrines. There were Euptychia Iiermes, Fabr. (camerla, Cram.), and the smaller E.pharella, But!., the 118 [May. latter very common among grass and less chary of sunlight than many of the family ; the more attractive Oressinoma typlila, Dbl. and H., was on the contrary always found in the shade. The commonest Nymphaline was the tiny fulvous Phyciodes anieta, Hew. Here also I first made acquaintance with the beautiful genus Dynamine, capturing three theseus, Feld., and one geta, Godm. Anartia amalthea, Linn., flew over the water of the levadas, and Precis lavinia, Cram., was as usual easier to see than to catch. A single specimen of Pyrantels myrinna, Dbl., was captured at the flowers of a Composite creeper near the farmhouse, while the shades of the wood yielded the larger game Vlctorina stelenes, Linn., and Amplurene epaphus, Latr. ; one of the last named was drinking in the bed of the stream, where I had the bad luck to miss a Callicore. But of all the beautiful butterflies seen there by far the most startling was my first Morplio. A huge bird-like creature sailing down the gully, now giving an azure flash, now almost disappearing as the upper surface turns away — flash, flash, flash, and it is out of sight! Shortly afterwards I had the pleasure of beating Morplio peleides, Koll., a male, out of a bush and netting it as it flapped away. The sole Danaine was a male, Anosia arcliippus, Fabr., but the Acrseines were represented by a number of Actinote antcas, Dbl. and H., though that species was commoner in the outskirts of the city ; of its congener A. hylonome, Dbl., I only secured a single specimen. The only Erycinids taken were a couple of Charts argy- rodines, Bates, and one of the conspicuous black, yellow, and scarlet Lymnas jarbus, Fabr. Heliconiines were not common, but I took Heliconius charithonia, Linn., and two of the beautiful black and red //. hydara, Hew. (one of the species into which the beautiful //. melpomene, Linn., has been split up) ; these last were both males, one only of which had a very strong odour, like acetylene, or, as Mr. G. H. ISworder of Tobago suggested, hazeline (Hamamelis virginica). This insect is tenacious of life. I got but one Papilio, but its beauty was striking even among so many fine insects, for a male P. cymochles, Dbl., feeding on the flowers of Lantana is a sight worth going far to see. Its handsome black, scarlet, and cream-coloured livery is in itself a feast of colour, but when that marvellous violet-blue gloss is seen, words altogether fail one. Among the Lycaenids the wide ranging Leptotcs (Tarucus) cassius, Cram., was by far the commonest, the sexes in about equal numbers ; 1908.] HO next in order of abundance came Tmolus palcgon, Cram., which frequented the flowers of a Composite shrub (? Vernonia scorpiodes, Pers.) ; of Thecln rnfofusca, Hew., I captured two, but of the follow- ing only one each : T. crolm, Cram. ; T. togama, Hew. ; Theclopsis tepJircea, Hiibn. (this bad a peculiar, strong, rather disagreeable odour) ; CaJlipsyche thins, Hiibn. ; and CatocJirysops hanno, Stoll, this last sitting head downwards and opening its hind-wings at intervals. The Pierines were represented by a fair number of species, but few of them were common, indeed, of the following single specimens only were taken : Terias nise, Cram., a male ; T. leuce, Boisd., a female, the only specimen met with ; T. elathea, Cram., a male, an aberration with the black streak obsolescent ; Sphr r> o Tsr. Birds and Mammals, tyc, ['reserved $r Mounted by first-class workmen. Our New Price List (100 pp.) sent post free to any address on application. CONTBN T S. PAGE Help-Notes towards the determination of British Tenthredinidaa, &c. (21). (concluded).— Rev. F. D. Morice, M.A., F.E.S 97 Dryops (Parnus) lnridus, Er., a species not hitherto recorded as British. — James Edwards, F.E.S 102 Two unrecognised British species of the genus Notiophilus. — Norman H. Joy, M.R.C.S., F.E.S 103 Two new British beetles. — J. R. le B. Tomliu, M.A., F.E S., and Norman H. Joy, M.R.C.S., F.E.S 104 Micrambe villosa, Heer, = pilosula, Er., an addition to the British list of Coleoptera. — E. 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It also contains Reviews of all recent scientific works ; Correspondence Columns, which form a medium of scientific discussion and of intercommunication among men of Science ; Accounts of the leading Scientific Serials ; Abstracts of the more valuable papers which appear in foreign journals ; Reports of the Proceedings of the Principal Scientific Societies and Academies of the World; and Notes on all matters of current scientific interest. SUBSCRIPTIONS TO "1NATURE." £ s. d. 18 0 (To all places Abroad). Yearly ' 0 14 6 Half- Yearly 0 7 6 Quarterly Nearly Half- Yearly Quarterly ^ Money Orders to be made payable to MA.CMILLAN and CO., Ltd- Office: St. Martin's Street, London, W.C. £ s. 1 10 d. O 15 6 O 8 0 June, 1008.] 121 The large Skipper, Perichares corydon, Fabr., turned up in one of the court-yards by day, and a recently dead specimen of the Nym- phaline, Qatonephele nyctimus, Westw., a male, was found on the floor. With the moths were numerous big Locustids, allied to the Katy- did ; a green Phaneropterine and a brown Conocephaline. On March 29th, proceeding to La Guaira to join the homeward- bound steamer, we got out at Zigzag station, 1500 ft. above the sea, and completed the journey on foot, a walk that I should much like to repeat. The road, right down to the coast, presented all the appear- ance of very heavy rain within a few days previously. Tnsects were most numerous between the station, and about 1000 ft., below this vegetation became sparse, and later on clouds overspread the sky. The most abundant butterfly was Phyciodes leucodesma, Feld., with its somewhat gliding flight, but P. anieta, Hew., and Terias albula, Cram., were also common, as was the handsome scarlet and black Ilellconius hydara, Hew. A much smaller, but lovely black and red butterfly, Hcematera pyramus, Fabr., was taken on the railway track. Other Nymphalines captured were Col cents Jul ia, Fabr., two ; Nica canthara, Dbl., one ; Anartia amalthea, Linn., two ; Dynamine sara, Bates, three ; Synchloe lacinia, Hiibn., two of the dark form, the third of f. saundersii, Dbl. and H. ; and Cystineura cana, Erichs., two, a ghostly looking thing with gliding flight, somewhat like a Neptis. The only Ithomiines met with were Tithorea furia, Stdgr., of which I took a female at about 1300 ft., and Pteronymia victorina, Hew., of which I took one, and possibly saw others, at about 1000 ft. Of Eueides Isabella, Cram., f. hubneri, Men., I got but a single example. The Erycinids were limited to Nymphidium molpe, Hiibn., and Charts argyrodines, Bates, one of each. Satyrines were notable for quality rather than quantity ; single specimens were taken of Eupiychia hermes, Fabr. ; E. hesione, Sulz., and E. mollina, Hiibn., the last named a whitish species not taken elsewhere. Skippers were but moderately numerous, those taken were : Chiomara yesta, H.-S., one ; the very neat little Hellopetes domicella, Erich., three ; Zopyrion safyrina, Feld., one, a species well named, since the ocelli on its under surface are very suggestive of a Satyrid ; and StapJiylus niazans, Reak. (ascalaphus, Stdgr.), one. If Skippers were but moderately numerous, Blues were decidedly scarce, for my bag included only Thecla rufofusca, Hew., one, at about 750 ft., and T. toyarna, Hew., two, one taken just below Zigzag, the other as low as 500 ft. L \ 22 [June, Pierines were fairly numerous, but not so easy to catch, con- spicuous among them was Gallidryas eubule, Linn., though not really common, the specimens were large. Of Spheenogona gratiosa, Dbl. and H., a female was taken, but others seen (at Cartagena this butterfly was noted as flying low and through bushes) ; a female Daptonoura lycimnia, Cram. (f. polyhymnia, Feld.), contrary to precedents, had a rich sweet scent. Of Pieris calydonia, Boisd., 1 brought home two males, also a male of another Pieris, of which Dr. Dixey says : — " probably undescribed, near sevata, Feld." This was taken at an altitude of about 1300 ft., close to the track. There were several good-sized Whites about that declined to be caught, it is possible that among them there may have been others of this interesting species. Between 2 and 4 p.m., from about 1000 It. down to about 500 ft., the Hypsid day-flying moth, PhaJoe lorza, Boisd., was in abundance. Its flight is slow and heavy, suggesting a pale, dingy Heliconius ; nine specimens were taken, ei^ht of them proved to be females. Among the last butterflies taken were Phyciodes liriope, Cram., and a tattered Hypanartia lethe, Fabr., both at about 750 ft. At the decidedly dirty Hotel Neptuno, a fine specimen of the large Brassoline, Caliqo memnon, Feld., was awaiting my arrival ; it had been pinned upon the wall two days before by the obliging interpreter who knew my fancies. The next morning was devoted to a stroll along the coast towards the east, anxiety as to the arrival of the steamer preventing any lengthy expedition. The best spot reached was a neglected cemetery by the sea-side, where we found Phyciodrs leucodrsma, Feld., common ; P. liriope, Cram. ; Anartia amaltha, Linn., tattered ; Terias albula, Cram., common, one very large ; Pieris philet a, Fabr. (monus/e, auct.), two males — this species I have always met with close to the shore ; P. calydonia, Boisd., a male ; Nica canthara, Dbl., two ; Mechanitis verita- bilis, Butl., one ; Seliopetes arsalte, Linn., one ; another .Skipper was Polla sp., of which three specimens were obtained (Mr. H. H. Druce says that there is one specimen of this species in the Godman col- lection unnamed)*; and Ayeronia ferentina, Godt., settled on the pale grey trunk of a palm, which it closely matched in colour. Anosia archippus, Fabr., was seen a little way beyond the ceme- tery on a purple-flowered Asclepias. * I have to thank Mr. II. II. Druce for the great tremble that he took in determining my Blues and Skippers. 1908. I 128 While walking down to the ship 1 picked up from the pavement ;i fine water-beetle, Kydrophilus insularis, Casteln. So ended my fortnight in Venezuela, yielding in butterflies alone 492 specimens, of 124 species, of which 53 were represented by single examples. Let me add that I found the Venezuelans civility itself, and my operations were in no wise interfered with. Twitchen, Mortehoe, K.S.O. : December 12th, 1907. CRYPTOPHAGUS LUVENDALI, Ganglb., IN THE NEW FOREST. BY G. C. CHAMPION, F.Z.S. On July 23rd last I found a number of Cryptophaqi (mostly C. scanicus, Linn., and C. saginatus, Sturm) and Mycetophagus quadri- qtittatus, Mull.,* amongst dry dead leaves and fungoid growth in a hollow beech tree in the New Forest. The Cryptophaqi included two specimens of a species unknown to me, which I have now been able to identify, thanks to the assistance of Captain Deville. It is the C. l0vendali of Ganglbauer [Kaf. Mitteleuropa, iii, p. 678 (1899)], treated by him, and also by LoWendal previously [Ent. Meddelelser, iii, pp. 245, 246 (1891 — 92)], as a variety of C. pubescens, Sturm, with a 3-jointed antennal club. The insect in question resembles the typical dark form of C. scanicus in colour, from which it differs in its broader shape, coarser sculpture, and slightly less dilated ninth antennal joint, this being not quite so wide as the eleventh. From C. pubescens it may be easily separated by its darker colour, the dilated ninth antennal joint, and the rounded sides of the prothorax. Captain Deville informs me that he has seen five specimens of C. lvendali from France, all from hollow trees, and there can be no doubt that it must be treated as specifically distinct. O. Uoendali, in fact, forms a connecting link between the Cryptophaqi with a 2-, and those with a 3-jointed antennal club. Ganglbauer, I must add, has examined one of my examples, and returned it as a species unknown to him ; but this may be due to the fact that he appears to have named the Danish insect from L0vendal's description alone, without having seen a specimen. On April 24th I again visited the particular tree in the New Forest, only to find that the cavity had been filled with broken bottles left by picnic parties, and the contents therefore could not be examined. Horsell : May 8th, 1908. Cf. Ent. Mo. Mag., xliii, p. 207 (1907). L 3 124 [June, NOTK ON CARABUS VIOLACEUS, subsp. SOLLICITANS, Hartert. BY G. C. CHAMPION, F.Z.S. Few British Coleopterists are probably aware that the British form of G. violaceus has been named subsp. sollicitans b}' Dr. Hartert ["Novitates Zoologies," xiv, pp. 331, 335 (March, 1907)]. It is stated to differ from G. violaceus (from Silesia, North Germany and Austria) in having " the elytra less finely, more roughly, and some- what more irregularly granulated, thus appearing much less smooth." Dr. Hartert, it may be noted, says that " we may, for the present, accept the dictum that G violaceus and C purpurascens are represen- tative sub-species of each other." The true C. violaceus, according to him, has the upper surface of the elytra uniformly covered with fine granulations, without any striations, and the margins of a beautiful reddish-violet, and G purpurascens the elytra sharply striated with about a dozen elevated lines, between which granulations are visible. He does not mention the form from Portland, &c, recorded by Fowler (Col. Brit. Isl., i, p. 8), under the name exasperatus, with coarser granulations and traces of raised lines on the elytra. I have it from Parracombe, North Devon. Horsell : May \Wi, 1908. DROM1US ANGUSTUS, Brulle, AT WOKING. BY G. C. CHAMPION, F.Z.S. Captain Deville recently sent me an example of Dromius anqustus, Brulle (= testaceus, Er), from Bourges, France, and suggested that the species probably occurred in Britain. In this surmise he was quite correct, as I find I have five specimens of it from the Woking district, captured by my son on January 10th, 1906, under bark of old posts. The insect is no doubt mixed in British collections with D. meridionalis, Dej., from which (cf. Ganglbauer, Kafer Mitteleuropa, i, pp, 406, 407) it may be distinguished by its smoother forehead — longitudinally wrinkled at the sides only, instead of completely across as in D. meridionalis— and the reddish colour of the body, the elytra alone sometimes in great part infuscate. The specimens before me are relatively narrower than D. meridionalis and B. aqilis, F , and have a large, elongate, testaceous patch on the inner part of the disc of each elytron below the base. D. angustus and D. meridionalis agree in having a single pore only on the third elytra] interstice near 1908.] 125 the apex, thus differing from D. agilis and its variety limaculatm, Dej., which have sever;)] pores on this interstice, as well as the row on the seventh. D. fenestrntus, F., is another form that might be expected to occur in the northern part of Iritain, and I have seen examples of D. meridional i< from the New Forest that have been incorrectly- referred to it. Horsell : May UU, 1908. NOTES ON THE GENUS CORTICARIA. BY NOKMAN II. JOY, M.E.C.S., F.E.S., AND J. E. LE B. TOML1N, M.A., F.K.S. In his introductory notes on Corticaria Canon Fowler remarks " that we possess, in all probability, two or three more species in collections than the eight or nine at present recognised as British." He particularly mentions C. linearis, Payk, and G. longicollis, Zett. as likely to occur, and indeed instances specimens standing under G.fulva, Com , in Dr. Sharp's collection, which are perhaps referable to C. longicollis. The C. linearis of the Stephensian collection = C. ferruginea, Gyll. (teste G. R. Waterhouse) = C. fenestrate, L. Both these species we are now able to instate definitely on the British list, bringing the total of the genus up to twelve. We can find no evidence of the true C. obscura, Bris. having been taken in Britain, most of the specimens recorded as such having proved to be G. eppels- hrimi, Eeitt., so that (including G. crenicollis, Mannh., recorded in Ent. Becord, vol. xviii, p. 276), there are four species to be added to the list given by Fowler, and one to be deleted. The following are the records for these four species, so far as we have been able to ascertain : — G linearis. — Brad field, two specimens (Joy). G. eppelsheimi.— "Woking ("common in powdery fungi on fir stumps during one season only ") and New Forest (Champion). G. longicollis.— Richmond Park (Rye and Champion) ; Epping, under bark (Pool, who first drew our attention to this species ; it was recorded as G. crenicollis in Ent. Record, ibid.) ; Malvern, in cellar, and Sherwood, under bark (Tomlin). C. crenicollis. — Farnham (Power) ; Peckham (ex coll. Chaney) ; Basildon, Berks, in dry oak branches (Joy) ; Chiddmgfold, in moss in company with ants (Donisthorpe). 126 [June' As we have been unable to fit these species into the table given by Fowler, we have thought it best to make out a new one, and have followed Ganglbauer's to a great extent. We also append descrip- tions of the four recently added species. TABLE OF THE SPECIES. I. — Elytra with longer, somewhat erect pubescence, or with alternate rows of longer and shorter hairs. i. — Eyes feebly convex and not prominent, temples well developed ; antennae with the first two joints of the club not longer than broad ; colour rust-red or reddish-testaceous ; elytra with alternate rows of longer and shorter hairs C. fulva, Com. ii. — Eyes strongly convex and prominent. 1. — Temples well developed ; thorax much narrower than elytra; all the joints of the club of the antennae evidently longer than broad ; size larger C pubescens, G-yll. 2. — Temples rudimentary; thorax broader in proportion to elytra ; first two joints of the club of the antennae about as long as broad ; size smaller C. crennlata, Gyll. II. — Elytra with shorter, depressed pubescence, the hairs being of equal length, i.— Antennae with at least the first joint of the club distinctly longer than broad C. denticulata, Gyll. ii. — Antennae with the first two joints of the club globose, as long as broad or somewhat transverse. 1. — Elytra with punctured striae evanescent behind middle; species convex and broad C.fenestralis, L. 2. — Elytra with punctured striae continued to apex. A. — Size larger: length IS — 2o mm. ; temples obsolete or absent. a. — Sides of thorax strongly serrate C. serrata, Payk. b. — Sides of thorax obsoletely serrate. a*. --Colour dark brown ; elytra more depressed, shoulders with well-marked callosities ...C. linearis, Payk. b*. — Colour testaceous ; elytra more convex, shoulders with callosities obsolete C. eppelsheimi, Reitt. P>. — Size smaller : length I "3 — 1'8 mm. ; temples small, but distinct. a. — Thorax strongly punctured ; elytra somewhat rounded at sides. a*. — Thorax much narrower than elytra, scarcely transverse, broadest before middle ; elytra more rounded at sides ; pubescence not conspicuous... C. longicollis, Zett. b*. — Thorax r>ot much narrower than elytra, strongly trans- verse, broadest at middle ; elytra less rounded at sides; pubescence conspicuous... C. crenicollia, Mannh. 1908] 127 b. — Thorax finely punctured, elytra parallel-sided... C. elongata, Gryll. III. — Elytra with rows of short erect bristles, parallel-sided and cylindrical... C. umbiUcata, Beck. C. linearis, Payk. Bather elongate, slightly convex and shining, and very finely pubescent; pitehy black or dark brown, with the shoulders of the elytra often lighter, antenna and legs rust-red, club of the former generally brownish; head with very short and obsolete temples ; antennae with 5th and 6th joints a little longer than broad, 7th and 8th globose, the first two joints of the club as long as broad ; thorax much narrower than elytra, as long as broad or slightly bi'oader than long, somewhat strongly and closely punctured, sides evenly rounded and obsoletely serrate, base with a deep round fovea ; elytra oblong, rather depressed, broadest at the middle, shoulders somewhat callose and prominent, rather strongly punctured in rows, inter- stices much more finely punctured ; male with the anterior tibise feebly sinuate on inner side near the apex, and the fifth ventral segment of the abdomen slightly impressed. L. 1/8 — 2 mm. Easily distinguished from C. serrata by its proportionately nar- rower thorax, with the sides much less strongly serrate, and its more depressed and more parallel-sided elytra. 0. EPPELSHEIMI, Keitt. Closely allied to C. linearis, but distinguished by its entirely reddish-testaceous colour ; the antennas are slightly longer and more slender ; the elytra are distinctly more convex, the shoulder-callosities are less developed, and the interstices are more distinctly wrinkled. It resembles C. longicotlis and C. crenicollis in colour, but is larger, and has the temples less developed, and the sides of the thorax less serrate. C. LONGICOLLIS, Zett. A small entirely rust-red, convex species, very finely pubescent ; head narrower than thorax, with short but distinct temples ; antennas with 4th joint somewhat longer than broad, the first two joints of the club strongly transverse ; thorax much narrower than elytra, as long as broad or somewhat transverse, broadest before the middle, and more strongly contracted behind than in front, closely and rugosely punctured, sides rather strongly crenulate, base with a fairly large fovea in the middle ; elytra longish-oval, broadest at the middle and somewhat rounded at the sides, with closely-set rows of punctures, interstices narrow and wrinkled ; the fifth ventral segment of abdomen in the male with a somewhat deep transverse fovea. L. 1/3 — l'G mm. C. CRENICOLLIS, Maunh. Somewhat convex and parallel-sided, clothed with rather short but conspicuous pubescence, entirely reddish-yellow ; head and antennas as in C. longicollis ; thorax not much narrower than elytra, transverse, half as broad again as long, broadest at the middle, closely and rugosely punctured, sides evenly rounded and distinctly 128 [June' crcnulate, base with a deep round fovea; elytra somewhat convex, only slightly rounded at the sides, with rather coarse and closely-set rows of punctures, inter- stices more or less wrinkled ; the fifth ventral segment of abdomen of the male with a transverse impression. L. 1'2 — 1*5 mm. This species differs from C. lonr/icoUis in its more parallel -sided form, the shape of the thorax, and its distinctly more conspicuous pubescence. April, 1908. TWO NEW BRITISH DIPTERA: PEGOMYIA ESURIENS, Mo, AND P. UNIVITTATA, v. Ros. BY A. E. J. CARTER. When collecting at Comrie, Perthshire, last July, I took a number of ilies belonging to the genus Pegomyia. These when worked out with the aid of Herr P. Stein's recently published paper, " Die uiir bekannten europaischen Pegomyia- A rten " (Wiener Entomologischen Zeitung : Jahr. xxv, s. 47, 1906), yielded interesting results. The genus as it stands in the British list needs revision. Herr Stein making several important changes in nomenclature, besides recording from England some four or five new species. Of these latter I appear to have a ? of P. iniqua, Stein, taken at Musselburgh, June 27th, 1907. In Stein's paper it is recorded " ein ? aus England (Grimsbaw)." P. esuriens, Mg. The first of the two species now brought forward occurred to me in a woody place in the lower part of Glen Lednock, Comrie, July 8th, 1907, when I captured a well marked £, agreeing with the description given by Herr Stein. The species belongs to the section with black palpi, and a dark, not red or yellow coloured abdomen. Its most striking characteristic is the striped dorsum, unlike anything T have seen in this genus, and reminding one, at a first glance, of a Mydcea, or Hydrophoria conica. The ground colour is dark brown, looked at from behind it is light brownish-grey, with four distinct brown stripes, the two centre ones being narrower and shortened posteriorly. The abdomen is grey, with a fine dorsal line. Legs yellow, with front femora darkened above, and mid and hind femora darkened at the apex. Tarsi black. In my specimen the eyes are separated by a thin line, and the an- tenna? are black, not reddish-grey, at the base. Size, G mm. Stein records it from Genthin (Prussia), Berlin, Vienna, &c, down to Italy. 1908. j 129 P. univittata, v. Ros. Hen- Stein has found this species in most collections under the name of Jlavipes, Fin. He found the two species mixed in Zetterstedt's collection, and doubtless specimens of univittata are to be found in some of our British collections. Fallen's species is in Mr. Verrall's list, and, as I have seen British specimens of both species, univittata is an addition. I have not taken Jlavipes myself, but have seen an undoubted as they have been and in some cases corrected by his experienced eye. It will be seen that Dr. Sharp and Mr. Lamb bave made notable con- tributions. Additions to Mr. Verrall's List are marked with an asterisk. The genera Epicypta, Brachypez5, and August 4th, 190tJ. They are both females, and agree in the following points : — The fore- legs have the tarsi about three times as long as the tibia?, and the small postero-dorsal spines on the tibia? are two in number ; the ventral spines on the middle tibia? are two, the upper being shorter than the other. The second segment of the body has what seems to me a very remarkable character, namely, two long hairs pointing backwards, rising from the hind margin of the ventral surface. The wings have vein 3 (the cubital) regularly arched, and the fork of vein 5 decidedly nearer the base of the wing than the origin of vein 4. The cross vein, A, (i. e., the vein joining the subcostal to the cubital vein) is much shorter than the basal piece of vein 3, B, and about as long as the " stalk " of 4, C ; i. c, A = C < B. A female taken at Cambridge on August 8th, 1905, has the two long ventral hairs on the second segment, and the tiro postero-dorsal spines on the front tibia? ; also the front tarsi are about three times as long as the tibia?. But there is a third ventral spine on the middle tarsi, above the others, and about as long as the upper one. And the proportion of the three veins A, B, C, is B = C>A. The ventral half of the body is brownish-yellow. In view of the variability attri- buted to E. punctum, I regard this provisionally as a variety of E. scatophora. Epicypta ? sp. — 1 must here mention a female (?) taken in my garden at Cambridge on July 24th, 1904, which 1 cannot assign to 1908. I 13 I any species hitherto described. The pale legs contrast strongly with the black body. The fore tibi® have two postero-dorsal spines; the middle tibiae three ventral spines (on one side the upper spine is wanting). The fore tarsi are about two and a half times as long as the tibia-. The wings have no markings. The costal vein hardly passes the end of vein 3. The cress vein is as long as the basal piece of vein 3. The fork of vein 1 is almost sessile. (A = B > C.) Vein 3 is regularly arched. There are no ventral hairs on the second segment. *Epicypta trinotata, Staeg.— A female taken at Crowborough on April 17th, 11)05, seems to be this. Vein 3 is wavy ("fast wellig gebogen," Winnertz). The obfuscation of the wing does suggest, in a strong light, three spots. Vein 4 forks very near its origin (apical fork almost sessile). The front tibiae have one postero-dorsal spine ; the front tarsi have the three middle joints enlarged, a character mentioned by Winnertz in his description of E. punctum. A second female taken at Crowborough on August 13th, 1906, is similar, but has vein 3, so far as I can see, straight, and there is no trace of the third (axillary) spot. *Epieypta punctum, Stan.— Strobl (Diptera von Steiermark, iii, 50) describes several varieties of this species, adding " enlargement of the fore tarsi, colour of the hind femora, &c. (!), always normal." But the colour of the hind femora does not seem to separate E. punctum from E. trinotata ; and if I am correct in my identifica- tion of E. trinotata above, the character afforded by the front tarsi is also indeterminate. Still, it may be useful to mention these " varieties," even if their identification should be proved to be incor- rect. He seems to have had only ten specimens altogether. («) <$ . Thorax with fore margin narrowly orange, (b) ? . Thorax with fairly large reddish-brown shoulder fleck ; tip half of the wing greyish, especially in the " unterrandzelle " (? cubital cell) and the upper half of the first posterior cell, "almost as in Mycetophila adumbrata." (c) J. Antennas and basal half of the four posterior coxa) black ; wings as in var. b. (d) ? . Posterior coxa; all black- grey ; wings as in var. b. iStrobl adds that the small third ventral spine on the middle tibia? is often wanting. 1 have specimens taken at Crowborough {e.g., August 26th, 1907) which agree with this var. d. In these B = 2 C = 4A, or nearly so? Of several other specimens I say nothing at present. Some of them were shown to Mr. Verrall in March, 1906, as possibly E. punctum ; and his remark was, " more probably two species closely allied to it." 132 lJ»ne. Mycotliera semifusca, Meig.- — I took this at Logic, on the Find- horn, September 14th and loth, 1905, and at Crowborough on August 27th, 1907. The species is in italics in Mr. Verrall's List. *Brachypeza bisignata, Winn. — Dr. Sharp took ;i specimen in the New Forest, in September, 1901. *Brachypeza radiata, n. sp. — Eight specimens occurred in my garden at Cambridge on the following dates :- August 2nd, 1901, July 5th (two $ ) and September 2nd, 1905, August 20th, 21st (two), and 22nd, 1900. Most of them occurred in the greenhouse ; and several of them appeared just as it began to be too dark to see them and box them on the glass overhead. A specimen has since occurred, July 27th, 1907, on the ball window of the house, just outside Cam- bridge, to which I moved in 190G. Two days later my gardener, F. W. Lander, to whom I had shown this specimen, took oue on a window of his house at Trumpington. about a mile away. The species seems to be quite unlike anything hitherto described. The second joint of the front tarsi in the male has bristles below like B. armata, but the spotted wings distinguish it at o:x e from that species. The shade across the wing before the tip darkens the veins and gives a rayed appearance, which suggested the specific n me. Bkachypeza radiata, n. sp. Griseo-lutea ; vertice, thoracis 3 vittis, scutelli medio, abdominis dorso, lateribus, ventre aliquantum infuscatis ; antennarum articuli-s 2 primis luteis, reliquis fuscioribus. Tibiarum anticarum calctre metatarso aliquanto longiore ; tarsorum anticorum secundo articulo femina> simp) ice, maris infra setis armato. Alls grisescentibus, macula media umbraque subapirali fuscis, venis radiorum in modum brunneis. Long. 5 — 6 mm. Al. ejep. 11 mm. Bab. Anglia. $ . Dull greyish-yellow with black bristles. Antennae brownish, first two joints and base of third pale. Face and palpi ochreous ; top of head ochreous between the eyes, dark behind, all covered with appressed ochreous hairs; along the back of the eyes a few black bristles. Thorax with three dark lines ; marginal bristles in front, behind, and along sides black; scutellum ochreous with a dark central mark expanded at base and toward tip ; hairs ochreous, but a few discal black bristles ; six long black marginal bristles. Abdomen with fine ochreous and coarser black hairs ; first segment considerably darkened, second to fifth dark along back, fourth to sixth with a dark shadow on sides ; front of each segment darkened below. Uypopygium not clearly visible, but with two small orange elub-like pro- cesses above, and two larger elongated flaps below. Legs pale, bristles black ; spurs brownish-yellow ; front tibiae with the long spur fully as long as the metatarsus, and with about seven posteral bristles towards the tip, second joint of front tarsi bristly below ; middle tibiae with about six antcro-dorsal bristles, about five (weaker) 1908.] 13:} postero-ventral, and about two or three (strong) postero-dorsal; hind tibiae with four to six strong antero-dorsal bristles and live strong postero-dorsal, with one or two weak dorsal bristles near l.ho base. Wing: bristles on vein 15 begin at. small crosS vein (in bixignala Ihey begin nearer the base). Upper branch of vein 4 has a slight bend near the middle. A spot in the alible between •< and t includes base of -t. A slight cloud near the tip from :i to lower branch of I. flic solid veins give the wing a raved appearance. $ with second joint, of fore tarsi simple. Lamellae orange, club-shaped. (To be continued). Some Coleoptera of the C hilt em Hills. — In a previous page of this Magazine (Ent. Mo. Mag., svii, 38), I have alluded to that district of crumpled cretaceous hills which on the north hank of the Thames between Maidenhead and Henley, run tip into Buckinghamshire, under the name of the Chilterns, and recorded some of the Coleoptera to be found there. A few clays spent at various times during the past year in that country has provided opportunities for adding to the list ; and as South Bucks is not a district which has suffered much at the hands of the Coleopterist, perhaps I may venture to put a few of the more interesting captures on record. Chief among these I may mention Gnorimus nobilis, of which I extracted nine imagines, besides several larvae and pupae, from a hole in an apple tree filled with finely comminuted wood mould. Four more imagines subsequently emerged from the pupae, but owing perhaps to the shock of extraction or of the journey home, three of these were more or less aborted. The larvae were in very different stages of growth : from small grubs under an inch in length to the corpulent white curved larvae evidently full fed — the inference being that the rate of growth in the species is modified directly by the supply, or more probably by the condition, of the nutriment individually available, for it appears improbable that these larvae were of more than one generation, if not of one oviposition, yet while thirteen had emerged before the middle of July, at least as many more remained throughout the winter in larval form. These fed slowly through the summer and autumn, not on the decayed wood mould which filled their hollow, but on the under-side of pieces of damp apple bark supplied to them. The imago enclosed in the pupal envelope before emergence is quite white, after emergence it becomes tawny- brown, not assuming the metallic green coloration which so distinguishes it for several hours. From the same hollow, pupae were obtained which subsequently appeared as Eryx ater, and an Elaterid larva was abundant, whose development is still awaited with interest. On another tree in this orchard a white polyporus was tenanted in numbers by Reledona agaricola. I have already referred to the extensive beech woods which form so salient a feature of this district, and supply to Wycombe the material for its staple industry. Too young, or rather with their older timber too rigorously felled, to offer suitable conditions for those more desirable xylophagous species which more neglected woodlands supply, they yet in their fallen leaves provide a very convenient shelter for many species of Staphylinid.se. Here occur in abundance, Quedius lateralis, Q. nigriceps, Q. picipes, and (J. peltatus. In the autumn Mylla-na brevicornis was in 134 [Jnne' profusion, less common were Tlyobates nigricollis, and Megacronus inclinans, and Ocalea badia. Oxypoda umbrata and 0. annularis were frequent ; of Homafota, the following : 11. siloicola, nigricornis, Uturata, sodalis, dcbiJis, aquatica, mus- corum, &c. ; other speeies among these dead leaves, besides many commoner forms, were Choleva spadicea, Notiophilus rufipes, and Silpha atrata, var. brunnea. The decayed remains of a haystack in May proved very productive, here Oxyomus porcatus, Monotonia rufa and M. quadricollis swarmed, Cryptophagus bicolor, and various species of Cercyon and Ulster, and rarely Cryptophagus umbratus and C. distingu- endus, with hosts of undistinguished Brachelytra, &c. Timber in the right con- dition, as I have already observed, is very scarce in the district, and the only species taken therefrom worth mention were Agathidium nigripenne, Cerylon fagi, and Lissodema quadripustulat urn. I was only able to use the sweep net in July, when the weather was bad, and the results depressing. Herica brunnea swarmed about dusk on long grass in the woods, the males far outnumbering the females. From the slopes of the hills Otiorrhynchus muscorum may be recorded, Aplon stolidum and A. pubescens, and Meligethes bldens. The heavy floods in the Thames valley of December will be remembered by all who dwelt within reach of those waters. Such a " tide " requires for success to be literally " taken at the flood," and I was unable to work the refuse till most of its occupants had probably escaped. What remained were numbers of Stomis pumicatus, Anchomenus piceus, and Bembidium gilvipes ; Bryaxis impressa, rarely, and the usual common species are always finds in such refuse ; my friend, W. H. Dollman, however, who was with me at the time, took a specimen of Hxmonia curtisi, an unexpected capture. Finally, a few moles' nests were disinterred, but although moles seem abundant all through this district, their nests are singularly difficult to discover. From one of these, however, fifteen Aleochara spadicea were extracted, and others yielded a few Quedius vexans, a single specimen of Oxypoda spectabilis, and the usual Heterothops. The above list contains few species that are at all rare, and I only put them on record for the possible use of some future compiler of the Entomological Fauna of Buckinghamshire.— W. E. Siiakp, South Norwood : April, 1908. Coleoptera taken on the wing in Surrey.— The sudden hot sunny weather prevailing on May 1st and 2nd, after an extremely cold Easter, brought out an immense number of beetles, and amongst those taken at random on the wing by my sons or myself on these two days, on the heaths about Woking, there were several species I had not seen in the district before. It is worth while therefore to enumerate the best of them: — Anisodactylus nemorivagus and binotatus, Amara famelica, Bembidium doris, Stenolophus vespertinus, Acupalpus brunnipes, con- sputus, meridianus, luridus, and dorsalis, Hydroporus memnonius, Cercyon lateralis and analis, Homalota debilicornis, Er. {= planifrons, Wat.) (one^), Calodera riparia and umbrosa, Tachinus laticollis, Megacronus analis, Stenus ater, Bledius fractieornis and femoralis (both very variable), Oxytelus clypeonitens, Sti/icus fragilis (one), Platystelhus cornutus (black var.), Philonthus marginatus, ventralis, 1908.] 135 and sanguinolentus, Pseudopsis sulcata, Eumicrus tarsatus, Onthophilus striatus, Eister neglectus and purpurascens, Cytilus varius, Nitidula rufipes, Uhisophagus perforates, Melanophthalma simUala, Sericosomus brunneus, Eeplaulacus testu- dinar ius, Oxyomus porcatus, Balaainus villosus, Phytobius A-tuberculatus, Xyle- borus dispar (one 9 ), Eylastes ater and opacus, &c. Aleoohara maculata, Oxytelus clypeonitens, Ditoma crenata, Litargus bifas- ciatits, and Xyleborus saxeseni were taken on the wing at Horsley on April 30th. Cardiophorus asellus was found running on the heath on May 2nd, and Calli- cents rigidicornis was taken at both Guildford and Woking on May 9th. The latter occurred here, as in 1907, in the runs of Formica rufa, with Quedius brevis and Myrmedonia humeralis — Gr. C. Champion, Horsell, Woking : May 9th, 1908. Coleoptera in flood-refuse at Oxford.— The unprecedented spring snowstorm of April 26th, and the heavy rain which followed it, caused our two Oxford rivers to rise to an unusual height, and a large extent of the low-lying land adjoining their banks was inundated. As soon as the weather permitted, my nephew, Mr. H. Gr. Champion, proceeded with me to investigate the floating debris brought down by the Cherwell ; at first we fished the stuff out of the water with a net, which also served to secure many of the larger beetles seen coining down with the current. Several interesting species were obtained by this method, but our greatest haul was made in a few bushels of the flood-rubbish intercepted by a little foot-bridge span- ning the Cherwell at Water Eaton. The crown of this bridge, which was only to he reached by wading knee-deep, formed a convenient little dry island for investiga- ting the stuff, the upper surface of which, while still afloat, was during the hot mornings of May 1st and 2nd literally a seething mass of beetles. The majority of these were Pcecilus cupreus and versicolor in endless variety of colour, with P. pici- manus and other common Carabidas almost equally numerous, while the three common species of Agriotes helped to make up the great bulk of the larger forms. Curiously enough, the genus Anchomenus was very poorly represented, and Oodes helopioides, a fairly common riverside species, was not seen by either of us. A rough list of the beetles actually observed in this one deposit amounts to no fewer than 340 species, and this omits a good many obscure Staphylinidaz, &c, which cannot be identified off-hand. A decidedly unpleasant feature of this mass of insect life was the abundance of the ant, Myrmica rubra, which was present in thousands, and was to be seen in the act of forming new communities in the drier parts of the rubbish ; these vicious little creatures swarmed all over us, and our wrists and ankles soon bore testimony to the efficiency of their stings. Of course the greater number by far of the beetles were of common and widely distributed forms, but among them were several species of decided rarity, and some welcome additions to my local list. No fewer than eleven out of the twelve species of Lathrohium now known to occur in the district were represented, viz., elongatum, boreale,fulvipe)ine, brunnipes, longulum, fovulum,jiliforme, quadrat um, terminatum, multipunctum, and pallidum ; of the last-named rare insect we each obtained a short series. Of other species, taken either on the spot or in " sittings " brought home and examined at leisure, the following maybe mentioned i—Chlaenius nigri- cornis, sparingly, and var. melanocornis, rare ; Harpalus parallelus (or wdiat appears 136 June, to be this form) ; H. latus, var. erythrocephdlm, frequent ; Pterostichus anthracinus , common, and Trechus micros, sparingly ; Selophorun dorsn/is, rare ; Ili/obafes propinquus, a few specimens of this rare species (my friend, Mr. J.Collins, also took /. nigricollis here) ; Homalo/a languida, one $ , and //. auynstula, sparingly ; Dei- nopsis erosa, Conosoma immaculaium, Lamprinus saginatux (3) and Staphylinus latebricola (1). Oeypus fuscatus ; this somewhat scarce species, of which there was previously only one old record from Oxford, turned up in considerable number*. Achenium depressum and humi/e, frequent ; Dianous ccerulescens, Stenus fuxcipes, eircularis, vafellus, &c. ; Platystethus alutaceus and nitens, one or two of each. Agathidium convexum and rotundatum, Catops sericatus, Kissister minima, sparingly ; Omosiphora limhata, rather common. Chrysomela fastuosa, Scajfhidema metallicum, Apion cruentatum, Tanymecus palliatus, Barynotus elevalus, scarce ; Alopkus triguttatus, common and fine; Hi/pera suspiciosa, Tychius squamulatus, Phytolius comari, Baris lepidii, &c. — -Jamks J. Walker, " Aorangi," Lonsdale Road, Summertown, Oxford : May Wth, 1908. A food-plant of Ceuthorrhynchius setosus, Boh. — This very distinct and some- w hat uncommon little weevil, which seems usually to occur by single specimens, has quite recently been found by me in fair numbers on an inconspicuous little Cruci- ferous plant, Sisymbrium (Arabii) thaliana, Hook., growing in sandy situations at Tubney, Berks. Dr. Power (cf. Ent. Ann., 1871, p. 47) once found C. setosus "abundantly on Iberis amara, L.," at Horsell ; but I have repeatedly searched in vain for the beetle on this plant at Streatley, where it is a conspicuous and beautiful feature of the Flora of the chalk hills. — Id. : May 20th, 1908. Aphodius constans, Dufts., in Middlesex, Herts , and Essex.- -W\b\\ reference to Commander Walker's note at p. Ill ante, on the abundance of this species near Oxford this spring, I may mention that it has also occurred to me this year in a locality in each of the three counties of Middlesex, Herts., and Essex. I first met with it on February 6th at Holyfield, near Nazing, West Essex, where it was not at all uncommon, in spite of the early date. A little later I unexpectedly found a few in a field here at Edmonton. On April 12th it turned up in large numbers on the marshes at Cheshunt, East Herts. I can confirm Commander Walker as to its partiality for half-dry cowdung. — F. B. Jennings, 152, Silver Street, Upper Edmon- ton, N. : May 1st, 1908. Capture of Notodonta phoebe, Sieb. (= tritophus, F.), in Bedfordshire. — On May 13th, 1907, whilst collecting round the electric lights at Bedford, I took a spe- cimen of Notodonta phoebe, Siebert (= tritophus, F ). From Mr. R. South's recent book on the Moths of the British Isles, there would appear to be only six other records of this moth or its larva having been taken in Britain. — W. S. Bkockle- HUHST, Bedford : May 8th, 1908. Bassus flavipes, Holmgr. — I captured four females of this very rare Ichneumon in the Walkham Valley, near Grenofen Bridge, attracted by the sap flowing from an old oak tree ; the tree apparently was suffering from an attack of a Cossus larva. Mr. Morley very kindly identified them, and tells me that many males and one 1908 ] 137 female hare also been taken near Stockholm by M.. A. Roman on the juice exuding from an old oak. The curiosity is in the form of the abdomen of the female ; its two basal segments and the base of the third are comparatively round, but the re- mainder are laterally pressed flat as if by accident with a heavy weight. It was captured on June 17th, 1889. — Gr. C. Bignell, The Ferns, Home Park Road, Saltash : April 16th, 1908. [In my Synopsis of the Pala?arctic Bassides (Trans. Ent. Soc., 1905, pp. 119-138), I was able to instance only four British specimens of Trichomaatix jlavipes, of which I had seen but one male. The female is described by Bridgman as a new species (Bassus tibialis) in Trans. Ent. Soc, 1883, p. 170, on the strength of three speci- mens ; two of which were bred by Mr. J. K. Fletcher from pupae of some Dipteron dug up at Worcester on May 22nd, 1872, the third was taken by Mr. F. Norgate, probably (Trans. Norfolk Soc, 1893, p. 629) in Norfolk. The genus was erected by Vollenhoven (Tijdschr. voor Ent., 1878, p. 161) for the reception of the present species, there also described as new under the name T. polita, " trouve dans les dunes de Scheveningue." It was, however, first described by Holmgren (Sv. Ak. Handl., 1855, p. 356) " Hab. in Smolandia ad Anneberg, rarius ;" and is also re- corded from Silesia and Denmark by Thomson (Opusc. Ent., xiv, 14741, " Utklackt ur en Scsova-puppa." Its habit of frequenting exuding sap has not before been re- corded, and is, so far as I am aware, unique among the Ichneumonidx. The abdomen in Mr. Bigneli's specimens varies considerably in length, and the segments appear to be unusually retractile in this species, which is much more closely allied to Phtho- rimus anomalus, Mori., than, in my previous ignorance of its female, I had suspected. — Claude MoRLEr]. Scarce Tenthredinidx. — In the last instalment of " Help-Notes " Mr. Morice mentions the occurrence of several rare British species, to these I would add two more. Pamphilius gyllenhali, Dhlb. — -Mr. E. A. Atmore took a 5 in June, 1903, near King's Lynn on flowers of Heracleum sphondylium, which has been sent to Mr. Morice and determined by him ; it is the second British specimen. Xyphydria camelus, L. — Taken by Mr. R. Brameld in the New Forest in 190fi, and now in the collection of Mr. A. E. Gribbs, of St. Albans. I believe one or more others were taken in that district about the same time. Mr. Morice writes (Ent. Mo. Mag., 1904, p. 38), " Most British specimens are from Scotland or the North of England ; it has never been sent to me by any correspondent..'' It is recorded from the New Forest (Entomologist, xxxiv, p. 54). - E. N. Bloomfield, Guestling : May 8th, 1908. Diptera in Dumbartonshire in 1907. — The year 1907 proved fairly productive of Diptera, though most of the other Orders were not much in evidence. Quite a large number of rare species were taken, and our local list is now in something like a satisfactory state. Among others, the following species were met with, most of them being additions to the West of Scotland list -.—Rhamphomyia xthiops, Ztt. ; Empis lutea, Mg. ; Pachymeria femoratus, F., P. palparis, Egg. ; Ragas unica, Wlk., common on trunks of trees ; Trichina Jlavipes, Mg. ; Euthyneura myricx, Wlk., one specimen ; Drapetis nervosa, Lw., one specimen at Cardross ; Cherso- dromia arenaria, Hal., \cvy common at Cardross among stones and seaweed on the shore ; Tachydromia pubicornis, Ztt., T. varia, Wlk., T. calceata, Mg., common, T. M 138 [June- Jlnvipes, F., T.flavieomis, Mg. ; Hypophyllus discipes, Alir.. several of both sexes taken in a hothouse at Strathlcven ; Diaphorus oculatus, Fin. ; Porphyrop* spinico.ra, Lw., P. consobrina, Ztt. a pair at Cardross ; Syntormon tarsatus, Fin. ; Teuchophorus monacanthus, Lw., common ; Micromorpkus albipes, Ztt., common ; Callimyia speciosa, Mg., C. awcsna, Mg. ; Al/ceostylns sv.de ticus, Schnbl., common ; lloma- lomyia fuseula, Fin., H. difficilis, Stein., two males ; Lispocephala alma, Mg. ; Amaurosoma inerme, Beck (1), common, A. ar mil lata, Zett. (2), not uncommon ; LeptopafiUfonnis, Zett., one £ ; Orygma luctuosum, Mg., one $ , Cardross ; Neottio- philum pneustum, Mg., a dozen specimens bred from pupae found in an old green- finch's nest in December, one Ichneumon emerged also ; Sciomyza scutellaris, v. Ros (= pallidicarpa, Knd., of the List), S. civerella, Fin., Cardross j Sapromyza quadri- viftala, Lw. (3), several specimens beaten out of furze bushes at Bonliill and Murroch Cflen, 5. anisodactyla, Lw., very common in a few parts of Bonhill dis- trict, S. affinis, not uncommon ; Sepsis jiilipes, v. d. Wulp. ; Anthomyza vnguiceUa, Zlt. (4), not uncommon on the shore at Cardross ; Diastata inornata, Lw. (5), very common ; Trimerina madizatts, Fin. ; Psilopa leucostoma, Mg., Cardross ; Phil- hygria picta, Fin , P. stictica, Mg., /'. posticata, Mg., P. interstincta, Fin. ; Pelina senescens, Stnh. ; Agromyza scutellata, Fin., A. capitata, Ztt., common ; Leucopis ohscura, Hal., and Sphairocera mo nil is, Hal., common on carrion on the hill side above Bonhill. Several of the foregoing species are not yet in the British list. Unless where otherwise stated, all the species were taken at Bonhill. Mr. Collin has examined or identified several of the species in this list, and to him my thanks are due for much assistance in some of the groups. — F. K. Malloch, Bonhill, Dumbartonshire : May, 1908. Notes on the species new to the British List, included among the above : — (1). Amaurosoma inerme, Becker. — In this species the clump of short bristles in front of the front femora characteristic of several species of the genus are absent, and all the femora are dark, with only the extreme base and tip pale. Col. Yerbury has taken this species at Aviemore (Sutherland) in May, 1901. (2). Amaurosoma armillata, Ztt., is allied to A. tibiella, but the femora are broadly yellowish at the tip, and the front femur lias only 4 — G bristles beneath instead of the clump present in tibiella. I have seen specimens from only Mr. Malloch. (3). Sapromyza quadrivittata, Lw. — A very distinct dull whitish-grey species, with four brown stripes on the thorax, and two on the frons. The arista is only pubescent, the palpi black, and the third antennal joint brownish. Dr. D. Sharp has taken specimens in the New Forest in June, 1903, and July, 1904. (4). Anthomyza unguicella, Ztt. — This is a species with entirely yellow pleura and somewhat darkened disc to the thorax (apparently less darkened in the female than in the male). Dr. J. II. Wood and Colonel Yerbury found it in some numbers in Herefordshire in 1902. (5). Diastata inornata, Lw., is closely allied to D. costata, Mg., but neither the outer cross vein nor the costal margin of the wing (except at the base) are infuscated, and it appears to be a much commoner insect. I have taken it in numbers at Stokenchurch (Bucks), and near Woodbridge (Suffolk), while it has been found by Dr. J. H. Wood and Colonel Yerbury in Herefordshire. J. E. Collin, Newmarket. 1908.] 139 Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society: Meeting, held at the Royal Institution, Colquitt Struct, Liverpool, Monday, March 16th, 11)08. Mr. R. Newstkad, A.L.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. The evening was devoted to an exhibition of Boannia repandata and its varieties. Long series of the moth from various localities, chiefly from the North of England and from Wales, were shown by Mr. Robert Tait, Junr., Mr. C. F. Johnson, and Mr. William Mansbridge. The rich dark mottled forms from Dela- mere Forest ; the greyish-white blotched race with the locally rare melanic aberration, also with white blotches, from Penmaenmawr ; melanic varieties from Mansfield and Huddersfield, as well as absolutely black aberrations from Knowsley, Lancashire ; the common London forms from Epping Forest and Wimbledon ; var. conversaria from North Cornwall and New Forest ; besides series of pale-coloured moths from various localities, were all represented in the above exhibits. A dis- cussion ensued in which the Members gave their experiences with B. repandata. Mr. Tait staled that in breeding from extreme forms about 7ii per cent, followed the parents, but pointed out that he had found it difficult to get black varieties to pair. He also remarked how closely the predominating pale form from North Wales resembled the bare rocks upon which it rested in the day time. Mr. Johnson, in his series from Maer Wood and Burnt Wood, Staffs., remarked on the great difference shown by the species in these two localities, only four miles apart. Those from the former locality being chiefly very dark greyish-black, while the latter place gave a lighter and much browner form. Mr. Charles Capper, London, sent a series of repandata from Wimbledon, and a series of H. leucophsearia from Richmond Park for exhibition. Mr. Newstead brought four drawers showing the life-history of the Tsetse Flies (Glossina), being the unique series of these flies from the Museum of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. This very interesting exhibit attracted a large amount of attention, and in answer to ques- tions Mr. Newstead alluded to the chief points in the economy of these flies. — H. R. Sweeting and Wm. Mansbridge, Hon. Secretaries The South London Entomological and Natural History Society : Thursday, March 26th, 1908.— Mr. Alfred Sich, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. Mr. Browne exhibited a large storebox of British Lepidoptera, which he was presenting to the Society. Mr. Tonge, some Lepidoptera recently received from Australia, including Pyrameis kershawii, and also a living specimen of Xylocampa areola (lithoriza) taken that day. Mr. R. Adkin, a series of Scoparia trunci- colella taken at Oxshott on pine trunks. Dr. Chapman, a living nearly full-fed larva of Aricia agestis (astrarche), which had fed up indoors. Dr. Hodgson, sketches of the resting attitude of Adopseajlava (thaumas) and read notes. Mr. Turner, some two dozen species of Butterflies characteristic of Sierra Leone and West Africa, including several species of Euphsedra, Aterica, and Acrwa, Hypolimnas egesta, Amauris niavius, Mylothris rhodope, Lachnoptera iole, Salamis anacardii, Precis octavia, Catuna ccenobita, Vanessa harmonica, &c. He and Mr. Sich also read notes M _' 140 LJune, on the section of tlie genus Tinea containing T. fvlvimitrella, T. arceJIa, T. corticella, T. parasitella, T. picaella, T. granella, T. cloacella, T. albipunctella, T. capri- mulgella, T. nigripunctella, and T. confusella. Thursday, April 9th, 1908.— The President in the Chair. Mr. Kayo exhibited an Agaristid moth, Scirocastnia prasfecta from Peru, which by its antennae and general superficial characters closely resembled an Erycinid. Mr. B. Adkin, a drawer of the various forms of Angerona prunaria and another of Boarmia repandata. A discussion arose as to labelling insects geographically. It was suggested that a label of locality might be placed at the side below each set of a species from one locality. This would be impossible in a collection where the idea was merely to group the varieties. Mr. South exhibited several species of Cucullia with a view to gain some definite idea as to what the insect known as C. scrophu- larise really was. Considerable discussion took place, but no definite result was arrived at. Mr. Sich, a number of " house-moths," some eleven species, including Endrosis fenestrella, Borkhausenia pseudospretella, Tinea pellionella, T. palle- scentella, T. fuscipunctella, Tineola bi&ellieUa, &c., and read a short paper on his exhibit. A discussion took place as to the ravages of these pests. — Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Secretary. Entomological Society or London : Wednesday, May 6th, 1908. Mr. C. O. Waterhouse, President, in the Chair. Mr. Thomas Godfrey Andros, of Wilton House, 31, St. Saviour's Road, Jersey ; Mr. Chourappa Chetti, Assistant Curator of the Goverment Museum at Bangalore, India ; Mr. Frederick Charles Fraser, I.M.S., M.D., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., of Trichinopoly, India; Mr. Walter M. Giffard, of Keeaunoki Street, Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands ; and Mr. Alfred Vander Hedges, of 42, Kensington Park Gardens, W. ; were elected Fellows of the Society. Mr. A. H. Jones exhibited an example of the melanic ab. nigra of Tephrosia consonaria bred from a wild ? taken near Maidstone, by Mr. W. Goodwin, and a living larva of Sesia andreniformis feeding in the stum of J'iburnum lantana. Mr. R. Shelford, a number of specimens of insects in amber of great geological age, showing several forms closely allied to those of existing insects ; one Orthopteron being very near to ICctobia lapponica. The President, a living example of Blatta found in bananas from Mexico. Mr. Shelford said lie thought the species to be Panchlora nivea, Linn. Mr. H. M. Edelsten, a living larva of Nudaria \senex, and living larva and pupa of Calligenia miniata. He drew attention to the clubbed bristles on the former as being incurved. Mr. O. E. Janson, a white aberration of Epinephele jurtina, taken in Holme Park, Sussex, in June, 1904. Professor E. B. Poulton read a letter from Mr. S. A. Neave giving an account of the bulbul feeding its young with various " unpalatable " species. He also exhibited a collection of Asilids and their prey from the Tring Museum, and a series of Neptis from Madagascar to illustrate the specialization of this butterfly in its island forms. A discussion on the characteristic coloration of insular forms in this and other Lepidoptera followed, in which Dr. T. A. Chapman, Mr. G. A. K. Marshall, the Rev. G. Wheeler, Col. N. Manders, and other Fellows participated. Lieut.-Col. N. 1908.] 141 Mandera exhibited a collection of butterflies from Bourbon demonstrating examples of mimicry, and the effects of the interaction of species. He concluded by describ- ing the physical characteristics of the island, and said that the area favourable for the existence of Euplcea's was extremely small, and as the larvae of goudoti and euphon fed on the same plants there was in all probability a struggle for existence set up in which the invader proved the stronger and eventually exterminated its rival. In the discussion which followed Professor Poulton remarked that in the neighbouring island of Rodriguez there was a species of Euplcea (desjardinsi) greatly resembling euphon, and no doubt a geographical race of that species, and this would also suggest that euphon formerly existed in Bourbon. Mr. W. J. Lucas, a glow-worm found at Oxshott on May 4th, inside the shell of the snail Helix caidiana. There was no doubt that the larva was feeding on the snail, for on breaking away parts of the shell he found the moist remains of it near the apex. Mr. Lucas also brought for exhibition the $ , ? , and nymph of the dragonfly Oxygastra curtisii, first described by the late J. C. Dale, and at that time supposed to be confined to the British Islands. Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe, an example of the beetle Xantholinus distans, Kr., taken at Helton, near Dumfries, on May 1st, a species new to the British list.* Mr. W. J. Lucas read a paper on " The British Dragonflies of the ' Dale Collection.' " Dr. T. A. Chapman, on " The Distinction of Several Species of Everes, determined by their Genitalia," and exhibited photographs to illustrate his remarks. He announced that as the result of his investigations Everes argiades^ Pall., and the so-called var. coretas were separate, though very nearly allied species. — H. Rowland-Bkown, Hon. Secretary. ON THE PROCTOTRYPID GENUS AKTAiON, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES AND A TABLE OF THOSE OCCURRING IN BRITAIN. BY THE LATE ARTHUR J. CHITTY, M.A., F.E.S., kc. [It will be with considerable satisfaction that English entomo- logists learn that the very fine collections of all Orders of British insects amassed by Mr. Chitty have been presented by Mrs. Chitty to the Hope Department of the Oxford University Museum, with the proviso that a selection of the more conspicuous insects, suitable for the younger studeuts, be presented at Prof. Poulton's discretion to Eton : in remembrance of Mr. Chitty's own younger days, and in anticipation of his son's advent on the stereotyped line of education. While t'oing through these collections and arranging for their transmission, I found that which I had hoped to discover — the following very valuable article, upon which I was aware that Mr. Chitty was engaged when he wrote me, for the last time, that he feared he " was in for a bad time," on November 2Gth last. This * X. distans has been recorded by me from Braemar, r.f. Ent. Mo. Mag., x, p, 158 (December, 1878).— G. C. C. 142 £June> is here set forth exactly as I found it, though here and there the ealigraphy was not of the easiest to decipher, being obviously jotted down with one eye still to the microscope. So little has ever been done in Britain upon the Proctotrypidce that it is well, I think, to add a few details of capture, &c, respecting the other species of this genus in Mr. Chitty's collection, which had recently been determined by himself, with the aid of the various papers on the subject by Kieffer, Thomson, Ashmead, and Walker. Nothing could be more regrettable than the loss rendered to British entomological science by his death, except that created amongst; his circle of friends. — Claude Morley, Monk's Soham House, Suffolk : February 25th, 1908.] Antjcon babbatus, sp. n. $ . This species at once works down to No. 7 of Kieffer's table, and has the wings hyaline. The question whether it has a raised or sunk line on the head before the antennae was, however, not easy of solution, and I think it very easy to make a mistake in this particular. The internal branch of the pincers is very indistinct ; it has no plate unless two of the hairs at the end, which are a little thicker, should be so termed. It has a few hairs along its length. It is soldeied throughout its length to the tarsal fifth joint. The metatarsus is as long as the next three joints, the fourth being short. The head, which is rather wide with the base not strongly curved or margined, is strongly coriaceous, somewhat dull and with short hairs. There are indistinct, rather irregular ridges along the inner margins of the eyes. Mandibles testaceous. Mesothorax shining, but finely aluta- ceous, with long whitish hairs. Metathorax with a cross ridge before the declivity, and another at it ; base reticulate, declivity very finely rugose. Stigma except at base, and radius, brown ; the other veins pale. Legs testaceous ; base of hind coxae, hind femora except at extreme base and apex, the thickness of the front and middle femora below, dark brown ; hind and middle tibiae, with fifth joint of their tarsi, darkened. S . Follow Kieffer's table of (J (J to No. 7, distinguish from A.flavinerois, as described, by the scape being decidedly longer than the third joint, the mesonotum being punctured in front, the stigma and radius being brown, the other nervures brownish-yellow, the antennas black ; the legs testaceous, with all the coxae in part, the thickened part of the front four femora below, and the hind femora except their base, blackish-brown ; the four hind tibiae darker, especially behind ; apex of inter- mediate tarsi and the hind tarsi also darker ; tegulse brown. The type of this species was beaten from birch in the Bentley Woods, near Ipswich, on May 25tb, 1902, by Mr. Claude Morley, who has taken a second specimen by sweeping low herbage at Wimbledon on June 21st, 1897 ; he noticed that this specimen had the power of feigning death, curled, like a Chrysid, in a complete ball. The Rev. T. A. Marshall considered it to be Antceon brcvicornis, loos.] 143 Dalm. I took one specimen at Huntingfield, near Faversham, on .May 21st, 1904; and on May 27th, 190(5. \ beat it commonly from birch at Cannock Chase. Antjeon kiefferi, SJ). u. $ . Firtt pari of the radius distinctly longer than the second. Head with a single frontal ridge, starting from the front ocellus and not reaching the space between the antennae. Head entirely rough, with large punctures on the vertex, shagreened about the ocelli, where the large punctures are almost entirely wanting. Head rounded and narrowed behind the eyes ; occiput straight and bordered. Prothorax longer than mesothorax and arcuate behind, largely punctured in front, with short radiating striae, narrowed in front and subquadrate behind. Mesothorax and scutellum shining, with a few punctures [mesonotuin very finely alutaceous ? — C. M.]. Metathorax with three areae, but the outside longitudinal boundaries are indistinct, entirely rugulose, level at base and then sharply declivous (30"). Internal branch of the chelae with plates or hair, except near the bend, which is only moderately strong ; apex with plates as long as the thickness of the branch ; middle of branch, with what are apparently short plates, in proportion (nearly) of 3.1.1.4.2 ; inner branch free from fourth, and reaches back to the second, joint ; empodium two-thirds of fifth joint, and dark at swollen apex. Antennae moderate, dark brown except basal three-fourths of scape, which is reddish-yellow ; scape long and curved ; second joint much thinner, more than twice as long as thick, and not half the length of the first, which with pedicellus is about equal to second and third ; fourth and fifth a little shortening, fifth slightly thicker, sixth shorter and thicker, seven and eight and nine shorter and equal in length and of same thickness as sixth, tenth one-third as long again as ninth ; second joint and apex of first piceous* third to tenth black. Face hairy in front, clypeus black, mandibles and palpi reddish-yellow. Wings yellowish and a little darkened near the stigma ; basal nervures pale, stigma brown except at extreme apex, radial nervure concolorous ; first section straight and nearly three times as long as the second. Legs yellow ; hind femora brown, darker at apex ; hind tibiae a little darker, especially at apex, than the rest ; coxae black at base. This species is described from a single $ taken by Mr. Claude Morley on the water of a horse-trough on the outskirts of Ipswich, on May 13th, 1S95 ; it was named Chelogynus frontalis, Dalm., by Rev. T. A. Marshall. Ant^on rufulocollis, sp. n. [I can find no detailed description of this species among Mr. Chitty's MSS., but doubtless the characters assigned to it in the following table will be sufficient to indicate its distinction from the allied species. In Mr. Chitty's collection is a single ? , which he captured at Tubney, near Oxford, on July 1st, 190(3.— C. M.] Ant-EON ellimani, sp. n. J . Go to No. 15 of Kieffer's table, then : Antennae with base of scape and last 144 [June- 1908- four joints reddish-yellow ; other joints black above, reddish-yellow below. Head wider than thorax, large, rather shining, punctured, more closely about the eyes. Thorax shining, finely punctured ; notauli marked in front ; mctathorax arched from base, rugose, with a distinct area. Wings hyaline; stigma, radius and sub- costa brown, costa lighter, other nervures pale. Coxae dark, rest, of legs pale yellowish, except apices of all the tarsi, lower part of the thickness of the front and inter- mediate femora ; hind femora, except knees, and the hind tarsi, a little darker than the others. I took the type of this species while collecting with Mr. E. Geo. Ellirnan, of The Broadway, Chesham, Bucks , in honour of whom and his very excellent work among the Micro-Coleoptera I have named it. It was captured on June 17th, 1906 ; Mr. Claude Morley took a second specimen in Marvell Copse, near Newport, in the Isle of Wight, on June 25th, 1907. Antjeon breviventralis, sp. n. J . Go to No. 18 of Kieffer's table. Metalhoras gradually sloping. Head shining, distinctly punctured, large. Abdomen only a little longer than the ineta- thorax. Scape a little shorter than joints two and three ; antennae reaching beyond end of petiole. Apex of mandibles with four teeth. Mesonotum shining, less strongly punctured than the head ; notauli distinct in the front half. Wings not quite clear hyaline ; stigma, costa, subcosta and radius brown, other nervures pale and little visible. Legs black or dark brown, with apices of front femora whitish ; front tibioe and tarsi light testaceous; intermediate knees and base of ti bios, and tarsi testaceous ; base of hind femora pale testaceous. The only specimen I have seen of this species was captured by me at Walmer on June 24-th , 1904. Ant-Sion sttffolciensis, sp. n. $ . Go to No. 25 of Kieffer's table, but hind tibia? dark ; then include : Head dull and shagreened (or very finely punctured), traces of notauli, antennae as there described under A. neglectus, Kieff., but third joint a little shorter proportionately to the others and about twice as long as thick. Mesonotum shining, punctured ; metathorax and wings as in A. dorsalis, but stigma and tegulae reddy-brown and radius almost pale. Coxee and trochanters black ; front legs dark testaceous, femora darker except at apices ; middle legs as the front ones, but darker through- out ; hind legs almost black. This description is drawn from two specimens in Mr. Morley 's collection, which were in all probability captured in Suffolk. [Unfor- tunately the two examples here referred to were taken by Mr. Albert Piffard at Pelden, near Boxmoor, in Herts. — C M.] Anmon morleyi, sp. 11. $. Follow Kieffer to No. 32. Head distinctly punctured, more closely in front, shining. 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July, 1908.] 145 punctured in front, but very sparingly behind ; notauli very distinct in front, but not entire ; metanotum sloping from base in a decided curve and somewhat abruptly behind, rugose with an area a little more finely rugose. Antenna; a little tapering, long, black throughout ; third joint longer than scape, not as long as the first and second together ; the second nearly twice as long as third, which is about three times, and the fourth about four times, as long as thick ; all the remaining joints about three times as long as thick. Coxae dark, with the trochanters, or at least the posterior, testaceous ; front legs testaceous except the centre of femora and last joint of tarsi, which are darker ; intermediate legs testaceous, except lower part of thickness of femora and last joint of tarsi ; hind legs testaceous, with base of femora, knees, apex of posterior tibia; and tarsi darker. Wings hyaline ; stigma and radius brown, other veins testaceous ; tegulse pale. This species is named in honour of Mr. Claude Morley, E.E.S., &c, the learned author of " Ichneuuionologia Britannica," who has done so much towards the elucidation of our indigenous parasitic Hymenoptera, and who captured the only specimen I have seen of the present species by sweeping flowers of meadow-sweet at Foxhall, in Suffolk, on August 10th, 1902. Ant^eon beaumonti, sp. n. cj • Gro to No. 36 of Kieffer's table. Wings slightly brownish. Antennae verj long, longer than whole body. Head transverse, not so square as usual, con- tracted behind the eyes, very shining, with few punctures. Legs testaceous ; base of coxae, of femora except extreme base of the anterior, hind knees, apex of hind tibiae and tarsi, brown. A single J was taken at Chobham on July 28th, 1894, by the late Mr. Alfred Beaumont, E.E.S., whose extensive collection has been of great assistance to me, and in whose honour this insect is named. In his collection it stood under the name Dryinus penidas, Walk. (Ent. Mag., iv, 1837, p. 423, $ =I>. scapularis, Walk., lib. cit. p. 419, $ ), which is recorded from the Loudon district in June or July, and as found by Haliday near Holywood, in Ireland. It may be the same insect ; but Walker's description is certainly insufficient. Ant^on luffnessensis, sp. n. cj • First section of the radius a little shorter than the second ; the second prolonged by an almost transparent vein to the wing margin ; the radius as a whole running in a curved line, with only a slight break between the two sectors. Meta- thorax gradually sloping without an ai*ea, rugulose, but not really dull. Head and thorax shining and brilliant, with scattered punctures. Antennas long ; scape decidedly shorter than the third joint, not quite twice as long as the second, which is more than twice as long as wide ; the third quite four times as long as wide, and the fourth even longer ; the ninth about as long aa the third, and the tenth as the fourth. Mesonotum and metanotum as in A. hyalinlpennis, but the latter is not dull ; mesopleurae shining, punctured in front around what I take to be the trachea. N 146 July> Cubitus and cliscoklal nervure present, but less marked than the other nervures Anterior legs testaceous or reddish-yellow, except basal half of coxae, which are black ; hinder legs darker, femora with traces of darker lines, especially at base and apex ; coxsB as those of front legs. Wings not quite hyaline ; nervures much the colour of the front legs, and st igma of the hind ones. Very close to A. hyali-nipennis, Kieff., and to A. fvuscipennis, Kieff., but apparently distinct. This species is described from a single specimen taken by Mr. W. Evans at Luffness Links, Scotland, on July 19th, 1898. [It may well be that Mr. Chitty intended the name of this species to be " luffnasensis " ; I have only MS. to take it from, and am strongly of opinion that he altered his mind as regards the more correct rendering of the Latinised locality ; if the above be the less classic form, the fault is my own. — C. M.] A.TSTMOTS OBSCUEICORNIS, Kieff., <$ . Only the ? of this species is described. For the $ follow Kieffer's table to No. 25. Head shining, sparingly punctured. Parapsidal furrows indicated. First part of radius three times as long as the second. Legs black or blackish- brown ; trochanters in part, knees (hind knees very narrowly), base of front femora, front tibia? and base of the four front tarsi, dirty brownish-yellow. I beat two $ $ of this species, together with six ? ? and my A. barbatus, described above, from birch at Cannock Chase on May 27th, 1906. (To be continued). EYDROPORI IOUND NEAR WEST AYTON, YORKSHIRE. BY THE EEV. "W. C. HEY, M.A. When I came to reside at West Ay ton seventeen years ago, my searches for Hydropori were singularly unsuccessful, and I was much disposed to write down the region as barren. I am now as much inclined to consider it richer in Hydropori than perhaps any district in Great Britain. West Ayton lies about five miles south of Scarborough, just at the south end of Forge Valley, a picturesque, post-glacial canon of the river Derwent. Within a short distance of my house are low-lying pools, upland moors, with quite a sub-alpine character, large streams, and trickling rills. It is, therefore, not remarkable that after careful research a very large number of species of Hydro- pori have rewarded my labours, as the appended list shows. I include Coelambus and Deronectes. 1908.] 147 Ccelambus versicolor, Schall. — Abundant in large disused brick ponds at Snain- (ou, but not found elsewhere. C. insequalis, F. — Common and general about Ayton. C. impresso-punctatus, Schall.— Ponds at Ayton and Snainfcon, very scarce. Deronectes /a/us, Steph. — Under stones in a mountain stream near Langdale. D. assimilis, Payk. — In the brick ponds at Snainton only. D. depressus, F. — Very common in the river Derwent at Ayton. D. duodeeim-puslulatus, Fab.— Also in the river Derwent at Ayton, but scarce. Hydroporus pictus, F. — Snainton, &c. A common species. H. granulans, L.— This minute species occurs in some very old brick ponds near the village of Seamer. H. rival is, Gryll. — In rapid reaches of the Derwent in Forge Valley. H. septentn'onalis, Gryll —In company with rivalis, though hardly so plentiful. H. Ihieatus, F. — Common in the district. H. tristis, Payk— This is abundant iu pools on the high moors. H. umbrosus, Gryll. — Frequent at Ayton and Seamer. H. angustatus, Sturm. — Frequent. 11. gyllenhali, Schiodte.— Very plentiful iu pools on Seamer Moor. H. morio, Dej. — In great quantities in the trench round a barrow on Hutton Eusel Moor, and in many pools on the high moors. S. vittula, Er. — In the Seamer brick ponds, in small numbers. H. palustris, L. — Very common. H. erythroeephalus, L. — common. H. rufifrons, Dufts. — Seamer brick ponds, only two examples. R. longulus, Muls. -This occurs in tiny rills trickling through Sphagnum on the slopes of the high moors near Langdale. H. melanarius, Sturm. — Not so rare as supposed. I have taken it in several mossy pools on the high moors. R. memnonim, Nic. — In many ponds, but not in plenty. R. nigrita, Fab.— Common. H. discretus, Fairm. — A few individuals in small pools. S. pubescens, G-yll. — Common. H. planus, F. — Very common. II. /ituratus, F. — Seamer, very scarce. II. ob/ongus, Steph. — Seamer brick ponds ; very uncertain in appearance. Some years I have not been able to take it, while in others I have met with a score or more. My list contains 30 species ; two more have been met with in the district by other collectors, viz., ferrugineus, Steph., and obsoletus, Aube. Ponds and watercourses are disappearing so rapidly before the devastating hand of improvement, that it is especially desirable that records for aquatic insects should be preserved. West Ayton, Yorkshire : June, 1908. 148 rJuly> PRYLLOTRETA DIADEMATA, Foudr. : AN ADDITION TO THE BRITISH LIST OF COLEOPTERA. BY E. A. NEWBERY. The small group of the genus Pl/i/Uotreta with entirely hlack elytra and pale basal joints to the antennae is a difficult one to diffe- rentiate, and it is with some hesitation that I venture to bring forward the above insect as British. Capt. Sainte Claire Deville, however, assures me that the speci- mens I sent him for corroboration are undoubtedly the P. diademata of Foudras, which should therefore find a place in our list. He suggests that P. crassicornis, All., is also very likely to occur in Britain ; it is, on this account, included in the following table : — A. Antennae (relatively short) with 1st joint, entirely red ; 5th joint notably longer than 4th. On Iberis amara. L., 1 5 mm [P. crassicornis, All.]. AA. Antennae with 1st joint black or spotted with black above, or at the base ; 4th and 5th joints not disproportionate, a. Head punctured solely on a transverse zone going from eye to eye ; punctures of elytra strong, close, and confused. L., T8 mm.... P. diademata, Foudr. aa. Head more or less entirely punctured. b. Punctuation of elytra coarser and more regular, almost in lines, es- pecially near base j average size larger. L., T8 — 2 mm.... P. atra, F. bb. Punctuation of elytra finer, close and confused ; average size smaller. L., 1*5 — 1*8 mm. ... P. serea, All. (= punctulata, Brit. Colls.). The construction of a satisfactory table is not an easy matter, owing to the contradictory statements of authors. The above, in the main, is taken from that of Bedel (Faune Seine, v, pp. 184-5) ; but the characters derived from the punctuation of the head made use of by Foudras, Allard and others, do not appear to be sufficiently con- stant to be relied on. P. atra and cerea are easily separated by the table ; P. diademata is about the size of P. atra, with the close and confused elytral punctuation of P. area, which, however, is much coarser than that of the latter species. The only specimens of P. diademata that I have seen were taken by my friend Mr. P. de la Garde in several localities in South Devon. Capt. Deville tells me that it is not rare in France (except in the south) on Cardamine pratensis in humid woods, &c, from April to June ; he believes that it also occurs on some of the species of Nasturtium . 12, Churchill Road, Dartmouth Park, N.W. : June 15th, 1908. 1908.] l'1-O BUTTERFLIES AND NEUEOPTERd IN PERTHSHIRE. BY KENNETH J. MORTON, F.E.S. When at Blair Athole in July of last year the little collecting that I did outside the Neuroptera was devoted to the butterflies of the district. It may be interesting to give some notes that I have made regarding them in view of the unusual nature of the season. My attention was first directed t > the butterflies by their great scarcity in the early part of the month, the cold sunless weather which had prevailed for a long time before having continued right on to about the middle of July. Then there came a spell of splendid sunshine with the almost incredible result that there were as many, if not more, butterflies in evidence than I have ever seen before in Scotland within the same limits of time and space. In the few bright intervals during the dull grey days of the early part of the mouth, the only butterflies seen were odd specimens of Pieris napi, a few desolate looking Ccenonympha pamphilus, and one or two Aglais urticae (doubtless hibernated examples). My favourite hunting ground was the banks of the burn which issues from Loch Moraig, and here on July 7th, at an elevation of 7-800 feet, was taken the first specimen which suggested better things, a <$ of Gupido minima, in good condition. On the same day I saw a fresh fritillary, almost certainly Brenthis selene. But these appearances were not followed by any marked improvement, and it was just a week later, on the 14th, a really fine warm day, that I took the first Aricia astrarche var. artaxerxes, but only one. Next day was again fine, and wishing to lake some of this species which a year or two before I had seen on Tummelside, past its best at the beginning of July, I cycled over there and found none ! It was clear that my capture of the day before was quite the first emergence. On the way back to Blair Athole, through Glen Errichtie, Polyommatus icarus was seen for the first time. On the 16th, by the side of the burn, A. astrarche, var. artaxerxes, was out in earnest, and during the next week it became abundant on the higher slopes rising from the burn side— these slopes golden with a wealth of Relianthemum, acres seeming on a cursory glance to grow nothing else. By the burn side P. icarus was most abundant and in the finest condition. On the 17th and 18th I was in Rannoch ; two days of absolutely cloudless sky ; but things were late. Brenthis euphrosyne was found in quite fair condition in the Black Wooa, where B. selene was abundant. 150 [Joiy. On the 21st the first Argynnis aglaia, a newly emerged $ , was taken by the burn side. Next day Epinephile ianira was first seen, a fine large specimen as the Scotch usually are, and A. var. artaxerxes was still abundant. The last occurred even along the banks of the River Garry, thus ranging from 400 to 1000 feet. By the burn side Ccenonympha davits had been taken in fine condition during the pre- vious few days. On the 24th I cycled some 10 miles up Glengarry to within about 5 miles of Dalnaspidal, taking A. var. artaxerxes by the way. Leaving the main road at an altitude of about 1000 feet, I crossed over to Glen Errichtie. At about 1147 feet Erebia epiphron was taken flying over the grassy patches at the road sides, and it was visible here and there up to the summit of the road, 1452 feet, but it did not appear to go over to the descent on the south side. Most of the specimens were out of condition, but it was certainly interesting to find this little alpine species in such a place. All over the moor through which this road passes C. davus was common and mostly in fine order. B. selene was noticed here goin? over 1000 feet. On July 25th T found what was apparently the chief locality of Cupido minima, a bank near the burn, a little lower down than I was wont to strike it on my frequent visits. One or two of the females were still passable as to condition. Near the same place worn Rumicia phlceas were flying ; large light coloured specimens, which must have been very beautiful when fresh. I had seen this species earlier in Glen Tilt, but had failed to take any. The Elair Athole district proved almost useless for Odonafa, and I am not sure that I observed in the neighbourhood any species beyond Cordulegaster annulatus, Libellula quadrimaculata, and Enal- lagma cyathigerum. At Bannoch some of these insects seemed to be just coming out, and they also seemed to be either less responsive to the fine weather than the butterflies, or there was something wrong with the atmospheric conditions, although apparently so perfect. Bearing on this point, in the Black Wood biting flies are usually a great pest, but during the two days spent there they gave no trouble whatever. Of Somatochlora, arctica a few specimens were seen; they kept as a rule high up amongst the tree tops, and were much less active than usual. I was unable to take any, and I also failed to capture the only JEschna ccerulea seen, a beautiful $ met with not far from the road along the side of the Loch about a mile from Kinloch Eannoch. The usual common species, such as JEschna juncea, Cordulegaster annulatus, Libellula quadrimaculata , and Pyrrho- soma nymphula, were; in much less numbers than usual. 1908.] 151 Of Trichoptera a fair number were taken, the most interesting being a ? of Limnophilus el eg am at Loch Moraig (no longer a rarity since Dr. Cassal has collected the species with so much success on the Isle of Man) ; and Tinodes dives, a species that has been recorded from but few English localities. This latter species was found in some abundance at a streamlet which rushed down the sloping fields below the house where we lived. It was apparently confined to a very short stretch where the stream deviated from its straight down- hill course, and took a more slanting direction before it entered the almost level ground approaching the River Garry. 13, Blackford Koad, Edinburgh : June, 1908. NOTES ON CERTAIN MYCETOPHILIDM, INCLUDING- SEVERAL SPECIES NEW TO THE BRITISH LIST. BY F. JENKINSON, M.A. (Concluded from page 133). Brachypeza radiata, n. sp. {continued).— This year the species has appeared earlier than in previous years. I took a ? on May 30th, and another, on a window, on May 31st. Anatella ciliata, Winn.— Seems to be scarce. I have taken three specimens, Logie, September 15th, 1905, and Crowborough, April 2nd, 1906, and January 1st, 1907. ^. ? Sp, — The commonest species of the genus is not in the List; it agrees generally with A. flavicauda, Winn., having the two spurs of the middle tibia? almost equal in length. Azana anomala, Walk.— Three specimens, May 13th and 21st, 1901, and May 24th, 1905 ; all on the north windows of my friend Mr. Horace Darwin's house on the outskirts of Cambridge. * Parastemma brevicomis, Zett. — I do not know this insect ; but Walker prints (Ins. Brit., iii, 31) Haliday's description of Leia helvola, and in the errata (p. 342) he substitutes, presumably on Haliday's authority, brevicomis, Zett. (with which he also identifies his Cordyla valida). Walker says: "Very rare; has been found at. Holywood, near Belfast. In Mr. Haliday's collection." It is probably too much to hope that Haliday's specimens are still in existence. The genus Parastemma is due to Grzegorzek (Berl. Ent. 152 CJuly, Zeit., xxix, 199 [1SS5]). "Vena costali transcendente cacumen venae cubitalis, vena auxiliari brevissima in subcostalem desinente. Ocelli in fronte borizontaliter siti." *Acncmia longipes, Winn. —One at Crowborougb, October 3rd, 1903. Allocotocera -pulchella, Curt. — Several at Crowborougb, July 19th and 20th, 1905, and again August 4th and 9th, 1906. One near Inverness, July 25th, 1902. Also taken by Dr. Sharp and myself in the New Forest, July 7th, 1901. One female at Cambridge, July 27th, 1907. Leia elegans, Winn. — One at Crowborougb, August 27th, 1907. Dr. Sharp took one in the New Forest in September, 1904. *Leia variegata, Winn. — Crowborougb, October 4th, 1903 (three specimens), July 19th, 1905 (one), August 13th, 1906 (one), October 6th, 1906 (one, immature), August 26th and 28th, 1907. Megophthalmidia crassicornis, Curt., B. E., xiv, 645. — Curtis puts this in the second division of the genus Leia, distinguished by the ocelli forming an arch (instead of a triangle) on the crown of the head. Mr. Verrall omits it in his 1888 list. In the second edition (1901) it appears in such a way as to suggest that it should have a genus to itself ; but no generic name is given. Meanwhile, in 1S89, Dziedzicki had redescribed it (Horae Soc. Ent. liossicas, xxiii, 525, and plate xxi) as Megophthalmidia zuqmayerice, from two specimens, a male taken in summer in Austrian Silesia, and a female taken August 13th, 1888, at Grafenberg.* Mr. C. Gr. Lamb took a male at Wells, Somersetshire, in July, 1902, and I have taken two males, at Crowborough, October 1st, 1903, and in the New Forest on July 10th, 1904. It is a very remarkable insect, with its thick orange antennae, cylindrical body, and large descending hypopygium. * Phthinia Jiv/milis, Winn. — Mr. Verrall assigns to this species two flies which I took at Crowborough on July 20th and 26th, 1905. (Another on August 14th, 1906). A specimen from the banks of the Divie, near Dunphail, July 5th, 1902, which I had previously been inclined to call P. humilis, is, as Mr. Verrall points out, a much browner insect, and presumably repre- sents another species. More specimens are wanted. These insects, with their long legs, are extraordinarily fragile, and require careful handling. * It is just possible that M. zugmayerioe is not identical with 71/. crassicornis, if Dziedzicki has drawn the " margo posterior lamina; basalis " exactly. 1908.] 153 *Gnoriste bilineata, Zctt.— Mr. C. G. Lamb took an insect at Nethy Bridge in June, 1905, which appears to be this. The thorax has a fine, paler, central line as well as the two dark side lines, and may thus represent Zetterstedt's O. trilineata, which Kertesz (Kat. der palaarktischen Dipteren, i, 42) identifies with bilineata. Mr. Lamb's specimen does not agree with apicalis, hnrcynice, or longi- rostris. The rostrum is very long, and may well reach to the fourth abdominal segment ; but in its present position 1 cannot say with certainty. * Paratinia sciarina, Mik. — A single male of this species was taken at Carrow Abbey, outside Norwich, on June 1.3th, 190 t. A specimen taken at Crowborough in April, 1901, is smaller, and the sides of the thorax are yellower ; it seems to be another species. The genus Paratinia (Mik, Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxiv, 333 [187-1]) differs from Polylepta by the long cell, straight cubital vein, equal length of third and fourth joints of palpi, spineless tibiae, and long hairs on the wing ; the fork of vein 5 is almost directly under the small cross vein ; from Empalia by the spineless tibiae, long cell, and long stalk of vein 4, which last character also separates it from Lasio- soma ; in Empheria the eyes are round, the costal cross vein is over the cell, and the fork of 5 is nearer the base. * Polylepta undulata, Winnertz. — This is the only species of the genus that I have taken or seen (Logie, August 27th and 29th, 1903 ; Crowborough, June 28tli, 1903 ; and in the New Forest by Dr. Sharp, June, 1903). Specimens standing as P. splendida in Mr. Verrall's collection agree with mine. The distinctive marks, according to Winnertz, are the following : in P. splendida the fore tarsus is 1^ times the length of the tibia, the metatarsus three-fourths of the tibia, and the fork of 5 is under the fork of 4 ; in P. undulata the fore tarsus is 2| times the tibia, the metatarsus H, and the fork of 5 is much nearer the base. *Hertioigia niarginata, ! >ziedz. — The genus Hertwigia, Dziedz. (Pam. Fiz. V [1885]) "differs from Telragoneura by the greater length of the mediastinal vein, which joins the subcostal over the cell, also by the forking of vein 5, and the course of vein 3 " (which in Tetrago- neura is almost straight, in Hertivigia bent where the cross vein meets it). " From the other Sciophilince it differs by the fact that the medi- astinal vein in the other genera ends in the costal vein, whereas in Hertwigia it joins the subcostal vein. From Paratinia it differs in 154 tJuly> the same way, and also by the formation of the palpi " (the fourth joinl being narrow, sickle-shaped, twice as long as the third), "and by the presence of spines on the middle and hind tibise." I ought to say that in one of my specimens, as Mr. Verrall at once noticed, the me- diastinal vein breaks off short and does not reach the subcostal vein. I took a specimen at Reinacharn, near Dinnet, August 28th, 1900, and two at Logie, August 24th and 25th, 1903. * Apoliphthisa subincana, Curt. — This barbarouf sgeneric name was introduced by Grzegorzek in 18S5 (Berl. Eut. Zeit., xxix, 205) being placed between Empalia and Tetragoneura. He says " Vena auxiliaris ante medium cellulse cubitalis in costalem desinit absque vena trans- versali superior*. Cellula cubitalis bis longior quam lata. Basis fume posterioris ante basim anterioris." Curtis (Brit. Ent., 641) figures under the name of subincana a Sciophilid fly without a costal cross vein. He describes it as " similar to 8. (Lasiosoma) hirta ; black, sparingly clothed with hoary hairs, legs yellowish-ochre, tips of trochanters and of hinder thighs blackish ; tibiae fuscous, tarsi darker. If line long. Beginning of May, Coomb Wood." This agrees well enough with specimens taken by Dr. Sharp and myself at Brockenhurst early in July, 1904, by Dr. Sharp ibidem in September, 1904, and by myself at Crowborough, April 21st, 1903 (one $), and August 8th and 13th, 1906. Sciophila fenestella, Curt. (Walker, iii, 42) seems also to belong to this genus. *Empheria lineola, Meigen. — Miss M. A. Sharp took a specimen of this handsome fly at Brockenhurst, May 29th, 1907. Empheria pietipennis, Hal. -This charming species occurs in the New Forest, at Crowborough, and at Logie, not rarely. Asindulum ? sp. — l have not yet identified satisfactorily the dark species of Asindulum which is as common us A.jiavum. *Diadocidia valida, Mik. — (Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. VVien, xxiv, 329, 1 tab. vn [1874]). " Vein 1 ends far beyond fork of 5 ; third costal section as long as fourth Tore tarsi simple." A single specimen at Logie, September 26th, 1904. Diadocidia fcrruqinea , Meig., seems to occur generally. Soutlimead, Chaucer Road, Cambridge : February, 19oH. f Mr. Collin reminds me that Grzegorzek in fact writes Apolephthisa, and not Apoliphthisa. But, as the Greek word lie presumably means to represent is not a7roA>jc/)0-maculaf,us, Rosse, ? (four specimens) ; Entomognathus brevis, V. de L., $ ; Crabro littiratus, Panz., ? ; C. interruptus, De G., £ ; Yespa norvegica, Fab., $ ; Megacltile versicolor, Smith, ? ; M. ligniseca, Kirby, $ ; Lasius fuliginosus , Latr., strong colony in large oak tree; Hedyvhrum roseum.— G. A. James Rothney, Pembury, Tudor Road, Upper Norwood : June 1th, 1908. [The capture of Salius parvulus conveying an Hemipterous larva is most in- teresting. I have never before heard of any of the Pompilidx capturing Hemiptera ; and Professor Poulton, who is collecting records of Hymenoptera and their prey tells me that he does not know of any such case. Hemiptera are well known as the prey of Astatus, a genus of Sphegidie, red and black insects, somewhat resembling the Pompilidse in general appearance, though very dislinct in structure — E. Saunders]. »' cutnus. Forest Entomology : by A. T. Gillanders, F.E.S. With 351 Illustra- tions. 8vo. Edinburgh and London : William Blackwood and Sons. 1908. The influence of insects on the well-being of such of our old woodlands as yet remain, and still more so on that of the new plantations which are now being established in all parts of the British Islands, is so great and evident, that it must claim the serious attention of every one concerned with their care and management ; and the ability to recognise the various forms of insect life which attack and destroy arboreal vegetation, as well as a competent knowledge of the methods of dealing with their ravages, form an indispensable part of the equipment of the modern forester. Hitherto, although there is no lack of excellent treatises on the subject by Con- tinental and American authors, we have had no book entirely devoted to economic forest Entomology by an English writer ; and in this respect the present work, in which the extensive practical experience of Mr. Gillanders is embodied, is especially welcome. After a brief introductory sketch of the principal Orders of Insects, and an interesting account of the frequently destructive " gall-mites" {Eriophyidx), the insects known to be more or less injurious to forest growth are considered in detail, commencing with the Coleoplera. In this as in the other Orders, it is safe to say that no species is omitted with which the forester may be concerned ; in fact a good many are included, which, however plentiful and destructive they may be abroad, are here of only rare or casual occurrence ; though, as in the case of the remarkable beetle Xyleborus dispar, they may in isolated instances give rise to a certain amount of damage. In each species the life-history is clearly described, and in nearly every 1908.] 159 case the insect itself, with the characteristic injury caused to bhe tree or slmil> on which it feeds, is illustrated by one or more figures from various sources, and of vary- ing degrees of excellence, but on the whole very good and adequate for the purposes of recognition. At pp. 186-8 we find an interesting account of the (until recently) very rare sawfly Nematus erichsoni, Hartig, which became a serious pest to the larch in Cumberland in 1906 ; and in Chapter VII, dealing with the Lepidoptera under the restricted title of " Moths," is a full description of another larch pest, the Tineid Argyresthia Isevigatella, H.-S., a species not yet included in our lists, but which has within the last year been recognised as inflicting serious and characteristic injury to the tree in Northumberland, as well as near Oxford and in other parts of the country. Useful hints on collecting, preparing, and mounting insects are given in Chapter XI, and Chapter XII deals with insecticides and general remedies ; while the list of forest and fruit-trees and shrubs, with the injurious insects affecting them, brings into a very concise tabular form the nature of the injuries caused by each pest. Of necessity a large portion of the work is compiled from many sources, which in all cases are duly acknowledged, and we may congratulate the author on the clear and methodical way in which he has presented his subject. To all who are practically concerned with arboriculture and forest management , as well as to those wishing to know something of the relations between our trees and their associated insects, we strongly recommend this book, of which the excellence of the general " get up " is guaranteed by the name of the publishers. Thirty-Fiest Annual Report and Proceedings of the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society, Session 1907. St. Albans : Printed by Gibbs and Bamforth, Ltd. The report for last year of this energetic and flourishing Association, besides presenting an excellent portrait of our esteemed correspondent Mr. J. R. le B. Tomlin, embodies two papers of exceptional value, especially to students of our British Coleoptera. The Annual Address, by the Vice-President, Dr. J. Harold Bailey, deals with the Coleoptera of the Isle of Man, a locality of unique interest from a faunistic point of view. Besides the excellent general account, of the Manx beetles, some 680 species of which have been recorded up to the present time, the details of the climate, geology, and botany of the Island, and the deductions of the author as to the derivation of its Coleopterous fauna, will be welcomed by Entomo- logists as a valuable contribution to the literature of the subject. Of equal value is the exhaustive list of " The Coleoptera of Lancashire and Cheshire," by W. E. Sharp, F.E.S. The compiler of this List, after an excellent resume of the probable derivation of our British beetle-fauna, and of the physiography of the two counties, does full justice to the good work of the io-called " Lancashire School " of Entomo- logists, in whose ranks were included some of the best working Coleopterists of the last half-century. The number of species recorded as occurring within the area is 1486, or about 45 per cent, of the total number included in the list of British beetles ; while the writer has evidently not been limited as to space, as too often happens with lists of this kind, and has thus been able to give full and valuable details respecting many of the most interesting forms. It may well be said that this catalogue may be taken as a model for any other that may be forthcoming, and that it should be in the hands of every Coleopterist in our Islands. 160 [July, # In tint lti). Pierre Adrien Prosper Finot. — Wo regret to record the decease of this well- known French Orthopterist, which took place at his residence at Foutainebleau where he had lived in retirement for some years, on April 14th last. Until 1870 he was a Staff-Captain in the French Army under Napoleon III, serving with dis- tinction in the Franco-Prussian War, and being taken prisoner at Sedan, but on his return to France, remaining true to his Bonapartist attachment, he withdrew from the world and devoted himself to Entomology and kindred pursuits. The works by which he is best known to Entomologists, all of very high value and beautifully illustrated from his own drawings, are : — " Les Orthopteres de France " (1888); "Catalogue raisonne des Orthopteres de la Regence de Tunis " (in con- junction with Ed. Bonnet) (1885) ; " Faunc de l'Algerie et de la Tunisie, Insectes Orthopteres " (1897), and " Faune de la France, Insectes Orthopteres (18'JO). We are indebted to Mr. Malcolm Burr, F.L.S., for the materials of this brief obituary notice. Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society: Meeting, held at the Royal Institution, Colquitt Street, Liverpool, Monday, April 13th, 1908. Mr. R. Newstead, A.L.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. The Chairman delivered a lecture entitled " The Bionomics of Mosquitoes," in which he dealt with the sub-families Anophelinse and Culicinse : he described the Anopheline genera Anopheles and Pyretophorus, contrasting them with the Culicine genera Culex and Stegomyia in a very clear and thorough manner. Mr. Newstead illustrated the lecture by blackboard drawings and by the following exhibits: — Living larva? and pupae of Corethra and Culex : a case showing the complete life- history and distribution of Stegomyia calopus, the mosquito which transmits yellow fever; and the following species concerned in carrying filariae, which not uncom- monly cause the condition known as elephantiasis, viz. : Culex fatigans, Pyreto- phorus costal is, Myzomyia rossi, Mansonia africanus, and Stegomyia fasciata. The remainder of the evening was devoted to an exhibition of Hydraecia nictitans, H. lucens, and H. paludis, most of the Members present having brought their series of these moths. The discussion was opened by Mr. F. N. Pierce, who showed preparations of the genitalia of the three species named above under the microscope, as well as of the new species brought forward by the Rev. C. R. N. Burrows, of Mucking, at a recent meeting of the City of London Entomological Society. Mr. Pierce demonstrated that the genital ancillaries are markedly different, and fully support the view that we have really four distinct species confused under the name nictitans. Mr. Pierce also showed photographs of genitalia of Retinia buoliana and R. pinicolana, clearly proving these two insects to be distinct. Other exhibits were:— Hy Mr. W. Mansbridge, a series of Zygsena achillese from Argyll, with Z. minos from Wales for comparison. Mr. F. N. Pierce also showed Z. achillese from the Continent, with many other species of the genus. Mr. W. A. Tyerman, a bred series of Amphidasys strataria from Delamere ; the 1908. J 161 females especially being very dark and heavily banded. Mr. Mounfield, of War- rington, showed, in addition to his very fine series of //. nictitans, lucens, and paludis, a very dark brown form of Drepana falcula, pale and dark forms of Hadena adnata and Macaria liturata var. nigrofulvata, all from Delamere ; also varieties of Abraxas (jros.su/ariata from Warrington. -II. R. Sweeting and Wm. Manshridgk, Hon. Secretaries. The South London Entomological and Natural History Society: Thursday, April 2.3rd, 1908.— Mr. R. Adkin, President, in the Chair. Mr. R. Adkin exhibited a specimen of Argynnis aglaia with the left fore-wing only about half-size, but otherwise perfect. It was taken at Eastbourne. He also showed a larva of Torlrix pronubana with a parasite larva attached to its under surface. Mr. Gadge, light forms of Orgyia antiqua and Rumicia phlxas. Mr. Kaye, an asymmetrical form of Anliclea badktta. Dr. Chapman, living larvae of Polyommatus icarus and P/ebeius argus (asgon), the former quite and the latter nearly full-grown. .Mr. Newman, stems of Viburnum containing larvae of Sesia andreniformis. larvae of Camptogramma Jiuviata and Agrotis ashworthii, and imagines of Cucullia scrophularim and C. verbasci. Mr. Moore, two Indian Pierids, Catopsilia catilla and Delias eucharis with bleached wings. Mr. B. Adkin, specimens of Cucullia scrophularix, C. verbasci, and C. lychnitis for comparison. Mr. Main, larva, pupa, and imago of the Meal-worm, Tenebrio molitor. Mr. Sich, specimens of Xanthia fuloago (cerago) var. flavescens from Forres. Mr. Ray ward made some remarks on the life-history of Sesia andreni- formis. Thursday, May 1-itk, 1908.— Mr. A. Sich, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. Dr. Chapman exhibited a larva of Lycxna semiargus from a Pyrenean ovum, nearly full-grown, and he called attention to the curious fine brown scaling in a bred Pyrenean example of Tanayra atrata. Mr. Adkin, from Mr. McArthur, from Aviemore, nodules of resin on twigs attacked by Retinia resinana larvae, a curious '• mop " of twigs on a branch of fir no doubt caused by a gall-insect, and cocoons of Dicranura vinula opened by birds ?. Mr. Harrison, a living larva of Phorodesma smaragdaria. Mr. Newman, larvae of Dryas paphia, Argynnis aglaia, and A. adippe, one set had been wintered outdoors and were very small, the others kept in a cool house were in their last instar. He showed ova of Vanessa atalanta just hatching. Mr. Edwards, specimens of Papilio astorion and P. philoxenus from Northern India, and P. warscewiczii from Bolivia. Mr. Rayward, a con- siderable number of Lepidoptera, which he was placing in the Society's cabinets. Mr. A. H. Jones, a number of butterflies taken in Hungary to illustrate his paper, " Notes on Hungarian Butterflies," including Neptis lucilla, N. aceris, Limenitis populi, L. Camilla, and L. sibylla taken together in one forest opening, Chryso- phanus alciphron extremely large and boldly marked, Colias myrmidone ab. alba (a parallel form to var. helice of C. edusa), the local Erebia melas (with which he had placed E. lefebvrei from the Pyrenees and E. glacialis var. nicholli from Cain- piglio for comparison), E. medusa var. psodea, Chrysophanus thersamon, Pararge climene, P. roxelana, Ccenonympha cedipus, &c. 162 rJuiy, Thursday, Man 2Sth, lit' '8. — Mr. Alfred Sich.F.E.S., President, in the Chair. Mr. J. St. Aubyn, of Balham, and Mr. N. D. Riley, of Upper Tooting, were elected Members. Mr. Main exhibited living larva? of a species of " Stick " insect. Mr. West (Ashtead), a series of Anticlea badiaia bred from larva; taken on his rose trees. Mr. Tonge, stereoscopic views of the ova of Salurnia carpini and Macrothylacia rubi ; of the ova of Malacosoma castrensis and M. franco nica ; and of fertile and infertile ova of Panolis piniperda. Mr. Newman, pupae of Dryas paphia, Argynnis adippe and A. aglaia. Mr. Rayward, pupa in situ of Trochilium crahroniforme and pupa-case of .Egeria culiciformis. The former emerged downwards and the latter upwards. Mr. Carr, an imago and cocoons of Earias chlorana. Mr. Turner, a long series of Pancalia leuioenhoekella from Bos Hill ; a short bred series of Sivammerdamia griseo-capitella from Osshott ; and the very beautiful Hydro- carapid, Ambia instrumental is, from Northern India. Mr. Gilbert Arrow gave an address, with lantern slides and numerous specimens, on " The Origin and Use of Horns in Coleoptera." — Hy. J. Turner, Son. Secretary. Entomological Society of London. — Conversazione, Friday, May 15th, 19U8, in the Rooms of the Civil Service Commission, Burlington Gardens, W. (by kind permission of H.M. Board of Works). Mr. C. O. Watkrhouse, President. The Exhibitions were as follows :— In the Large Room — Prof. E. B. Poulton, F.R.S., Mimicry in American Papilios ; Col. D. Bruce, F.R.S., Microscopic prepara- tions to illustrate the Entomological aspects of the Sleeping Sickness ; Lt.-Col. N. Manders, R.A.M.C, series of Melanitis leda taken at different seasons ; Dr. G. B. Longstaff, plants of Bryophyllum calycinum, a favourite resting place of Callidryas enbule ; rest attitudes of butterflies ; flies mimicking wasps ; and water grasshoppers ; Dr. F. A. Dixey and Dr. G. B. Longstaff, scents in butterflies ; The President, Illustrations of Tsetse and other biting flies ; Mr. E. A. Butler, Dimorphism in Hemiptera, and recent additions in the Order to the British list; Mr. R. Shelford, Insects preserved in Amber ; Lt.-Col. C. T. Bingham, Nest of Wasp from Assam, with occupant attacking spider; Mr. H. J. Elwes, F.R.S., Variation and Dimorphism in Indo-Chinese and Indo-Malayan Butterflies; Mr. W. J. Kaye, Heliconine Butterflies from British Guiana; Mr. W. F. Rosenberg, rare Heterocera from South America; Mr. H. Eltringham, Mimicry in African Butterflies ; Mr. O. E. Janson, Goliath Beetles ; Mr. H. C. Phillips, Parasites on Lepidoptera ; Mr. G. T. Porritt, Melanism in West Yorkshire Lepidoptera; Mr. C. P. Pickett, British Lepidoptera; Mr. L. W. Newman, living British larvse and pupae ; Mr. A. E. Sich, Lepidoptera of South London ; Mr. Selwyn Image, Lepidoptera observed within six miles of Charing Cross ; Mr. R. Adkin, local variation in a common British species ; Mr. S. J. Capper, drawings by S. L. Mosley of varieties of British Lepidoptera ; Mr. H. C. Phillips, drawings of Butterfly subjects ; Mr. Selwyn Image (for Mr. C. Whall), drawings by Miss Garnett of Coleophorid species ; Mr. A. H. Jones, the Genus Anthocharis; Miss M. E. Fountaine, Spring Butterflies of the Mediterranean Re- gion : The Rev. G. Wheeler, rare and variable species of Swiss Butterflies ; Dr. T. A. Chapman, Homceochromatism in French Butterflies ; Mr. A. W. Bacot, Malaco- soma tieustria and M. castrensis, and their hybrid forms ; Mr. L. B. Prout and Mr. 1908.] 163 A. W. Bacot, Experiments in Mendelian Heredity with Acidalia virgularia ; Mr. A. Hall and Mr. C. J. Grist, Mimetic Nymphaline Butterflies and their Models; Mr. S. Edwards, Morphos ; VTr. J. A. Clark, Varieties of Peronea cristana ; Mr. R. South, Aberrations of Peronea cristana and P. hastiana ; Mr. H.St. J. Donisthorpe, Insects and other forms associated with British Ants; the British Ants ; and ob- servation nests of Formica rufa and F. sanquinea ; Mr. A. Harrison and Mr. H. Main, local forms and varieties of Pieris napi and Aplecta nebulosa ; Mr. A. E. Tonge, Stereoscopic Photographs from nature; Mr. H. J. Turner, Life Histories of the genus Coleophora ; Mr. E B. Nevinson, British Aculeate Hymenoptera ; Mr. H. Main, Photographs of Lepidoptera ; and the Obligation Book of the Entomolo- gical Society of London with the signatures of the Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria, afterwards Queen Victoria. The following short Lectures were delivered in the Theatre : — at 9.30, The Inhabitants of Ants' Nests in Britain ; H. St. J. Donisthorpe, P.Z.S. At 10, The Entomological Aspects of the Sleeping Sickness; Col. D. Bruce, C.B., F.R.S. At 10.30, Insect Mimicry ; Prof. E. B. Poulton, D.Sc, M.A., F.R.S. ; all the above addresses being illustrated with the lantern. In the Small Room, Microscopes, with subjects of Entomological interest, were exhibited by Fellows and others. H. Rowland-Brown and Com. J. J. Walker, R.N., Hon. Secretaries. Wednesday, June 3rd, 1908.— Mr. H. Rowland- Brown, Vice-President, in the Chair. Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe brought for exhibition pseudogynes of Formica sanguinea, caused by the presence of the beetle Lomechnsa strumosa in the nest, from the New Forest. Mr. H. J. Turner, living larvse of Coleophora maritimella on Artemisia, and also a species of Asilid and its prey. Mr. C. J. Gahan, living specimens of a " leaf insect " from the Seychelles, bred in England by Mr. W. H. St. Quintin, probably Pulchriphyllium crur i folium, Serville ; and Lampyridse of con- siderable interest collected by Mr. E. E. Green in Ceylon, and including both sexes of the genera Lamprigera and Bioptoma, the larviform females of which had hitherto been unknown. He called attention also to the existence in China, Ceylon, and the Malay Peninsula of remarkable larviform females greatly resembling in form the females of the American group Phengodini, and being somewhat similarly provided with rows of luminous points. The males of these forms were not yet identified, but he suspected they would prove to belong to genera at present referred to the family Drilidse. Mr. R. Shelford remarked that in several of the Malacoderm Coleoptera from the Malay Archipelago regarded as larval or apterous forms, the males and females were indistinguishable, and underwent practically no metamorphosis. Mr. G. C. Champion, specimens of Dromius angustus, Brulle, and Cryptophagus l^vendali, Ganglb., recently recorded by him from Woking and the New Forest respectively ; also two species of the Staphylinid genus Lepto- lyphlus and one of the Curculionid genus Alaocyba, extremely minute blind insects, much smaller than any known British representatives of the groups in question. Col. C. Swinhoe, several boxes of butterflies taken by him during the present year (1908) in the Canary Islands, chiefly from Grand Canary and Teneriffe, observing that, with the exception of Lycxna webbiana, all the species met with suggest O 2 164 i J^y. a foreign origin. Mr. J. E. Collin communicated " Notes on the Value of the Geni- talia of Insects as Guides in Phytogeny," by Mr. W. Wesche, F.R.M.S. Dr. D. Sharp communicated a paper " On certain Xgcferibiidx, with descriptions of two new species from Formosa," by Mr. Hugh Scott. Dr. J. Hancock, " Further Studies of the Tetriginx (Orthopterd) in the Oxford University Museum." Mr. J. C. Moulton, " Mimicry in Tropical American Butterflies." Professor E. B. Poulton, " Heredity in Papilio dardamm from Natal, bred by Mr. G. F. Leigh, F.E.S., of Durban," and exhibited, in illustration, a large series of the forms of P. dardanus from Natal and Chirinda. Mr Hamilton H. Druce, " New Species of Hesperiidse from Central and South America," and exhibited the specimens described ; also a series of the sub-family Pgrrhopgginx, together with the genus Ergcides of the sub-family Hesperiinx showing the great similarity of some of the species with those of the Pyrrhopygine genus Jemadia, and also pointed out that the sub-family PamphiUnx contained genera with species again almost exact copies of those shown in the two previously mentioned sub-families. Dr. G. B. Longstaff called the attention of Fellows to a very interesting paper on " The Life-History of House Flies," by Dr. A. GrifBth, in the monthly publication of " Public Health." — J. J. Walker, Hon. Secretary. ON THE BRITISH SPECIES OF PSORA (Part II). BY JOHK H. WOOD, M.B. The smaller the forms of life, the more numerous, as a rule, are the species. And so in this genus PJwra, whilst the larger and more specialized species (Group I) are fairly manageable, the smaller and simpler ones (Group TI) are well nigh overwhelming in number and variety. Here in this small corner of the county of Hereford I have myself picked up about ninety distinct and well-defined species belonging to the latter (iroup, in fact, all those, with but few excep- tions, treated of in this paper. Nor does this number, great as it is, exhaust even my own neighbourhood, for other forms have been kept back which, either from the want of some good structural character or from scantiness of material, it would at present be unwise to name. What, then, will be their number when there are more workers in the field and the gathering ground is wider ? In dealing with so huge an assortment of closely allied forms, it becomes absolutely necessary to divide them up, if possible, into Sections. Yet to this end the very simplicity of their structure offers a serious impediment ; and in place of the absolute characters that were found so useful in the earlier Group, we have now to depend upon comparative ones mainly. There is, it is true, the undivided second thick vein (Section A) as in Group I, but it helps little here, and marks off only a single species, Verrall's formicarum, which may 1908.] 165 not be a true Pftora after all. However, in the number of bristles oil the scutellum we have a thoroughly satisfactory character, and I have taken advantage of it to separate the species into those with four or more bristles (Section B), and those with only two. The former run to nearly twenty forms, leaving the large number of seventy, or there- abouts, to be dealt with in the latter. These T further break up according as the wing cost a is long (Section C) or short (Section D). This character, however, has the disadvantage, common to all com- parative qualities, of leavinj a doubt sometimes into which division an insect should go ; but at the same time it has the advantage of being an easily come-at-able one, for in whatever way an entomologist may pin or set his insect, the wings are always in view. On the whole the arrangement leads, I think, to a fairly natural grouping of the species. Section B contains most of the species which in size and structure come nearest to those in Group I. Section C also consists chiefly of large species, and only includes a very few which can be called tiny ; whereas the reverse occurs in Section D, nearly all the tiny forms being found here, and whilst some may be of fair size, scarcely one is actually large. For the further grouping within the Sections much use has been made of the colour of the halteres, the length of the costal fringe, and of the condition of the meso-pleurae, whether bare or bristly. I am indebted to Mr. Collin for painting out to me the last-mentioned characteristic, and a very important one it is The position of these bristles is in the upper hind corner, below the edjje of the dorsum. Two types may be recognised : one in which all the bristles or bristly hairs are of equal or nearly equal size ; the other in which one, very rarely more, is much longer than the rest and lies far back, up against the posterior suture. The costal fringe can scarcely be considered a very important structure, yet perhaps for this very reason, and because it is apparently uninfluenced b} sex, its length, whilst varying greatly among the different species, is remarkably constant so far as each individual one is concerned. In this respect it has the advantage even of the scutellar bristles. For in the males of at least three of the species in Section B the anterior bristle is considerably smaller than the posterior one ; and accompanying this reduction, there is more or less individual variability, which in spinigera may be so extreme that a specimen here and there might well be supposed to be one of the two-bristled species, the bristle being little more than a fine hair, such as is found among some of these. As regards the reliability of the colour of the halteres, I need add nothing to what 1G6 J»iy. was said earlier in these notes, except that further experience has (inly confirmed and strengthened one's faith in it. Frequent reference will be made to the male genitalia. Here again two chief types are met with, one in which the hypopygium is small, the other in which it is large ; the first is associated with a short and stout abdomen, very feminine in build ; the second with a long and slender one. In the smaller type the hypopygium is usually concealed within the last abdominal segment, leaving visible only the anal protuberance (in this case always small) ; but shouM it be exposed, it looks like a small body stuck on to the blunt-ended abdomen. In the larger one, on the other hand, it is usually more or less exposed, and has the appearance of a natural prolongation of the abdomen, whilst the anal organ, as a rule, is large There is, however, considerable difference in >\ze among the large hypopygia ; hence it will be convenient to subdivide them into '■ large " and " medium or moderate." In the former both the hypopygium itself and the internal parts are usually fully exposed, the anal protuberance at the same time being large and conspicuous ; in the latter the exposure is less complete, and the anal protuberance of more moderate size. These internal parts or, as I shall term them, " subanal body," are extremely complex in structure, and are connected with the intro- mittent organ. No doubt they would afford excellent points of distinction under the microscope, but are too minute for ordinary descriptive work. On I he under-side of the hypopygium and close to the edge of the last abdominal segment is often present a chitinous projection of very varied form, sometimes flap-like, sometimes like a slender prong, simple or forked, or of much more complex shape. It may be called the ventral process, but it needs a full exposure of the genitalia to render it visible. The shell of the hypopygium is occasionally cut into lateral processes or lamellae, which are either symmetrical or the reverse. It is by no means a common condition, and is almost confined to some of the species in Section B, being one of the points which show their relationship to Group I. Occasionally, also, one or more conspicuous bristles spring from its lower edge on each side, and serve as good specific characters. Lastly, it is as well to take note of a pair of curious curved bristles at the extremity of the anal protuberance, since their presence at once settles the question — where if might otherwise be doubtful —of sex, and whether the small object peeping out from ihe end of the abdomen be the point of the ovipositor or of the anal organ. A character also of much importance is the row of bristles or mos.] 167 cilia on the upper border of the hind tibiae. The size and number oi these bristles vary greatly, but in opposite directions, that is to say, the larger they are the fewer is their Dumber, and vice versa. Where the legs are brown or black, it is so general a rule tor the front legs to be paler that it will be unnecessary to refer to this detail in the descriptions. For the sake of brevity I shall use the figures 1, 2, and 3 to represent respectively the first, second, and third costal divisions. 1 would also point out that I take the first costal division lo be the portion lying between the humeral cross vein and the inner edge of the first thick vein, rather than the outer edge of this vein — the more correct measurement. And for the reason, that since the outer edge runs almost insensibly into the costa, whilst the jun ion on the inner side is clear and definite, the eye naturally selects the latter for the boundary. Nor is the point so small as it looks, for on reaching the costa the vein usually expands more or less, and it therefore makes quite an appreciable difference, when dealing in such small dimensions, on which side of it the measurement be taken. Further, the length of the frons is taken at the margin of the eye, which usually gives a rather shorter measure- ment than if it were taken up the centre. GEOUP II. Frons with a central channel ; two or four bristles at the base of the antennae, directed forwards. Shaft of tibiae without spines, at most with rows of bristles. Second thick vein undivided. Section A. Second thick vein divided. Scutellum with four or more hristles. Section B. Scutellum with only two bristles. Costa long (to middle of wing or nearly) or very long (well beyond middle). Section C. Costa short or very short (from f, or a little over, to \ the wing length). Section D. SECTION A. $ . Thorax greyish, scutellum with four bristles ; abdomen black, short and broad ; frons grey, about as broad as long, the bristles large and curiously arranged, inner bristle of lower row placed close to the eye, below and scarcely internal to the outer one, the under pair of supra-anteimal bristles small and directed forwards, the upper pair directed backwards, simulating the inner bristles of the lower frontal row as ordinarily found (fig. 1) ; antennae dusky 168 [July, 1908. yellow, arista very short (shorter than frons), straight and rigid-looking, palpi yellow; wings faintly yellow, fringe shortish, eosta about to middle of wing, veins yellow, thin veins faint ; legs pale yellow, hind femora moderately stout, tibiae bare ; hypopygium with a pair of narrow lamellae, anal process extra- ordinarily long, clear yellow, the pair of terminal bristles unusually large and black ; ovipositor ex- posed, chitinous, large, and black ; halteres yellow... scarcely £ mm. formicarum, Verr. Since these remarks were penned I have seen two papers on the Phoridx by Mr. Charles T. Brues. One, a monograph on the North American J'horidas, appeared originally in the Transactions of the American Entomological Society, No. 4, vol. xxix, 1903. Here the chief interest for us lies in the author's establishment of a new genus (Jphiochxta) for the species in Phora which come under Becker's Group II, whilst he restricts the name Phora to the forms with spinous tibiae (Group I). The steps seeem quite justifiable and will probably be generally adopted, although it does not actually advance the grouping beyond the point where Becker left it. The other paper, entitled " Phoridae from the Indo-Australian Region," deals with the species in the Hungarian National Museum, and was first published in the III Annates Musei Nationalii Hungarici, 1905, pp. 541 — 555. In founding a new genus under the name Plastophora for one of the species, Brues, relying on the published description, suggests that Verrall's Phora formicarum should also be referred to it. Looking, however, at the characters given for the genus, this can hardly be the case. In the first place the arrangement of the frontal bristles in formicarum is very peculiar and quite distinct from that in Plastophora, neither is " the proboscis enlarged and heavily chitinized " ; the spurs, too, of the hind tibiae are smaller than, not equal to, those of the middle ones, the legs are not very stout, and the mediastinal vein is present. Coquillett's genus Pseudacteon (Canad. 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Thorax and abdomen black ; frons black, about one-fourth broader than long, four large and equal supra-antennal bristles, antennae small, palpi dull yellow, armed with very large bristles j wings light yellowish-brown, veins brown and fringe very long, costa to middle of wing, 1 not half as long again as 2, first thin vein comes off at the fork with a gentle curve and pursues a straight course to the margin j legs dark brown, hind femora dilated, tibial cilia large and sparse ; hypopygiuin much as in projecta, but anal protuberance longer... 2 nun. dubitalis, n. sp. 17 (12) Meso-pleurae bare. 18 (19) Second thick vein widely dilated io(atus,v. spurcaticornis, Dej., two specimens. Pterosti- chus cupreus, L. ; P. nigrita, F ; P. gracilis, Dej., common. Amara lucida, Duft. 1908.] 177 Calathus fiavipes, Fourc. Lsemostenus complanatus, Dcj., common under pieces of wood near the beach. Anchomenus dorsalis, Mull. ; .'. thoreyi, Dcj., very common under reeds, and all very brightly coloured. Bembidium rufescens, G-uer. ; B (is.yimile, G-yll- Treohus mi, ml us, P. Dromius linearis, 01. ; i>. nigHventris, Th. Ealiplus ruficollis, De G. Laccophilus obscurus, Pz. Ccelambus inxqualis, F. Eydroporus gyllenhali, Schi5d. ; Z7. pubescens, G-yll. Sydrobius fuscipes, L. /'hi! //ilnts nigricans, Zetfc. Cymbiodyta ovalis, Th.. Chsetarthria seminulum, Pk. Octhebius viridis, Vyron. Cercyon littoralis, G-yll. j C. obsoletus, Gyll. ; C.flavipes, F. ; C. melanocephalas, L. Megasternum boletophagum, Marsh. Aleochara lanu- ginosa, Gr. ; 4. succicofa, Th., Bryher. Oxypoda perplexa, Muls. ; 0. longiuscula, Gr. Calodera sethiops, Gr. Atlanta plumbea, Wat. Homalota halobrectha, Sharp; i/. puncticeps, Th. ; 77. angustula, Gyll. ; if. euryptera, Steph. ; BZ.tri- notata, Kr. ; 27. triangulum, Kr. ; 77. germana, Sharp ; 77. sordidula, Er. ; 27. tnuscorum, Bris. Phytosus spinifer, Curt. ; P. balticus, Kr. Oligota inflata, Mann. ; O. atomaria, Er. Myllsena intermedia, Er. Conosoma lividum, Er. Tachyporus Sjlutus, Er. ; 7\ humerosus, Er. ; 77. hypnorum, F. ; T7. brunneus, F. Tachinns rufipes, De G. Mycetoporus lepidus, Gr. Heterothops dissimilis, Gr. Quediits mesomelinus, Marsh.; Q- cinctus, Pk. ; Q. obliterates, Er. Philonthus carbonarius, Gyll. ; /'. politus, F. ; P. marginatus, F. ; P. cephalotes, Gr., Bryher. Caflus sericeus, Holm. ; Aciobius cinerascens, Gr. Xantholinus punctulatus, Pk. Lepta- cinus linearis, Gr. Lathrobium brunhipes, F. Stilicus affinis, Er. Medon bicolor, 01. Sunins angustatus lyonessius , sub-sp. nov. Stenus juno, F. ; pence. Scydmsenus collaris, Mull. Tyehus niger, ~Pk. Eybaxis sanguinea, L. Bryaxis juncorum, Leach Trichopteryx atomaria, De G. Pteni- dittm fuscicorne, Er. ; /'. nitidum, Heer. Corylophus sublsevipennis, Duv., abundant. Serieoderus lateralis, Gyll. Stilbus lestaceus, 1 z. Coccinella W-punctata, L. Mycetxa hirta, Marsh. Kissister minima, Aub. Omosita colon, L. Rhizo- phagus depressus, F. Monotonia hrevicollis, Aub. Coninomus nodifer, West. Enicmus transversus, 01. Corticaria denticulata, Gyll. Cryptophagus kirtulus, Kr. ; C. affinis, Stm. Atomaria berolinenis, Kr. ; .-1. ruficornis, Marsh. Ephts- tenuis gyrinoides, Marsh. Parnus prolifericornis, F. Aphodius fimetarius, L. ; .4. atfer, De G. ; 4. pusillus, Hbst. ; A. punctato-sulcatus, Stm. Geotrupes stereo - rarius, L. ; (?. vemalis, L. (E. Smith). Melolontha vulgaris, F. Haltica oleracea, L. Psyffiodes chrysocephala, L (Bryher). Blaps mucronata, Lat. (E. Smith). Meloe proscarabxus, L. Apion diehroum, Bed. ; .4. humile, Germ. Trachyphloeus myrmecophilus, Seid. Csenopsis wa/toni, Boh. Alophus triyuttatns , F. (Bryher). Pissodes notatus, F. Phytobius Utuberculatus, F. Caulotrypis xneopiceus, Boh. Hylastes ater, Pk. SUNIUS ANGUSTATUS LYONESSIUS, SH,b-Sp., nOV. Besemble8 -S. angustatus, but differs from it in being on the average slightly smaller; the elytra are shorter and distinctly narrower in proportion to the thorax (the insect is winged), and the punctuation is closer and more rugose, so that they 178 [August. are duller ; the general colour is distinctly more fuscous, the thorax being some- limes reddish-brown ; the yellow on the elytra is not nearly so bright and is never so sharply defined as in S angustatvH : the elytra vary in colour from being entirely dirty testaceous to having a narrow border of yellow, the rest of the elytra being fuscous ; the commonest form has the elytra dirty testaceous with a fuscous spot at the scntellum, and one in the middle of the outer margin of each elytron. The type form of 5. angustatus did not occur on the island. I took thirteen specimens of this sub-species in moss, huystaek refuse. &c., and could probably have taken many more had I worked specially for it, but, although T at once recognised it as a new form to Britain at any rate, I preferred not to waste too much time over one species. T do not hesitate to describe this very distinct insular form as a sub-species, as I do not consider the term " variety " as used generally by Cnleopterists at all applies to such constant forms occurring apart from the type. Oryptophagtts hirtultts, Kr. In general shape most closely resembles C. scanicus x. patrue/is, Sturm., but is generally rather darker in colour, and is easily distinguished by the structure of the thorax. The borders of the thorax are much narrower ; the anterior callosities are more prominent and terminate in a sharp tooth; the middle tooth is larger, and the sides of the thorax are distinctly more strongly contracted behind. In Mr. Chitty's table it has to be placed with C. ci/Hndrus, Kies., on account of the narrow border of the thorax, and from this species it is easily separated by its much broader form. I took three specimens of this quite distinct species on Tresco, one from a cellar window, and the others from haystack refuse. Mr. Newbery has a specimen of O. Tiirtulus, which was taken in a house thirty years ago at Merton, Surrey, and which Capt. Deville identified for him at just about the time I took my specimens. Bradfield, Berks : June, 1908. C(ELIOXYS AFRA, Lep.— A BEE NEW TO BRITAIN-FROM THE NEW FOREST. BY TnE REV. P. D. MORICE, M.A., P.E.S. During a recent visit to Lyndhurst T was greatly pleased to find a $ specimen of the above most interesting addition to the British List in the collection of Miss Ethel Chawner. It was ticketed " New Forest, VIII, '92 " ; and Miss Chawner tells me that it must have been taken at or near Burley, where she was staying all the summer of 1892, but that "not knowing its value" she "did not make any special note of it." 19(18] 170 Four specimens of 0. afra wore taken in Guernsey and recorded by Mr. W. A. Luff in Ent. Mo. Mag., Feb., 1007, "flying in company with Megaehile argentata, Fab." In a note attached to Mr. Luff's paper (/. c, page 40), Mr. Edward Saunders calls attention to the great interest of the capture, and says " in this country 1 have sought in vain for any of the small red-tailed Coelioxys associating with Meqaclu'le aryentata. I was much pleased to find Ooelioxt/s brevis with M. arqentata in Jersey, and now 0. afra turns up with it in Guernsey. . . . These little species belong to a group of which we have no exponents in "Britain, and which is peculiar in having the white bands of the abdomen formed of scale-like hairs. . . I have always looked on C. afra as quite a southern form." As will be seen from the above remarks of Mr. Saunders the present insect is very easily distinguishable from any of the hitherto recorded species of British Coelioxys. This is especially the case with the ? , which, besides the peculiar scale-like pilosity which it shares with the £, is characterized by having the apical dorsal segment of the abdomen red at the tip, and the apical ventral segment entirely red, projecting very little beyond the apical dorsal, and with a small but strong emargination at its apex, the corners of this emargmation having the appearance of minute sharp teeth. (Tn the ? of C. brevis, which, as said above, is attached to M. arqentata in Jersey, and which may also quite possibly turn up some day in this country, the apical segments are coloured much as in C. afra ; but the form of the apical ventral segment is quite different, projecting far beyond the apical dorsal segment, and sharply acuminate, without any emargination at its apex). A most excellent description of both sexes of afra has been drawn up (in Latin) by Mocsary in "Acad. Hung, scient. math, phys., &c," 1870, and is quoted in full by Friese, " Bienen Europa's," Part i, p. 68. Tt is too long to reproduce or translate here in extenso, but the following brief diagnosis is mainly founded upon it — Oalcaria pale ; two spots formed of white scales at the base of the scutellum ; breast and great part of the legs clothed with white scales ; apices of abdominal segments, in the centre above fringed narrowly with white scales arranged in single rows, at the sides and beneath with similar but longer scales in many rows forming wide fascise. ? with a sharp carina between the antenna ; a short, rather sharp, carina on the 6th abdominal dorsal segment before its red obtuse apex, a white spot of scale- like pubescence on each side of the same segment ; the 6th ventral segment pro- duced slightly beyond the dorsal apex, red, broad, its disc impressed, and its apex emarginate. 180 [August, 3 . 5th dorsal segment armed on each side with a small obtuse tooth; 6th, with a deep central fovea and eight spines, viz., four above (all about equally long, but the outer pair much sharper than the inner) and four below (the basal pair very small and ohtuse, the apical pair long and rather sharp) ; apes of 4th ventral segment strongly impressed, widely etnarginated, and tubereulated on each side. Woking : June 22nd, L908. ECCOPTOMERA MICROPS, Mo., and AGROMYZA BICORNIS, Kalt., TWO DIPTKRA NEW TO THE BRITISH LIST. BY J. R. MALLOCH. During the last two years Mr. A. H. Hamra has sent me for identification a large number of specimens of Diptera from the Oxford district, and amongst them were a few species that are rare. I do not intend at present to record any but the above two species, though I am certain that several more are additions to the British List. Eccoptomera is a peculiar genus belonging to the Helomyzidce, and which may be distinguished from all the other sub-genera in that group, except QScothea, by the exceptionally small eyes, and from (Ecolhea it may be distinguished by the mid-tibiae being bare, except for the terminal spurs, and not having bristles as in that genus. This species, microps, Mg., was first sent to me by Mr. Hamm early in 1907, with an accompanying note stating that it had been taken in moles' nests, where it was not uncommon.* Upon examination I decided it was microps, but requested Mr. Hamm to send it to Mr. J. E. Collin for his opinion. Mr. Collin returned it as correct. The species may be easily distinguished from lonrjiseta, Mg., which I recorded in this Magazine (1907), by its dark thorax, the dark spots at the apices of the hind femora, and the brownish 3rd joint of the antennae. After receiving this species from Oxford I set myself to find it in this district, Bonhill, Dumbartonshire, and was successful in obtaining one specimen from a mole's nest in March, 1908. I also obtained one pupa from a mole's nest and a ? specimen emerged therefrom, so that evidently the larva feeds upon the offal, or refuse, in the nest. No doubt a search in moles' nests would show that this species is not rare, and probably longiseta is also to be found in underground nests. The second species, Agromyza bicomis, Kalt., belongs to the Mr. J. Collins and 1 have found this species frequently in moles' nests at Oxford in February and March, but rarely more than one or two in a nest. — J. J. W. 1908.] 181 section of that group with black halteres, and is one of the most characteristic species in the genus. The male possesses a peculiar group of vibrissa? forming a fasciculus on either side of the mouth In the ? these bristles are much smaller and do not form a fasciculus. I identified my own specimens from Bonhill as curvipalpis, Ztt., and sent them to Mr. Collin as that species. In returning the spe- cimens Mr. Collin stated that it was synonymous with bicomis, Kalt., and probably Zetterstedt may have mistaken the peculiar upwardly directed fasciculus for the palpi, hence his name. The species is undoubtedly bicomis, Kalt., and is very probably the insect described by Schiner as curvipalpis, Ztt. I found one specimen among a recent lot sent by Mr. Hainm, I have taken seven myself, Mr. Collin tells me he has taken it also, and I have seen two specimens, taken, I believe, in the Clyde district, belonging to Mr. R. Henderson, Glasgow. Bonhill, Dumbartonshire, N.B. : June, 1908. OBSERVATIONS ON EMPIS LIVIDA, L. BY A. H. HAMM. It was with feelings of mingled surprise and delight that I read Mr. Milburn Howlett's most interesting account of the pairing of Empis borealis, which appeared in this Magazine for last October (vol. xliii, ]). 229). The author here showed for the first time that the prey upon which the female feeds during the period of copulation is provided for her by the male. I there and then made a mental re- solve to attempt to confirm the observation, and to witness for myself this extraordinary phenomenon: and my desire has been gratified beyond my expectations. The following brief account of various observations extending from June 25th to July 7th inclusive will, I hope, speak for itself. During an afternoon ramble on June 25th, while in search of Diptera and other insects, I came upon a spot by the roadside, about two miles from Islip, on the London Koad between Islip and Wheat- ley, with a fairly broad grassy margin bounded by a high hedge, on which the herbage was very rank, the ground being of a slightly marshy nature. At this spot many individuals of Empis livida were seen resting on the leaves of various plants and grass stems. These 182 [August, insects were entirely without prey, and 1 waited for some time in the hope that I might be rewarded later in the evening with some ma- terial to supplement Professor Poulton's recent paper on ' Predaceous Insects and their Prey."* Just after 7 p.m. I saw the first male and female in copula, the female being in possession of prey ; I then observed another pair hanging from a grass stem, the female also with prey. I continued to find fresh examples at intervals of a few minutes until six pairs in cop. had been captured, and in all of these the female was in possession of prey. It then occurred to me that if I abandoned the search for specimens in cop. I might perhaps witness the act of pairing. I accordingly fixed my attention upon the females, as far as I could see without prey, at rest on the herbage, &c. In a short time one of these females took to flight, and was almost imme- diately joined by several others. Together they slowly circled round aud round in a kind of maypole dance, about thi'ee or four feet from the ground: so slow was their flight that ample opportunity for care- ful observation was afforded. After circling round a few times a male suddenly appeared among the dancers, having probably flown from the high hedge near by. He singled out a female and immediately gave chase. I then instantly netted the pair and found the prey which had been dropped into the net. The remaining females then settled down again on the grass stems, &c. After a short interval the same scene was again enacted, and the pair netted before copulation had taken place. In this way four pairs were captured, and in every case the prey was dropped in the net. In two instances the flies which had been captured as prey were apparently uninjured aud walked about the net. In another case as the male was chasing the female, and a few inches behind, 1 purposely interposed the net between them and captured the hindmost individual, and found as expected that it was a male with prey. After this four other males were seen to pursue females in the manner de- scribed above. These were watched very carefully to see, if possible, when and how the prey was transferred from one sex to the other. When the male overtook the female there was a brief struggle in the air ; when this was over, the insects at once came to rest on the herbage, and were found to be paired. Only two or three seconds intervened betwreen the time when the male overtook the female and the moment when they came to rest ; so far as I could see the female was always in possession of the prey at the moment of alighting. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 190S, p. 323. 1908.] 183 Although 1 carefully examined every unpaired Eemale seen at post- anal the number was considerable— in no instance did 1 find an example with prey. The next observations were made on June 27th, when Mr. Gr. H. Grosvenor and I visited Bagley Wood, near Oxford. At 6.40 p.m. we came upon a very damp spot thickly overgrown with rushes (Juncus), on which were resting many individuals of this species. We decided to watch events, and soon found several pairs in cop., some of which were captured ; in all cases the female was noted to be in possession of the prey. In one instance we were able to watch the female squeezing the prey continually, probably the better to ob- tain the juices. We were not ouly enabled to confirm my previous observation of a day or two before, but to add a few details unnoted on that occasion. Those found at rest in cop. were closely observed, and it was seen that the male hung by its anterior pair of legs to the edge of a leaf or grass stem, supporting the whole weight of the female and her prey ; the intermediate and posterior pairs of legs were tightly clasped round the female. A few males with prey were also seen settled upon the rushes, and these were carefully examined in order to ascertain the manner of holding the prey. From these observations we were perfectly satisfied that the prey was entirely free from the proboscis, being apparently held by the intermediate and posterior pairs of legs. In some cases, when the prey was rather large, an anterior leg would also be used for holding it, and the male Empid would then hang by one leg only. In one instance three males with prey were seen within a few inches of one another ; one of these was boxed, and still retained its hold upon the prey for a minute or so after capture ; another male with prey under observation rose to a female which was circling round quite close to it, and imme- diately paired in the air in the usual way. The insects were then netted as they were flying locked together. Another male, with a Tortrix viridana as prey, was seen to give chase to a female, and in my eagerness to secure the two I lost the female. We found no difficulty in distinguishing the sexes on the wing. The females fly very evenly and slowly round and round, while the flight of the male is more clumsy, due probably in some measure to the fact that he is burdened by the prey, which, when not too small, can be distinguished during flight ; the male, furthermore, looks much browner than the female. Further confirmation was afforded on June 29th when 1 visited " Mud Lane," just off the Cowley Eoad, Oxford ; here, at 7.18 p.m., in a ditch bordering Lincoln College Cricket Ground, wex-e found a 184 [August, number of the same species Six males were seen to give chase to females as they were circling round, and in each case both male and female were netted and the prey found in the net ; in one instance the male retained possession of the prey, and walked up the side of the net still holding it. One pair was captured in cop., the prey being in possession of the female ; in another case two males wen; seen simultaneously to give chase to the same female. All three Empids were netted, and two insects captured as prey were found lying in the bottom of the net. On one occasion a male was observed to chase a female and to be repelled twice; at its third attempt the male was netted, ami nn prey was found in this instance. Visits were also made to the last named locality on the evenings of June 30th, July 1st, 2nd, 4th, 6th and 7th, and on each occasion many observations were made almost identical with those narrated above. The above observations entirely confirm Mr. Hewlett's conclu- sions. The following interesting questions are raised : —(I) Does the male of Empis livicla devour prey, and if so, to wh -alton, Huddersfield : Julg 11th, 1908. Macaria liturata var. nigrofulvata in Yorkshire. — In the wood near Sheffield where I captured the >S'. alpestris, and on the same visit, I took a specimen of the variety nigrojulvata of Macaria liturata. This very striking form has of late years been taken in some numbers in Delamere Forest, in Cheshire, but scarcely anywhere else, and has not previously been recorded from Yorkshire. Curiously, it was the only specimen of liturata I saw that day, nor did my companions see any so far as I know. The fine slaty melanic form of T'enttsia cambricaria occurred not uncommonly to all of us. — Id. Q 186 l August, " Is Scoparia dubitalis a root- or a moss-feeder 1 " — In Lho last volume of this Magazine (p. 42) I asked the question " Is Scoparia dubitalis a root- or a moss- feeder ?" giving my own small experience and that of the late William Maehin. As no answer appeared I endeavoured to find one myself. On May 7th last I paid a visit to a spot where I noticed the imago Hying abundantly at dusk last summer and commenced pulling up the roots of Rumex acetosella without any success ; as there was no moss to examine I tried the decayed vegetable matter and at once found a larva (a very dingy one even for a Scoparia !) feeding just beneath the surface under a very slight web ; upon placing it with a handful of its food in a glass vase it obligingly spun its web against the side and fed for two or three more days, as quite a pile of frass testified, and then left, to spin up in a neat little earth- covered cocoon of grey silk, about an inch from where it had been feeding. A $ appeared on June 9th. From the above remarks it would seem that the larva is neither a moss- nor root-feeder, unless my solitary larva differed in its taste from its brethren. I quite expected to find it feeding in spun-together roots of R. aceto- sella— \. Thurnall, Thornton Heath: July 3rd, 1908. Tachytes pectinipes, Linn., and its prey. — As evidence about the prey of this species seems conflicting (vide Saunders' llymenoptera Aculeata, p. 80), it may be well to put on record the capture of a specimen here which was storing a good sized grasshopper. It was dragging the semi-paralyzed Orthopteron, about six times its own weight, by a series of rapid dashes up the face of an almost perpendicular rock to its burrow in a sandy crevice seven feet high. — Willoughby Gardner, Deganwy, North Wales : July \0th, 1908. Nomada guttulata at Sivanage, Dorset. — Both sexes of this rare inquiline were visiting the flowers of Veronica channedrys on the cliffs in the early part of last June. It seemed, however, to be rare there as elsewhere, for I saw no more than seven specimens in as many days devoted solely to it. Close observation of two colonies (in full working order) of Andrena cingulata, on which, according to Frieso, N. guttulata is probably parasitic, produced nothing to support his view ; on the other hand, the burrows of A. nana, which was the only other Andrena patronising the Veronica, seemed equally unattractive to the Nomada. Such specimens as I took might easily be passed over, both during flight and at rest, for large examples of N.Jlavoguttata. — C. H. Mortimer, Hohnwood : July, 1908. Metatropis rufescens, Herr.-Schf., in the New Forest. — In the latter half of June I found a good many adult specimens (often in pairs) of this very elegant bug, by sweeping a small patch of Circxa luteliana under the beech trees at Wood Fidley, New Forest. None, however, were seen in any of the earlier stages. In the sweeping-net Metatropis bears a strong superficial resemblance to one of the small light coloured Tipulidsc of the genus Limnobia so common in damp shady places, and is exceedingly active, taking readily to wing, though fortunately it is by no means as fragile as its delicate appearance would lead one to suppose. — J. J. Walker, Oxford : July IQth, 1908. loos.] 187 Mallota cimbiciformli, Fin., in Northamptonxhire. — On July 16th T took an example of the rare Dipteron, Mallota eimbieiformix, Fin., in Ashton Wold, Oundle, on privet blossom. I am indebted to Mr. E. E. Austen for the identification of the specimen in question.— N. Ckarles Rothschild, 6, Chelsea Court, S.W. : July, 1908. Peyomyid itniniftata, v. Ro*.,and P. setaria, Mgn., in North Kent.— With refer- ence to Mr. A. E. J. Carter's article in the June number of this Magazine, T am pleased to be able to record the capture of two males of P. univittata, v. Ros., at Rexley on June 20th. T also take this opportunity of recording the capture of a male of P. setaria, Mgn., at Chattenden on August 19th, 1905. This specimen agrees in most points with the description of P. setaria, Wdm ., in Dr. Meade's " Descriptive List of British Anthomyiidse "; it is not included in the second edition of Mr. VerralPs " List of British Biptera," but Mr. Carter, who has been good enough to compare my specimen with the description in Herr Stein's recent Mono- graph, agrees in its identification as P. setaria, Mgn. — H. W. Andrews, Shirley, Welling, Kent: June 27th, 1908. Jletnctu. 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. II, pp. 495, plates xxviii London : Elliot Stock. Berlin : Friedlander & Sohn. 1907—1908. The second volume of Mr. Tutt's great work on our British butterflies deals with the very interesting little group of the superfamily " Rural ides," known to collectors as " Hairstreaks " (Rurah'nas), and with the first two of our " Blues " (Lycieninse) — the essentially tropical Lampides beetles, a rare visitor to our shores, and our much more familiar " Holly Blue," Celastrina arqiohis. To these seven species 400 pages are devoted, and the fact that the account of the last named butterfly, with a general summary of the tribe (Celastrinidi) to which it is referred, occupies no fewer than 105 pages (pp. 378—482), shows, if further proof were needed, that the work of Mr. Tutt is if possible even more detailed and con- scientious than in the volume on the subject that has already appeared. Every reference to each of these butterflies, from pre-Linnsean times to the present date, would seem to have been brought together by the indefatigable author and his colleagues in the woi'k, and the result is a mass of information which would be positively overwhelming were it not for the clear arrangement with which we are now familiar in Mr. Tutt's books ; though perhaps here and there a little repetition may be noticed. From such a wealth of valuable material it is by no means easy to make choice of any one subject of outstanding interest. We would, however, refer specially to the discussion as to the nature of the green colouring of the under-side of Callo- phrys rwbi (pp. 97 — 99) ; and to the very full account of the life-histories of Edioardsia w-album (of which the generic name, pre-occupied in both Zoology and Botany, is amended by Mr. Tutt on p. 483 to the somewhat quaint title of 188 [August, " Chattendenia "), and of Strymon pruni. The details of the almost universal distribution, in the warmer regions of the Old World, of Lampide.i bceficus, and of its more or less successful attempts to establish itself as a resident in less favoured regions (pp. 358 — 378) will be read with great interest ; and the recorded instances of the occurrence of the species in England, seventeen in all, are critically discussed by the author on pp. 375- -6, with the result that several at least of these records appear to be open to grave doubt. Perhaps the most interesting passage in the book is the practical demonstration, mainly by the exhaustive researches of Dr. Chapman, of the specific identity of the numerous and often very discordant- looking races of Celastrina argiolus occurring throughout the north temperate regions and extending into the tropics of both hemispheres (pp. 399—427). As in the case of the preceding volume, the first eleven chapters (pp. 1 — 80) are devoted to general considerations of the preliminary stages of butterflies, the subjects here dealt with being the " JEstivation and Hibernation of Butterfly Larva? " ; " The Gregarious Habit of Butterfly Larvae," and " Family Habits of Butterfly Larva?." These chapters will be found of exceptional interest, as besides the numerous observations on the larva? of our British Butterflies, a very large amount of detailed and valuable information on the allied and representative species in the Palsearctic and Nearctic regions is here brought together. Indeed, we think it very desirable, in the event of the author not already having this idea in view, that the preliminary chapters of these and the succeeding volumes should be published as a separate work, which would form a most substantial contribution to the general knowledge of our butterflies, and of their allies abroad. The specula- tion on p. 11, that the failure of certain species, such as Pyrameis carditi and our two forms of CoUas, to establish themselves as permanent residents in the British Islands, is due to the inability of their larva? to accommodate their period of hibernation to our winter, is specially interesting and suggestive. The numerous half-tone plates which illustrate this volume, especially those depicting the life-history of the species, fully maintain the high standard of excel- lence reached by those which appeared in Vol I, and we would especially call attention to Plates IV and IX, in which all the stages of Callopkrys rubi and Strymon pruni are clearly and beautifully rendered from photographs by Messrs. A. E. Tonge and Hugh Main.— J. J. W. Birmingham Natural History and Philosophical Society. — The newly constituted Entomological Section (the old Birmingham Entomological Society) held its first meeting after the amalgamation on April 13th. The President, Mr. Geo. T. Bethune-Baeer, in the Chair. The resignation of Mr. Colbran J. Wainwright from the Hon. Secretaryship after nineteen years' service was received with great regret, and Mr. A. H. Martineau was elected to fill the office for the present year. The President exhibited and described some Lycsenidas from Australia, all of which are associated with ants during some portion of their life-history. Mr. II. Willoughby Ellis gave an account of the present knowledge of British Myrmeco- 1908.] 189 philous Lycsenid larvae, and gave a list of records up to date, with remarks on the methods pursued by the ants in obtaining the juices from them. lie also gave an account of the British Myrmecophilous Coleoptera with special mention of the work he and Mr. A. TT. Martineau had carried out in the Midlands during the past year. Mr. A. TT. Martineau exhibited specimens of Formicoxenus nitidulus, Nyl., from the nests of Formica mfa, L , from Knowle (Warwickshire). Mr. Herbert Stone, a piece of " marble ebony " sapwood showing ebony around the galleries of insects, also la nee wood similarly ebonizod. Mr. Hubert Langley, specimens of Asthenia pygmseana, III), and Anybia epilohiella, Roem., from Princethorpe, both species being additions to the Warwickshire List. Mr. H. Willoughby Ellis read a short paper on the present knowledge of the genus Dinarda, Grav., embodying the work of Donisthorpe and Wasmann and his own observations of the species collected from (he nests of Formica rufa, L., and F. sanquinea, Latr., and from a number of specimens received from friends — Alfred H. Martineau, Hon Sec. The South London Entomological and Natural History Society : Thursday, June 25th, 1908. — Mr. Alfred Sich, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. Mr. Tonge exhibited a large species of Mayfly (Ephemera) in the penultimate stage. Mr. Goulton, living larvae of Tethea subtusa taken in Surrey. Mr. Rayward, batches of ova of Macrothylacia riibi found on heather tops at night, when they were very conspicuous. Mr. Edwards reported the capture at Rlackheath of a 6* and 9 Amphidaxys betularia, var. doubledayaria, in cop. Various Members gave notes on this season's captures and observations. Thursday, July 9th, 1908.— The President in the Chair. Mr. Newman exhibited a rayed variety of Abraxas grossulariata. Mr. West (Greenwich), a short series of the local Coleopteron, Dytiscus circumcinctus, from Great Yarmouth, and specimens of the rare Bidessus unistriatus from the same place. Mr. R. Adkin,read a short account of the various meetings held during the Congress of the South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies at Hastings. Messrs. Sich and Step made a few remarks on the excursions made during the Congress. — Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Secretary. HELP-NOTES TOWARDS THE DETERMINATION OP BRITISH TXNTHREDINIDM, &c. (22). sELAXDRIADES (continued) SELANDRIA to STROMBOCEROS. BY THE KEV. F. D. MORICE, M.A., F.E.S. Since the last instalment of these Help-Notes went to press, I have sustained an altogether irreparable loss by the death on March 18th of Pastor Konow. The promise of his assistance— a promise ever since amply fulfilled — was my chief encouragement to undertake this series of papers, and whatever in them hitherto has been of real value is (1 may say without exaggeration) entirely due to 190 [August, him. This summer, had he lived, my debt would have been largely increased ; for we had planned that I should visit him bringing my entire "British "material" of certain troublesome genera (Dolerus, Tenthredopsis, &c.) for final study and comparison with his own collections, before I came to write upon them. It is with no little anxiety that I now face the prospect of having to continue this work without the help that has hitherto made it comparatively easy, and on which T had counter! as available till my task should be completed. Proceeding now in our consideration of the British Selandriads we come to the genus from which the tribe is named, viz., Selandria, King. ; and along with this I propose in the present paper to treat of three other genera, formerly united under the name Sfrongylogaster, Dahlbom, but distinguished by Konow in 1885 as Sfrongylogaster, Thrinacc, and Stromboceros. All species of Selandria and nearly all of the other three genera* possess the verv unusual and easily recognised character of a perfectly simple "open lanceolate cell" (Ent. Mo. Mag., 1903, p. 51, fig. 4,a). An insect having that neuration, along with a broad ovate abdomen, and a costa conspicuously thickened before the stigma, may be set down at once as a Selandria ; but if the abdomen be elongate and cylindrical, and the costa simple, it should be sought in the three other genera. Selandria, Klug. Selandria embraces a fairly large number of "British species — all very uniform in general habit, but divisible by colour into two wrell- marked groups, in one of which the abdomen is red or orange (testa- ceous), while in the other it is entirely or nearly entirely black. The first group have a superficial likeness to Athalia-syecies, while the others mostly resemble (apart from their very different neuration) certain of the more broad-bodied Blennocampids. I can vouch from my own experience for all the species enume- rated in Mr. Cameron's " Monograph " as British insects, except temporalis. Of this 1 can only say that I have seen the specimen so called (from Dumfries) in Mr. Cameron's collection at South Ken- sington, and see no reason to question that author's identification of it with temporalis, Thomson (a species otherwise unknown to me). I am acquainted also with two British species which are not men- tioned in the Monograph, unless perhaps they are identical with forms there described as aberrations respectively of flavens and stramineipes. These are wustnei and furstenberqensis (first described * The exceptions are Strongyloyaster Jilicis, Klusj, and Thrinax (?) sharpi, Cam. 1908.] 191 by Konow in W. R. Z, L885). Both were senl to me from Scotland Mr their captors, wiistnei by the Kev. A. Thornley from Ben Nevis, furstenbergensis by Mr. J. R. Malloch from Arroehar, and both were examined and determined by the author of the species, so that I do not hesitate to include them in the following Table. SYNOPTIC TABLE OF BRITISH SELANDRIA Sj?p. J. Abdomen testaceous -• — Abdomen black 5. 'I. Eyes ahno-t as broad as long. Genre well developed (about as long as the let antennal joint) "• — Eyes about twice as long as broad. Genue narrow (many times shorter than the 1st antennal joint) 4. 3. Apes of clypeus, two basal antennal joints, and prothorax, yellowish or creamy- white. (3rd antennal joint considerably longer than 4th) fiavens, Kl. — Clypeus, antennae, and prothorax black, or at most only narrowly and obscurely rufescent. (3rd antennal joint longer than the 4th, but clearly shorter than in fla vens) wustnei, Kn w. 4. Smaller (7 — 8 mill. long). 3rd antennal joint not as long as the three apical joints together. (A common species in all districts) serva, F. — Larger (9 — 11 mill. long). 3rd antennal joint evidently longer than the three apical joints together. Second medial nerve regularly interstitial (it is only exceptionally so in serva). Last £ ventral segment with a broad rounded apex. (Rare in Southern England, but Mr. Thornley has taken it freely in Lincolnshire, and the " Monograph " calls it " a common Scotch species ") ... sixii, Vollenh. 5. Tegulre white or yellowish 6. — Tegulse black 9- 6. Tempora not margined behind ; pentagonal area not distinct (sec. Thomson and Cameron) temporalis, Th. — Tempora margined behind ; pentagonal area distinct 7. 7. Corners of pronotum wiaely yellowish (enclosing a small black circular spot). Lab rum black. Claws simple .filrstenbergensis, Knw. — Pronotum black. Labrum pale. Claws bifid 8. 8. Abdomen entirely black ( £ and ? ) stramineipes, Kl. — Abdomen white at extreme apex. ( $ only known !). (According to Konow, i, litt., only a $ variety of ttramineipes, " certainly not specifically distinct") analis, Thorns. 9. Legs testaceous yellow morio, F. -- Tarsi and apices of tibiae black, bases of the latter whitish cinereipes, Kl. (= aperta, C.) Strongtlogasteb, Dahlb. Most of the species placed under Strongylogaster in the Mono- 192 [August, 1908. graph belong (sec. Konow) to Thrinax or Stromboceros. Of Strongy- lo(j aster, ua defined by Konow, we seem to have the same three species which occur in Scandinavia and in Germany, viz., cingulatus, F., a very common species, and xanthoceros, Steph. (= geniculatus, Thorns.), and Jilicis, Kl., which are both apparently very rare. All occur on ferns in early summer, aud I have taken both sexes of all three species in one day while collecting with Herr Konow in Mecklenburg. In this country I have only found cingulatus, both sexes of which I have taken pretty abundantly in the New Forest and elsewhere, though both Smith and Cameron speak of the $ £ as extremely rare. Xanthoceros ? I have received from Mr. Donis- thorpe (Sherwood Forest, June, 1907), and another specimen was sent to me for identification in 1907 by Mr. C. Morley. The only British record for filicis known to me is that given in the Monograph " a (J taken by Mr. James Hardy at Wooler in Northumberland"; but according to Herr Konow the Tenthredo atricomi< of Stephens "found near London, but rarely, in Juue " is probably to be referred to jilicis. The Monograph, however, makes atricornis an aberration of cingulatus, and xanthoceros also. But there can be no doubt that the latter = geniculates, and both Thomson and Konow regard its differences from cingulatus as specific. The above species form Thomson's Sectio I of Strongylog aster. When once known they may be distinguished at a glance from those of his Sectio II {Thrinax and Stromboceros) by their much greater size and different style of coloration. They are also more punctured and less shining, and are further separable by the mesotliorax being without " praesterna discreta" (Ent. Mo. Mag., 1903, p. 1 L5, fig. 9). SYNOPTIC TABLE OF BRITISH STRONGYLOGASTER Spp. 1. Claws not bifid. Humeral area in fore-wing divided not far from the apex by a transverse almost perpendicular nerve. Tegulse black. Abdomen quite black in $ , red (more or less black on the dorsum) in the ? without dis- coloured bands at the apices of the segments. Puncturation of abdomen above very coarse and rugose making the surface quite dull and opaque... Jilicis, Kl. Claws bifid. 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It also contains Reviews of all recent scientific works ; Correspondence Columns, which form a medium of scientific discussion and of intercommunication among men of Science ; Accounts of the leading Scientific Serials ; Abstracts of the more valuable papers which appear in foreign journals ; Reports of the Proceedings of the Principal Scientific Societies and Academies of the World ; and Notes on all matters of current scientific interest. (IBSCRIPTIONS TO "NATURK." (To all places Abroad). £ s. d. Yearly 1 10 6 Half- Yearly 0 15 6 Quarterly 0 8 0 & s. d. Nearly 18 0 Half-yearly 0 14 6 Quarterly 0 7 6 Money Orders to be made payable to MA.CMILLA.N and CO., Ltd Office: St. Martin's Street, London, W.C. September, 1908.] \Q% 2. £ abdomen practically quid' red after the second segment. ? antennae black (except the two small basal joints, which are red). Femora red (except, their black bases). Upper half of stigma thickened and dark (opaque)... cingulatus, F. — cJ abdomen distinctly blackened at apex, and more or less streaked transversely with black on the intermediate segments. " antennas testaceous, at least up to the base of the 4th joint. Femora black with their extreme apices whitish. Stigma about equally translucent throughout, testaceous... xanthoceros, Steph. Thrinax, Konow. Iu this genus the 3rd auteunal joint is not as in Strongglogaster and Stromboceros longer than the 4th, but either subequal to it or shorter. In the $ $ the valves forming the saw-sheath have a singular mucronate production at their apices ; and, in some species at least, this makes the saw-sheath when viewed from above or below look actually tridentate. Three British species certainly belong to Thrinax, and I believe also a fourth, viz., Stronr/glogaster sharpi, Cam. The specimens of the latter at South Kensington are in such a deploi"able state that I have found it impossible to examine them satisfactorily, but at any rate they do not belong either to Strongglogaster in Konow's sense or to Stromboceros. They are certainly very small as compared with the other Thrinax species, and their neuration is apparently identical with that of Strongylogaster JiJicis ; but they are as unlike that insect as possible in all other respects, and on the whole, judging from their form, colour, and antennae, I can place them nowhere but iu the present genus. In naming our British species I have as usual followed Konow, ami given in brackets, where they differ, the names employed by Mr. Cameron in the " Monograph." SYNOPTIC TABLE OF BRITISH THRINAX Spp. 1. Lanceolate cell divided not far from the apex by a transverse almost perpen- dicular nervure. Very small species sharpi, C. — Lanceolate cell "open" without cross-nervurc. (Length, about 6— 8 mill.)... 2. 2. " Antennae of $ shorter than body ; lateral mucronations at apex of the saw- sheath in the $? adjacent to each other" (see. Konow in W. E. Z., Jan., 1885) contigua, Konow. (= mixtus, C. and Thorns., nee Klug). — ms.), is used fur this species. R 2 I qn [September, Deville, to whom I sent specimens for corroboration, has been good enough to compare these with Brisout's original types, and is quite satisfied that they are correctly named. He tells me that the insect occurs in France on Lepidium camprstre, Brown. The species comes in the group with the following essential characters : — antennae with 7-jointed funiculus ; femora without teeth ; claws slender, simple. It may be separated from the other British species in the group by the following table : — A. — Suture of elytra without a band of closely placed whitish scales from base to apex. a. — Elytra without a spot of whitish scales on the scutelluin. b. — Elytra black, with distinct double rows of scale-like whitish pubescence on the interstices ; size larger. Long., 2 — 3 mm.... C. assimilis, Payk. bb.~ Elytra more or less blue or violet, scantily clothed with hair-like pubescence on the interstices ; size smaller. c. — Elytra bright blue, greenish, or violet ; thorax usually brassy. Long., 1£ — If mm C. erysimi, F. cc. — Elytra dark blue, sometimes nearly black ; thorax not brassy. Long., 1 — lj mm C. contractus, Marsh. aa.— Elytra with a spot of closely placed white scales on the scutellum. d. — Tegument of elytra black. Long., I5 — 2 mm. .. C. cochlearise, Gryll. dd. — Tegument of elytra, at least in part, reddish. Long., 1^ — 2jmra C. querceti, Gyll. AA. — Suture of elytra with a band of closely placed whitish scales from base to apex.* e. — Band of scales continued to apex of thorax ; base of an- tennae and legs ferruginous. Long., 2 — 2£ mm. .. [C. suturalis, F.] ee. — Band of scales not continued on thorax ; antennae and legs entirely black. Long., I5 — 2 mm. .. C. par vulus, Bris. Ceuthorrltynclius parvulus bears a very strong superficial resem- blance to small O. floralis, Payk., but may be readily separated by its 7-iointed funiculus, and by the different character of the scales on the interstices of the elytra, which are broader ;md whiter, and there- fore more conspicuous. The original description may be found in " L'Abeille," Tome v, p. 441. C. querceti is not unlike the pale form of G. terminatus, Hbst. ; it was added to our list comparatively re- cently by Mr. Champion (Ent. Mo. Mag., xxxv, 142). Specimens of * The scales on the elytra are very liable to be abraded. Since constructing the above table I have seen a number of denuded specimens, in which only a trace of the sutural band is visible ; but these cannot well be mistaken for any other species in the group, if size and the remarkable resemblance to C. floralis are taken into consideration. 1908.] 197 O. cochlearice occasionally occur with 0-jointed funiculus. C.suturnlis has very small claim to be considered a British insect. The other species in the table are all common. It may perhaps be as well to mention that the only British species now remaining in the genus Oeuthorrhynchidius, if we follow Schultze and the latest (1900) European Catalogue, are horridus, Panz , troglodytes, F., rufulus, Duf. (= frontalis, Bris.), dnwsoni, Bris., and barnevilhi, Gren. (= chevrolati, Brit. Cat.), all of which have a 0-jointed funiculus ; tarsal claws dentate on inner side of base ; elytra! interstices with a row of upright bristles; and the dorsal tegu- ments usually reddish. 13, Oppidan's Road, Primrose Hill, N.W. : August llth, 1908. A NEW INDIAN SPECIES OF ANARSIA. BY E. MEYRICK, B.A., F.B.S. The object of describing this new Anarsia is to admit of reference being made to it by Mr. H. Maxwell-Lefroy, the Government Ento- mologist, in his forthcoming Manual of Indian Entomology, as it is a species of some economic importance. Anarsia ephippias, n. sp. o* ?. 11 — 12 mm. Head and thorax pale grey, irrorated with dark grey. Palpi whitish-grey, irrorated with dark grey, second joint suffused with dark fuscous except towards apex, terminal joint in 9 with two oblique dark fuscous bands above middle. Antennae dark grey, beneath pale spotted. Abdomen grey mixed with blackish, apex whitish-ochreous. Fore-wings elongate, narrow, costa slightly arched, apex round-pointed, termen extremely obliquely rounded ; fuscous, irrorated with grey-whitish, and irregularly sprinkled with dark fuscous ; a subtriangular dark fuscous spot on middle of costa, preceded and followed by two or three indis- tinct, dark fuscous, oblique strigulffl ; sometimes fire or six irregular blackish marks arranged as fragments of a median longitudinal streak, but these are often little indicated : cilia grey, irrorated with grey-whitish and a few black specks. Hind- wings grey, thinly scaled and subhyaline towards base, darker posteriorly, in $ veins and termen suffused with dark fuscous ; cilia grey. Pusa, Bengal ; four specimens. Bred in August from larvae feeding amongst spun leaves of AracJ/is hypoycea (ground-nut) (Max- well-Lefroy). Thornhanger, Marlborough August llth, 1908. 198 [September, NOTES on the BRITISH PRAGONFLIES of the " DALE COLLECTION." BT W. J. LUCAS, 13. A., F.E.S. Now that the "Dale Collection," in accordance with the will of the late Charles William Dale, has found a home in Oxford, and is under the care of Prof. E. B. Poulton, it will be possible for ento- mologists to consult it in the Hope Department of the University Museum. To assist the number (still small, but nevertheless increas- ing) of those who are interested in the British Odonata, the following notes of the species contained in the collection have been prepared. To look at, this part of the collection is not prepossessing. The specimens arc often badly set, and in poor, to extremely poor, con- dition ; but as regards historic and scientific interest their importance is of the first order, though one would have liked to find them with a cared-for appearance nevertheless. The majority of the specimens bear labels of some kind— often two, or even more— but still there is unfortunately a considerable number without any sign of history whatever. This is a pity, for James Charles Dale, the father of the late owner, and John Curtis were fellow workers and collectors, and there is little doubt that the figures* in Curtis' " British Entomology " are taken as much from Dale's insects as from his own, and to this is due to some extent the importance of the "Dale Collection." In this paper the Anisopterides are passed in review, the Zijgop- terides being reserved for a later occasion. The former are contained in seven and a half drawers, and comprise the respectable total of 1GS insects. All are here referred to, although it may be possible to say nothing about them except the negative fact that they are un- labelleil. The sex is given in every case. (J. C.) means that the label is in J. C. Dale's handwriting, (C. W.) in that of his son; "filled in " is added if the label is partly printed. There may of course be now and then a little doubt as to the identity of the handwriting, but there usually is not ; that of C. W. Dale is at times barely de- cipherable. Sometimes a label is pinned at the side of an insect ; this is indicated by the addition of " at side." In one or two cases these side labels are apparently incorrect. The numbers in brackets give the order in which the insects stand in the cabinet. Commander J. J. Walker has been kind enough to check the many numbers and dates, and to assist me in recognising the hand- writing of both J. C. and C. W. Dale, though that of the latter could not easily be mistaken. * The drngonflies, however, are three only. 1908.] 199 Libellula depressa.— There are six specimens, two males (1, 2) and one female (4) being without labels. A female (3) is from Whittlesea Mere, July, 1837 (J. 0. in red ink). A female (5) bears three labels, Heme Bay, 1842 (J. C), depressa ? (J. O), and Glanvilles Wootton (at side) ; as does also another female (6), W. Mere (J. C. in red ink), July 16, 1837 (J. C. filled in), and Peterborough (at side). In the case of No. 5, the first and third labels do not agree. Libellula quadrimaculata. — Four males, (7) Wn. Chester (?) 1843; (8) Mid- dlemarsh (J. C. in pencil), and May 11, 1819 (J. C. filled in) ; (9) Scotch, 1847 ; (10) Chant, 46. L. q. praenubila, var. — Two females, (11) Parley (J. C. in pencil) ; (12) Whittle- sea (J. C. in pencil), and June 26, 1818 (J. C. filled in). Libellula fulva. — Six specimens, of which a male (13) and a female (15) are unlabelled. A male (14) is from Hume (J. C. in pencil), July 5, 1837 (J. C. filled in) ; another male (16) has Parley Heath (at side) ; while a third (17) is labelled Ireland, R. W* 1819 (J. C), and Dingle (at side). A female (18) is dated May 19, 1819, and has Hurne (at side). Libellula cancellata. — Again six specimens, three males and three females. Of the males (19) has a blank pink label, (21) has Chant, 46, while (23) has June 24, 1842 (J. C. filled in), and Whittlesea Mere (at, side). The three females each bear two labels (20) Ent. Club, and in addition, from C. W. D. 29/1/1877 (C. W. in pencil) ; (22) Farr, and H. Y. ; (24) Aug. 16, 1837 (J. C. filled in), and Hunting- don (at side). Libellula avrulescens.— Seven examples, one female (28) bearing no label. Of the rest five males are thus described : (25) Cosmore Common, July, 1839 (J. C.) ; (26) July 1, 1839 (J. C. filled in), and Middlemarsh (at side) ; (27) Scotch, 1847 (J. C. probably), and N. B. (at side) ; (29) Ireland, 1819, R. W. (J. C), and Ireland (at side) s (31) Land's End, Augst, 1864 (C. W.), and Land's End (at side). The seventh, a female (30) is from Boseombe Chine, June, 1846 (J. O). Libellula flaveola. — This is one of the moi'e interesting species, owing to the doubt as to whether it breeds in this country, the uncertainty of its appearance and perhaps also the paucity of females pointing to its being a migrant. The cabinet contains seven examples, six males and one female, one of the males (35) being unlabelled. So few British females are known, that this well authenticated example (34) is of considerable importance. Two males (32, 33) and the female (34) appa- rently belong to the same catch, they bear labels (32) Whittlesea, July 16, 37 (in MS.) ; (33) basal is (J. C), and July 16, 1837 (printed label filled in); (34) Whittlesea (J. C. in red ink), July 16, 37 (J. C), and in pl.t July 16, 37, Stilton Fen (J. C). No. 36 is labelled Ent. Club, (37) has two labels, basalis (Stephens' writing probably), and Mr. Stephens. (38) has Whittlesea Mere (at side). Libellula striolata. — Twelve specimens, one male (40) and two females (47, 49) being unlabelled. The other males are— (41) Charmouth, Oct., 67 (C. W.) ; (43) Constantino, 1873 (printed label, 73 filled in) ; (48) Charmouth, Sept*. 1845 (J. O), and Sep. 3, 1845 (J. C. filled in) ; (50) labelled as the last, but with Richard Weaver, probably. t In pluribus (?), 9QA [September, " Glanvilles Wootton " (at side), this side label being probably the wrong one. There are five females with labels — (39) W. Mere, 1812 (J. C. probably); (42) with four labels, 1014 (printed), Dale, Apr 1833 (on the reverse ^f5-), Dale, and I. of Iona, Aug 4 1825; (44) Nov 19 1821 (J. C. filled in), and Glanvilles Wootton (at side) ; (45) Constantine, 1873 (printed label, 73 filled in) ; (46) vulgata (J. C. probably)- The date of No. 44, presumably that on which it was captured, is the latest with which I am acquainted ; I have taken the species myself on November 14th. Libellula meridional-is. — Both specimens of this "casual" are males without record of date or place of capture. No. 51 is described as meridionalis, ) June 10, 1817 (J. C. filled in) ; a female (117) Glanvilles Wootton (at side) ; a female (119) Chant, 46 ; a female (121) Glanvilles Wootton (at side). Mschna pratensis. — The examples of this species are in two groups, some being placed in Drawer 4, others in Drawer 5. There are eight in all, of which a male (125) has no label. The rest are labelled as follows:— a male (122) IT. D. 1843 (J. C.) ; a male (124) Chant, 46 ; a female (123) II. D. 1843 (J. C.) ; a female (126) June 29, 1818 (J. C. filled in), and Parley Heath (at side) ; a male and a female (135, 136) Kirkman's Sale, 1817 (J. C.) ; a female (137) Parfilt, Exeter, 1858, and Devonshire (at side), also aspis ? var. (at side). Anax formosus— Eight specimens of this fine insect, of which one male (127) bears no inscription. The rest are labelled as follows : — a male (128) May 23, 1831 (J. C. filled in) ; a male and a female (129, 133) Chant, 46; a male (131) Mshna (in pencil) ; a female (130) July 28, 1819 (J. C. filled in), and Parley Heath (at side); a female (132) Ent. Club; a female (134) Glanvilles Wootton (at side). Mschna mixta. — This insect, not long since considered so scarce as British, is well represented by seven rather fully labelled specimens : — a male (140) Black Pond, 7.9.01 (W. J. L.)* ; a male (141) Curtis. Dover (in pencil), and Dover (at side) ; a female (138) Ent. Club, and W. Christy Jersey ; a female (139) Ent. Club ; a female (142) Yarmouth, Pagett, f. Parr, June, 1849 (J. C), and Suffolk (at side) ; a female (143) Walton, 1844 (J. C.) ; a female (144) Gl. Wootton, July, 1807 or 8 ? (J. C), July c. 1807 (at side, J. C. filled in), also Glanvilles Wootton (at side). Mschna borealis. — Four specimens, one female (145) being without a label. The other three are from Scotland, as would be expected. They are : — a male (146) Jul. 1854 (J. C. filled in), and Scotch. R. W. 54 (J. C. in pencil) ; a female (147) July, 1847 (J. C. filled in), and Scotch. 181-7. Ilodgkinson (J. C.) ; a female (148) Hannoch, June, 1896 (C. W.J, and Rannoch (at side). Mschna cyanea. — This common species is represented by four examples only, one female (149) bearing no label. The others are:— a male (15W) Herne Bay, 1842 (J. C); a female (151) Kirkman's Sale, 1817 (J. C.) ; a female (152) Glan- villes Wootton (at side). Mschna juncea. — Eight specimens, two only being males. The males are (153) Jul. 1846 (J. C. filled in), and ScotFl- R. W. 1846 (J. C.) ; (160) Loch Swilly, Donegal, Thos. Lighton, Esqr. (? J. C.'s writing), and Ireland (at side). Females : — (151) Jul 21, 1825 (J. C. filled in), and 735, also Scotland (at side); (155) Woolmer Fo. 1842 (J.C.), and Jul 9, 1842 (J. C. filled in); (156) Hannoch, Jane, 1896 (C W.), and Rannoch (at side) ; (157) Penzance, E R Dale, Aug., 1804 (C. W.), and Penzance (at side); (158) British, Dr. Leach (J. C.) ; (159) Man- chester, 1842 (J. C), and Lancashire (at side). * This is one of the author's Surrey specimens. if 08.i 203 JEschna rufescens. — The colled ion contains four only of tin's local Fen species : — a male (162) Norfolk, July, 1905 (C. W.), and Norfolk (at side); a male (163) -June 28, ISIS (.7. C. filled in) ; a female (164) Aug. 5, 1824 (J. C. filled in), and Whittlesea Mere (at side) ; also a male (Kit) with a label bearing 1 1 or II (?). JEshna {sic) grandis. — Four specimens, two, a male (lf>5) and a female (166) being unlabel led. The other two are: — a male (167) Parley Heath (at side) ; a female (168) Kchurch, and Christchurch (at side). (To he continued). NOTES ON PHORIDM IN DUMBARTONSHIRE, WITH DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES. BY J. R. MALLOCH. During the month of March, 1908, I spent some time searching moles' nests in the hope that I might discover some species of PhoridoB which had not yet occurred to me. I succeeded in obtaining from one nest a large number of papas, which, though they did not prove to belong to an unrecorded Bonhill species, were of a species that is generally considered rare, i.e., urbana, Mg., and the closely- allied tJioracica, Mg. I got forty pupa? from the nest and bred about thirty urbana. There was no evidence of any carrion having been in or about the nest, so that the inference is that the larva? fed upon the mouldy grass, &c, which formed the outer portion of the nest. A peculiar feature about the emergence of the flies is that they sometimes took forty-eight hours to develop their wings. I paid particular attention to most of them and I did not observe one case in which the wings developed in less than twelve hours. I have taken other species, notably the allied curvinervis, Beck., and also abdominal is, Fin., in an undeveloped condition, but they always attained maturity in an hour or two. Possibly the underground habitat may have something to do with this peculiarity. Another strange thing about the emergence of the specimens is that they began to appear in the beginning of April. All my specimens that I had netted were taken in June. This applies to both species. Dr. Wood gives urbana as occurring under carrion in the spring ; but in the north here even the common curvinervis does not appear till May. The pupae were kept in a cold room, so that artificial conditions could hardly be responsible for their early appearance, especially after onl}r a fortnight's time. 204 [September, Early in spring during the last three years I have taken a species of Phora commonly here which I have confounded with lugubris, Mg. For want of typical specimens of that species I allowed those to remain in my series, and I have given several away to friends as luqubris. Lately I obtained a good series of the true lugubris, and I at once saw that my specimens were quite different and belonged to a species not in the British list. I have accordingly now resolved to describe the species so that it may be possible to clear up this matter a little for others who may be situated as I was before I got sufficient material to assist me. PlIORA INTERMEDIA, 11. sp. J , 9 • Black ; frons shining, short, about half as long as broad, frontal bristles strong, lower row convex ; 3rd joint of antennas large in the £ , moderately large in 9> arista pubescent; palpi in the $ large and broad with weak marginal bristles, in 9 narrow with strong end and weaker marginal bristles ; proboscis in 6* small, in 9 large and projecting beyond the palpi ; thorax shining ; seutellum with four bristles, the basal pair distinctly weaker than the apical ; halteres black ; abdomen hardly shining, 1st and fith segments lengthened in both sexes, 1st segment emarginate posteriorly ; the peculiar patch present at the base of the 2nd segment of the abdomen in lugubris is also seen in this species, but more distinctly ; hypo- pygium large and glossy, smaller than in opaca, but very similar in appearance ; intermedia may always be distinguished by the single process on the right side (viewed from behind) being simple at the tip and not dentated, and also by the pair of processes on the left side being much more dissimilar in size than in opaca, the outer being about three times the size of the inner ; anal protuberance small and black with a few long hairs ; legs black, yellow generally present on all the joints in variable proportion, the fore-tibiae and the tarsi usually pale; fore-tarsi thickened, longer than the tibiae by the length of the last joint ; fore-tibiae with one bristle below the basal third and no apical bristle; inid-tibise with two bristles in the basal third and an outer fringe of short hairs, apical spur long ; hind tibiae with one bristle situated almost on the middle ; wings in the $ tinged with brownish- yellow, in the 9 much darkened ; costa to beyond the middle of the wing, thickened on the outer half and short fringed; 1st division slightly longer than the 2nd ; 3rd vein forked, and distinctly thickened ; 1st thin vein leaving the 3rd thick vein at considerably beyond the fork with a gradual sweep and ending nearly straight at I In- wing tip ; 11 h thin vein ending abruptly in both sexes at about two- thirds to the wing margin. 2 — 2£ mm. This species differs from lugubris, Mg., in the unequal size of the scutellar bristles, in the position of the hind tibial bristles, in the absence of the rectangular twist to the base of the 1st thin vein, in the abbreviated 4th thin vein, and its smaller size. From opaca, Mg., it may be distinguished by the length of the abdominal segments, by i5>08] 205 the characters given in the description referring to the hypopygium, and by the presence of the hind tibial bristle, as well as the differently sized scutellar bristles. The thickened costa and large hypopygiutn will serve to separate it from sublugubris, Wood. The species is very common at Honhill, Dumbartonshire, in May and June every year. Phora vitripennis, Mg., which has hitherto been a very scarce species here, turned up on July 11th this year in a most unexpected manner. I had the impression that the likeliest place to look for this species was in humble bees' nests ; but while searching for small Phoridce on a wall which skirts the highway between Bouhill and Dumbarton, the day being wet, I discovered a number of this insect on a patch of moss. The first specimens I took were a pair in coi). I searched carefully for more, and altogether I took twenty-eight specimens, several of which had the wings in an undeveloped con- dition. The species was just emerging, and I saw one male emerge from the moss, and it looked quite strange with the yellow thorax and minute milk-white wings. Those undeveloped specimens were matured in an hour or two. The $ if taken singly may confuse one if worked out by Dr. Wood's table, as the costa extends beyond the middle of the wing, the 2nd division being quite 1| times the 1st. The hind tibial bristles are constant however. Bouhill, Dumbartonshire, N.B. : July, 1908. HYADINA NITIDA, Mcq., A SPECIES OF DIPTERA NEW TO THE BRITISH LIST. BY J. R. MALLOCH. Last September 1 found at Bouhill, Dumbartonshire, a specimen belonging to the genus Hyadina, which I had some doubt about, and 1 submitted it to Mr. Collin, who returned it as nitida, Mcq. The genus comes next to Philhygria in our list, aud the species may bo distinguished from that genus by the bristles on the sides of the face being much finer, by the shining brownish colour of the insects, and by the matt black marks on the scutelluin and, except in nitida, on the pleura?. The following table should serve to distinguish the species : — 206 [September, 1 (2) Scutellum entirely matt black scutellata, Hal. 2 (1) Scutellum with central part shining. 3 (■!•) Pleura; with matt black spots guttata, Fin. •4 (3) Pleura; without matt black spots nitida, Mcq. The clear spots on each side of the outer cross vein in guttata are absent in nitida, and in the latter the 5th vein is much less distinctly bent before the cross vein, and the legs are paler. All three species occurred abundantly at Bonhill in May and June of this year. Bonhill, Dumbartonshire, N.B. : June, 1908. Additional localities for Anisotoma flavicornis, Ch. Brisoul. — We are indebted to Mr. N. 11. Joy for the first record of this species as British. It will be found, I think, that nearly all the examples standing in our collections under the name A. parvula are really A. flavicornis. At any rate, that is the case as regards my own series of nineteen specimens, seventeen apparently belonging to A. flavicornis and two to A. parvula. The sharply toothed posterior femora of the $ of A. flavi- cornis, as stated by Mr. Joy, readily distinguishes that species, but the females of the two insects are by no means easily separable, the colour of the antennal club not being a reliable character. My own A. flavicornis are all from Kent or Surrey — Darenth Wood, Cobham Park, Whitstable, Caterham, Mickleham, Claygate, and Guildford (some of these localities being quoted by Canon Fowler, on my authority, for A. parvula) and my two A. parvula are from Chattenden and Chatham re- spectively.— Gc. C. Champion, Horsell, Woking : August IZth, 1908. Supplementary note on Mr. N. H. Joifs list of Scilly Island Coleoptera. — Mr. Joy, in his valuable "Note on the Coleoptera of the Scilly Islands" (antea, pp. 175 — 178), appears to have overlooked my Supplementary List [Ent. Mo. Mag , xxxv, pp. 15(3, 157 (July, 1899)], bringing up the total number of species from 126 to 162. Amongst the 36 additions to my first list, 23 are not included by Mr. Joy, and 13 (out of his 139 said to have not been previously recorded) have to be de- ducted, making the present number 275. It may be remarked that I made my head-quarters on St. Mary's, whereas Mr. Joy spent his time on Tresco, which I visited for a lew hours only. This island, with its large freshwater-lake, and its beautiful sheltered shrubberies and gardens, is evidently, as might be expected, a much more favourable hunting-ground than the wind-swept treeless, St. Mary's, as shown by the large number of species (200) met with by Mr. Joy. Apparently he found no trace of I'leuropltorus (Psammobius) acsus, which is said to have occurred on Tresco. This may be the insect alluded to by Mr. Holme ? I'issodes notatus and Jli/lastes ater are, of course, introduced forms. Doubtless others of the same class will yet be found there. — Id. : August Ylth, 1908. i9o8.] 207 Further captures of Malachius oulneratus, Ab., in Kent. — Saving had occasion, a day or two ago, to refer to Mr. Q-. K. Waterhouse's Catalogue of British Coleo- ptera (1858), a particular name attracted my attention— p. 57, Malachius, sp. 5, spinosus, Er. ? Knowing how very ("ireful my father was, I wondered why he had included that species in his list. 1 looked in Ids collection, and, somewhat to my surprise, found live specimens standing under that name. On the first- is written, " Malachius spinosus, ?, Erichs.," and on the hack of that label, " Kiesenw.," so I presume it. was identified by Kiesenwetter. The insect was captured in Sheppey,on June 29th, 1856. The second specimen was taken on the opposite banks of the Med way, near Ilpnor, on May 31st, 1857, and the others in Sheppey on June 2ist, 1858. These are all referable to M. vulneratus, Ab. Rye, it may be observed, also included M. spinosus, in his " British Beetles " (1866, p. 258), and it is difficult to understand why the species has been quietly dropped out of our lists. I have already recorded the capture of .17. vulneratus by Dr. Power in Sheppey, in June, 18of) (Ent. Mo. Mag., xli, p. 'S-'-i). His specimens, as well as those in my father's collection, are all of the female sex — E. A. Wateuhouse, British Museum (Natural History), Crom- well Eoad, S.W. : August llth, 1908. Colias edusa,Sfc.,in 1908. — In my visits to the Isle of Sheppey, annually made in August from 1904- onwards, a good look-out has always been kept for Colias edusa. This year, for the first time since 1901 (Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xl, p. 256), this erratic butterfly has put in an appearance in some numbers ; the first specimen was observed on July 29th, and a week later it was sufficiently common to admit of a dozen or more being seen in the course of a sunny morning, in the lucerne-fields within a couple of miles of Sheerness. Up to the date of my leaving the Island, August 18th, the number of $ s has been out of all proportion to that of the other sex, only four $ s in all having been seen. The specimens that have been taken are for the most part very fine and in brilliant condition, but in all my long experience with this species, I have never before seen it so restless and so active on the wing ; the difficulty of capture being enhanced by the persistent way in which they were " mobbed " by every butterfly, large or small, which came near them in their flight. I could not hear of any having been observed by the local collectors in the early months of the summer, though a solitary $ was taken on September 9fh last year. C. hyale, which has not been taken in Sheppey since 1902, when it was very common, was not seen at all, and Pyrameis cardui, though present, was much scarcer than I had expected from the immigration of the species in June (ante, p. 157). I obtained one larva of Manduca atropos, about three-quarters grown, on August 5th, and heard of others having been found in the potato-fields.— James J. Walker, Oxford : August, 1908. Clunio marinus, Haliday, in Scotland. — On June 27th this year (1908), when collecting marine animals in the rock-pools near Dunbar, Dr. J. II. Ash worth and I had the good fortune to meet with a colony of this curious marine midge. With the exception of one female, all the specimens I secured — about a score — are males They were particularly plentiful on some patches of Laurentia hyhrida, Ceramiunt, 208 [September, and other small sea-weeds. This is, T believe, the first record of C/itnio marinus from Scotland and the east coast of Britain. References to the occurrence of the insect on the coasts of Ireland, Isle of Man, and the South of England will be found in this Magazine for the years 1894 and l'.)(>3. — William Evans, 38, Morningside Park, Edinburgh: July 2ith, 1908. Nephroeerus flavicomis, '/At., at Lyndhurst. — After a lapse of eleven years I have once more had the good fortune to take, on July 28th last, in my garden here, a ? specimen of this rare Dipteron. — h\ C. Adams, Fern Cottage, Lyndhurst : August 2nd, 1908. Ukuieur. Pkactical Hints fob the Field Lepidopteeist : by J. W. Tutt, F.E.S. Second Edition, Part I. London : Elliot Stock, 62, Paternoster Row, E.C. Berlin : R. Friedlander & Sohn. April, 1908. In a previous number of this Magazine (vol. xli, p. 73) we had the pleasure of noticing Mr. Tutt's very useful and comprehensive work under the above title. The first edition of ': Practical Hints " being now in the hands of nearly every advanced student of the Order Lepidoptera in our Islands, and thus being out of print, the indefatigable compiler has found time in the intervals of the other work on which he is engaged to bring out a new edition. This is substantially the same as the first, with the addition to Part I of several Chapters, separately paged (1) — (28), dealing with matters of general interest to the Lepidopterist ; and it is with these new chapters that we are now mostly concerned. The first is devoted to the apparatus required for a day's work in the field, according to the author's experience of many years ; and Chapter II is occupied with the various methods of killing Lepidopterous insects in the best condition for setting. The old-fashioned but very useful " laurel-jar " is described on p. (6) ; but in our own experience we find the laurel equally effective and much less likely to "go wrong" when simply cut up finely and not bruised as recommended. Chapter III deals with " Pinning," and in the next chapter the case for the various kinds of pins— enamelled black, gilt, and plain white or "silvered " — is decided in favour of the first-named, though we notice that the Curators of most, if not all, the chief public collections are unswerv- ing in their adherence to the last, as well as to the " high setting " alluded to on p. (19) in the very interesting and practical Chapter V on " Setting Lepidoptera." The methods and importance of labelling form the subject of Chapter VI, especial reference being made to the elaborate and detailed system in use in the " Hope Department " of the Oxford University Museum. Chapter VII, entitled " Holiday Collecting," contains on p. (28) a very useful reference list, compiled by the Rev. C. N. Burrows, of papers and notes on the more famous British and Alpine localities, contributed to the " Entomologist's Record." As before, the work is interleaved for the collector's own notes ; and we heartily wish this new edition the same success as its predecessor has deservedly gained. if»08.] 209 $ octet j). The South London Entomological and Natural History Sociuty : Thursday, .Jul;/ 9t/i, 1908.— .Mr. Alfred Sich, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. Mr. Ily. J. Turner exhibited a female specimen of Agriades bellargus caught at Ranmore, measuring only 22 mm. in expanse, and an example of Hesperia malvas from Eastbourne with hind-wings normal, but having coalesced blotches on the fore-wings as in ab. tarax. Mr. Newman, living larva; of Xi/lina semibrunnea with that of X. soda for comparison, pointing out the peculiar green ground tint and the more distinct lateral line of the former. Mr. Adkin, light and dark forms of larva; of Biston hirtaria, pointing out that the difference was permanent through each moult, and that the depth of colour did not seem to depend upon environment. Mr. West (Greenwich) the following Hemiptera taken by him in Juno in the New Forest : — Cicadetta montana, Sigara minutissima, Eysarcoris aineus, and Orthostira cervina. Air. Oarr, the nymph skin of the large Dragonfly Anax imperator, found at Oxshott. Air. Sich, a larva and pupa of Parnassius apollo ? sent by Air. Egbert Sich from the Engadine, Switzerland, and stated that when irritated the larva protruded an osmaterium. Mr. Tutt called attention to the waxy secretion covering the surface of the pupa which effectually secured it from the damp of the marshy ground upon which it pupated. — Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Secretary. ON THE PROCTOTRYPID GENUS ANTJZON, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES AND A TABLE OF THOSE OCCURRING IN BRITAIN. BY THB LATE ARTHUR J. CHITT\r, M.A., F.E.S., &c. {Concluded from page 146). TABLE OF BRITISH SPECIES. ? ?• I. Wings atrophied or almost wanting 1. subapterus, Kieff. II. Wings normally developed. Head reticulate, at least in front of eyes 2. crenulalus, Kieff. Head not reticulate, shagreened, punctured or smooth. A. First section of radius distinctly longer than second, ordinarily two or three times as long, and making an angle with it. a. Head with one or three frontal ridges, stretching from the front ocellus to between the antenna;. a". . Inner branch of the chela; without plates, except sometimes at their ex- tremity ; anterior metatarsus longer than the three following joints united ; head finely shagreened or smooth, a"". Antenna; longer, with 3rd joint three times as long as thick... 3. barbatus, Chitty. b"". Antennae shorter, with 3rd joint at most 2^ times as long as thick. &""". Extremity of the inner branch of the chelae with two or more plates. a."""". Metathorax with three area1 ; antennas reddish-yellow... 4. carinatus, Kieff. S 210 [September, b"""". Metathorax with at most one distinct area ; antennae brown, at least on the apical half. aa. Inner branch of the chela} curved at the end and with a group of very short plates, not exceeding in length a third of the thickness of the branch, middle with a row of bristles as short as the plates ; vertex strongly shagreened 5. arcuatus, Kieff. bb. Inner branch of chelae straight to its end, which bears two plates as long as the thickness of the branch, the middle with bristles as long as the plates ; head dull or slightly shining ; metathorax with a cross ridge, without an area 6. vicinus, Kieff. b""". Extremity of inner branch of chelae without plates ; metathorax without a cross ridge. aaa. Antennae reddish-yellow, thickened at end 7. flavicorais, Dalm. bbb. Antenna} brown, short and not thickened 8. imberbis, Kieff. b". Inner branch of the chelae with one or more rows of dense plates ; fourth joint of the anterior tarsi the longest. x. Head transversely striated with three ridges ; third joint of antennae twice as long as wide 9. tricar inatus, Kieff. xx. Head rugosely punctured with one ridge ; third joint of antennae three times as long as wide 10. kiefferi, Cliitty. b. Head without a frontal ridge, rarely with a little ridge situate before the ocellus, and hardly longer than it ; usually with an impressed longitu- dinal line more or less distinct. z. Wings hyaline, with a transverse band occupying the apical third... 11. infectus (Hal.), Walk. zz. Wings hyaline, at most with a brown spot. y. Inner claw of chelae without lamillse 12. rufulocollis, Chitty (? dorsalis, Nees, ? collaris, Dalm.). yy. Inner claw of chelae with lamillse. s. Prothorax and mesonotum, except the part between the parapsidal furrows, blackish-red ; no frontal furrow ; otherwise like anicar inatus... 13. fuscicollis, Kieff. ss. Prothorax orange, yellow or whitish. t. Insect yellow, with the eyes, a point at the base of the hinder tarsi, and the metathorax, black 14. ephippiger, Dalm. tt. Head, thorax or abdomen mostly black. u. Prothorax as long or a little longer than the mesonotum... 15. claricollis, Kieff. uu. Prothorax longer than the mesonotum. v. Head distinctly punctured in front ; clypeus and face with whitish pubes- cence ; scape hardly longer than third joint of antennae... 16. gaullei, Kieff. vv. Head less distinctly punctured, with no whitish pubescence ; scape distinctly longer than third joint 17- cameroni, Kieff. sss. Prothorax black. o. Fourth joint of anterior tarsi a little shorter than third, first longer than second and third united, third a little shorter than first (the metathorax and inner claw of chela; also different ; but MS. illegible. — C. M.)... 18. longitarsis, Kieff. 1908.] 211 oo. Fourth joint of anterior tarsi hardly longer than third, which is equal to the two following united, and a little longer than the fifth ; metathorax not si lining 19. breeifilis, K it'll'. ooo. Fourth joint of anterior tarsi a little longer than the first, equal to or longer than the fifth; inner claw of chela) with one or two rows of plates ; m eta thorax with three areae. p. Prothorax a third longer than mesothorax, and narrower than it, coriaceous, feehlj shining; wings hyaline 20. graciUcollin, Kieff. pp. Prothorax a third or fourth shorter than the mesonotum ; thorax shining, shagreened, with a few shallow punctures ; wings yellowish on the apical third 21. fusiformis, Kieff. oooo. Fourth joint of anterior tarsi not half as long as first, shorter than fifth ; inner claw of chelae often unarmed, except at the extremity. q. A short ridge placed before the front ocellus and hardly longer than it. r. Metathorax with a transverse curved ridge, forming the boundary between the horizontal and sloping part ; joints of flagellum distinctly longer than wide ; parapsidal furrows distinct for the front half; inner claw of chelae entirely straight -. 22. rectus, Kieff. rr. Metathorax with a large, dull, rugose area ; sixth to ninth joints of antennae not longer than wide ; parapsidal furrows indistinct ; inner claw of chelae curved at the end 23. obscuricomis, Kieff. qq. No trace of a frontal ridge. f. Legs entirely black-brown 24. bracht/cerus, Thorns. f f. Legs, at least the anterior, in part light coloured. g. M etathorax with a transverse ridge. h. Legs clear brown ; head with a very short ridge in front of ocellus... 22. rectus (cf. supra). hh. Trochanters, knees, tibiae and tarsi testaceous-yellow ; hind tibiae brown, except base ; head coriaceous, hardly shining, with an indistinct im- pressed line 25. scoticus, Kieff. gg. Metathorax with one or three areas, more or less distinct ; inner claw of chelae curved at end. i. Metathorax with three quite distinct areae 2<>. triareolatus, Kieff. ii. Metathorax with one indistinct area. j. Intermediate and hind legs brown, knees testaceous ; anterior legs brown with the knees, tibiae and tarsi testaceous ; coxae brown with the apices tastaceous 27. brevicollis, Kieff. jj. Legs and apices of coxae of a bright yellow colour, except the tibiae, which are brown ; second joint, of antennas clear brown... 28. Jlavitarsis, Kieff. jjj- Legs reddish-brown, base and thickened part of femora brown ; parapsidal furrows indistinct ; area well marked 23. obscuricomis (supra). jjjj- Legs black, trochanters, knees, tibiae and tarsi brownish-yellow ; hind tibia; brown 29. curvatus, Kieff. B. First section of radius shorter, or at most as long as second ; radius usually curved. a. First section of radius as long as second; anterior metatarsus longer than the other joints. 8 2 212 [September, x. Inner claw of the chelae unarmed except at the extremity, which is bent and armed with two teeth ; antennae long ; legs, except base of posterior coxre, clear yellow ; nietathorax with a distinct area... 30. .vqualis, Kieff. xx. Inner claw with one or two rows of plates, interrupted before the extremity ; metal borax without a distinct area. s. Mandibles, olypeus, face below, scape, palpi, coxae, and legs yellow ; rest of antennae brown ; third joint of antennae a little shorter than the seupe 31. frontalis, Dalm. ss. Face entirely black, except mandibles and sometimes the clypeus ; third joint of antennae as long as, or longer than, the scape. z. Pronotum at least as long as mesonotum ; head strongly punctured. i. Third joint of antennae five times as long as thick ; flagellum black ; posterior coxae only blackish at the base ; otherwise like procericornis... 32. melanocera, Kieff. ii. Third joint of antennae three and a half times as long as thick ; joints of an- tennae one and two reddish-yellow, three to six brown, seven to ten brownish-yellow 33. crassiscapus, Kieff. zz. Pronotum a little shorter than mesonotum ; head smooth, or shagreened, or very finely punctured ; nietathorax gradually sloping from base. q. Ninth joint of antennas not more than half as long again as thick. r. Antennae, coxoe, and legs transparent yellow. h. Mandibles white with brown teeth ; ninth joint of antennas longer ; wings yellowish 34. viteJlinipes, Kieff. hh. Mandibles clear yellow ; ninth joint shorter ; wings whitish, with nervures and stigma clear yellow 35. longifilis, Kieff. rr. Flagellum brownish-red ; two basal joints of antennae and the legs red... 36. lialidayi, Kieff. qq Ninth joint of antennae at least twice as long as thick ; antenna? black or yellowish-red. v. Head smooth and shining ; mandibles, palpi, antenna?, legs, and coxae yellow ; wings whitish, with nervures and stigma very pale yellow ; third joint of antennae as long as first 37. fbrsteri, Kieff. vv. Head finely punctured or shagreened, shining; wings hyaline and a little yellowish, with nervures and stigma clear yellow ; third joint of antennae distinctly longer than first 38. procericornis, Dalm. aa. First section of radius shorter than second (except in halidayi, which has antennae little shorter than body) ; fourth tarsal joint sometimes as long as the metatarsus. s. Pronotum subquadrate, at least as long as mesonotum. t. Antennae transparent yellow, and as long as the insect... 39. fonyicornis, Dalm. tt. Antennae with flagellum brownish-red, the first two joints and the legs red ; antennae little shorter than body 36. halidayi (cf. supra). ttt. Flagellum black or dark brown ; the first two joints of antennae, base of (bird, coxae and legs clear red 40. declivis, Kieff. 1908.] 213 99. Pronotum a third shorter than mesonotum j black ; mandibles, antennse, coxae, and lege transparent yellbw ; wings hyaline, nervures and stigma very clear yellow 41. pallidinervis, Kieff. A. First section of the radius two or three times as long as the second ; third joint of antennas at most two and a half times as long as thick. a Head with one or three frontal ridges ; scape longer than third joint. x. Metathorax truncate with a curved cross ridge, dividing the horizontal and steep part ; head dull and coriaceous 0- vicinus. xx. Metathorax with one or three arese. s. Parapsidal furrows well marked in front. o. Flagellum beneath, scape, coxae, and legs red 42. flavinervis, Kieff. 00. Antennae black ; the four hind legs mainly dark 23. obscuricornis, B8. Parapsidal furrows wanting, or barely traceable 43. parvus; Kieff. aa. Head without frontal ridge, but usually with a frontal impression in the form of a line. r. Scape a little shorter than the third joint 44. nitidellus, Kieff. rr. Scape as long as the third joint. c. Head almost smooth, shining, indistinctly shagreened or punctured ; meta- thorax without well-defined area 45. fuscoclavatus, Kieff. cc. Head distinctly, densely, and finely punctured ; metathorax with three areas, as dull and rugose as the adjoining parts ; funiculus slighter than two basal joints of antennae 46. JUicornis, Kieff. rrr. Scape distinctly longer than the third joint. f. Metathorax gradually sloping with a triangular area : that is to say, closed above by a straight line 47. triangularis, Kieff. ff. Metathorax with a median area curved above, or without an area. g. Antennae beneath, base of scape and of joints, yellow ; legs yellow, except part of femora and hind tibiae 48. ellimani, Chitty . gg. Antennae and legs entirely pale yellow 49. x a ntho stigma, Kieff. ggg. Antennae black or brown-black. h. Metathorax without a well-marked area. i. Metathorax truncate ; area badly defined ; head shagreened ; third joint of antennae half as long again as thick ; parapsidal furrows indicated by traces or wanting 50. indivisus, Kieff. ii. Metathorax gradually sloping, without an area. j. Head shining, with a puncturation neither close nor distinct; third joint of antennae two and a half times as long as thick ; parapsidal furrows dis- tinct in type, wanting in variety 51 . divisus, Kieff. jj. Head shining and very distinctly punctured ..52. breviventralis, Chitty. hh. Metathorax with one or three well-defined areae. k. Metathorax with one well-marked area. 1. Legs, without, coxae, yellow or testaceous, the posterior sometimes a little brown. m. Coxae black, except at apices 53. trividlis, Kieff. mm. Coxa? and scape entirely yellow 54. jiaviscapus, var., Kieff. 0 1 a [September, 11. Knees, except sometimes those of hind legs, tibiae and tarsi, testaceous; femora and coxa? black or brownish-black (of also indivisus, No. 50). n. Parapsidal furrows well marked 27. brevicollis. mi. Parapsidal furrows little marked. p. Head dull and shagreened ; scape a little longer than third joint ; second joint two and a half times as long as thick ; third joint about double the length of fourth, and longer than third 55. suffolciensis, Chitty. pp. Head shining and densely punctured ; frontal line ;i little marked .. 56- vulgaris, Kicff. kk. Metathorax with three areae- q. Head dull, shagreened ; only traces of parapsidal furrows present... 43. parvus. qq. Head shining; parapsidal furrows wanting or well-marked... 57- succineipes, Kieff. B. First section of the radius hardly longer than the second. t. Scape longer than the third joint 58. minutellus, Kieff. tt. Scape shorter than the third joint 59. nigroclavalus, Kieff. 0. First section of radius equal to or shorter than the second ; scape shorter than third joint ; metathorax without area, u. First section of radius equal to second ; third joint of antennae three to five times as long as thick. v. Head, except sometimes frons, and thorax, shining and smooth... 60. integer, Kieff. vv. Head distinctly punctured, w. Antenna} with the first two joints yellow-red. x. Thorax distinctly punctured 61 . parvicollis, Kieff. xx. Thorax smooth or partly shagreened... 62. pyrenaicus, Kieff., var. caledonicus. ww. Antennae unicolorous black... 63. morlei/i, Chitty. uu. First section of radius shorter than second. y. Third joint of antennae two and a half times as long as thick... 64. curvinervis, Kieff. yy. Third joint of antennae more than three times as long as thick. k. Metathorax truncate, horizontal in its basal half ...65. fractinerms, Kieff. kk. Metathorax gradually sloping from the base 66. hyalinipennis, Kieff. ( 67. beaumonti, Chitty. (Not tabulated by the Author. — C. M.) j _,0 , _, . n. . . v J ' ( 68. lujjnessensis, Chitty. [NOTES ON OTHER SPECIMENS IN MR. CHITTY'S COLLECTION. 2. A. arcnatus, Kieff. — One, Blean Woods, near Favcrsham, 12.0.04 (Chitty) ; one, beaten from white poplar, Bentley Woods, near Ipswich, 11.7.04 (Morley). 2. A. vicinus, Kieff.- One, Holme Fen, 3.6.05 (Chitty) ; one, named Antceon flavicornis, Dalm., by the Rev. T. A. Marshall, among grass at the base of a large aspen on the bank of the Aide at Farnbam, Suffolk, 24.7.99 (Alorlej). 1908.1 215 1. A. imberbis, Kieff. — One, named Antceon brevicornis ( Dal m.), Thorns., by the Rev. T. A. Marshall, beaten from birch or poplar in Assington Thicks. Suffolk, on 21.5.99 (Morley). L. A. earinatus, Kiel}'.— 7.05 (E. Saunders). I. A. infectus (Hal.), Walk., "or scapularis, Hal.; head without frontal ridge." — One, Chesham, 17 6.06 (Chitty). 3. A.gaullei, Kieff — One, Tubney, near Oxford, 1.7.06 (Chitty) ; two, both named Chelogynus ephippiger, Dalm., by Marshall, swept in marshes on bank of the Gripping at Bramford, Suffolk, 7.7.97, and swept from Fumaria officinalis flowers at Tatting- stone, Suffolk, 5.7.99 (Morley). 1. A. gracilicollis, Kieff. — One, bred from nest of Leptothorax acer- vorum, Monks Wood, Hunts. (Chitty). 1. A.fusifonnis, Kieff. — One, swept in the Reydon alder carr, near Southwold, Suffolk, on 4.6.05 (Morley). 1. A. delicatulus, Chitty, MS. (between fusiformis and rectus, Kieff.). — One, named Chelogynus sp., by Marshall, swept in marshes, Ranworth Broad, Norfolk, 15.0.01 (Morley). 3. A. csqualis, Kieff. — Synonymized by Mr. Chitty with Dryinus lucidus, Hal., Curt., Walk., Ent. Mag., 1837, p. 415. Two, named Chelogynus lucidus by Marshall, taken at Whitby on 13 and 20.8.97, and one at Colwyn on 288.91 (Beaumont). 1. A.forsteri, Kieff. — One, Faversham district, 4.6.06 (Chitty). 1. A. longicornis, Dalm. — (Provisionally labelled " oxoniensis, Chitty "). —One, Oxford, 1.7.06 (Chitty). 3. A. melanoleucus, Nees, Mom, 3S8 ; Ent. Mag., 1837, p. 427.— Three, Faversham district, 4.6.06 (Chitty).] ON THE BRITISH SPECIES OF PHORA (Paet II). BY JOHN H. WOOD, M.B. {Concluded from page 174). Formicarum, Verr.— 1 have not come across the insect myself, probably because I have not gone the right way to work. Lubbock, who discovered both the insect and its parasitic habits, says that if a nest of Lasius niger is disturbed at any time in the summer, these small Hies may be seen hovering about and every now and then making a dash at one of the ants. The original specimens appear to have 21(5 [September, 1908. been lost; those I have seen were swept by Mr. Collin in the paddock behind Mr. Verrall's house at Newmarket in August, 1897. Umbrimarqo, Beck. — This iusect may be recoguised at once by the peculiar lie of the supra-antennal bristles. Apparently a common and widely distributed species. My earliest date for it is May 4th, and from thence it continues on to the end of the summer. Sexspinosa, Coll. MS. — A fine and uumistakeable species, known from any of our other species by the six large bristles on the scutellum. Very local. Most of my specimens come from Stoke Wood, where 1 find it in the damper parts. I also have it from Dorstoue and Wapley Hill in the west and north of the county respectively. The only other British locality I know of is Nethy Bridge, where it has been taken both by Colonel Yerbury and Mr. King. Mr. Collin writes that the female is represented in Kowarz's collection, now in the possession of Mr. Verrall. It seems to be double brooded, being on the wing in June and again in August, September and October. Pieta, Lehin. — Scarce, and always to be considered a prize when one is included in the day's bag. The dates and localities for my one male and three females are — <^, Stoke Wood, June 26th, 1903, ? $, Haughwood, May 20th, 1902, Stoke Wood, June 21st, 1900, and July 31st, 1907. Another in Mr. Verrall's collection was taken by Mr. Jenkiuson at Logie, July 8th, 1902. These are the only British ex- amples I know of. Giraudi, Egg. — Here again I have but four representatives, two males and two females. The males were taken at Woolhope, August 16th, 1902, and June 5th, 1905, the females at Westhide, May 17th, 1905, and Coldborough Park, June 12th, 1906. All belong to the black form, in which the whitish genitalia stand out as the most obvious character. The yellow form is represented by a single speci- men in Mr. Verrall's collection, taken by Dr. Sharp in the New Forest in June, 1906. 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Hut even here the resemblance is only in the matter of size, the shape of the organ being different in the two species. It comes, however, much nearer to an insect from the West Indies, the magnipalpis of Aldrich, yet is quite distinct. For in magnipalpis the 1st costal division is not longer than the 2nd (it is more than twice as long in retroversa), the inner branch of the 2nd thick vein is not turned backwards, and the course of the 2nd thin vein is peculiar, being almost parallel to the 1st vein, all which points are clearly shown in a figure of the wing in Brues' Monograph. I have besides another remarkable form with large and bare palpi, belonging to this Section, but as its condition is poor, it will have to stand over for the present. Nudipes, Beck. — Becker described the species from the female, I have only met with the male. I came upon it in the first instance by sweeping two specimens at Woolhopo on May 4th, 190 i ; subsequently two others were captured in Stoke wood, also in the spring of the year (April 1th, 1906, May 15th, 1907). There seems to be very little difference in the sexes. The high and glossy frons, the small and stubby-bristled palpi, and the peculiar sculpture on the hind tibia? are sufficient to prevent confusion with any other species. Fuscinervis, n. sp - I find it wherever I collect. Mr. Collin records it from Chippenham Fen in June, and Mr. Malloch has also sent it me from Bonhill. We may, therefore, conclude that it is a common and widely distributed species. June and July are the times to look for it. A rough and ready way of identifying it is : — the male by the large antenna?, and both sexes by the extremely small angle formed by the branching of the 2nd thick vein. Paludosa, n. sp. — Found only in wet places in June, July, and August, and widely distributed in the county. Cusop Dingle, Tram Inn, Howie Hill, near Eoss, Shobdon Marsh, and the banks of the rivers Wye and Monnow are among the places in which I have met with it. Tn some of its localities it occurs in fair numbers, yet, strange to say, I have never taken the female. The contrast between its pale legs and deep black body, its small size, and broad squat figure are highly characteristic. Spinigera, n. sp. — This fine and very distinct species is, for the present at least, confined to Herefordshire, and even here it is rare and local. In the four years, 1904-07 inclusive, I have accumulated o 1 Q [October, only nine specimens, about equally divided between the sexes. Its period of flight seems also to be unusually brief for a Phora, extend- ing only from the middle of May to the first week in June. With the exception of one from Ashperton Park, all the others were taken in Stoke wood. The extreme extent to which the anterior scutellar bristle is reduced in one of the males, and its small size in all of them, led me originally to treat the sexes as distinct species, placing the male in the Section with only two scutellar bristles. They have, however, so much else in common, that there cannot be a doubt that they are one and the same thing. The female bears a superficial resemblance to the same sex of campestris, but the long projecting ovipositor and very short arista are quite sufficient to distinguish it ; whilst other characteristic features are the two or three strong pleural bristles (only one in campestris), and the wide flattened and arched hind tibia?. Campestris, n. sp. — A common species, occurring as far north at least at Bonhill. It is rather variable in the colour, both of the wings and legs, the darker legs being associated with the clearer wings, and vice versa— an illustration of the general rule governing colour in these insects. Besides the unnamed species alluded to above, under retroversa, there are at least two other forms in my collection with four bristles to the scutellum, which are without a doubt distinct species, but I prefer waiting for more material before introducing them. ON THE BRITISH SPECIES OF ILELOPHORUS, Fab. BY JAMES EDWARDS, E.E.S. The difficulty which I have experienced in the process of deter- mining the British species of Ilelopliorns in my collection leads me to conclude that their differential peculiarities may be restated with advantage. I therefore offer the following table, prepared with the insects before me, in which I have contrasted the best index-characters that I could find for the several species, and 1 believe that the segre- gation of the specimens according to the characters here employed will give a result more satisfactory than that to which we are accustomed. In most of the species there is rather a wide range of variation, both in size and colour. The species of the affinis group are at first sight very difficult but here T had the advantage of possessing examples of all three determined by Herr l.udwig (Jangl- 1908] 219 bauer, without which T certainly could have come to no satisfactory conclusion concerning them. With the view to facilitate reference to extra-British literature I have adopted the names used in the last European catalogue ; they are not, in some cases, those to which we have been accustomed, but I am not in a position to say that they are wrongly applied by the authors of that work. 1 (14) Elytra with a scutellary stria. 2 (3) Elytra black ; 3rd, 5th, and 7th interstices tuberculate... tttberculatus, Gtyll. 3 (2) Interstices not tuberculate. 4 (9) Alternate interstices cariniform and setose. 5 (6) Humeral angle of elytra almost acute rufipes, Bosc. 6 (5) Humeral angle of elytra rounded off. 7 (8) Intermediate furrows on thorax angulated near the middle... porculus, Bedel. 8 (7) Intermediate furrows on thorax nearly as straight as the dorsal one... nubilus, Fab. 9 (4) Alternate interstices not cariniform and setose. 10 (11) Last joint of maxillary palpi symmetrically fusiform. Eleventh elytral interstice not cariniform alternans, Gene. {intermedins, Muls.). 11 (10) Last joint of maxillary palpi more convex on the outer- than on the inner- side, the latter nearly straight. Eleventh elytral interstice cariniform. 12 (13) Joints 2—4 of the hind tarsi successively decreasing in length, the second hardly \\ times as long as the third. Hind margin of last ventral segment evidently denticulate aquations, L. 13 (12) Second joint of the hind tarsi more than \\ times as long as the third, the the latter a little longer than the fourth. Hind margin of the last ventral segment nearly entire wqualis, Thorns. 14 (1) Elytra without a scutellary stria. 15 (18) Last joint of maxillary palpi symmetrically fusiform. 16 (17) Thorax coarsely granulate throughout, its sides strongly rounded before the middle, the subsequent narrowing excavate arvernicus, Muls. 17 (16) Thorax coarsely granulate at the sides only, which are moderately rounded before the middle with the subsequent narrowing straight... brevipalpis, Bedel. 18 (15) Last joint of maxillary palpi more convex on the outer- than the inner- side, the latter nearly straight. 19 (31) The longitudinal furrow on the head widened in front. 20 (34) Thorax widest before the middle. 21 (22) Elytra dark brown with an oblique suffused patch on the basal third, another near the middle of the outer margin, and a sharply-defined T 2 99Q [October, roundish spol near the apical fifth next the suture, on each, yellow... 4-signatus, Bach. (dorsalis, Auett. Angl.). 22 (21) Elytra not as in 4-signatus. 23 (26) Sides of thorax evidently convergent in front as well as behind. 24 (25) Thorax at the base twice as wide as its length down the middle, much narrowed behind. Elytra brown-bronze, or at least with a bronze reflection, the fine punctuation on the interstices in the scutellar region irregular or in double rows viridicoUis. Steph. (eeneipennis, Thorns.). 25 (24) Thorax at the base 1\ times as wide as its length down the middle, but little narrowed behind. Elytra without bronze reflection, the punctures in the interstices in the scutellar region in a single row... dorsalis, Marsh. (muhanti, Rye). 20 (23) Sides of thorax not evidently convergent in front, contracted from the apex to the base in a nearly straight line. 27 (28) Elytral interstices usually quite flat, nearly three times as wide as the length of the section of stria between each puncture. The rows of interstitial punctures relatively more evident than in the two following species by reason of the comparatively smaller size of the punctures in the stria?. Disc of thorax simply punctured affiiiis, Marsh. 28 (27) Elytral interstices usually distinctly convex, less than twice as wide as the section of stria between each puncture. Punctuation of disc of thorax areolate, i.e., the punctures placed singly in the meshes of an impressed irregular reticulation. 29 (30) Elytra, in the lateral aspect, resembling those of brevipalpis ; compared with granularis, longer in proportion to their height, the slope of their apical third very gradual. Flattened part of sides of thorax broad... griseus, Hbst. (Ganglb.). 30 (29) Elytra, in the lateral aspect, shorter in proportion to their height than in brevipalpis and griseus, the slope of their apical third distinctly more abrupt. Flattened part of sides of thorax very narrow... granularis, L. (Ganglb.). (brevicollis, Thorns.). 31 (19) The longitudinal furrow on the head not widened in front. 32 (33) Granulation of thorax about equally strong throughout. Elytra in the lateral aspect distinctly longer in proportion to their height than in viridicoUis, the apical slope more gradual crenatus, Rey. 33 (32) Granulation of thorax somewhat more feeble on the disc than at the sides. Elytra, in the lateral aspect, distinctly shorter in proportion to their height than in viridicoUis, the apical slope more abrupt... strigifrons, Thorns. 34 (20) Thorax widest in the middle. 35 (36) Sides of thorax strongly granulate tat icollis, Thorns. 36 (35) Thorax smooth and shining, at most feebly granulate at the sides... nanus, Sturm. 1908.] 221 U. tuberculafm, Gvl! — This very distinct species lias been but rarely taken in Britain. The best account of its occurrence is that by Mr. Lennon (Ent. Mo. Mag., xxxi, p. 171), who took a single specimen near Dumfries in May, 1895, with Agabus affinis, in a shallow marshy place, far removed from any running water whatever, in the middle of a fir wood much overgrown with long sphagnum. On the Continent it is reputed to occur on peaty ground. H. rufiprs, Bosc— I never found this species in Norfolk, but under the name cinereus, Marsh., it was recorded for that county by Burrell (Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud., 1807, p. 207). Under the name of the Turnip Mud-beetle it forms the subject of Leaflet No. 143 issued by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries. Attention was drawn to it on account of the damage which it caused both in the larval and imago states to turnips growing in Aberdeenshire. H. por cuius, Bedel. — Norfolk examples of this species stood in my collection as ruqosus, 01. (rufipes Bosc.) from 18S2 until quite recently. H. nubilus, Fab. — By far the commonest of the group to which it belongs. H. alternans, Gene. — A submaritime species, sometimes abundant in brackish ditches. H. aquaticus, L. — In the Colesborne district this species presents practically no variation, but in east Norfolk one occasionally met with examples in which the elevation of the alternate interstices on the elytra is very strong. H. cequalis, Thorns. — This is what is known to British collectors as the " small form " of aquaticus, than which latter it is a little smaller with the surface of the elytra in the front half more even and the sculpture of the thorax much more feeble on the disc than at the sides. The material now at my command does not enable me to form any decided opinion as to whether it should be regarded as a distinct species or, as Ganglbauer puts it, an extreme form of aquaticus; field observations would be of great value in this respect. In all the specimens of reputed cequalis in which I have been able to make an accurate measuremen of the joints of the hind tarsi I find that the reduction in the size of the insect is accompanied by the relative proportion of the second and third joints set forth in Thomson's diagnosis ; and, in the few examples in which I have been able to examine this feature, the denticulation of the free edge of 922 [October, the last ventral segment is much less evident than in typical aqua- ticus, but this one would expect to accompany the reduction in size. I should be glad to hear from some Entomologist who has found cequalis really at home, and taken several specimens at the same time and place ; so far I have only heard of it as occurring singly here and there, with the exception of six examples (two of which are before me) taken at the same time by Mr. Champion in the New Forest. H. arvernicus, Muls. — This is chiefly a northern species, and occurs, for the most part, on the muddy banks of streams in hilly districts. It has recently beeu recorded from Devonshire (cf. Ent. Mo. Mag., xliv, p. 33). My Norfolk record of it is an error founded on a large and strongly marked example of qriseus determined for me many years ago by the late T. P. Dossetor. H. brevipalpis, Bedel. — I have found this the most abundant species of the genus wherever I have collected in inland districts in Norfolk and Gloucestershire. H. 4>-signatus, Bach. — This has always been an uncommon species to me ; I first met with it in 1890, when I got three specimens out of a deep brick-lined cavity filled with dirty water, in which there was no visible vegetation, in the fowl-yard of a suburban house at Norwich. At Colesborne it occurs more freely, and one can usually get two or three specimens per annum by dredging in vernal swamps on grass land. H. viridicollis, Steph. — This abundant and exceedingly variable species is, with a little experience, very easy to recognise. It is dis- tinguished from dorsalis by having the elytra bronze or with a bronze reflection, their interstices usually broader and less convex with the parts uear the scutellum bearing fine scattered punctures, and the thorax broader in proportion to its length with the narrowing behind arcuate throughout. I have seen a very handsome example from Aviemore, in coll. Champion, with blackish-green head and thorax and the elytra entirely sordid yellow. I have a specimen selected from a large gathering made at Colesborne, in which the elytral interstices are only subequal in width to the stria? and very convex. H. dorsalis, Marsh. — I his is a strictly submaritime species. Compared with viridicollis the elytra are without bronze reflection, sometimes with pale spots, the interstices narrower and more convex with the fine punctures in single rows throughout, and the thorax 1908.] 223 narrower in proportion to its length with the narrowing behind straight or inclining to concave. R. affinis, Marsh. — An uncommon species, of which the greater number of my specimens are from the " Breck " district of south- west Norfolk; but I have taken single examples on two occasions at Colesborne, and have seen specimens taken by Mr. Champion at Lee, Kent, and in other parts of the London district. H. griseus, Hbst. (Ganglb.). — Next to brevipalpis this is the species which I have taken most frequently. R. granulans, L. (Ganglb.).— This is repued to be a very common species on the Continent, but its claim to be regarded as a British species rests, so far as I know, upon two specimens from Ivillarney, recorded by Blackburn under the name brevicollis, Thorns. (cf. Eut, Mo. Mag., xiii, p. 39) ; two others in the Power collection, from the London district, which seemed to Canon Fowler to agree with a type specimen sent by M. Bedel and the determination by Messrs. Johnson and Halbert (Proc. Eoy. Irish Acad., Ser. 3, vol. vi, p. 612, 1902) of specimens recorded from Killarney by Wollaston (Zoologist, v, 1847) as brevicollis, Thorns. The difference between griseus and granularis in the relative length of the elytra in propor- tion to their height, when viewed from the side, is very evident, and 1 have examined large numbers of griseus without finding one which showed any approach to the proportions proper to granularis. R. crenatus, Rey.— This insect resembles a large viridicollis, from which it is easily distinguished by the middle furrow on the head not widened in front, and the dorsal interstices of the thorax as strongly umbilicate-punctate as the intermediate ones, indeed, the punctua- tion of the entire surface of the thorax might fairly be described as equally strong throughout. The elytral stria? are coarsely and closely punctured, and the interstices are somewhat narrow and convex, but not more so than in many examples of viridicollis. These particulars are taken from a specimen belonging to Mr. Champion and labelled " Ganglbauer, Mte. Legnone." The species is recorded from England by M. Pandelle, and has really nothing to do with viridicollis. 11. stric/ifrons, Thorns. — Of the size and appearance of viridi- collis, but in the lateral aspect the elytra are evidently higher in proportion to their length and the slope of their apical third is distinctly more steep. The middle furrow of the head is not appre- 224 [October, ciably widened in front. The sculpture of the dorsal interstices of the thorax is somewhat less strong than that of the intermediate and lateral ones, but evidently stronger than in viridicollis. The dorsal interstices of the thorax are obliquely impressed near their basal third, and the inner part of their apical two-thirds is gently excavated towards the central channel and thus forms a distinct subelliptic impression ; this character, however, is frequently met with in speci- mens which are obviously nothing but viridicollis, and may be in the example before me only an individual peculiarity. These particulars are taken from a specimen kindly lent to me by Mr. Champion and labelled " Pommern, Goeslin Liillwitz." Our information with regard to this species remains praencally where Blackburn (I.e.) left it in 18/6 ; to him it appeared to be not uncommon in Scotland and Ireland, but he had not seen any English examples. 1 have seen no British specimens of it, nor have 1 met with any fresh record of its occurrence in this country. [I. laticollis, Thorns. —I have taken this species at Horning, and have specimens from Woking ex coll. Champion. H. nanus, Sturm. — Occurs very sparingly in the Colesborne district ; well-marked examples are conspicuous in the water-net by reason of the dark parallellogram common to both elytra. The circumstantial account of it given by Blackburn (I.e.) renders necessary some notice ot 11. planicollis, Thorns. Ganglbaucr treats it as a synonym of viridicollis. I have not seen any specimen possessing the characters laid down for it, and therefore transcribe the material part of Thomson's diagnosis. " H. ceneipenni statura et magnitudine simillimus, prothorace longitudinaliter baud convexo, lateribus par urn rotundatis, elytris minus fortiter punctato-striatis, interstitiis ajqualibus angustioribus, femoribus basi nigro-fuscis dis- tinctus." In the catalogue of British Coleoptern bearing the names of Messrs. Beare and Donisthorpe, obscurus, Muls., is introduced as a distinct species under a separate number with v. shetlandicus, but the better opinion seems to be that obscurus, Muls., is the same as viridicollis, Steph. Kuwert's name was given to specimens from the Shetlands with black metallic shining elytra. Colesborne, Cheltenham : September teh, 1908. I9u8.] 225 CALODERA PROTENSA, Mann : A BRITISH INSECT. BY O. •'• CHAMPION, F.Z.S Two species are confused in ray collection under the name Calodera nigrita, Mmn. One of them is the true C. nigrita, from the London district (the insect found in plenty by Dr. Power in the Hammersmith marshes), and which also occurs at Reigaie, Woking, Iwade (Kent). Colchester, &c. ; the other, found by Mr. B. Harwood at Colchester, is referable to C. protensa, Mann, (humilis, Br.). This addition lo our list is thus characterized by Mulsant and Key (Brevi- pennes, se t. Aleocharaires, p. 536) : — Elongate, subdepressed, very finely and very densely punctured, finely pube- scent, subopaque, black, the mouth, the base of the antennas, the knees, and tarsi rufo-testaceous. Antenna with joint 3 shorter than 2, 7 — 10 moderately trans- verse. Prothorax subquadrate, slightly narrowed behind, not quite so wide as the elytra, obsoletely canaliculate down the middle. Elytra subquadrate, depressed, scarcely longer than the prothorax. Hind body subparallel, very finely and very densely punctate throughout. S . Sixth dorsal segment obtusely or subsinuously truncated at its apical border; sixth ventral segment obtusely angulated at the apex. Length 11, breadth -\ lin. C. protensa differs from G nigrita (the only other European species of the genus with a grooved prothorax) in its smaller size, the shorter antenna, with joints 5 — 10 more transverse and 4 rela- tively smaller, and, more particularly, by the much more densely punctured, duller hind body, with the basal depressions of segments 1_4 finely punctate (instead of rugose as in 0. nigrita). It is found somewhat rarely on river banks in France and Germany. Mr. Har- wood's examples were captured near Colchester, in an osier bed, in the spring of 1900, a locality where he has also taken G nigrita (in 1SSS), C. riparia, and C. cethiops. There are still two other European species of the genus that may yet be found in Britain : C. ulir/inosa, Er., an insect of the same size as G. nigrita, but with the prothorax simply foveate at the base, &c. ; and G. rufescens, Kr., this latter being closely related to G. riparia, but having the hind body more densely punctured, &c. Reddish varieties of nearly all the species of Calodera (and of Ityocara rubens, Er., and Amarochara umbrosa, Er., also) are to be met with, and in some specimens of G. nigrita, G protensa, and G. cethiops the femora and tibia? are very little darker than the tarsi. Horsell : August 'i\st, 1908. 226 [October, SPANISH AND MOORISH MICROLEPIDOPTERA. BY THE RIGHT HON. LORD WALSINGHAM, M.A., LL.IX, P.R.S., &c. {Continued from page 55). PHALONIADAE. 236.— PHALONIA, lib. 1762. — Phalonia reversana, Stgr. Cochylis reversana, Stgr. Stett. Ent. Ztg. XX. 228, No. 43 (1859) 1. Gonchylis reversana, Stgr-Wk. Cut. Lp. Eur. 99, No 72l (1861) 2: Cochylis reversana, Stgr-Wk. Cat. Lp. Eur. 215, No 809 (1871) 3. Gonchylis reversana, Hrtui. MT. Munch. Ent. Ver. 111. 179, No. 869 (1879) 4 ; Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 99, No 1762 (1901) 5 [partim, i. e. " And." ; nee " Bilb.", = versana, Wlsm.]. Rob.: SPAIN (Andalusia) !-5— Cadiz— Cbiclana, V !- 4 ; Ma- laga—Malaga, 17. IV— 8.V.1901 (Wlsm.); Granada - Granada, Larva Hclichrysum sp. (anqustifolium ?) VJ, excl. 7-14. VI. 1901 (Wlsm.). In April and May, at Malaga, and subsequently in June at Granada, I found a Phalonia by no means common among a species of Relichrysum, from which I also bred some specimens. These on comparison with others determined by Ragonot, Staudinger, and Hofmann as " reversana, Stgr." proved to be quite distinct. Seebold [Deutsche Ent. Zts. Iris XL 304 (1898)] omits reference to the original occurrence of reversana in Andalusia, but under this name erroneously records the other species from Bilbao. Among my series of nineteen Andalusian specimens there is a remarkable uniformity, and they are easily separable from the Bilbao and Erench specimens issued by Staudinger and Bang- Haas to cor- respondents under the name of " reversana, Stgr.", these latter appear also absolutely uniform throughout a series of fifteen in my collection. The question naturally arises, which of the two species is the true reversana, Stgr. ? Erom the description it is not difficult to recognise that the Andalusian insect alone represents Staudinger's reversana, described in 1859 from two specimens taken at Chiclana in May. The most important indication, of the actual form before him, is to be found in Staudinger's expression, " fasciis duabus flavo- viridibus," an excellent description of the colour of these markings, standing out as they do, clearly denned upon the white ground-colour. 1908.] 227 The main point of difference between the two forms is to be found in the width of the first fascia. In the species usually accepted as reversana this is narrow, slightly curved, and of a dark colour, whereas in the true reversana it is distinctly wider, usually straighter and more uniform in width up to the middle of the cell, and of a paler olivaceous hue, the ground-colour of the forewings moreover is, although slightly greyish white, much less sprinkled and clouded with grey-brown scales ; the cilia of the true reversana have a yellowish tinge, those of the more clouded northern form are white, with slight sprinkling of brownish grey. The average size of the southern specimens {reversana) is cer- tainly greater, reaching to 17 mm., but occasionally they do not exceed 13 mm. I have seen none which can in any way be regarded as intermediate between the one and the other, and have no hesitation in suggesting the neonym Yersana for ~*reversana, Seebold (Stgr. & Bang-Haas), nee Stgr., And., 1859. 1762 : I. — Phalonia versana, sp. n. = Conchylis *reversana, Seebold Deutsche Ent. Zts. Iris XI. 304 (1898) > ; Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 99, No. 1762 (1901) 2 [partim, i. e. " Bilb." ; nee Stgr., " And.", 1859]. Antennae fawn-white. Palpi white, shaded with fawn-brown on their outer sides. Head and Thorax white, the latter with a slight fawn-brown shade across the middle. Forewings white, mottled with pale fawn-brown, and with a strong darker brown dorsal streak rising before the middle, and a triangular dorsal spot of the same before the tornus ; there is also a small spot of these darker scales beyond the lower angle of the cell, and a few more in a short streak at the base below the costa ; the paler fawn-brown mottling is evenly distributed, showing margins of the white ground-colour between the patches, of which the two most conspicuous are one on the middle of the costa, above the apex of the dorsal streak, and another, rather larger, half-way between this and the apex, a sinuate shade connecting it to the lower end of the termen, and, with some interruption, also to the middle of the dorsum ; the brown dorsal streak is somewhat pinched-in below the fold, thence extending obliquely outward, expanding on the fold and above it, its termination not very clearly defined at about half the width of the cell ; cilia white, mottled with pale fawn-brownish, the termen also shaded with the same. Exp. al. 13 — 14 mm. Hindioings brownish grey ; cilia sinning, silvery whitish. Abdomen brownish grey. Legs fawn-whitish. type, c? (5092) ; $ (5093). Mus. Wlsui. Hah. : NE. SPAIN— Bilbao, V1--'. W. FRANCE— Landes— Dax, Larva Helichrysum, excl. 20. VI. 1876 {Ryt.) : Moebihan — Plouharnel, 25.V— 24.VI {Bgt., Rfm.) : FRANCE {Stgr.). Fifteen specimens. 228 [October, In the late M. Ragonot's copy of Staudinger'a Catalog is the following note on reversana : — " Gull, oc , Vannes, 28. VI., Cannes, V., Bilbao, Helichrysum stacc/ias,^ this refers doubtless entirely to versana (not to reversana). The position of the markings is almost exactly similar to those of the true reversana, Stgr., but the differences above indicated should enable any one to separate the species without hesitation. [I have now another closely allied species from Tenerife, feeding on Artemisia .] TIN EI DAE. 424 — PHYLLONORYCTER, Hb. 4,_,0(j : 1. — PllVLriONORYCTER NEVADENSIS, sp. 11. = Lithocolletis *adenocarpi, Wlsm. Ent. Mo. Mag. XXXVII. 239 (1901), nee. Stgr. Antennae white, faintly barred with pale reddish ochreous. Palpi pale reddish ochreous. Head reddish ochreous ; face while. Thorax reddish ochreous, with some white scales. Forewings shining, bright reddish ochreous, dusted on the costa, on the cell, and on the dorsum with white length-scales, varying but slightly in number and distribution ; without basal or marginal streaks ; costal cilia white, dorsal and terminal cilia whitish ochreous, apical cilia reddish ochreous. Exp. at. 7 min. Hindioings pale grey ; cilia whitish ochreous. Abdomen yellowish. Legs white. Type, S (98051). Mus. Wlsm. llab : SPAIN — Granada — Sierra Nevada, above 5000 ft., Larva Adenocarpus decorticans, 3. VI, excl. 3-7. VI. 1901. Fourteen speci- mens. This is the species referred to by me (/. c.) under the name Lithocolletis adenovarpi, as Hying in myriads, and beaten and bred from Adenocarpus {decorticans) in the Sierra Nevada, near Punta de Veleta, about a day's march east of Granada. It is however quite distinct from Staudinger'a species, being only two-thirds its size, freelv dusted with white scales, and easily distinguished by its white costal cilia. 433.— OPOSTEGA, Z. 4279 : 1. — Opostega ciialcopepla, sp. n. = rosmarinella, Stgr., List (1894) l LN. Antennae pale yellowish ; eyecaps silvery white. Palpi (short) yellowish. Head and Thorax white. Forewings silvery white, with light yellowish brown marginal specks around the apex, and sometimes a spot of the same on the middle ifins] 229 of the dorsum, or scarcely before it ; cilia white; underside sinning, yellowish brown, costa narrowly white, except, at the extreme base, cilia white. Exp. al. 13 — II nun. TUndwings yellowish brown, with a shining, brassy reflection ; cilia white but somewhat smoky, especially toward their base, the costal cilia brownish, except at the apex ; underside slightly paler than the forewings, cilia somewhat smoky_ Abdomen yellowish brown. Legs pale yellowish brown. %>e, S (88647), Coto. Mas. Wlsm. Hab. .- SPAIN (Andalusia) l— Huelva— Coto, 23-24.1 V.1901. S. FRANCE— Cannes, 23.11.1881; Mentone, 20 III. 1893. Seven specimens. Rather larger than menthinella, Mn., from which it is separable by the absence of a golden sheen on the outer half of the forevving, as well as by the shining brassy bindwings, which at once distinguish it from other species of the genus. This is the insect which has been distributed by Dr. Staudinger for many years under the name ros- marinella. I have taken it at Cannes, Mentone, and Coto, where I had no reason to suppose that it was associated with Rosemary, for which reason I have not adopted Staudinger's logonym. (To be continued). HALICTUS LONGULUS, Smith, A SMALL FORM OF H. MALACHURUS, Kiebt. BY EDWARD SAUNDERS, F.R.S. Hal ictus malnchurus and H longulus have stood for many years as distinct species in our list. The latter, however, has not been identified for certain since V. Smith's time. I have had specimens from that author in my collection and have twice taken single examples, one at Ventnor and one at Chobham, which I have referred with doubt to his species, but the £ has never been determined satis- factorily, and I have always felt doubtful whether the specific rank of longulus could be maintained. The smaller size, the slightly less truncate propodeum, the somewhat sparser puncturation of the basal segment of the body were the only characters I could detect in the few examples I possessed, to distinguish it from malacliurus ; so although I have felt bound to keep them distinct until I could get further indications of their identity, I have often wished for an opportunity of finding them at home and in numbers to form a better opinion on the subject. 230 I October, Suoli an opportunity occurred to me at the end of last June, when I found large colonies of longulus in the Isle of Wight, at Totland Bay and Freshwater, the latter being one of Smith's localities ; they burrow in hard pathways (as does also malachurus), and one lnrge colony was in a hard bare patch of ground at the base of the green slope of the downs leading from Freshwater over the cliffs to Alum Bay. The first colony I met with was at Totland Bay just in front of the coastguard station, but I could find no males ; later on, however, I caught males of malachurus abundantly along a hedgerow behind the fort, about 300 yards away from the colony. This puzzled me, especially as I caught a large normal malachurus ? on a yellow com- posite close to the hedge. I watched the colony carefully for days but could not see a sign of a male near it (afterwards T found longulus $ freely at the yellow flowers near the hedge). At Fresh- water I had a very similar experience — there were n > males to be seen flying over the colony (except those of H. morio, which raised my hopes for a moment), and yet about fifty yards off I took H. malachurus £ sparingly about flowers. These experiences were very disappointing ; however, eventually I found a new colony alto- gether between Totland Bay and Freshwater, and there I succeeded in taking males and females freely flying over the same area of ground. All the males were what we know as malachurus, all the females were of the small form which Smith called longulus. The £ is variable in size, but all the specimens are larger than I should have expected as males of longulus. The males of Sphecodes subquadratus, Smith, were also common in the colony, as well as Andrena fulvicrus and humilis, Halictus morio and H. villosulus, so that the pathway exhibited a very lively scene ; at the same time there was nothing to create any doubt that these males were the partners of the females of longulus, and I feel no longer any hesitation in considering it as a small form of malachurus. What the <$ which Smith describes under longulus in the 2nd ed. of his Catalogue of British II ymenoptera may be I do not know, but the description of its " metathorax " (propodeum) does not appear to me to represent that of any species of the cglindricus group. St. Ann's, Woking : September 9th, 1908. 1908.] 231 A NEW BRITISH FLEA. BY THE HON. N. 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Yearly £ *. 1 10 d. 6 0 14 6 Half- Yearly 0 15 6 0 7 6 Quarterly 0 8 0 Yearly Half-yearly Quarterly M.oney Orders to be made payable to MA.CMILLA.N and CO., Ltd Office: St. M.artin's Street, London, W.C. November, 1908.] 24] We return again dissatisfied ; but with our faces homewards, the sun greets us once more, and as wre make our way across the Campfer meadows towards the " Bad," having resolved to take the lower road, ahout 4.30 to 5 p.m., Ino statices v. heydenreichii could be boxed by the dozen, nearly all in copula, and even more commonly geryon v. chrysoccphala, also in the same position ; evidently this is the time of copulation, for another morning and earlier in the afternoon they were feeding, dying, and ovipositing ; I also took one Zygcena v. manni near this spot. The time had come, however, to move on to Pontresina, hoping for better results. Our first afternoon's walk was up the hill on the right side of the stream as we go up it, but beyond one Vanessa io taken at rest below a vast overhanging rock, very little was seen ; however, an occasional Gnophos mendicaria, two glaucinaria, and one or two Psodos quadrifaria, enlivened the walk. Many were the days spent in the Roseg Valley, so they will there- fore be better considered altogether. Parnassius delius was common in both sexes iu a stony spot surrounded by the rushing Roseg streams, where the ¥ could be seen ovipositing on the saxifrage that was in abundance among the stones ; all the specimens I took were very pale indeed, quite different to those on the Bernina Road by the Heu Thai, and also in the Heu Thai itself ; here they were much suffused, but I fear the marshy laud on the Bernina Road will be no more, for the electric railway over the Pass goes through the very ground they love, and it will no doubt be drained by this time ; with delius, Colias phicomone was dying abundantly, and Erebia pharte often strayed over the stones from the grassy side of the stream ; here also it was that I found just emerged from the pupa a male If. rubi within an inch of the water, its cocoon I could find nowhere, and I wondered whether a heavy thunderstorm that raised the height of the streams con- siderably had not placed it under water. Up to this point in the Valley Erebia euryale was common ; tyn- darus was by no means common here, but on the mountain on the way to the Piz Languard both it and melampus occurred, whilst further along the Roseg towards the Tschierva Glacier lappona was in good condition there, I also took a few specimens of mnestra ; Zygcena exulans-vanadis swarmed, both sexes flying briskly in the hot sun or feeding on the flower heads ; Zygcena v. manni also occurred on the same ground. Plusia hochenwarthii was often stopped in its rapid flight and found resting places in my boxes, whilst one P. ain did likewise. 24,9 [November, Returning along the same path nearly all the Zygeenida? that I saw were paired, the time would he about the same as adopted by the genus Ino. The llelitcece that I took along this same valley were all of interest, the best being some beautifully fresh maturna-wolfens- bergeri, which occurred not uncommonly among the honeysuckle before the first bridge; a nice pair of fairly typical aurinia also fell to my net, and one or two merope occurred further up the Valley. On the other side just beyond the bridge, parthenie-varia was not uncommon with a few dictynna. Of the Argynnides, pales was as usual common ; amathusia had seen its best days and was not common, I also took it on the Alp Grumm over the Beruina Pass ; just near the delius ground a very dark Argynnis flew rapidly past which I thought might be a prize aberration, so I gave chase, with the result that a fine fresh dark tlwre was added to my list ; niobe, and its form eris, were not rare in the meadows by the Bernina stream at the end of the village, eris being the commoner of the two. On another day by the Tschierva Glacier one or two (Eneis aello allowed themselves to be captured, and one Pararge liiera near the Hotel de lioseg. Ccenonympha arcania v. satyrion occurred every- where, whilst one or two between it and darwiniana were also taken. With the Lyccenidce in this valley I was disappointed. Chrysophnnus hippothoe was not common, and one or two virgaurecs were seen but not captured. Lyccena argus was not uncommon ; optilete rare in the Roseg Valley, but very common in the Bernina Valley, and up towards the Morteratsch Glacier ; pheretes I only took around and above the Roseg Hotel, whilst orUtulus occupied much the same ground, but was commoner ; eros was taken, also nearer the village but not commonly ; icarus was decidedly rare, eumedon being fairly common ; I took a few bellargus near the village in the meadows; semiarqus and minima were common nearly everywhere, but avion very rare, only two var. obscura falling to my net. Of the Pieridce, P. napi-bryonice occurred sparingly, and one callidice was stopped in her mad (light. In the Bernina Valley I took one Lyccena donzelii, but along the horizontal path towards the Schafberg it was plentiful on the last day of my visit, being unusually late in its appearance. The locality " par excellence " where I should collect in the future would, however, be the Heu Thai, where I only spent three days, none of which were downright real butterfly days, however, the results showed that systematic collecting would be most fruitful. On the best day I had in the valley the sun shone with intense heat during the morning, and at the many rivulets insects assembled on the moist 1908.] 243 ground almost by the thousand. The Lycccnidw occupied the central position, both in numbers and fact, for I should say they numbered ten to one, whilst the other genera always occupied the outskirts of the crowd. So intent were they with the moisture that after placing myself where my shadow would not fall over them and disturb them, in one instance I succeeded in carefully putting seven or eight glass bottomed boxes over selected specimens before the assemblage was " flushed," when they rose as one ; the great majority, however, settled on the same spot within a minute or so, and each box covered three and four, and in one instance six specimens, such as Lycaena pheretes, orbitulus, eros, minima, of unusually large size. Melitcea cynthia occurred in both sexes, the males being very wild in their flight ; v. merope was very plentiful, as also was varia. Aryynnis pales was one of the most abundant species, many being beautifully clear red forms with the markings small, nap&a also occurred, and I took two very pretty aberrations, one very dark, and another bright reddish with the posterior row of black spots confluent with the subterminal row in the primaries, and no other markings except two confluent small dots in the cell. Among the Heterocera, M. rubi again, on July 31st, fell to my net. Anarta cordic/era and melanopa were both captured. Psodos trepidaria occurred here (two specimens), but more commonly on the Piz Languard on the rough ground below the hut ; alpinata was rare ; coracina and quadrifaria everywhere on the lower ground, such as the Koseg and Bernina Valleys. In the Heu Thai, N~. plan- taginis with hospita and floccosa flew in the hot sun. Endrosa roscida v. melanomos and aurita v. ramosa, beautifully suffused with black in some of the internervular spaces, and Lithosia cereola were all taken. Of Zygcenidce I did not take any exulans here, but several v. manni occurred and Ino heydenreichii. Among the genus Crambus I took several that I had not taken before — a nice alienellus, and a second at St. Moritz, a beautiful $ zermattensis and one maculalis, this is I believe a new locality for this species, and radiellus was common. I have not mentioned several species taken in other parts. Golias palceno and ab. herrichi were not uncommon, the former I took spa- ringly everywhere — on the Bernina Pass, at Maloja, and between these spots, it being quite common in the woods between Pontresina and St. Moritz, where also herrichi occurred sparingly. Here I had the pleasure of watching the large black woodpecker for some little time, but of course directly it discovered me it did not show itself again. After the long days' excursions it was not often I felt inclined x 2 24-4 [November, to work the electric lights at night, and they were so numerous and powerful at some of the Hotels that one hardly knew which to take. I took, however, several species, among them being one Acronycta myriccB and several beautiful Dianthcecia ccssia ; Leucania comma was common and very wild in its movements; one Mamestra glauca came within reach. The lively sun-loving little species of the genera Orenaia and Titanio always have an attraction for me, and of the former T took each of the Swiss species lugubralis and helveticalis rarely, rupestralis and alpestralis more commonly; rupestralis was of an unusually dark colour. Titanio phrygialis was abundant everywhere, schrankiana was as usual rarer, and on the whole it is certainly more difficult to catch. I have not enumerated a number of the species of the OeometrcB, having confined myself to the more interesting species. Three Days at Altanen Bad. On our return from Pontresina we decided to make a day or two's stay at Alvanen Bad, tempted so to do by a sight of several captures made by the Rev. C. Travers, who made a short stay there in July, and caught several beautiful Limenitis populi, and also found the pupa?. We therefore stayed there the first three days in August. Returning from the high Alps the heat seemed very great, though this was rendered pleasanter in the beautiful gardens of the Bad Hotel, through which rushed the river, not having lost its glacier colour. Two well-flown females of Aporia cratagi were the only Pieridce taken. Of the Melitcece I took a small series of aurelia, and only ono dictynna. Argynnis dia and amathusia occurred rarely ; niobe and paphia were very common, and very vigorous in the hot sunshine ; aglaia was rare, or rather, I only took one fine female per- fectly fresh. Melanargia galathea was common iu the clearings of the woods. Erebia cethiops, large dark specimens, was fairly common along the edge of the woods just over the river; it was the only re- presentative of the genus. Satyrus cordula was flying high among the pine trees on the side of the hill above the Hotel ; it required hard work and a very steady aim to secure them, for they had a knack of doubling, almost like a tumbler pigeon, and so avoiding the net, but I found that by aiming low, thus keeping the bulk of the net below them, I outwitted their manoeuvres, and so I succeeded in ob- taining a nice series. Pararge hiera, very worn, was the only Pararge that I saw. Among the Lycoenidce the species though few in number were very abundant. Thecla spini occupied the same ground as S. cordula. Lyccena cegon was represented by a single specimen ; corydon was most abundant, as also was damon, the latter is an insect that 1908.] 245 always has a special attraction to me, its under-side is so soft and beautiful. This short list completes the " blues," but it was evidently too late for the majority of butterflies. I took a few species of Heterocera of more or less interest, such as Cymatophora duplaris, Onophos ccelibaria v. spurcarin, Ortholitha limitata and bipunctaria . Lithosia deplana and lurideola were boxed, whilst in the meadows by the river, Zygcena lonicerce and its v. major were not uncommon, transalpine* also occurred in very nice condition, faiista was freshly on the wing, whilst carniolica v. hedysari was com- mon, but had evidently been out some time. The more I see of this genus the more I feel that the male copulates more than once, and 1 am inclined to believe that the female does so as well, for in the case of hedysari I took a very worn female in copula with a well worn male ; in another case I too k a quite fresh female copulated with a male with scarcely any scales. I have found this also to be the case in the Aosta Valley ; well do I remember a meadow covered with scabious flowers, every head seemed to be tenanted with one or more Zyqcenas ; again I noticed that the females require courting, and they can without difficulty prevent copulation by raising the abdomen, and though the male will crawl all over its would-be spouse yet the eleva- tion of the terminal segments of the abdomen was quite effective, and the males each time desisted in the end. Now, it is inconceivable that the old female I found copulated had not done so before, the insects were too plentiful ; my assumption, therefore, is that in the first instance the copulation had not been of long enough duration, and therefore a second act impelled by instinct became necessary. I have never found any insect so insistive as the one under consideration {hedysari) ; I tried to separate two pairs, but come apart they would not, T pulled them so far that the males' clasps were extruded to their farthest point, and both the terminal segments were stretched so far that my tenderer feelings prevailed, seeing that they would evidently prefer death together rather than be separated ; this therefore took place, and I now have the two males with their genitalia fully exposed, for I did not part them till I came home, when having relaxed them I carefully drew them apart, but I had to ease each side of the clasps before the desired end was accomplished. Among the Orambidce I took O. speculalis, pyramidellus and mar- garitellus, so that, taking into consideration the fact that part of my time was occupied with photography I suppose I must not complain at my three days' sojourn at this pleasant Alpine watering place. 19, Clarendon Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham : August, 1908. 94ft [November, A FUKTHER NOTE ON THE COLEOPTERA INHABITING MOLES' NESTS. BY NORMAN II. JOT, M.R.C.S., F.E.S. Since my paper on this subject was issued (Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xlii, pp. 198-202, 237-243) inuch work has been done both here and abroad, and I think it would be of interest now to collect the published records, at any rate so far as this country is concerned. I am also able to add notes kindly supplied me by several friends, particularly by Messrs. Britten, Donisthorpe, and P. Harwood, and by the late Mr. Chitty. Several papers on the Coleoptera occurring in the nests of mammals and birds have been published on the Conti- nent, the most important of which, by Herr H. Bickhardt, appeared in the "Entomologische Blatter" (3 Jahrg., Nr. 6, 7). He gathers together several short and isolated notes, and enumerates 113 species, as having been taken in nests, but many of these can hardly be regarded as anything more than accidental visitors. I prefer to keep to^my original classification of the mole's-nest beetles, viz. : A, those peculiar to the nests ; B, those commonly found in the nests and breeding there, but which also breed elsewhere ; C, the accidental visitors. To the first class five species have been added since my paper was written, viz. : Oxypoda longipes, Muls. ; Quedms longicomis, Kr., Q. nigrocoeruleus, Eey ; Medon castaneus, Gr. ; and Hister marginatus, Er. All these species had been taken in Britain before, but as they were so extremely rare, and have been found so much more commonly and so obviously " at borne " in the moles' nests, there can be no reason- able doubt that this is their natural habitat. These make a total of nine species of beetles specially attached to moles' nests. Aleociiara spadicea, Er., has been recorded as abundant in several localities, and it is curious how very rarely it has been found outside the nest. Besides Berkshire, I have records from Oxford {Walker), Coulsdon, Surrey {Bedwell), Guildford aud Woking {Ohampion), St. Margaret's, Herts, and Cobham, Surrey {OJiitty), Oulton Broad {Donisthorpe). Oxypoda longipes, Muls. — This species was first taken in con- siderable numbers at Malvern in January, 1907, by Mr. Tomlin. They were in somewhat deep nests made of grass in thick clayey ground. It is apparently very local, as the only other records I have from nests are Oxford {Walker) and Suffolk {Bedwell and Donisthorpe). Besides Dr. Sharp's original record for the insect from Scotland, 1908.] 247 Mr. Chitty took it in the same country, and T captured one, certainly not in a mole's nest, in Ross-shire last year. It seems strange that the species should apparently not require a mole's nest for a home in Scotland, as I think it improbable that these were chance captures of specimens bred in moles' nests, the insect having never been taken away from a nest in England. It would be interesting to compare the $ genitalia of Scotch and English specimens. Homalota paradoxa, Rev. — Apparently this is not a common species. It has occurred at Bradfield very sparingly, but Mr. Chitty found it "abundantly " in one nest at Oxford ; and it has also been taken at Huntingfield, Kent (Chitty) and Guildford (Champion). Heterothops nigra, Kr., appears to be the commonest species wherever moles' nests have been examined, but I did not meet with it in the two nests I found near Strathpeffer, Ross-shire, last year. As H. previa, Er., has not been taken in a mole's nest, it is now abundantly clear that these two are distinct species. Qtjedius longicornis, Kr. — Mr. P. Harwood first took five specimens of this species in a mole's nest at Newbury as long ago as November, 190G, and shortly afterwards I came across it near Brad- field. Since then it has been observed in nests at Woking and Guildford (Champion), Oxford (Walker), and Oulton Broad (Donis- tlwrpe). It has also been taken in moles' runs by Mr. Donisthorpe, and in Suffolk (Morley), Great Salkeld (Britten), and Southampton (Pool). The insect is fairly common in nests at Bradfield in January and February, a large proportion of the specimens being then im- mature. The fact that it has been found somewhat commonly in the runs of the mole and " abroad," makes it probable that Q. longicornis leaves the nest after hatching out much more readily than does Q. veccans. Fully mature dark specimens more closely resemble Q. vexans during life than one would suppose, the difference in the length of the antenna? not being conspicuous to the naked eye. The dull thorax is perhaps its best distinguishing character. Q. yexans, Epp. — I think we may probably regard this species as common, and generally distributed throughout Britain, wherever moles are found. Q. NiGROCffiRULEUS, Rey.— It is curious that there should be three species of this genus inhabiting moles' nests, but this appears to be the least common of them. It has been noted at Woking (Champion), St. Margaret's, Herts, and Cobham, Surrey (Chit///), 248 [November, Oulton Broad {Donisthorpe). and Devon {Keys, who also found the larva), and I took it in Cornwall myself this year. Medon castaneus, Gr. — Mr. Walker first took this species in moles' nests in a sandy place near Oxford, and it is probahle that it will be found in other sandy districts. Mr. Chitty bred one out of a nest from Mickleham, and Mr. Champion has taken it in some numbers at "Woking. Hister marginattjs, Er.— In January, 1907, I captured a single specimen of this species in a leaf-nest near Bradfield, and subse- quently found it rather commonly both here and at Bournemouth, and took two specimens in Boss-shire. It has also been taken at Woking {Champion), Oxford {Walker), Huntingfield, Kent, and Cobham, Surrey {Chitty), Oulton Broad {Donisthorpe), and Devon {Keys). I have little to add to my notes on the species in group B. : — Bythinus securiger, Beich., does not appear to have been found by other collectors, but probably only because sedge-nests have not been very carefully sifted. Neuraphes rubicundus, Schaum, I have taken on several occasions. Several species of ChoJeva occur commonly in the nests and no doubt breed there, as I have found immature speci- mens of various species : C. morio, F., I still think is the most characteristic, the others being C. angustata, F., C. cisteloides, Frohl., C. agilis, III., and C. nigrita, Er. I find that the Ptenidiitm, so com- monly found, especially in sedge-nests, is P. atomaroides, Mots., not P. evanescens, Marsh., as recorded by me. Oxytelus fairinairei, Pand., is the most interesting addition to this group, and has occurred at Oxford and Bradfield. Ilomalota ravilla, Er., and Aleochara succicola, Th., should certainly be included here,£but it is probable that Ontho- philus qlobulosus, 01., recorded by Mr. Bedwell, was only attracted by the abnormal foulness of the nest, moles' nests being always quite " sweet." 0. globulosus is undoubtedly a subterranean species. I have collected at various times a few other insects, wood- lice, &c, from moles' nests, and Mr. Donisthorpe has very kindly had several of these named for me by specialists, but nothing of great interest has turned up. I prefer to leave these to be dealt with more fully than I could expect to do by these specialists at some later date. I have, however, carefully collected the fleas that are found so com- monly in the nests, and Mr. N. C. Rothschild has identified the following six species for me: — Ceratophyllus gallince, Schrk. 1908.] 249 (several on two occasions), Ctenophthalmus agyrtes, Heller, C. bisoc- todentatus, Kolen., 0. gracilis, Taschb., O. pentacanlhns, Kothsch., and HystricliopsyUa taipce, Curt. I know of no further records of beetles from the nests of other British mammals. The capture of Oxytelus clypeonitens, Pand., in the nest of a wood-mouse at Bradfield may point to this being the natural habitat of this rare species. Mr. Britten tells me he has often examined nests of the hedgehog, but has always drawn them blank so far as beetles are concerned, and this has been my experience. Bradfield, Berks. : October \\th, 1908. A NEW PAPILIO FROM AFRICA. BY THE HON. L. W. ROTHSCHILD, Pn.D., F.E.8. Papilio leucotjenia, spec. nov. Body sepia colour, eyes with an indistinct creamy border, the femora dirty cream colour, tibia? and tarsi somewhat transparent with a greenish tint, the tarsi being less pale than the tibiae ; abdomen with a creamy spot on each side ventrally at the base, the ventral surface clothed with buffish creamy hairs ; clasper elongate- triangular, the harpe long, somewhat shaped like a hockey stick. Antenna? more than two-thirds the length of the cell of the fore-wing. Wings, above, proximally sepia colour, distally brownish-black ; a straight creamy band across the disc of both wings, traversed by the thinly black veins, the band on fore-wing touching the lower angle of the cell, gradually widening pos- teriorly, being 8 to 10 mm. wide at the hind margin, and becoming a little broader in the centre of the hind-wing, and then narrowing again towards the abdominal margin, whicl) it reaches close to the anal angle ; the outer edge of the band on the hind-wing rounded and at the veins slightly dentate, the inner edge being quite straight and crossing the cell a little distally of the submedian vein ; the disc dusted with creamy scales at the outer edge of the band of the hind-wing ; fore-wing, moreover, with a small creamy subapical spot. Distal margin of fore-wing spotted and scalloped much as in P. mackinnoni, Sharpe (1891), but at the apex much more sti'ongly, the subapical rounded tooth (at the 4th subcostal) distinctly projecting ; the basal half of the fore-wing covered with very numerous short hairs, but there are no cottony streaks. Hind-wing very hairy in the basal half, strongly dentate, with a long spatulate tail, which is shaded with buffish scales, the apex remaining black, the two teeth situated behind the tail long, the fringe spots creamy, resem- bling those of P. mackinnoni. Under-side : fore-wing uuiformly brownish-black from the base to the band, with a creamy spot in the lower angle of the cell, the apical area mottled with pale cinnamon, creamy and blackish, there being a submarginal row of indistinct creamy spots down to the posterior angle. Hind- wing very much variegated with pale 950 [November, cinnamon, blackish and creamy spots, lines and bands, the pattern very irregular, the most prominent markings being as follows : — a more or less distinct black band, a black half-moon between the costa and the cell ending in an ill-defined black cell patch, on the disc an irregular black line externally bordered with cream colour which latter forms a conspicuous spot behind the third radial vein and a hook-shaped spot behind the first median, further disfad a row of cinnamon spots, of which the central ones somewhat resemble a figure 3, while the two upper ones are deeply incurved and paler, distally to these spots a brown- blackish band much shaded with grey, at the outer side of which there is a row of angle-shaped brownish-black spots, upon these follow a row of cinnamon patches centred with blackish ; the tail pale cinnamon, the tip black except at the vein. The cell of the hind-wing broad and strongly rounded at the apex, the subcostal branching off farther from the base than the lower median ; the precostal short, abruptly curved with a short spur on the basal side. Length of fore-wing, 55 mm. Hab. : Bugoge Forest, east of the south end of Lake Kivu, German East Africa, 2100-2300 ui. Two males obtained by Herr B. Grauer in December, 1907. This species has no very near ally, combining some characters of P. mackinnoni and homimani, with characters of P. phorcas. The Museum, Tring : October, 1908. YPONOMEUTA EORELLUS, Hb., IN BRITAIN. EY EUSTACE R. BANKES, M.A., F.E.S. This species was included among the British Lepidoptera by some of our older authors, including Haworth, Stephens, and W. Wood, but, since it eventually turned out that the individuals, to which they had applied the name, were merely forms of Yponomeuta padellus, L., and no evidence of the occurrence of the true rorellus in Britain was forthcoming, it disappeared from our lists more than half a century ago, and has never been reinstated therein. I have much satisfaction, therefore, in now claiming for it a place as a British insect, and in being able to prove that it is fully entitled thereto. On July 26tb, 1895, I took a nice example (not then identified) of T. rorellus in a remote part of the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, and about ten days previously Mr. A. C. Vine observed many, in fine con- dition, at rest on a wall near Brighton, but thinking them referable to one of our common species, he only captured two individuals, just for the sake of comparison. Noticing, however, subsequently that these differed from all his other representatives of the genus, he finally consulted me about them, and a search for further material 1908.] 251 in my many store-boxes full of acquisitions resulted in my finding three old examples, two of which had stood in the Burney collection, and one in the S. Stevens collection, among the irrorellus : their history is unknown to me, but they are obviously of British origin. The specimens from the above-mentioned four sources agree well with Hubner's figure of "rorrella" (fig. 231), and are beyond all doubt specifically identical with those forming the beautiful series of rorellus in the Frey and the Stainton continental collections, with which I compared them last autumn. The insect must, I think, be very rare, as a rule, in this country, and the six examples already referred to are the only extant British ones that are known to me, nor are any included in the sets of allied species in the national British collection. Neither Mr. Vine nor I have seen it again, and unfortunately the orchard grouud, which was opposite the above-mentioned wall, and in which my friend thinks it highly probable that the moths observed in 1S95 had been bred, was soon afterwards built over. Yponomeuta padellus, L., or malinellns, Z., has been observed over the English Channel during migration (Ent. liec.,xix,189 [1907]), but the beautiful condition of all the specimens of rorellus that have, to our knowledge, been noticed in Britain, seems to quite preclude the idea of their having flown from any distance. Y. rorellus, 1Tb. (exp. alar. 25-26 mm.), need never be confused with irrorellus, Hb. (exp. alar. 22-25 mm.), for its ground-colour is whiter, its black spots are decidedly smaller, its grey cloud is fainter and more extensive, and it has no large dark spot on the fold. Its much larger size is, of itself, sufficient to separate it from the grey- clouded white forms of padellus, L. {exp. alar. 17-20 mm.), which it otherwise closely resembles in general facies, as also in the size and position of the black spots. In rorellus, moreover, the grey longitu- dinal cloud extends just below, but does not embrace, the posterior half of the costa, whereas, when padellus shows a similar grey cloud, this envelops the corresponding portion of the costa. Continental authors appear to be agreed that the larva of rorellus feeds in May and June upon sallow, various collectors having found it upon Salix alba, while S. caprea and helix are mentioned, on Hart- mann's authority, by Sorhagen (Kleinschmet. d. M. Brand., 1G3 [1886]), and according to Bossier, as quoted by Kaltenbach in Pflanz. Klas. Insek., 169 (1874), plum must be its food-plant at Darmstadt. Treitschke (Schmet. Eur., ix, 1, 222 [1832]) and Kaltenbach (op. cit., pp. 574-5) give Kollar as responsible for the statement that the insect 252 [November, is double-brooded, and that the larva lives upon sloe and sallow, but, in Vlind. Ned. Micr.,508 (1882), Snellen contends that it feeds "only on sallow (Salix alba), and not on sloe (Prunus spinosa) as Treitsohke says." I have failed to find any confirmation of Kollar's belief that the species produces two broods in the course of the year. Norden, Corfe Castle : May \bth, 1908. NOTOCHILVS HAMULATUS, Thoms., AN ADDITION TO THE LIST OF BRITISH HEMIPTEUA. BY EDWARD SAUNDERS, F.R.S., &c. This species, which closely resembles the common Notochilus con- tractus, H.-S., has probably been overlooked b\r most collectors, and it will probably be found not uncommonly when it is looked for. I have seen several specimens from this country. Mr. Champion has found two in his collection labelled "London district," one of which he has very kindly given to me. Mr. E. A. Butler has also two speci- mens, but without notes of locality, one of these, however, came from Dr. Capron's collection, and so was probably from the neighbourhood of Shiere in Surrey. Mr. West of Lewisham has one taken in rubbish at Lewisham ; he took two specimens in the same spot which he sent to me for examination, they are both of the small size and dark colour of hamulatus, but one of them has all the other characters of con- tractus, and I feel convinced is only a small dark variety of it. N. hamulatus may be known by its smaller size, its rather shorter and therefore thicker looking antenna?, itg shorter pronotum, which is less widened posteriorly (N.B. — both species are macropterous), and rather more closely and more rugosely punctured, its transverse impression rather less strongly marked. The elytra are rather darker, especially at the base, and the spot near the apex is reduced to a minimum, the corium also is less punctured. I bring this forward as it is generally recognised on the Continent as a distinct species ; but I must say I think that the characters which distinguish it from contractus are unusually " slender." St. Ann's, Woking : October 17th, 1908. 1908.] 253 ON THE BRITISH SPECIES OF PIIORA (Past II). BY JOHN II. WOOD, M.B. APPENDIX TO SECTION B. tty an oversight ;i very distinct species, at least in the case of the female, was omitted from its place in the table. It belongs to the small group with bristly pleurae and yellow halteres, and will come next after dubitalis, necessitating the following alteration in the table : — 16a (16$) Costal fringe very long 2 mm. S ■ dubitalis, sp. n. ICyb (L6a) Costal fringe only moderately long. End of female abdomen bright orange. $ $ . Thorax and abdomen black, the latter in female with the whole of the 6th segment and under parts of the 5th of a rich yellow or orange, anterior scutellar bristles half the size of the posterior ones ; frons black, and slightly shining, rather broader than long $ , but of equal dimensions ? , supra-antennal bristles moderately large and nearly equal ; palpi dirty yellow $ , clear yellow $ , broad and strongly bristled ; wings clear or nearly so, their veins fine and dark, 1 barely longer than 2 and shorter than 2 + 3, angle at the fork moderate ; legs black, bristles on hind tibia} fairly large, with the central one plainly the longest ; male abdomen stout, hypopygium not large but with a well developed yellow ventral process, anal organ yellow and of moderate size; ovipositor yellow, large and stout ; halteres slightly clouded at the extreme tip ? , but more extensively