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THE

ENTOMOLOGIST'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE:

CONDUCTED BY

J. W. DOUGLAS. E. C. EYE, F.Z.S.

R. McLACHLAN, F.L.S. H. T. STAINTON, F.R.S.

VOL. XIII.

" Vety close and diligent looking at living creatures, even through the best microscope, will leave room for new and contradictory discoveries!'

" Georoe Eliot."

LONDON: ^^^^y^ JOHN VAN VOORST, 1, PATERNOSTER ROW.

187 6-7.

LOKDON

NAPIEB, PBINTEB, SEYMOUR STREET, EUSTON SQUARE, If.W.

MDCCCLXIVII.

PEEFACE.

We take advantage of the conclusion of the Thirteenth Volume of this Magazine to address a few words to our readers.

From time to time we have heard it said, that thei'e is in it sometimes a deficiency of communications interesting to specially British entomologists. The want, if such is found by some to exist, does not rest with us, for articles of this class have never been declined, provided they were of more than personal interest ; and notes referring particularly to British ento- mology not only have had, but will have, special favour, and are particularly desired. The geographical and insular situation, as well as the climatic condition, of Britain, render all notices of its insect-products not only of local but of general zoological importance, because it is from the accumula- tion of such records that materials for general scientific deductions can be obtained ; but it has always been our aim to make the Magazine something more than a register of transitory information. In both respects, we have reason to know the result is appreciated, both at home and abroad.

With regard to the financial position we have reason to be content. The large amount of small type used in each number, wliile it costs more than the large, enables us to give a greater amount of matter. Then- has never been any intention or desire to mak(> tlie Magazine a means of pecuniary gain, and if a larger number of subscribers increase the fund for expenditure, it will be used for their general benefit by giving more illustrations or matter.

1, Paternoster Row :

May, 1877.

INDEX.

General Index i.

Entomological Society ix.

Special Index xii.

Coleoptera xii

Diptera xiv.

Hemiptera-Heteroptera xiv.

PAGE

List of CoNTKiBuroiis xvi.

Genkra and Species new to Science ... xvii.

,, ,, n •> Britain ... xx.

LARViE OF British Species described... xix.

Revikws ^'X.

„ -Homoptera xiv. ! Obituary xx.

Hymenoptera xiv. I

T ., . Wood-cuts xx.

Lepidoptera xv. i

Keuroptera xvi. Errata xx.

INDEX TO GENERAL SUBJECTS.

PAGE

Abnormal structure of the antenna; of Ilcmiptera ... ... ••• ••• 188

Acari, Note on parasitic ... ... ... ... ... ... ■•• 114,166

Acherontia, On stridulation in the genus ... ... ... ••• ■•• 217

„ Atropos and Sphinx convolvuli at Exeter ... ... ... 138

in the North of Scotland 210,252

Acidalia emarginata, Description of the larva of ... ... .• •.• 1^

Agalliastes Wilkinsoni, Note on . . . ... ... ... ... . • • • • • "•

Ageronia, On strididation in the genus ... ... ••• ••• •■• 207

Agrotis agathina. Food-plant of .. . ... ... •■• ••• ••• ■•• H

„ hyperborea (Pachnobia alpina), Notes on the larva, &c., of... 109, 164, 183 Ampulex. compressa, the destroyer of the common cockroach, A phase in

the history of .. ... ... .. ... •■• ••• ••• °'

Anarta cordigera. Description of the larva, etc., of ... ••■ ••• ••• I-'

„ melanopa, „ „ „ „ „ „ ... •-. •• •■• H

Anesychia bipunctella (echiella) . . . ... ... ... ... •■• ••• 1"^

Aniiotomidse, Description of a new genus of ... ... ■•■ ... ••• '°

Antenna; of Hemiptera, Abnormal structure of the ... ... ... .•• 188

Apatura Iris, Supplementary notes on the larva, &c., of ... ••• ••• 3

Aphalara nervosa. Capture of .. ... ... ••■ ... ••• ••• ""

Arctic Expedition, The insects of the ... ... ... ... ••. ••• 1°1

„ „ „ „ „ „ American (" Polaris " ) 228

Argynnis from Arctic America, Description of a new species of 206

Ascalaphus Kolyvanensis, var. Ponticus (an spec, distincta?) 35

Asthena sylvata, Natui-al history of ... ... ... ••• ■•• ••• 213

Atkinson's collection of East Indian Lepidoptera, Notes on Mr., with de- scriptions of new species of llhopalocera .. ... ... ••• •■• 1'"

Autumnal Homoptera, Scarcity of ... ... ... ••• ••• ••• 1""

Axylia putris. Description of the larva of ... ... ... ■•• ••• 218

Blackmore, Death of Trovey ... ... ... ... •■• ••• ■•• 1'"

British Hemiptera-Heteroptera, Additional species ... ^o

„ „ -Homoptera, On certain ... ... ... .•• ..• 1^0

Tcnthredinidde and Cynipidffi, Notes on ... ... 173,196

PAOE

British Tortrices, Notes on ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 158

Brown, Death of Edwin ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 116

„ 's Collections, The Sale of the late Mr. Edwin 207

Bruchus pisi, Note on ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 181

Buprestidse, Description.s of nine new species of ... ... ... ... 155

,, ,, ,, some ,, „ „ belonging to the genu? Lius 48

Butterflies, Early hibernation of... .. ... ... ... ... ... 04

„ from the Philippine Islands, Descriptions of two new ... ... 178

„ now known to inhabit New Zealand, List of .. ... ... 152

" „ The, of Nortli America ;" by W. II. Edw.irdi : Review ... 168

Captui'e of a black variety of Orthosia suspecta ... ... ... .. 109

,^ „ Aphalara nervosa ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 66

„ „ Catoeala fraxini ... .. ... ... ... ... ... 108

„ „ Cidaria reticulata .. ... ... ... ... ... ... 109

„ „ Deiojjeia pulchella ... .. ... ... ... ... ... 138

„ „ Leucania vitellina in the New Forest ... ... ... ... 64

„ „ Pieris Daplidice near Southend, Essex ... ... .. ... 108

„ ,, Tillus unifasciatus and Xylotrogus brunnnis near London ... 65

Captures at ivy-bloom ... .. ... ... ... .. ... ... 162

„ „ sugar in North Wales in October ... .. ... ... ... 211

„ of Hemiptera, Recent .. ... ... ... ... ... ... 112

„ „ Lepidoptera in East Sussex ... ... .. ... ... 37

„ „ rare Coleoptera, Hemiptera and Ilynienoptera at ChoLham ; in- cluding an Odynerus new to Britain ... ... ... 113

„ „ „ Noctua? in the Isle of Wight 1.39

Cardiophorus rufipes. Occurrence in Britain of ... ... ... ... 227

Catoeala fraxini, Capture of ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 108

„ promissa, Natural History of . . ... ... ... ... 233

Catoptria aspidiscana and Elachista subnigrella, Early appearance of ... 16

Change of generic name (Parthenos, Hiibn.) ... ... ... ... ... 216

Cliermes rhamni. Note on Trioza Walkeri and ... ... ... ... 255

Choerocampa nerii at Hemel Hempstead, Occurrence of ... ... ... 138

Cidaria reticulata. Capture of ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 109

,) ,, , Notes on ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 142

Cleridse, Descriptions of new Cucujida) and ... ... ... ... ... 118

Coleoptera at Aviemore, Inverness-shire, in July, 1876 ... ... ... Ill

„ in the Isle of Man ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 65

Collections of British Lepidoptera ... ... ... ... ... ... 279

Colony of American White-ants at Vienna ... ... ... ... ... 17

Colorado Beetle, The ... ... ... ...181,253

Coremia propugnata. Description of the larva of ... ... 213

Corixa vernicosa and C. Douglasi, Note on ... ... ... ... ... 137

Crambus tristellus, Natural history of ... ... . . ... ... ... l-l,

Cryptoblabes bistriga. Description of tlie larva of ... ... ... ... Ill

CucujidfB and Cleridse, Descriptions of new .. ... ... ... ... 118

Cymatophora flavicornis and Dianthceeia cffisia. Eggs of ... ... ... 210

„ ocularis, Natural history of ... ... ... ... ... 90

Cynipida\ Notes on Britisii Tenthredinidie and ... ... ... ...173,196

PAGE

Daiiais Arcliippvis — a fovcign visitor ... ... ... ... ... ... 107

Deiopcia pulcliella at Bournemouth ... ... ... ... ... ... 139

,, „ „ Brighton ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 163

„ „ „ Neath 163

„ „ „ Torquay ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 163

„ „ , Capture of .. ... ... ... ... ... ... 138

Depressaria costosa, Haw., On a form of ... ... ... ... ... 281

Description of a new genus of Anisotomida; ... ... ... ... ... 78

„ „ „ „ Harma from W. Africa ... 277

„ „ „ „ species of Argynnis from Arctic America ... 206

„ „ „ „ „ „ Ectemnorrhinus from Kerguelen Land ... 51

„ „ „ „ „ „ European Hemiptera-Hefceroptera ... ... 101

„ „ ,, Eupithecia albipunctata, var. angehcata ,., ... ... 278

„ „ the larva and habits of Lobophora viretata ... ... ... 185

„ „ „ „ &c., of Anarta eordigera ... ... ... ... 12

J, „ „ „ „ „ „ melanopa ... ... ... ... 11

„ „ „ „ „ „ Miana fasciuncula ... ... ... ... 62

„ „ „ „ of AcidaUa emarginata ... ... ... ... 13

„ „ „ „ „ Axyha putris ... ... ... ... ... 218

„ „ „ „ „ Coremia propugnata ... ... ... ... 213

„ „ „ „ „ Cryptoblabes bistriga ... ... ... ... Ill

„ „ „ „ „ Epunda hxtulonta . . . ... ... ... ...163,184

„ ,, „ ,, ,, Herminea grisealis ... ... ... ... 110

„ „ „ „ „ Lobophora hexapterata ... ... ... ... 2-49

„ „ „ „ „ Nola albulalis ... ... ... ... ... 63

„ „ „ „ „ Pterophorus lithodactyhis ... ... ... 236

„ „ „ larvffi and habits of Ebulca stachydaUs and sambucahs .. 133

„ „ „ pupa of Nola albulalis ... ... ... ... ••• 94

„ „ three new species of Papilio from the collection of Mr. Her- bert Drucc ... ... ... ... • ■ • ... • • • 56

Descriptions of hitherto iincharactcrized Phytophaga ... 6,126

„ „ Hymenoptera from Spitzbergen, collected by the Rev. A. E.

Eaton 241

„ „ new Cucujidse and Clcridfc ... ... ... ... ■•• 118

„ „ „ genera and species of Galerucidaj ... ... ... 224

„ „ „ Hemiptera-Hetcroptera ... ... 102

ij „ nine new species of Buprestida) ... ... ... ... 155

,. some new jjcnera and species of New Zealand Coleoptera " 20,70,97,190,265

„ „ species of Buprcstidsc, belonging to the genus Lius 48

„ throe „ „ „ European Hcmiptcra-lTomoptera ... 83

„ „ „ „ Hemiptera-Heteroptera from Now Zealand 105

„ two „ Butt ei-flics from the Philippine Islands ... ... 178

Development, indoors, of hibernating pupre of Lepidoptcra, Obscrvat ions on the 16 Diagnoses of certain species of Psyllidae, which may be expected to occur in

Britain GO

„ „ four species of Doryphora from Columbia ... 273

„ „ undescribed species of Phytophaga 79

PAGE

Diagnosis of a new spocies of Psallus ... ... ... ... ... ... 154

Dianthoecia csesia double-brooded ? Is ... ... ... ... ... ... 163

„ „ , Eggs of Cjmatopbora flavicornis and ... ... ... 210

„ „ , Notes on, and other Lepidoptera in the Isle of Man ... IIS

Diasemia literalis ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 03

„ „ in South Wales .. ... ... ... ... ... 36

Diehrooscytus rufipennis, Occurrence of ... ... ... ... ... 65

"Die Neiiropteren Europas ;" by F. Brauer : Review ... ... ... 41

Doryphora from Columbia, Diagnoses of four species of ... ... ... 273

(Doryphora decemlineata) The Colorado Beetle ... ... ■•• . 181,253

Doubleday collection. The ... .. ... ... ... .. ... 18,167

Dragon-flies, On preserving ,.. ... ... ... ... ... ... 88

Dublin Society, Entomological colhctions of the .. ... ... 283

Ebulea stacln'dalis and sambucalis, Description of the larvre and habits of .. 133

„ „ , Another British example of ... ... ... ... 64

„ „ , Note on 93

Economy of Laccometopus clavicornis. The ... ... ... ... ... 236

Ectemnorrhinus from Kei'guelen Land-, Description of a new species of ... 51

Eggs of Cymatophora flavicornis and Dianthoecia caesia ... ... ... 210

Elachista subnigrella. Early appearance of Catoptria aspidiscana and ... 16

Entomological Society of London, Proceedings of the

19, 46, 68, 95, 117, 144, 168, 189, 239, 264, 284

Epunda lutulenta. Description of the larva of . .. ... ... ...163,184

„ „ var. luneburgensis, Occurrence of, in Scotland ... ...141,164

Eupithecia albipunctata, var. angelicata. Description of ... ... ... 278

„ minutata and its variety knautiata.. ... ... ... ... 185

„ subciliata in Yorkshire ... ... ... ... ... ... 108

Food-plant of Agrotis agathina .. ... ... ... ... ... ... 11

„ „ Pachnobia hj'perborea (alpina). Larva and .. ... ...164,183

Foreign visitor, A (Danais Archippus) ... ... ... ... ... ... 107

Galerucidee, Descriptions of new genera and species of ... ... ... 224

Galls of Nematus gallicola occurring over water .. ... ... ... 166

Gclechia (Doryphora) morosa in England, Occurrence of ... ... ... 144

„ humeralis not uncommon in Perthshire ... ... ... ... 38

„ lutulentclla at Cheshunt ... ... ... ... ... ... 187

Habitat of Velleius dilatatus, A new ... ... ... ... ... ... 136

Ilabits of Myrmedonia collaris ... .. ... ... ... ... ... 64

Ilai-ma from W. Africa, Description of a new ... ... ... ... ... 277

Ileliothis scutosa in Norfolk ... ... ... ... ... ... ■•• 280

Ilelophorus new to Britain, Four species of ... ... ... ... ... 39

„ , Note on an unrecorded British species of ... ... ... 40

Hemiptera, Abnonnal structure of the antcnnce of ... ... ... ... 188

„ at Aviemore ... .. ... ... ... ... ... ... 112

„ Recent captures of ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 112

„ -Ileteroptera, British — Additional species .. ... .. ... 85

„ „ , Description of a new species of European ... 104

„ „ , Descriptions of new .. ... ... ... ... 102

„ „ fromNevvZealand, Description of three new species of 105

Homiptcra-IIcteroptora, Morayshire Noctiia) and

,, -Ilomoptcra, Descriptions of three new species of European

„ ,, , On certain British

Hepialus hamuli, Note on the pendulum action in flight of (J Herminea grisealis, Description of the larva of Hibernaculum, A strange

Hibernating pupsE of Lepidoptei-a, Observations on the development, indoors, ot Hibernation of butterflies. Early Homoptera flying in December ... ,, , Scarcity of autumnal

House-ant at Stockport, The Hymenoptera from Spitzbergen, collected by the Rev. A. E. Eaton, De-

criptions of ... Insect-notes from the Sandwich Isles ... Insects of the American ("Polaris") Ai'ctic expedition. The

„ „ „ Arctic Expedition, Tlie .. Ivy-bloom, Captures at ... Japanese Butterflies, List of

Kerguelen Land, Description of a new species of Ectemnorrhinus from Laccoraetopus clavicornis. The economy of Larva and habits of Lobophora viretata. Description of the

, &c., of Agrotis hyperborea (Pachnobia alpina), Notes on the „ Anarta cordigera, Description of the „ „ melanopa, „ „

„ Apatura Iris, Supj)lementary notes on the „ Miana fasciuncula, Description of the ... of Acidalia emarginata, Description of the Axylia putris, „ „

TAOE

166

83

130

63

110

16

16

94

189

166

254

Corcmia propugnata, „ ,,

Cryptoblabes bistriga, „ „

Epunda lutidenta, ,, „

Ilermiiiea grisealis, „ „

Lobophora hexaptcvat a, „ „

Nola albulalis, „ „

Pterophorus lithodaetylus „ „

Pyrameis Atalanta On variation in the Larvaj and habits of Ebulea stachydalis and sambucalis. Description of the

„ of Triphaena subsequa, How to find the Lcpidoptera, British, Collections of

captured at Rannoch in July, 1876, List of

„ during an excursion to Switzerland and the Italiai Lakes

from North Wales, Notes on

Hcterocera, On stridulation in some in East Sussex, Captures of

„ 1876, Notes on

„ the Isle of Man, Notes on Diantha-eiu ciesia and

241

227

228

181

162

33

51

..236,283

185

109, 164, 183

12

11

3

62

13

248

213

111

163, 184

110

219 63 236 209 133 210 279 139

243 108 275 37 211 113

I'ACJK

Lepidoptera, Notes on Mr. Atkinson's collection of East Indian, witli de- scriptions of new species ( f Khopalocera ... ... ... 149

„ , Stray notes oil ... ... ... ... ..." ... 231

Leucania, The supposed new Bi'itisli species of ... ... ... ... 10

„ vitellina in the New Forest, Capture of ... ... ... ... 64

Leucoehroism, On Melaiiocliroisra and ... ... ... ... ... ... 145

Light, as a means of attracting Lepidoptera, Notes on ... .. ... 246

Lobophora hexapterata, Description of the larva of ... ... ... ... 249

„ viretata, ,, „ ,, and habits of ... ... 185

„ double-brooded 209

Locusts in Yorkshire ... .. ... ... ... ... ...179,216

Longicorn ColeoDtera from New Zealand, New species of ... ... ... 52

Lycsena Argiolus, Natural history of .. ... ... ... ... 29,62,138

Lyctus brunneus found in London, Note on ... ... ... ... ... 137

Lygus pellucidus in Morayshire ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 188

Megalocersea (Trigonotylus) ruficornis. Note on a variety of . . . ... ... 87

Melanism, On 130,145,215,256

Melanochroism and Leucochroism, On ... ... ... ... ... 145

Meloe and Mylabris as cures for hydrophobia ... .. ... 167

Metamorplioses of Xylopliagus cinctus and X. ater ... 160,216

Metamorphosis of Stauropus fagi ... ... ... ... ... ... 231

Miana fasciuncula, Description of the larva, &c., of ... ... ... ... 62

" Monograph of the British Aphides ;" Vol. I, by G. B. Buckton : Ecview 238

„ „ Geometrid Moths or Phalcenidii? of the L^nited States ;"

by A. S. Packard, Jun. : Eeview ... ... ... ... ... ... 115

*' Monogi-aphia Lygffiidarum Hungariie ;" by Dr. Ilorvath : Eeview ... 18

Morayshire Noctuse and Hemiptera-IIeteroptera ... ... ... ... 166

Mounting Typhlocybidffi, On 237,282

Myelois ceratonise in England, Ee-occurrence of ... ... ■•• ... 281

Mylabris as cures for hydi'ophobia, Meloe and .. ... .. ... ... 167

Myinnedonia coUaris, Habits of . . . ... ... ... ■ ■ . • 64

Natural history of Asthena sylvata ... ... ... ... ... ... 213

„ ,, Catocala promissa ... ... ... ... ... ... 233

„ „ Crambus tristellus .. ... ... ... ... 11

„ „ Cymatophora ocularis ... ... ... ... ... 90

Lyesena ArgioUis 29,62,138

Nematus gallicola. Galls of, occurring over water ... ... ... ... 166

New British species of Leucania, The supposed ... ... ... ... 10

„ species of Longicorn Coleoptera from New Zealand .. ... ... 52

„ Zealand Coleoptera, Descriptions of some new genera and species of

20, 52, 70, 97, 190, 265

„ „ , Description of three new species of Ilemiptera-IIeteroptera from 105

„ „ , List of the Butterflies now known to inhabit ... ... ... 152

Newman, Death of Kdward ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 45

Noctufe and Hcmiptera-lleteroptera, Morayshire ... ... 166

„ in the Isle of Wight, Captures of rare 139

Nola albulalis, Description of the larva of 63

J. ,, ,, .. pujja ,, ... ... ... ... ... 94

Vll. PAGK

Note on a variety of Megaloccmea (Trigouotylus) rufieornis .. ... ... 87

,, Agalliastes Wilkinsoni ... ... ... .. ... ... ... 87

„ an unrecorded British species of Ilelopliorus .. ... ... 40

„ Bruclius pisi ... ... ... ... ... .. ... ... 181

„ Corisa veniicosa and C. Douglasi ... ... ... ... ... 137

„ Ebulea staclijdalis ... ... ... ... ... 93

„ Lyctus brunneus found in London ... ... ... ... ... 137

„ Mr. Buxton's collections 57,89,223

„ parasitic Acari ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 114, 166

„ sugaring ... ... ... ... ... ... ... .. ... 16

„ the pendulum action in flight of (J Hcpialus liumuli ... ... 63

,, Trioza Walkeri and Chermes rhanini ... ... ... ... 255

Notes from Louren^o Marques, South Africa . ... ... ... ... 89

„ on British TenthredinidiB and Cynipidee ... ... ... 173, 196

„ „ „ Tortrices 158

„ „ Cidaria reticulata ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 142

„ „ Dianthoecia cassia and the Lepidoptera of the Isle of Man ... 14-3

„ „ Lepidoptera from North Wales ... ... ... ... 108

„ „ „ in 187G 211

„ „ Light, as a means of attracting Lepidoptera ... ... ... 246

„ „ Mr. Atkinson's collection of East Indian Lepidoptera, with de- scriptions of new species of Rhopalocei-a ... ... ... 149

,, „ Mr. Buxton's Eastern Butterflies, with description of a new species

of Poritia 223

„ ,, Rhopalocera from Angola, with description of a new species of

Deudorix from Zanzibar ... ... ... ... ... ... 205

„ „ some additional species of Psyllida) new to Britain ... ... 137

„ „ „ species of Psyllida: ... ... ... ... ... ... 40, 67

„ „ „ Tineiua observed in 1876 ... .. .. ... 165

„ „ the degree of tendency to variation exiiibited by the Lepidoptera

of Pembroke and its neighbourhooil ... ... ... ... 201

„ „ „ larva, &c., of Agrotis hyperborea (Paclmobia alpina) ... 109,164,183

„ „ „ Tortrices of Pembrokeshire ... ... ... ... ... 220

Observation on IMr. Ilewitson's note respecting Mr. Buxton's collection of

orange-tipped Butterllies ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 89

Observations on the development, indoors, of hibernating pupa) of Lepidoptera 16

Occurrence in Britain of Cardiophorus rufipes ... ... ... ... 227

„ of ChcErocampa nerii at Ilemel Hempstead ... ... ... 138

,, „ Diclii'ooscytus rufipennis... ... ... ... ... ... 65

„ „ Epunda lutulenta, var. luneburgensis in Scotland ... 141, 164

„ „ Gelechia (Doryphora) morosa in England ... ... ... 144

,, „ Pachetra leucoplipoa near Ashford, Kent ... ... ... 64

,, ,, Tinea angustipennis in England ... ... ... ... 143

,, „ Vespa crabro in the north ... ... ... ... ... 88

Odynerus new to Britain, Captures of rare Coleoptera, Ilemiptera, and lly-

menoptera at Chobham ; including an ... ... ... ... ... 113

Orthopterous insect, Strange habit of an ... ... ... ... ... 138

Orthosia suspecta, Capture of a black variety of ... ... ... ... 109

Paehetra leucopha;a near Ashford, Kent, Occurrence of ... ... ... 64

VAGK

(Paclinobia iilpinu), Notes on the larvti, &c., of Agrotis hyperboiva .. lO'J, 164, 183

.} „ , Westwood, = liypcrborea, Zettevstedt ... ... ... 90

Psedi8ca rufimitrana new to Eritain 187

Papilio, Description of three new species of from the collection of Mr. Her- bert Druce ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 56

Parasitic Acari, Note on 114,166

Pendulum action in flight of i? Hepialiis huraiili. Note on the ... ... 63

Phytophaga, Descriptions of hitherto uncharacterized ... 6,126

„ , Diagnoses of undescribed species of ... ... ... ... 79

Pieris Daplidice at Follistone 138

,) „ near Southend, Essex, Capture of ... ... ... ... 108

Plague of Spiders (Lycosa saccata) ... .. 42

Precocious appearance of Melolontha Tulgaris ... ... 253

Preserving Dragon-flics, On ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 88

"Proceedings of the Natural History Society of Glasgow :" Eeriew ... 95

Psallus, Diagnosis of a new species of ... ... ... ... .. ... 154

Psyllidse, Diagnoses of certain species of, wliich may be expected to occur in

Britain ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 66

„ new to Britain, Notes on some additional species of ... ...137,282

„ , Notes on some species of ... ... ... ... ... ... 40, 67

Pterophorus lithodactylus. Description of the larva of ... ... ... 236

Pupa of Nola alb ulalis. Description of the ... ... ... ... ... 94

Pupae of Lepidoptera, Observations on the development, indoors, of hibernating 16 Pyrameis Atalanta, On variation in the larva of ... ... 209

„ Huntcra in England 183,230

Recent captures of Hcmiptera ... ... ... ... ... .. ... 112

" Eeport, Eighth Annual, on the noxious, beneficial, and other insects of the

State of Missouri ;" by C. V. Eiley : Ee view .. 94

Ehopalocera, Notes on, from Angola, with description of a new species of

Deudorix from Zanzibar ... ... 205

Sale of the late Mr. Edwin Brown's collections 257

Scarcity of autumnal Homoptera ... ... ... ... .. ... 166

Sesia philanthiformis in South Wales ... ... ... ... 92

Sounds pi'oduced by Lepidoptera, On ... ... ... 229

Sphinx convolvuli at Exeter, Achorontia Atropos and ... ... .. 138

Spiders, A plague of (Lycosa saccata) 42

Spitzbergen, Descriptions of Ilymenoptcra from, collected by the Rev. A. E.

Eaton "... 241

Squirrel versus hornet ... ... ... ... ... ... .. ... 254

Stack Eocks, The 249

Stauropus fagi, Metamoi-phosis of ... ... ... ... ... ■ 231

Strange habit of an Orthopterous insect ... ... ... .. ... 138

„ liibernaculum, A... ... ... ... ... .. ... ... K!

Stray notes on Lepidoptera ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 231

Stridulation in some Lepidoptera-nctcrocera, On ... ... ... ... 273

,, „ the genus Acherontia, On ... ... ... ... ... 217

„ Agcronia, ,, ... ... ... ... ... 207

Vanossii 169, 208

I'ACJK

Sugfiritig, Note on .. ... ... ... ... ... ... ... . ]Q

Supposed new British species of Leucania ... ... ... ... ... 10

Swiss Lepidoptera, A few remarks on some ... .. ... ... ... 57

Teuthredinidffi and Cynipidse, Notes on British ... ..." ... 173, 196

Thecla TV-album iu Worcestershire ... ... 166

TiUus unifesciatus and Xjlotrogus brunneus near London, Capture of ... 65

Tinea angustipennis in England, Occurrence of ... ... ... .. 143

Tineina observed in 1876, Notes on some ... ... ... .. ... 165

Tortrices, Notes on British ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 158

„ of Pembrokeshire, Notes on the ... ... ... ... ... 220

„ , On a peculiar form of variation in ... ... ... ... 252

"Transactions of the Entomological Society of Loudon for 1876 :" Review 259

Transformation of Trombidium, On the ... ... ... ... ... 166

Trioza juniperi, Mey.-Diir, Note on ... ... ... ... ... ... 282

„ Walkeri and Chermes rhamni. Note on , ... ... ... ... 255

Triphtena subsequa. How to find the larva; of .. ... ... ... ... 210

Trombidium, On the transformation of... ... ... ... ... ... 166

Typhlocjbidse, On mounting . ... ... ... ... ... ..237,282

Vanessa, On stridulation in the genus ... ... ... ... ... 169, 208

Variation exhibited by the Lepidoptera of Pembroke and its neighbourhood.

Notes on the degree of tendency to ... ... ... ... 201

„ in the larva of Pyrameis Atalanta, On ... ... ... ... 209

,, ,, Tortrices, On a pecuhar form of ... ... ... ... ... 252

Variety of Megalocersea (Trigonotylus) ruficornis. Note on a ... ... 87

„ Orthosia suspecta, Capture of a black .. ... ... ... 109

Velleius dilatatus, A new habitat of ... ... .. ... ... ... 136

Vernal broods of white butterflies in tlie Isle of Man ... ... .. 10

Vespa ci'abro in the north, Occurrence of ... ... ... ... ... 88

White ants at Vienna, Colony of American ... ... ... ... ... 17

„ butterflies in the Isle of Man, The vernal broods of ... ... ... 10

Xylophagus cinctus and X. ater, Metamoi-phoses of ... ' ... ... 160,216

Xylolrogus brunneus near London, Capture of Tillus unifasciatus and ... 65

Zelleria, On a new species of the genus ... ... ... ... ... 1

" Zoological Classification ;" by F. P. Pascoe : Review 258

INDEX OF SUBJECTS NOTICED IN THE PEOCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.

Acacia, Thorns of, inhabited by a species of Cryptoceridte

Acanthia hirundinis

Accntropus, Notes on

Amazons, Lepitloptera of the

Anniversary Meeting

Bhutanitis Liddcrdali

PACK 168

117 168 281 239 240

PAGE

BlattfB clestTOving pseudo-bulbs of an Ore-hid ... ... ... ... 168

Bracliyceutrus subnubilus, Larva and case of ... ... ... 189

Brucbidse in Coroza nuts (or vegetable ivory) ... .. ... ...10,47

„ „ nuts of Copernicia cerifera .. ... ... 47

Bruchus in seeds of a Leguminous plant from Egypt ... ... ... 47

Callimorpha Hera taken near Dover ... ... ... ... 144

Camellia, Coccus upon ... .. ... .. ... ... 08

Cirolana from the fin of a flying fish ... ... ... ... 264

Clerida;, New species of ... ... ... ... ... ... 47

Coccus camellise ... ... ... ... ... ... 68

Coleoptera, New or rare British species of ... ... ... 96, 265,284

„ Number of species of . . . ... ... ... ... 190

Costa Rica, Rhopalocera of . . . ... ... . . ... ... 10

Crymodes exulis ... ... ... ••• . . ... 144

Cryptocephalidse, New genera and species of ... ... ... ... 240

Cryptoceridse, New species of ... ... ... ... 144

„ Species of, inhabiting thorns of an Acacia ... ... ... 168

CurculionidcT from imported Orchids, Species of ... ... ... 144

Cynips, The presumed male of ... ... ... ... ... 96

Danais Archippus, Greographical distribution of ... ... ... 265

„ ,, taken in England ... ... .. ... ... 240

Deilephila euphorbia;. Supposed capture of, in Britain ... ... 144

Deiopeia pulchella taken at Falmouth ... ... ... ... ... 190

Diplognathus, Cocoon and pupa of .. ... ... ... ... 284

Dragon-flies, Parasites upon ... ... ... ... ... ... 95

Ennomos angularia ... ... ... ... ... ... 144

Epipyrops anomala ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 96

Epunda lutulenta, var. luneburgensis ... ... .. ... 144

Eumolpidffi, New species of ... ... . , ... ... ... 240

Euphorbia, Coccus upon .. . ... ... ... ... ... 69

FormicidiE from New Zealand ... ... ... ... ... 117

Fulgora candelaria, Lepidopterous parasite upon ... ... ... 96

Halticidaj, New genera and species of ... ... ... ... 48, 69

Harvest bug, Annoyance caused by the ... .. ... ... 117

Helicifoi-m Lepidopterous case of larva from Zanzibar ... ... ... 240

Hemiptera-Hetcroptera, Synopsis of British species of ... ... 9G

„ of Siberia ... ... ... ... ... ... 265

„ , Rare British species of... ... ... ... ... 117

Hcpialus, Larva of an Australian species of, attacked by fungus ... ... 17

Horse chestnut, Damaged twigs of ... ... ... ... 68,117

Hymenoptera of New Zealand ... ... ... ... 47, 117

„ , Rare British species of ... ... ... ... 117

Ithomia Tutia, Varieties of ... ... ... ... ... ... 10

Lepidoptcra from Bangkok .. ... ... ... ... 284

„ , New species of Diurnal, from Queensland ... ... ... 96

„ of the Amazons ... ... ... ... ... 284

„ , Rare species of British ... ... ... ... 144,169

Lepkloptera, Scasoiisil diinori)liWni in

,, , Tarieties of British

Leptis autuiniialis, Anuoyaiico caused by Locusts from Yorkshire

„ , Kavages of, in Spain Ljcidffi, Monogi'aph of the Australian species of... Microgastcr glomeratus : does it infest Pieris rapa; ? ... Mimosa, Ileliciform Lepidopterous case on, from Zanzibar Monochamus sartor captured in London Mustha spinulosa Mylabris, Primitive larvae of Nematus gallicola, Notes on ... New Zealand, Iljmenoptera of

Noctua, Pupa of a British species of, attacked by fungus .. Notse Dipterologica; Notodonta trilophus from Ipswich Ophidei'es materna taken at sea

Orchid, Pollen mass of, attached to haustellum of a moth Polynema ovulorum Prosopistoma, Notes on Pruritus caused by a Trombidium ... Pseudomyrma and Tetraponera, New species of ... Psyllidse, British species of

Queensland, New species of Diurnal Lepidoptera from Ehopalocera of Costa Rica

Saturnidaj in the collection of the Eoyal Dublin Society .. Seasonal dimorphism in Lepidoptera Siberia, Hemiptera of Spain, Ravages of locusts in Staphylinidse of Central America

„ „ the Amazon Valley

Stylopidse, A species of, parasitic upon Ilomoptera Systropus, Habits of Telephorida3, New species of . . . Tcnthrediiiida;, New genera and species of ... Trombidium, Pruritus caused by a

10,

XI.
PAGE
284
17, 60, 11 i, 2 to, 265
117
... 189
10, 96
... 284
190
... 240
264
... 168
190
... 96
47, 117
47
117
... 284
284
... 168
144
... 284
240
... 284
68
... 96
10
... 240
284
... 265
10, 96
... 48
117
... 284
240
47
69
... 240

SPECIAL INDEX.

PAGE .. 52

.. 98 .. 98 .. 112

COLEOPTERA.

Agonelytra loiigipennis

Alema (g. u.), Sharp

paradoxa (sp. n.), Sharp ...

Amara alpina

Ancistria tarsalis (sp. n.), C. O. Waterhouse 121

Ancistropterus Brouni (sp. n.), Sharp ... 97

nmiidus „ „ ... 97

Aphilon (g. n.), Sharp 100

enigma (sp. n.), Sharp 100

Aphodius Brouni „ „ 71

distans „ ,, ... ... 70

Pascoei „ „ ... ... 71

suspectus,, „ ... ... 70

Apocrypta coccinelloides (sp. n.), Baly ... 224

pallida „ „ ... 224

purpurea „ ,, ... 224

Arnomus (g. n.), Sharp 99

Brouni (sp. n.), Sharp 99

Arthopus (g. n.) „ ... ... 75

Brouni (sp. n.) „ 76

Astetholea lepturoides (sp. n.), H. W. Bates 53

Brontes pleuralis (sp. n.), Sharp 270

Bruchus pisi on Sisymbrium 181

Buprestis Enysi (sp. n.), Sharp 193

Callispa africana (.sp. n.), Baly 127

clegans „ „ 126

Camirus (g. n.), Sharp 23

convexus (sp. n.), Sharp 24

thoracicus „ „ ■■■ ... 23

Cardiophorus rufipes 227

Caritheca (g. n.), Baly 226

quadripustulata (sp. n.), Baly... 226

Carystea micans „ „ ... 80

Cerophysa Wallacii „ „ ... 227

Cetonia aurata and acnea in Isle of Main ... 65

Cryptamorpha (Synonymy of species of) 122

fasciata, Woll 122

triguttata (sp. n.),

C. O. Waterhouse 123

C3'clonotnm niargiuale (sp. n.), Sharp .... 21 Didymocantha a-grota (sp. n.), II. W. Bates 52

Dietta (g. n.), Sharp 78

sperata (sp. n.), Sharp 78

Disonj'clia ornata (sp. 11.), Baly ... ... 80

Distcrna obtusipeuuis (sp. u.), H. W. Bates 54

PAGE , Doryphora bivittaticollis (sp. n.), Baly ... 273

10-lineata 181, 253

Haroldi (sp. n.), Baly ... 273

ingenua „ „ ... 273

pulchella „ „ ... 273

Downcsia strigicollis „ „ ... 123

Drotus (g. n.), Sharp . 195

elegans (sp. n.), Sharp ... ... 19 !■

Ectemnorrhinus Eatoiii (sp. n.),

C. 0. Waterhouse 51

Enarsus rudis (sp. n.). Sharp ... ... 191

Wakefieldi, (sp. n.), Sharp ... 190

Enneamera australis „ Baly ... 82

fulviventris „ „ ... 82

limbata „ „ ... 8".!

thoracica „ „ ... 8:i

Gonophora Chapuisi „ „ ... l-'l

Grynoma (g. n.). Sharp 2t;7

diluta (sp. n.), Sharp ... ... 2('>7

fusca „ „ ... ... 207

Harpalus discoideus at Chobham... ... 113

Hectarthrum (table of species) ... ... 118

australicum (sp. n.),

C. O. Waterhouse 119 dejectum (sp. n.),

C. O. Waterhouse 120 penicillatum (sp. n.),

C. O. Waterhouse 120 sociale (sp. n.),

C. O. Waterhouse 119 uniforme (sp. n.'),

C. O. Waterhouse 120

Ilelophorus ajqualis, Thoms 39

brevicollis „ ... ... 39

F laticollis ,. 40

planicoUis „ ... ... 39

strigrifrons „ ... ... 40

Hemipeplus Dohrni, Pascoe (hemipterus,

Dej.) 12L

margiuipennis, Dej., nee. Lee. 121

Hermajophaga tricolor (sp. u.), Baly ... 80

ventralis „ „ ... 80

Hetcronyx puuiilus „ Sharp ... 192

Hispopria terminalis „ Baly ... 127

Horatopyga ornata „ „ ... 79

Saundersi „ „ ... 79 .

scjuucta „ „ ... 7J) i

TT\

PAGE

lasius ciistatdius (sp. 11.), n.W. Rates 55

lanipes „ Sharp ... 195

pedator ,, H.W. Bates 54

Wakefieldi „ „ 55

Hyilropoius duplex „ Sharp ... 21

Wakefieldi „ „ ... 20

Lactica apicicornis „ Baly ... 81

binotata „ „ ... 81

fulvipes „ „ ... 81

iiigripennis ,, „ ... 81

sellata „ „ ... 81

siibuitida „ „ ... 81

Lema Ariadne „ „ ... 9

Buekk'.vi „ „ ... 8

emargiiiata „ „ ... 6

Haroldi „ „ ... 7

rnfo-limbata „ „ ... 9

Saunder.si „ „ ... 8

tranverso-notata „ „

Leiiax (g. 11.), Sharp

mirandus (sp. n.), Sharp ...

Leperina fariiiosa „ ,,

Wakefieldi „ Leptura saiigniiiolenta in Scotland Lius Adonis (sp. ii.), E. Saunders

Ares ,, „

Bacchus „ „

Castor ,, „

Cycnus „ „

Ephialtes „ „

Hades „ „

Helios „ „

Hercules „ „

Otus „ „

Pollux „ Tereus „ „

Lorelus (g. n.), Sharp

priscus (sp. 11.), Sharp Melobasis costata „ E. Saunders

cupreovittata(sp.ii.), E.Saunders 155 igiiiceps „ „ 156

laita „ „ 156

obscura ,, „ 157

rubromarginata,, ,, 156

viridiceps „ „ 157

viridis „ „ 158

MeloeandMylabris as cures for hj'dropliobia 107 Meloo brevicollis ... ... ... ... 113

Melolontba hippocastaiii in Isle of Man ... Co vulgaris in February ... ... 253

Menimus (g. n.), Sharp 73

7

269

269

266

191

112

48

49

50

48

49

50

51

50

49

50

48

49

76

77

155

Menimus Batesi (sp. n), Sharp .. csecus „ „

crassus ,, „

Metoponcus Brouni „ „

Myrmodonia collaris. Habits of ... Orchestes iota at Chobham Parmius (g. n.), Sharp

debilis (sp. n.). Sharp ... lougipes „ „

Paupris (g. n.). Sharp

aptera (sp. n.). Sharp Peniticus (g. n.), Sharp

antiquus (sp. n.), Sharp suflTusus „ „ ■■■

Platysoma cognatum „ „ . ■ .

Prionispa geniraata „ Baly ... Promanus (g. n.), Sharp ...

depressus (sp. ii.). Sharp

XIII. PAGR

.. 74

... 75

... 74

... 22

... 61

... 113

... 272

... 272

... 272

... 271

... 271

... 101

... 102

... 101

... 25

... 129

... 267

... 266

Promecotheca callosa

Psilociiffiia Brouni

Pyronota fcstiva. Fab.

Edwardsi (sp. n.), Sharp munda „ ,,

sobrina „ „

Rhizonium (g. ii.), „

antiquum (sp. n.) „

Baly ... 128

H. W. Bates 54

72 73 73 27 28

... 192

Sapbobius Wakefieldi „ „

Saprinus pedator „ „ ... 25

Sebffithe fjuadripustulata,, Baly... ... 80

Sisyrnopborus (g. n.), C. 0. Waterhouse 125

Bowriugi (sp. n.) „ 126

maculatus „ „ 126

Soronia bystrix (sp. 11.), Sharp ... ... 26

Stenolophus brunnipes (^ dorsalis, var.) . . 113 Stephaiiorhyiichus Lawsoni (sp. n.), Sharp 97 Sternaulax lajvis „ „ 24

Telephanus aiitennatus (sp. n.),

C. 0. Waterhouse 125 cruciger (sp. n.) „ 125

felix „ „ 124

incominodus, Walker ... 124

pictus (sp. II. ),G.O. Waterhouse 123 spinicollis (sp. n.), „ 123

triniaculatus, Mots 124

Telniatopliiliis depressus (sp. n.). Sharp... 28 iiitens „ „ ... 70

Tillus unifasciatus near London 65

Trogoderma scrrigcrum (sp. n.), Sharp ... 270

signatum ,, „ ... 271

Ulonotus discedeiis (sp. n.), Sharp ,.. 268

integer „ „ ... 268

Velleius dilat.itus in rotten wood. Xenoda (g. n.), Baly

spinicornis (sp. n.), Baly Xenoscelis proHxus „ Sharp Xuthodes apicalis „ ,,

Batesi „ „

Xylotoles bullatus

pictulus „ „

Xylotrogus bruuneus near London

H. W. Bates

PAGE

... 136 ... 225 ... 225 ... 26 ... 193 ... 194 .. 53 ... 53 65, 137

DIPTEllA.

Xylopliagus ater, Metamorphoses of ..162, 216 cinetus, „ „ 160, 216

HEMIPTERA-HETEROPTERA. Acanthia hirundiais Agalliastes Wilkinson! Aneurus Brouni (sp. n.), Y. B. White ... Antennse, Abnormal structure of Berytus setipennis (sp. n.), E. Saunders .. Calocoris ticinensis Captures at Aviemore Chobham in Scotland Chlamydatus pygmaeus Corixa vernicosa Corizus macnlatus ... Dera>ocoris (Calocoris) ZeUeri (sp.u.), Scott Dichrooscytus rufipennis ... Eremocoris plebeius ... ... 166,

Galeatus scrophicus (sp. n.), E. Saunders

Ischnodemus Champion! (sp. u.), ,,

Laccometopus clavicornis, Economj' of.. 236,

L3'gaKosoraa Lownii (sp. n.), E. Saunders

Lj'gus pellucidus ...

Macrocoleus tanaceti

Megaloceraia ruficornis

Nabis Poweri

Plesiodema pinetellum

I'lociomerus Donglasi (sp. n.), F. B. White

luridus Pfsallus dirainutus ... Salda australis (sp. n.), F. B. White Tenmostethus iiigricornis ...

113

87 106 188 102 113 112 113 112 113 137 113 104

65 188 103 103 ,283 103 188 113

87

113

85

105

113

86

105

86

H EM I PTEKA-HOMOPTERA. Aphalara attinis ... ... ... ... 67

artemisi^e ... ... 67, 282

exilis 41, 68

flavipennis ... ... 41, 68

- nervosa ... ... ... ... 67

PAGE

Aphides, Monograph of British 238

Chermes rhamni ... 255

Chlorita viridula flying in December ... 189

Dicranoneura citrinella 113

Eupteryx notatus 113

signatipennis 113

stachydearura ... 113

Liburnia flaveola ... ... ... ... 130

Donglasi 112

Psylla alaterni ... ... ... ... 256

betulfe 282

cerastii ... .. ... ... 42

costalis ... ... ... ... 137

crataegi 137

ixophila 42, 67

pyricola 137

stenolabis ... ... ... ... 137

sylvicola ... ... ... ... 68

visci ... PsyllidsB, Note on ... Rhinocola aceris

speciosa... Tettigometra impressopunctata Trioza abdominalis... abieticola flavipennis ... juniperi rhamni rhamnicola ... sylvicola

Walkeri !

Typhlocybida^ On mounting Scarcitv of...

40

41, 67, 166, 255

42

66

... 112 ... 137 137, 256 ... 42 66, 282 ... 255 ... 256 ... 68 ... 255 ... 237 ... 166

HYMENOPTERA.

Ampulex compressa ... ... ... 87

Astata stigma, (J, at Chobham ... ... 114

Aulax hieracii ... ... ... ... 200

Bassus hyperboreus (sp. n.), Marshall ... 241 Ceroptres cerri ... ... ... ... 200

Crajsus latipes bred ... ... ... 176

Cryptocampus pentandra3 178

Dineura stilata destructive 175

Diplorhoptrum domesticum ... ... 254

Elampus Panzeri ... ... ... ... 114

Enipbytus calceatus 199

Hemichroa alni, ,^ ... ... ... 175

Ichneutes reunitor at Spitzbergen ... 242

Mesochorus dolorosus (sp. n.), Marshall... 242 Mesolius arctophylax „ „ ... 241

Miscophus bicolor ... ... ... ... 114

Xematus abbreviatns

anglicus (sp. n.), Cameron

bihiieatus

gallicola over water

iinpertectus

longiserra

pallescens

pavidus destructive

vesicator ...

Westennanui Odynerus reiiiforinis at Chobham Orthocentrus reptilis (sp. n.), Marshall Pentacrita nigra Periclistus caninae ...

Piinpla in Neniatu.s gall

Selandria aperta

stramineipes, Two forms of Spathogaster albipes Taxonus equiseti ... Teiitliredo atra and dispar ..

mesomela, Larva of

Torj-mus liibernans

Vespa cincta

crabro in Glencoe ...

PAGE

. 176

. 173

. 177

. 166

. 176

. 177

. 177

. 176

. 178

. 178

. 114

. 242

. 200

. 200

. 200

. 198

. 197

. 199

. 196

. 198

,. 199

.. 200

. 254

LEPIDOPTERA. Acherontia Atropos ... 138, 210,

Acidalia emarginata. Larva of Adolias Satropaces (sp. u.), Hewitson ^mona Amathusia . . .

Lena Ageronia Feronia ... Agrotis agathina ...

alpina

hyperborea, Larva of 109, Anarta cordigera, ,, „

melanopa, „ „

Richardsoni Anes3'chia bipuiictella (ecliiella) ... Apatura Iris, Larva of Aporopliyla australis Argynnis improba (sp. n.), Butler Argyrophenga antipodum...

Asthena sylvata. Larva of

Axylia putris, „ „ ...

Bliutanitis Lidderalii Bryophila glaiidifera Catocala fraxini

promissa, Larva of Catoptria a.spidiscana

ciccimaculana ... expallidana

217,

164,

222,

252

13

150

150

150

207

11

90

183

12

11

229

165

3

139

206

153

213

248

150

108

108

233

16

223

223

	xr.
Chry.^oplianus BDldoiiavuin	PAOE . 153
Enysii (sp. n.), Butler	... 153
Salustius Cidaria reticulata	.. 153 109, 142
Collix sparsata	212
Coremia propugnata. Larva of ...	... 213
Crambus tristellus, ,, „	... 14
Cryptoblabes bistriga „ „	... Ill
Cj^natophora flavicornis, Eggs of	... 210
ocularis, Larva of ...	... 90
Danais Arcbippus	... 107
Dasycampa rubiginea	... 102
Dasj-stonia salicella	... 105
Debis Serbonis (sp. u.), Hewitson	... 151
Deiopeia pulchella 138,	139, 163
Deprcssaria costosa	... 282
Deudorix Dariaves (sp. n.), Hewitson	... 205
Dianthoecia cajsia	143, 103
, Eggs of	... 210
capsophila	143, 231
Diasemia literalis	36, 93
Dodona Deodata (sp. n.), Hewitson	... 151
Ebulea sambucalis. Larva of	... 133
stachydalis ...	64,93
„ , Larva of	... 133
Elacbista poUutella	... 01
subnigrella	... 16
Epunda lutulenta. Larva of	163, 184

Erebia (Eme

, var. lunelnirgensis 141, 104 58

Eucliromia purpurana

Eupitbecia albipuuctata, var. angelioata,

Barrett 278 212 185 185 108 22* lo9 223

38 187 144 229

90 277 280

63 110 152 152 212

fraxiiiata knautiata miuutata subciliata Eupnecilia flaviciliana liyljridella pallidana Gelecliia liumeralis... lutulentella morosa (I)orypbora)

Glaucopteryx Sabiniaria

Hadena hyperborea

Harma Hecataja (sp. n.), Hewitson

Heliothis scutosa ...

Hepialus humuli ...

Herminea grisealis. Larva of

Hesperia cephala (sp. n.), Hewitson

cerata „ „ Hydrelia unca

PAon Laiia Rossii 228

Lavenia epilobiella, Homer 165

Leucaiiia albipuncta 139

vitellina ... ... ... ... 64

Lobopliora hexapterata, Larva of .. ... 249

viretata 209,231

„ , Larva of ... ... 185

Lycffina Argiolus, „ „ ...29,62,138 minimus ... ... ... ... 58

Phcfibe 153

Melanitis Beza (sp. n.), Hevvitson .. 179

Miaiia fasciuncula, Larva of ... ... 62

Myelois ceratonisB ... ... ... ... 281

Myrina Symira (sp. n.), Hewitsoii ... 152

Noctua sobrina ... ... ... ... 140

Nola albulalis, Larva of 63

, Pupa of ... ... ... 94

Nonagria lutosa ... ... ... .• 10

Ornix anglicella ... ... ... ... 165

Orthosia suspecta, Black variety of ... 109

Orthotajuia ericetana ... 222

Pacbetra leucopbaja ... ... ... 64

Pachnobia alpina ... ... ... 90, 140

, Larva of 109, 164, 183

Paidisca rufimitrana 187

Papilio auriger (sp. n.), Butler ... ... 57

rhodifer „ „ ... ... 57

tragicus „ „ ... ... 56

Parnassius Apollo 58

Pentbiua sellaiia 220

Percnodaimon Pluto ... 153

Peronea Sclialleriana

Pieris Daplidice

Poritia Pediada (sp. n.), Hewitson Pteropborus lithodactylus, Larva of Pyrameis Atalaiita, Larva of

Iluiitera ... ... ... -

Sciapbila perterana Sesia philantbiformis

Sphinx convolvuli

Spilouota iucai'natana Stauropus fagi, Larva of ... Stigmonota dorsana orobana Teinopalpus imporialis

Thecla W-album

Tinea angustipennis Tischeria angusticoUella ...

dodonsea... Tripbffina subsequa

, Larva of Vanessa Antiopa ...

lo

urticae Zelleria fusca (sp. n.), Staiutou . . . Zetbera Thermaja (sp. u.); Hewitson Zopboessa Atkinsonia,, „

PAGE

... 221 108, 138 ... 223 ... 236 ... 209 183, 230 221 ... 92 ... 138 ... 221 ... 231 ... 158 ... 158 ... 150 ... 166 ... 143 ... 165 ... 165 ... 139 ... 210 ... 208 ... 170 ... 171 ... 1 ... 178 ... 151

NEUROPTERA.

Ascalapbus Kolyvaueusis, var. Ponticus, McLacblan

35

INDEX TO CONTRIBUTORS.

PAGE

Andrews, W. V 216

Backbaus, H 16

Bairstovv, S. D 108

Baly, J. S., P.L.S. ... 6, 79, 126, 224, 273

Barrett, C. G. .. 36, 92, 93, 158, 165, 201, 220, 230, 249, 252, 278, 280

Barrett, J. P 63

Bates, H. W., F.L.S 52

Birehall, E., F.L.S. ... 10, 42, 65, 130, 143,

209, 231, 279

Bla.kbmn, Rev. T., B.A 39,227

Boyd, W. C, F.L.S 187

Briggs, T. H., M.A 138

Buckler, W. ... 3, 14, 29, 62, 90, 110, 111, 133,

138, 185, 233

Buckraaster, C. J 139

Butler, A. G., F.L.S...

Cameron, P

Champion, G. C

Chapman, T. A., M.U.

CliappcU, J

Cooke, N

P.4.GB

56, 89, 152, 206

173, 196

... Ill, 112,227

63, 88

181

141

Douglas, J. W. ... 42, 67, 109, 112, 136, 137, 166, 181, 188, 189, 236, 253, 255

Dunbar, J 253

Dunning, J. W., M.A., F.L.S 259

Edwards, J 237, 282

Evans, A. H 108

Faru, A. B 281

Fenu, C 184

Fetherstonhaugh, S. R 215

Fletclier, J. E

Forbes, W. A

Fust, H. Jenner, M.A., F.L.S

Gaskell, S. H

Gibson-Carmichael, T. D

Gill, H. Battersliell, M.D

Hele, N. F

HeUins, Rev. J., M.A. ... 11, 12, 93,

210

Hewitson, W.C, F.L.S 57, 149,

Hodgkinson, J. B 16,

Jeffrey, W. R

Jones, A. H 162, 163,

Jones, A. Vernon

Jordan, R. C. R., M.D

Kirby, W. F

Llewelyn, J. T. U., M.A., F.L.S. ... McLachlan, R., F.L.S. ... 17, 35, 64, Marshall, Rev. T. A., M.A., F.L.S....

Meade, R. II

Meek, E. G

Mesmin, L

Meyrick, E

Monteiro, J. J

Mosley, S. L

Murray, Rev. R. P., M. A

Norman, G 11,

Packard, A. S., Jun., M.D

PAGE

165, 166 ... 243 ... 16 ... 254.

166, 230 ... 10 ... 138

138, 183,

213, 249

178, 205,

223, 277

109, 142

... 64

208, 209

... 183

... 57

... 283

107, 163

181, 216

... 241

... 114

... 164

... 65

187, 281

... 33

166, 188

... 228

Piffard, B

Porritt, G. T., F.L.S.

Reuter, Dr. 0. M. . Roebuck, W. Denison.

Ross, J. G

Rothney, G. A. J.

Rowley, G. D

Rye, E. C, F.Z.S. . Sandison, W. M. Saunders, E., F.L.S. .,

IV 11. PAGE

138

13, 37, 94, 108, 163,

185, 213, 236, 248

... 85, 87, 154, 229

179,180,216

64

87,254

163

40

16,210

... 48,102,113,155

Scott, J. ... 65,66,83,104,130,137,282 Sharp, D., M.B. ... 20, 70, 78, 94, 97, 190, 265

Stainton, H. T., F.R.S. Staudinger, Dr. 0. Stevens, S., F.L.S. ...

Swinton, A. H

Thruston, C. F

Tug well, W. H

Walker, A. 0., F.L.S.

Walsh, E. L

Waterhouse, CO. Wheeler, F. D

...1,38, 143, 144

90,109

65

. 169, 207, 217, 273

138

256

211

139

51,118

139,246

White, F. Buchanan, M.D., F.L.S.... 105, 145, 160, 164, 208, 216, 283

Williams, Rev. H., M.A 210

Wilson, T 211

Young, V. E. L 108

LIST OF NEW GENERA AND SPECIES DESCRIBED IN THIS VOLUME.

COLEOPTERA.

GEXEEA.

Alema, Sharp Aphilok, „ Arnomus, „ authopus, „ Camieus, „

100 99

75 23

Caeitheca, Baly 226

DiETTA, Sharp 78

Deotus, Getxoma,

LE5AX,

LOEELUS,

Me5IMU8,

Paemius,

Paupeis,

Peniticus,

Peomanus,

RnizoNiuM,

195

267

269

76

73

272

271

101

267

27

SiSTENOPHOEua, C. O. Waterhouse 125

Xenoda, BaZy 225

SPECIES.

PAGE

Alema paradoxa. Sharp, N. Zealand 98

Ancistria tarsalis, C. O. Waterhouse, Java 121 Ancistropterus Brouni, Sharp, N. Zealand 97

mundus, „ „

Aphilon enigma, „ „

97

100

71

70

71

70

224

224

224

Aphodius Brouni, „ „

distans, „ „

Pascoei, „ „

suspectus, „ „

Apocrypta coccinelloides, Baly, Borneo.. pallida, „ Sumatra

purpurea, „ Borneo..

Arnomus Brouni, Sharp, N. Zealand ... 99 Arthopus Brouni, „ „ ... 76

Astetholea lepturoidcs, S. W. Bates,

New Zealand ... 63 Brontes plcuralis. Sharp, „ ... 270

Buprestis Enysi, „ „ ... 193

Callispa africana, Baly, Niger 127

elegans, „ Sumatra 126

xviii.

PAGE

Caxnirns convexns, Sharp, N. Zealand ... 24

thoracicus, „ „ ... 23

Caritheca quadripustulata, Baly, Sumatra 226

C&xy?.i<ia. nnca.\\ii, Baly, W. Australia ... 80

Cerophysa Wallacii, Baly, Sumatra 227

Crj'ptamorplia triguttata, C. O. Water- house, Australia 123

Cyclonotum raarginale, Sharp, N. Zealand 21

Didymocantha segrota, H". TT. Ba^es, „ 52

Uietta sperata, Sharp, N. W.Australia... 78

Disonycba ornata, JBa?^, Pe5as 80

Disterna obtusipennis, S. W. Bates,

N. Zealand 54

Dorypbora bivittaticollis, Baly, Columbia 273 Haroldi, „ „ 273

iiigeuua, „ „ 273

pulchella, „ „ 273

Downesiastrigicollis, iJa^y, Cochin China 128

Droixx.^ de^a-as. Sharp, N. Zealand 194

Ectemnorrbinus Eatoni, C. O. Waterhouse,

ILerguelen Land 51

Enarsus nidis, Sharp, N. Zealand ... 191

Wakefieldi, „ „ ... 190

Enneamera australis,J5rt?y, W. Australia 82

fulviventris, Baly, Amhoina 82

linibata, „ Menado ... 82

tboracica, „ Manilla... 82

Gonophora Cbapuisi, . „ F/iilippiJies 129

Grynoina diluta, Sharp, N. Zealand 267

fusca, „ „ 267

Heetartlnum australicum, C. O. Water- house, Australia 119

dejectum, C. O. Waterhouse,

Batchian, 120

penicillatum, C. O. Water- house, Abyssinia 120

social e, C. O. Waterhouse,

Neiv Guinea 119

uniforme, C. O. Water- house, S. India 120

Heiuipeplus Dejeani, C. O. Waterhouse,

Florida 122

Hermaeopbaga tricolor, Ba^y, Brazil 80

ventralis, „ Bara 80

Heteronyx pumilus, Sharp, N. Zealand... 192 Hispopria terminalis, Baly, Mindanao ... 127

Horatopyga (M'liata, ,, O-uinea 79

Sauudersi, „ Alffoa Bay ... 79 sejuncta, „ S. Africa ... 79

Hybolasius cristatellus, H. W. Bates,

Is. Zealand 55

pedator, „ „ 54

Wakefieldi „ „ 55

IsmT^es, Sharp, N.Zealand... 195

Hydroporu3 duplex, „ „ ..- 21

Wakefieldi,, „ ... 20

PAGE

Lactica apicicornis, JBa/y, ^wajOKS 81

binotata, „ Mexico 81

fulvipes, „ Pebas 81

nigripennis, „ Para 81

sellata, „ „ 81

subnitida, „ „ 81

Lema Ariadne, „ „ 9

Buckleyi, „ Ecuador 8

emargioata, „ C. of G. Hope 6

Haroldi, „ Guinea 7

rufo-limbata, „ Parana 9

Saundersi, „ Brazil 8

trails verso-notata, Baly, Guinea ... 7

Lenax mirandus, Sharp, N. Zealand ... 269

Leperiua fariiiosa, „ „ ... 266

Wakefieldi,, „ ... 191

Lius Adouis, E. Saunders, Santarem ... 43

Ares, „ „ ... 49

Baccbus, „ E(ja 50

Castor, „ Parana 48

Cycnus, ,, Bahia 49

Epbialtes, „ Brazil 50

Hades, „ Santarem ... 51

Helios, „ Ega 50

Hercules, „ Brazil 49

Otus, „ New Fribourg 50

Pollux, „ Parana 48

Tereus, „ [no loc.'] 49

Lorclns priacus, SJiarp, N. Zeala7id 77

Melobasis costata, E.Saunders, Australia 155

cupreovittata, „ „ 155

igiiiceps, „ „ 156

lasta, „ „ 156

obscura, „ „ 157

rubromargiuata, „ „ 156

viridiceps, „ „ 157

viridis, „ „ 158

Menimus Batesi, Sharp, N. Zealand... 74

ca;cus, „ „ ... 75

crassus, „ „ ... 74

Metoponcus Brouni, „ „ ... 22

Parmius debilis, „ „ ... 272

longipes, „ „ ... 273

Paupris aptera, „ „ •■■ 271

Peiiiticus antiquus, „ „ ... 102

suffusus, „ „ ... 101

Platysoma cognatum, „ „ ... 25

Piionispa genimata, Baly, Batchian 129

Promanus depressus. Sharp, N. Zealand 266

Promecotbeca callosa, Ba^y, Australia... 128

Psilocnaeia Brouni, H. W. Bates,

N. Zealand 54

PAGE

Pyroiiota Edvrardsi, Sharp, N. Zealand 72 munda, „ „ 73

sobrina, „ „ 73

Ehizonium antiquum, „ „ 28

Saphobius Wakefieldi, „ „ 192

Saprinus pedator, „ „ 25

Seboetbe quadripustulata, Baly, Java ... 80 Sisyriiophorus Bowriugi, C. O. Water- house, Venang 126 maculatus, C. O. Water- house, Philippines 126

Soroilia bystrix, Sharp, N. Zealand 26

Stepbanorlij-nchus Lawsoui, Sharp,

N. Zealand 97 Sternaulax l*vis, Sharp, N. Zealand ... 24 Telephanusantennatus, C. O. Waterhouse,

Dorej/ 125 cruciger, „

felis, pictiis, spinicollis, Telmatopbilus depressus, Sharp,

N. Zealand

nitens, „ „

Trogoderma serrigerum, „ „

signatum, „ „

Ulonotus discedens, „ „

integer, „ „

Xenoda spinicoruis, S«Zy, Sa^'fliuaA- 225

Xenoscelis prolixus, Sharp, N. Zealand... 26

Xutbodes apicalis, „ „ ... 193

Batesi, „ „ ... 191

Xylotoles bullatus,^. IF. Bai"*?*, „ ... 53

pictulus, ,, „ ... 53

„ 125

Ceylon 12-4

Borneo 123

Aru ... 123

28 70 270 271 268 268

HEMIPTERA.

Aneurus Brouni, J'.i?. White. N.Zealand 106

Berytus setipennis, E. /SattMr^^ers, Malta... 102

Deraeocoris Zelleri, Scott, Palermo 104

Galeatus scropbicus, E. Saunders,

Ft. Scropha 103

Gnathodus roseus, Sco^^, Coj's/ea 83

Iscbuodemus Championi, E. Saunders,

Cephalonia 103

3IS.

PAGK

Lygseosoma Lownii, J7. SaM»(f ers, Galilee 103

Phlepsius filigranus, Scott, Ninies 84)

Plociomerus Douglasi, F. B. White,

N. Zealand 105

Psallus Wollastoiii, Reuter, Madeira 154

Salda australis, F. B. White, N. Zealand 106 Thamuotettix rubrivenosa, Scott, Corsica 83

HYMENOPTERA.

Bassus byperboreus, Marshall, Spits-

hergen 241 Mesocborus dolorosus, „ „ 242

Mesolius arctopbylax, „ „ 241

Nematus anglicus, Cameron, England ... 173

Ortbocentrus reptilis, Marshall, Spitz-

berg en 242

LEPIDOPTERA.

GENERA.

Catocalieehis, Andrews 216

Peecnodaimou [-DJEMOu], ^wWer 152

SPECIES. Adolias Satropaces, Hetvitson, Moulmein 150 Argynnis improba, Butler, Arctic America 206 Cbrysopbanus Enysi, „ N. Zealand ... 153 Debis Serbonis, Mewitson, Darjeeling ... 151 Deudorix Dariaves, „ jDelagoa Bay 205

Dodona Deodata, „ Moulmein 151

Hai-ma Hecataia, „ Ashanti 277

Hesperia Cepbala, „ Darjeeling ... 152

cerata, „ „ ... 152

Melanitis Beza, „ Philippines... 179

Myrina Syinira, „ Darjeeling ... 152

Papilio auriger, ^wfZer, Gaboon 57

rbodifer, „ Andamans 57

tragicus, „ Zambesi 56

Poritia Pediada, Sewitson, Singapore ... 223

Zelleria fusca, Stainton, Britain 1

Zetbera Tbermtea, ifewjisojj, Philippines 178 Zophoessa Atkinsouia, „ Darjeeling 151

NEUROPTERA. AscaLapbus Kolyvanciisis, var. Ponticus,

McLachlan, Amasia 35

LARV^ OF BRITISH SPECIES DESCRIBED IN THIS

VOLUME.

LEPIDOPTERA.

Acidalia emarginata, G. T. Porri^i 13

Anarta cordigera, liev. J. Hellins 12

melauopa, „ 11

Apatura Iiis, W. Buckler 3

Astbuna sylvata, Pev. J. Hellins 213

Axylia putris, G. T. Porritt 249

Catocala promissa, W. Buckler 233

Coremia propugnata, G. T. Porritt 213

Crambus tristelhis, W. B udder 14

Cryptoblabes bistriga, „ Ill

Cymatopbora ocularis, „ 90

Ebulea sambucalis, W. Buckler 135

stacbydalis, „ 134

Epunda lutulenta, C. Fenn 184

G.T. Porritt 163

Herminea grisealis, W. Buckler 110

Lobopbora boxapterata, Sev. J. Mellins .. 249

viretata, W. Buckler 185

Lycajna Argiolus, „ ...29,62,138

Miana fasciuiicuLa, „ 62

'NoliidWmhUA, J. P. Barrett 63

Pteropborus litbodactylus, G. T. Porritt 236

ADDITIONS TO THE BRITISH INSECT FAUNA BROUGHT FORWARD IN THIS VOLUME.

COLEOPTERA.

PAGE

Cardiopliorns nifipes, 2^o;wcroy 227

Helophonis CEqualis, Tlionis 39

brevicollis, „ 39

Platicollis, „ 40

planicollis, „ 39

strigifrons, „ 40

HEMIPTERA.

Aplialara artemisia}, Forst 282

nervosa, „ 66

Libuniia tlavoola, Flor 130

Lj'gus pellucidus, Fieher 188

Plesiodema piiietelhiin, Zc^^f 85

Psallus diminutus, Kirschb 86

Psylla betubft, i)« 282

costalis, i^/or 137

crata;gi, Scop 137

peregriua, Forst. ? 137

pyricola, „ 137

pyrisiiga, „ ? 137

stenolabis, F. Lmv 137

sylvicol'd, Let/iierri/ 68

Temnostethus riigricoruis, Ze^f 86

Trioza abdomioalis, J'Zor 137

ahieticola, Forst 137

HYMENOPTERA.

PAGE

Ceroptres cerri, Ifrtyr 200

Hoplocampa chrysorrhcea, 174

Nematus abbreviatus, Sartig 176

aiiglicus (sp. n.), Cameron 173

bilineatus, -EZif^r 177

imperfectus, Zaddach 176

longiserva, Thorns 177

pallesceiis. Stg 177

vesicator, Bre?»i 178

Westermanni, Thorns 178

Od)'nerus reniformis, Q-mel 114

Pentacrita nigra, r//ows 200

Periclistus caninse, ITi^ 200

Selaiidria aperta, 198

Spathogaster albipes, Schench 199

Tory mus hibernans, 3Iayr 200

LEPIDOPTERA,

[Danais Arcliippus 107]

Eupithecia albipunctata, var. angelicata,

Barrett 278

Gelechia morosa, MuliUq 144

Heliotbis scutosa, W. V. 280

P;edisca rufimitrana, S.-Sc/; 187

Tinea angustipennis, -S.-ScA 143

Zelleria fusca (sp. n.), Stainton 1

REVIEWS.

Monographia Lygseidariim Hungarife : Dr. Horvath ...

Die Neuropteren Europas : F. Brauer ...

Eighth Annual Report on the Noxious Insects of Missouri : C. V. Riley

Proceedings of the Natural History Society of Glasgow, vol. ii, pt. 2

Monograph of the Geometrid moths of the United States : A. S. Packard

The Butterflies of North America, (2) pts. 4 and 5 : W. H. Edwards

Monograph of the British Aphides, vol. i: G. B. Buckton

Zoological Classification : F. P. Pascoe...

The Tra^isactions of the Entomological Society of London, 187G

OBITUARY,

Edward Newman Trovey Black more Edwin Brown ...

WOOD-CUTS.

Base of wings of Yancssa lo ... Stauropus fagi. Young larva of

18

44

94

95

115

168

238

258

259

45 116 116

169 232

ERRATA.

compressa.

Page 12, line 2 from bottom,/or " returning," read "retiring." „ 41, „ 4 „ „ for " this " read " his."

„ 87, lines 9 and 14 from bottom, /or " compressum," read ' „ 133, line 9 from top,/o;- " poloyodon," read " polyodon." „ „ „ 11 „ „ /or "renicolor," reacZ " unicolor." „ 169, Explanation of Fig. A,/or (?) read (I). „ 189, line 19 from top,/or " last " read " lost." ,, Jhr " savs : " read " lavs." „ for " ANGOLA," read " DELAGOA B.VT." „ add "DELAGOA BAY AND " ie/»'ee» "FROM'

" ZANZIBAR." „ dele "not." bottom,/or " Miraetra," read " Minetra."

198,	„ 32
205,	„ 6
))	„ 7
211,	„ 5
216,	„ 3

and

THE

i^ VOLUME XIII. ^y/^

0^^ A NEW SPECIES OF THE GENUS ZELLERIA. BY H. T. STAINTOX, F.R.S.

Since tlie 29th Xovember, 1873, wheu Mr. Barrett brouglit to me for determination a Zelleria from Paisley, wliicli I could not re- cognise, I have had this insect on my mind.

That which has so long perplexed me, ought now to take its turn in puzzling others, and I therefore here give to the world all that I know on the subject.

On the 9th December, 1875, I made the following entry : Zelleeia fusca, n. sp. Exp. al. 6-7 lines.

Having seen simultaneously eleven specimens, nine of which I return this day to Sir Thomas Moncreiffe, I may thus describe it :

Allied to Z. msignipennella, but wants the rich reddish-ochreous tint of that species ; variable in colour from greyish-ochreous to dark fuscous : sometimes with a dark spot on the fold beyond the middle.

Tuft of the head ochreous or fuscous.

It will be seen from the above, that its characters are rather negative than positive ; and, when one reflects that some Entomologists to this day doubt whether Z. visignijjenneAla be specifically distinct from Z. hepariella (through tlie kindness of Mr. Sang, of Darlington, I have in my collection a pair take^i in cop. at Castle Eden Dene, September 27th 1866, of which the ^ appears to be Z. heparieJla, and the ? Z. insignipennella) , one feels one is treading on very uncertain ground — since colouring only, as distinctive of a species with a high Northern range, we know from many analogous cases to be a veritable ignis fatuus.

I will now endeavour to supply, as far as I can, from the letters before me, a history of the known specimens of this new species of Zelleria.

NE, l')';6.

2 ^ [June,

In Marcla, 1874, I received from Sir Tliomas MoncreifEe some insects for determination, amongst which I found two specimens of the Zelleria, which I had first seen the previous November from Paisley. I wrote at once for information respecting them, and was speedily favoured with the following reply to my queries :

" Moncreiffe House, Bridge of Earne,

''March ^\st, 1874.

" The two specimens of the new Zelleria which I captured here were taken " April 8th and May 22nd, 1873.

" The first was beat off a thorn tree in my shrubbery ; the second I took on a "rocky face about 450 feet above the sea level, where no yew trees grow within a " a mile. There is, however, a very mixed vegetation in the locality, including ash, " but not privet. Both specimens were taken in the day-time. I hear that the " Paisley specimen was taken in that neighbourhood, in December."

A year later I heard again of this insect :

" Moncreiffe House, Bridge of Earne,

"April nth, 1875. " I have lately taken two of the Zelleria, one beaten from sallow, the other off " willow ; this latter specimen is a female, but I did not recognise it as this insect " till after I had killed it, being different in appearance from any I had already " taken. On consideration, I find that all that have been captured here were beat " out of bushes in the neighbourhood of sallows, and as the sallow is not very " plentiful with me, I have a notion that it may be the food-plant."

In the course of the summer of 1875, Sir Thomas Moncreiffe brought up to London several specimens of this new Zelleria for ex- amination, and wrote about them as follows :

" Moncreiffe House, Bridge of Earne,

"July 2\st, 1875.

" The two ticketed specimens were taken by myself, in the spring. The others " were captured by Mr. Herd, at this place, from September till May, and he told " me the other day that he had taken two more the beginning of this month, or cud " of June, beaten out of willow.

" My darker specimen was beaten out of yew, with sallow and willow adjacent, " and the lighter coloured specimen was beaten out of willow. If all are the same " insect, the dates of capture are curious. The last week in June or first week in " July can scai'cely be the dates for hibernated specimens.

I now leave the matter in the hands of other observers, in the hope that before long the entire history of the species may be known.

Mountsfield, Lewisham, S.E. : May \Qth, 1876.

IS76.] li

SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES ON THE LARVA, &c., OF APATUEA IRIS. U T W. BUCKLER.

In the 4th volume of this Magazine, at pages 85 to 87, is a de- scription of the full-grown larva of this species, which I now propose to supplement with a further account ab ovo.

For the eggs, I have been indebted to the kindness of Mr. W. H. Harwood, of Colchester, and Mr. E. P. Bisshopp, of Ipswich, viz., a single e^g from the former, received the 31st of last July, laid within the three or four previous days on the upper-side of a leaf of Salix cajprcea ; and from the last named on the 1st of August, four eggs, laid July 29th on pieces of paper.

The Qgg, as may be supposed, is of a good size, its shape cylindrical, of about equal height and diameter, adhesively fixed in an upright position on its flat base, domed on the top, its surface strongly ribbed, the ribs varying in number from twelve to fourteen. All the eggs were alike in colour when I first received them, viz., of a yellowish oHve-green, having near the base a zone of purplish-black, the green portion semi-translucent, the surface glistening ; those laid on the paper began to change on the 4th of August, by displacement of the black zone and the appearance of a blackish spot within the centre ; on the 5th, the whole top grew at first cloudy, then blackish, the lower part paler green than before, this, on the 6th, became still paler, and the ribs whitish, and on that day, about 7 o'clock in the evening, three eggs hatched, and the fourth at 10 o'clock. The egg from Col- Chester hatched three days later, after previously passing through similar changes.

When just hatched, the larva has a large rounded head, and two distinctly separated anal points ; its colour light dirty greenish-yellow, with three faintly darker lines down the back, the head dark chocolate- brown.

The next day after hatching, each larva was resting on the tip of a leaf ; each leaf thus tenanted showed that, at a little distance below the larva, a small portion had been eaten from its edge on one side, q^ulte tliroufjh the whole substance ; the larvae were now just one-eighth of an inch long, and on their rough granulous heads could be seen, with the aid of a lens, two large, somewhat bright, oval, smooth patches of paler colour, each with a central dark spot occupying the crown of the lobes, the body light yellowish-green, faintly showing a darker dorsal line and slanting side streaks.

4 [Juiit,

1 fouud tlie Colchester larva, when but live days old, lyiug dead where it had been feeding on the edge of a leaf, the cause of this mis- hap betrayed by the state of the food, which could not be changed the day before without risk, as three of the larvae just a week old were fixed for moulting, each on a coating of silk, spun either on the glass cylinder, or on the side or tip of a sallow leaf ; the other larva, not previously visible for a day or two, now made its appearance again, having already completed its first moult, furnished with remarkably long and stout horns, cleft at the dark reddish tips ; this I noted as No, 1, a very lively and active little creature, roaming over the sallow leaves for an hour or two after its removal from the rest before establishing its footing on a leaf point.

On the tenth day, No. 2 on the cylinder, moulted ; on the twelfth day, No. 3 on a leaf tip, had also moulted, both furnished with horns like No. 1. The remaining larva moulted on the thirteenth day, but without horns, the head being much the same as before, though the colouring of the body was changed like the others, viz., to a bright green, with yellowish sub-dorsal stripes on the six anterior segments, and yellow slanting lines along the sides, the points of the tail brought close together appearing very like one anal point, ringed with red ; this hornless larva fed and seemed very lively and well up to the twenty-first day, when it s])un a layer of silk on a leaf, on which it remained quietly for a couple of days, then at intervals struggling and contorting itself during two more, and, in course of the day fol- lowing, it died with its front segments rigidly curved backward.

From the end of August my attention was devoted to the three survivors, of which No. 1 had moulted a second time on August 21st, a third time on the 28th, and a fourth time on September 5th, when it was a little over one inch in length ; on the 11th, it fixed itself for its fifth moult on silk spun upon the glass cylinder, and measured then one and three-eighths of an inch in length ; by the 21st, it had attained its greatest length of two inches, and was stout in proportion. From this date, although continuing to feed well, it appeared to be getting shorter by slow degrees, and the few scattered purplish-black points as usual appeared, and, by the 25th, had greatly increased, forming dark blotches on the back of the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth segments, the green general ground colour becoming paler ; in the afternoon of this day, it left its favourite silk carpeted leaf, where latterly it always returned to rest after every meal made on other leaves, and took up a position on a stem, head downwards, the head and front segments hanging free, but in half-an-hour it removed to another stem where, in

a similar posture it i"emained for about the same space of time, but here, as preyiously, it seemed incommoded by too close proximitywith other stems and leaves, for it again moved off and ascended to one of the upper leaves and crept beneath it, and there, after resting a few minutes, it began to spin a coating of silk, leisurely adding to it at intervals during the evening, and probably during the night, as I noticed next morning some stout threads had been spun from the foot- stalk of the leaf to the main stem, firmly securing the position of oue to the other ; the larva now remained quite still, its head and hoims in line with the body towards the stem, and its tail a little way from the tip of the leaf, the back much arched, the anal pair of legs securely fixed in a pad of silk, and the first ventral pair clinging to the silken carpet which they dragged off a little from the leaf at the point of contact ; the assimilation in colour to the under-side of a sallow leaf was very perfect.

Larva No. 2 completed its third moult on September 5th, then, seven-eighths of an inch long ; after this, it was kept apart, feeding well, and attaining the length of about two inches by the 25th of the month ; and on the 28th, had spun its carpet under a leaf, and secured itself similarly to the preceding.

Larva No. 3 moulted a second time on the 3rd of September, when its length was just half an- inch ; from this time it fed very sparingly, often changing its position as its food was changed, until the 25th of the month, when I found it was hibernating on the stem of a twig, the hinder half of its body enveloped in a mass of silk where it remained immovable ; only by very gently touching its horns occasionally, as winter advanced, could I be sure it was alive.

Beyond keeping them in a room of v.hich the window was closed only at night, I was unconscious of any thing 1 had done to stimulate premature development of the two larvae which so rapidly attained full growth: certainly I attended to them carefully, and watched them with much intei-est, especially while feeding, an operation I noticed performed oftener by night than by day.

After moulting, the green colour of the larva was at first very pale, like the under-side of a sallow leaf, for a day or two, for which period it would remain on the under-side of a leaf, until its green colour had become brighter and darker, when it would again rest on the upper surface of the leaf ; after the last moult, and sometimes before, each larva had a special leaf spun over the upper surface with silk, on which it rested in such a position that its head was facing the footstalk, and

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bent down, so as almost to touch the leaf, the anterior legs drawn in close to the body ; sometimes all the ventral legs, and sometimes only the third and fourth pair in addition to the anal pair, had a footing on the silk ; when hungry, the larva would quit this, make a rapid meal, and return again to rest. Some leaves were so ravaged that only the midribs were left. Once I was rather surprised to see the second larva eat off a large strip from one side of its silk covered resting leaf, together with the silk on it, but leave the rest imtouched.

Towards the end of September, a week of suddenly severe cold weather killed my two large larvae just as they seemed about to pupate, and, unluckily, before I could remove them to a hothouse ; and, before the year had ended, the third smaller larva, of which I had great hopes as being in a more natural state of hibernation, died also.

Emsworth : April 3nl, 1876.

DESCEIPTIOXS OF HITHERTO UNCHARACTEEIZED PEYTOPHAOA.

BY JOSEPH S. BALT, M.D., F.L.S.

{continued from Vol. xii, page 75.)

Eam. CEIOCEEID^.

Lema emarginata.

Ohlonga, convexa,flafa, nitida; ore, anfennis, orticido hasaliexcepto, j)ectore, abdominis hasi et tnacuUs, pedihusque nigris,femorihus tiiiisque (jbasi et apice excej)tis) Jlnvis ; thorace transverso, laferihus onedio valde constrictis, ante apicem lateraliter productis ; scutello npice emnrginato : elytris profunde punctatO'Striatis, punctis ad apicem minus fortiter im- pressis ; femorihus p>osticis modice incrassatis, mnticis. Long. 3f lin-

Hab. : Cape of Good Hope ; a single specimen.

Head smootli, impunctate, neck moderately constricted, front impressed on either side with an oblique groove ; clypeus triangular, bordered on the sides by a deep groove ; its lower half, together with the parts of the mouth, black ; its surface sparingly clothed with sub-erect whitish hairs ; antennae robust, rather less than half the body in length, basal joints short, sub-globose, fulvous, its apex piceous, second very short, third and fourth equal, each one-half longer than the second, the remaining joints thickened, cylindrical, closely clothed with adpresscd hairs. Thorax nearly one-fourth broader than long, sides deeply excavated in the middle, produced laterally in front, the produced portion obtuse ; upper surface distinctly flattened on the disc, transversely sulcate in front of the base, the sulcation faint, ill-defined, impressed in the centre with a large fovea, surf^ice smooth and shining, impressed in the middle with a broad longitudinal row of punctures ; on

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either side of fclie disc, just behind the anterior border, is a large shallow excavation. Scutellura sub-quadrate, its apex broadly emargiiiate. Elytra much broader than the thorax, puiietate-striate, the punctures large, rotundate, deeply impressed. Hinder thighs distinctly thickened, unarmed. Abdomen sliining, very sparingly clothed with short adpressed hairs, fulvous ; nearly the whole of the basal segment, a small spot on either side of each of the three following segments, and a transverse stripe on the apical segment, black.

This species must be placed near L. ru/justa, Lac.

LeMA TEAKSVEESO-jS'OTATA.

Sub-elonqata, parallela, nigra, niticht ; ahdoininls limbo, capite (an- tennis exceptis), tliorace elytrisque rufo-fulvis, Jiis rcf/ularifer punctafo- sfrinfis, uti'inquep>unctis duobtis parvis, prope medium transrersimpositis, nijris. Lonrj. 3|-4 lin.

Hab. : Guinea, Camaroous.

Vertex smooth, impunctate, neck constricted, front bordered on either side by the usual oblique gi'oove, its surface thickened, impressed at its upper end with a deep fovea ; inner orbit of the eye coai-sely punctured ; antenme with the two lower joints rufo-fulvous, the rest black, with a faint steel-blue reflection, basal joints moderately thickened, the second short, ovate, the third and fourth equal, each twice the length of the second. Thorax sub-quadrate, sub-cylindrical, slightly flattened above ; sides broadly and deeply constricted in the middle ; upper surface smooth, impunctate, transversely sulcate just in front of the basal margin. Elytra much broader at the base than the thorax, sides parallel in front, their apex broadly rounded ; above convex, very faintly transversely depressed ; finely punctate- striate below the basilar space, the interspaces plane, impunctate ; each elytron with two small roundish black spots placed transversely just before the middle of the disc, the first occupying the space between the fifth and sixth stria;, the other situated near the outer border.

Lema Haroi.di.

Oblonga, sub-cijlindricn ,vufo-fulca , nitida ; plcuris^antcnnis (avticido hasali exccpAd), fedihus(iue iiif/ris,fciitorihus j)oslicis sub/us rufo-piccis ; tliorace siib-qnadraio, sub-remote punctaio, latrribiis viedio modice con- strictis ; elijtris infra basin transcersim dcpressis, hasi distiucte ud apicem tenuitcr pmictato-striatis, interspatiis planis, Jcevihus.

Long. 1 liji.

Hab.: Guinea, Camaroous.

Vertex smooth, impunctate, neck constricted ; front obliquely sulcate on cither side, impressed in the centre with an oblong fovea, clypeus triangular, bounded ou either side by a deep groove, remotely punctured, sparingly clothed with adpressed fulvous hairo ; orbit of eyes coar.-icly punctured, clothed with similar hairs. An- tenuse half the length of the body, basal joints sub-globose, stained with piceous,

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second short, third and fourth equal, each about one-half longer than the second, first joints obscure rufo-piceous, the two following also stained with piceous. Thorax sub-quadrate, slightly broader at the base, sides moderately constricted in the middle, rounded and converging at the apex ; above sub-cylindrical, finely and sub-remotely punctured, the inner whole surface between the larger punctures, wlien viewed under a lens, is seen to be very minutely punctured. Scutellum oblong, narrowed from base to apex, the latter rounded. Elytra much broader than the thorax, sides parallel, the apex broadly rounded ; above convex, transversely depressed below the basilar space, regularly punctate-striate, the punctures strongly impressed on the anterior half, much less so below the middle ; interspaces plane. Hinder thighs unarmed.

This species, together with the preceding, ought to be placed close to i. mitis, Clark.

Lema Saundeesi.

Siih-elonr/ata, Icete fiilva, nidida; antennis, pecfore, ahdomine, pedi- hxisq^ue nigris^femoribus {apice maculaque dorsali exceptis) fulvis ; elytris leviter ricgulosis, regularifer punctato-striatis, obscure metallieo-viridibus aut cceruleis, limbo laterali vittdque sub-suturali, apice conjunctis, fulvis.

Long. 4-5 lin.

Hab. : Brazil (Rogers); two specimens, formerly in the collection of Mr. W. W. Saunders, after whom I have named this species.

Vertex smooth, impunctate ; neck moderately constricted ; front impressed on cither side by an oblique groove ; antennae slender, the basal joints sub-globose, fulvous, stained above with piceous, second joint short, third twice the length of the second. Thorax slightly broader than long, sub-cylindrical, flattened above, sides deeply constricted in the middle ; disc smooth and shining, a longitudinal stripe down the middle, together with a space on either side just beliindthe anterior angle, impressed with distinct punctures ; on the medial line at some distance in front of the basal margin is a faint transverse depression, in the middle of which is placed a single deep fovea. Scutellum trigonate, its apex obtuse, and stained with nigro- piceous. Elj-tra much broader than the thorax, oblong, slightly dilated towai'ds the apex, the latter broadly rounded ; above convex, finely punctate-striate, the striro towards the apex nearly obsolete ; general surface finely and rugcsely strigose.

Nearly allied in size, form, and sculpturing to L. apicaUs, Lac, but differing entirely in the pattern of its elytra.

Lema Buckleti.

Elonqata, s'uh-cylindrica,palUde fulca ; nitidci, capite.,pcctore, iibiis tarsisque nigris, antennis fuscis, articulo prima piceo, uUimis duobns sordide allidis, femoribus piceo tinctis ; eJgfris rcguJarifer punctato- striatis, viridi-vu'f(tllicis, fascia lata prope medium apicequc fulvis.

Long. 3^-4 lin.

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Hab. : Ecuador ; collected by Mr. Buckley.

Neck constricted, shining, impunctate, its extreme base fulvous ; front impressed on either side bv a deep oblique groove, its apex also impressed with a short longi- tudinal line ; clypeus sparingly clothed -with sub-erect hairs ; antennse two-thirds tlie length of the body, slender, basal joints thickened, sub-globose, second very short, the third three times the length of the second, the fourth longer than the third ; the first joint piceous, the second to the ninth fuscous, obscure fulvous beneath, the tenth and eleventh yellowish-white. Thorax slightly longer than broad, sub-cylin- drical, sides deeply constricted in the middle ; above transversely sulcate in front of the base, the sulcation broad, shallow, and ill-defined, a longitudinal space down the middle and another on either side just behind the anterior angle, finely but distinctly punctured. Scutellum black, oblong, its apex obtuse. Elytra broader than the thorax, sides parallel at the base, slightly dilated below the middle, the apex sub- acutely rounded, above convex, faintly excavated on either side near the suture, just below the basilar space ; humeral callus prominent ; surface regularly punctate- striate, the ninth stria from the suture entire ; interspaces plane, slightly convex towards tlie apex and on the sides.

LeMA RUrO-LIMBATA.

Sohusta, riifo-jncea, nitida ; tarsi's, tihlis anticis quatuor apice, an- tcnnisciue {articulo prlmofulvo excepfo) , nip'o-jnceis ; elytris regulariter punctato-striatls, stria no7id medio vix interruptd,Jiavis, utrinque {hasi except a) riifo-limhatis. Long. 3i lin.

Hab. : Parana.

Vertex finely but distinctly punctured ; front with the usual oblique groove on either side, inner orbits of eyes coarsely punctured ; clypeus triangular, coarsely but remotely punctured, sparingly clothed with sub-erect hairs ; antenna; robust, rather longer than the head and thorax; basal joints sub-globose, the second very sliort. Thorax rather broader than long, sub-cylindrical, sides deeply con- stricted in the middle ; upper surface transversely grooved in front of the basal margin, the sulcation faintly wrinkled ; a longitudinal line on the middle of the disc and a space on either side just behind the anterior angle distinctly punctured, the basal margin indistinctly edged with rufous. Scutellum triangular, its apex truncate. Elyti-a much broader than tlie thorax, sub-quadrate oblong, convex, slightly flat- tened along the suture, not depressed below the basilar space, punctate-striate, the ninth stria from the suture slightly interrupted in its middle third, the punctures being there placed at irregular intervals ; interspaces plane, moderate convex near the apex ; each elytron with its entire margin (the middle of the basal border excepted) edged witli bi-ight rufous, the rufous border is nearly uniform in width during its whole extent, with the exception of the apex of each elytron, where it is dilated, and forms a triangular apical patch.

Lema Ariadxe.

Sub-elongata, rufo-fulvn, nitida, nntrnnis pediljusque nigris ; elglris

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metanico-ccenileis, infra hasin transversim excavatis, sat fort iter piinctato- striatis, punctis ad apicem minus fortiter impressis, stria noiid medio interruptd ; interspatiis plants, ad apicem et ad latera vix convexis. Var. A — JElytris hasi macula rufo-fdva notatis.

B — Pectore ahdomine nigris. Long. ^\ lin.

Hab. : Para, Santarem.

Vertex smooth, impunctate, impressed in the middle with a longitudinal fovea) bounded on either side bj an oblique groove, its surface (seen under a lens) minutely but not closely punctured, sparingly clothed with short, fine hairs ; clypeus im- pressed with a few deep punctures, clothed, as well as the inner orbit of the eyes, with hairs coarser than those on the front ; antennae two-thirds the length of the body, slender, basal joints incrassate, broadly ovate, second short, sub-ovate, third and fourth nearly equal, each about twice the length of the second, basal joints more or less stained with rufo-piceous. Thorax rather broader than long, sub- cylindrical, sides deeply constricted in the middle, upper surface transversely sulcate in front of the basal margin, the sulcation ill-defined, impressed in the middle with a single deep fovea ; a longitudinal space occupying the middle of the disc, together with a patch on either side, just behind the anterior angle, distinctly punctured. Scutellum trigonate, its apex obtuse. Elytra much broader than the thorax, sides parallel ; above convex, rather deeply excavated below the basilar space; the humeral callus prominent ; surface rather strongly punctate-striate, the punctures finer and less deeply impressed posteriorly ; interspaces plane, scarcely thickened towards the apex ; on each elytron near its apex is a large shallow excavation. Body beneath clothed with short silky hairs.

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The vernal broods of tcJdte hutterjlies in the Isle of Man. — A few remarks by Mr. Stainton in the E. M. ]\r. for June, 1875, No. 133, p. 13, on the prior appearance of Pieris rapce or yiapi, caused me to watch for, and capture, the first white butter- flies which I saw on the wing here this spring. I did not see a sjDCcimcn until April I3th, when I captured both rapce and vapi.

I had a number of pupa; of P. rapce collected in March — the first of these emerged April 11th — but, having been kept in a conservatory, they would probably be slightly forced. It would thus appear that, in the Isle of Man, rapce and napi appear simultaneously.

On the cliffs, where my walks have mostly been, napi is much tlie more abundant species. Pieris hrassicce made its first appearance April 21th. I liave not yet seen Anthocaris cardamines. — Edwin Biechall, Derby Square, Douglas, Isle of Man : May 12th, 1876.

The supposed new British species of Lencania. — I am sorry to say my supjiosed Leiicania (vide vol. xii, p. 279) turns out to be a variety of Nonagria lulusa. I am indc.btcd for this information to Dr. Staudingcr of Dresden, who informs me the

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aberration is occasionally met with on the continent. I can find no English specimen resembling mine. — Batteeshell GriiL, M.D., 9, Cambridge Terrace, Eegent's Park : 'Srd May, 1876.

Food-plant of Agrotis agatltina. — It may be remembered that I tried, through the pages of tliis journal, to obtain information touching the rearing of this beautiful moth. One collector in Yorkshire possesses the secret, but refuses to impart the same unless for money. Mr. Tugwell, of Grreenwich, on the contrary, kindly in- forms me he feeds the larvte on Erica tetralix, and succeeds in rearing the moth. This morning I took my sweeping-net into a low pine wood, with a carpeting of Calluna vulgaris and Erica cinerea. I soon filled my boxes with innumerable larva3 of Agrotis porphyrea, and many A. agathina, the latter being still mostly very small. I noticed, however, what may turn out to be valuable, and indeed the real secret of success in raising agathina, viz., that where the Calluna grew by itself, I found few or no agathina larvae, but where E. cinerea occurred in large patches, I found them very frequent, sometimes as many as seven or eight being found at once in the net. Bearing this in mind, I intend, when the larvjB are full-grown in the end of May, to feed them exclusively on Erica cinerea and tetralix, and have great hopes of success. — G. NoRMAx, Cluny Hill, Forres : Uh April, 1876.

Description of the larva, lJ'c, of Anarta melanopa. — For eggs of this, aiid of the following species also, I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. J. T. Carrington, who sent them to me from Perthshire.

I received the eggs on June 41 h, 1875 ; the larvse hatched on the lOtli; they soon began to feed on tender leaves of Arbutus unedo, or Luzulapilosa, sallow, flowers of HelianthemtDii vtdgare, and on Vaccinium vitis-idaa, and by the 16th were growing and thriving well. By July 3rd they were three-quarters of an inch long, and feeding only on sallow, Salix caprcEa and S. acuminata, having gradually deserted the other food-plants supplied to them ; those that now survived, some two or three only, continued to feed till after the middle of the month, and about the end of the third week in July turned to pupa), one of them, without having attempted a cocoon, became a bare pupa on the surface of the soil ; but as another entered the earth, and apparently formed a cocoon, we may suppose the latter woidd be the habit in a state of nature.

The egg is almost globular, the shell delicate, shining, with rather more than fifty ribs, the transverse reticulation shallow, the top a little puckered ; colour when received, a delicate pink.

The newly-hatched larva with sixteen legs, but the ventral pair on seventh not serviceable, and those on eighth smaller than those on ninth and tenth ; the usual warts small in size, and all placed on little eminences, and furnished with longish pale bristles ; the colour semi-translucent whitish, but the back purplish, and the head pale brown, the warts black.

In about a week, the legs on the 8th became nearly as much developed as tho.sc on the ninth and tenth, and those on the 7th increased in size ; the whole body greenish, the back became brownish with pale central stripe, also a wider pale sub- dorsal stripe with a brownish thread through it. In about another fortnight the length attained was three-quarters of an inch, the figure of tlie usual yoclua type,

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tapering a little forwards froui the 5tli, and the 13th sloping rapidly ; the skin soft and velvety ; the ground colour deep purplish-pink, dorsal line ochreous-brown boldly outlined with blackish, but interrupted on the fore-part of each segment by a reddish- brown triangular mark ; this triangle is met on either side by a thick black wedge- shaped mark, below which again comes the continuous bright yellowish-white sub- dorsal line ; this line is thin on the thoracic segments, but beyond them widens in such a manner that the widest part of it on each segment is near the end of the above-mentioned black wedges, and the whole line is finely edged with black through- out ; the side is similar in colour to the back, but very much obscured by dark reddish- brown freckles, and with a short blackish streak slanting downwards on each segment ; the spiracles oval and blackish ; the sub-spiracular stripe yellowish white suffused beneath each spiracle with red, and delicately freckled with red along the middle ; the belly and legs dark purplish-brown, the head also of this colour, with darker reticulations.

After the final moult, the length became abo\it seven-eighths of an inch, with the colouring much as before, except that the sub-dorsal line had become thinner, only just visible on the thoracic segments, and on the others much attenuated at each end, but still continuous. In about ten days from the final moult, the full length was attained of somewhat over one inch and a quarter, the figure being slender for a Noctua ; the ventral legs now all of one size ; the bulk uniform : in general effect the appearance was less dark than before, though the details still remained the same, only the pale sub-spiracular sti'ipe had become still more obscured by red and brown freckles ; the tubercular dots of the back not noticeable, being situate within the black wedges : the spiracles now ochreous-brown finely outlined with, black, and each placed on an unfreckled spot of the paler ground colour ; the belly mulberry colour ; the whole surface velvety, except the head, which is hard and shining, and of a reddish-brown colour with darker reticulation, and a blackish streak down the front of each lobe.

The pupa, which lies exposed, is rather more than half an inch in length, smooth and rounded in figure, with the abdomen tapering off rather quickly, and ending in a blunt spite ; very glossy, and in colour black, the segmental divisions being at first reddish. — J. Hellins, Exeter : February, 187G.

Description of the larva, iSfc, of Anarta cordigera. — The eggs which I received from Mr. Carrington on June 8th, 1875, were laid on June Ist, and the laiwa? hatched on the 12th ; meanwhile I had received from Mr. Buckler another supply of eggs, or rather newly-hatched larvae, on the 10th, wliich had been sent him by Dr. F. Buchanan White. The young larvae ate at first Luzula pilosa, Arbutus tinedo, and Arbutus uva-ursi, the last kindly supplied by Dr. White ; but after a time they were quite content with young leaves of A. unedo, and preferred them to those of A. uva-ursi, although I had been at the trouble of obtaining a fine growing plant from Messrs. Veitch, of Chelsea, in order to give them fresh tender leaves.

Both broods of larva; grew and kept pace with those of meJanopa, by July 3rd having become nearly three-quarters of an inch long, and by the IGtli being full- fed, and returning to earth about the 23rd.

The egg is about the size of that of melanopa, but not so globular ; witli about

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forty shallow ribs, and with faint transverse reticulations; the shell shining; the colour when laid cream white ; in a week becoming whitish with a faint reddish irregular ring and blotches.

The newly-hatched larva is of the same size as melanopa, but darker in colour, being pale dull purplish, with the head, collar, and anal plate shining blackish, the wai'ts also blackish, distinct, and furnished with very short bristles, the ventral legs on the seventh and eighth small, and not useable. In about a week, the colour changed to pale greenish, except the back, which was brownish, with pale dorsal and sub-dorsal stripes, the head and warts still remaining blackish.

At the end of the third week from hatching, the larrse were nearly three-quarters of an inch long, and all the ventral legs were used, those on the seventh and eighth, however, being still smaller than the others ; the colour was now deep purplish-brown both above and below, with a white dorsal line, and a faint indication of a sub-dorsal line, but only on the second and thirteenth, the snb-spiracular stripe pale primrose- yellow ; the whole skin soft and velvety ; the head horny. In another week, and after the final moult, the length was nearly an inch ; the purple-brown of the back now obscured by black, and on the sides freckled both with black and with paler brown ; the dorsal whitish line thinner than before, and sometimes interrupted at the divisions by the ground colour, the sub-dorsal, though faint, now showing slightly all its course ; the snb-spiracular stripe becomes brownish-ochreous and freckled with crimson-brown, the belly and legs dark purplish-brown ; the head dark purplish- brown, with a blackish blotch on the corner of each lobe, hard and shining. At the end of the fifth week from hatching, the full length was attained of one inch and three-sixteenths ; the figure slender for a Noctua ; all the ventral legs about the same size ; in the colouring there were two varieties at least, and perhaps, in a larger number of examples, more variation might have been observed ; the lighter variety had the ground colour crimson-brown, all the details much as before, both the pale and the black freckles being more distinct ; the darker variety became almost black, and had only a trace on the end of each segment of the dorsal and sub-dorsal lines ; the sub-spiracular stripe was brown, and tinged with deep lurid red ; the belly sooty-brown.

All the survivors of both broods, some four or five in number, spun up in long rounded earthen cocoons on the surface of the soil.

As a postscript to this and the preceding note, I would say, that from the infor- mation I have received from my friends, the natural food of A. eordigera must be Arbutus uva-ursi, and that of A. melanopa probably Menziesia cmrulea, but of this I am not sure ; of course Arhutus unedo and Salix caprcea are only substitute foods. — Id.

Description of the larva of Acidalia emarginata. — I have several times had the eggs of Acidalia emarginata, but it was not until last year that I succeeded in rearing the larvae to maturity, the specimens being the result of a batch of eggs received from Mr. F. D. Wheeler, of Norwich, on the 29th July, 1874. The eggs are oblong- oval, and, when fresh, are orange colour, but, before hatching, change to purplish-red ; this event took place the day following their arrival. The newly-emerged larva is olive-green, with wainscot-brown head. Being supplied with Polygonum aviculare,

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they fed and grew slowly until hibernation, which portion of their existence extended over a long period, as they ceased feeding in the autumn, and did not re-commence until early in May following. By the middle of June, they were full-grown, and may be described as follows : — Length about three-quarters of an inch, and of average bulk in proportion ; head about the same width as the second segment ; it has the face rather flat, but the lobes rounded, and is notched on the crown. When viewed from above, the body seems flat, but seen from the side, the under surface is rounded ; the 9th segment is the widest, and from it the rest gradually taper towards the head ; the 10th, 11th, 12th, and 13th, are of about equal width : all these overlap consider- ably, thus rendering the divisions very distinct ; this overlapping, too, makes the skin at the side appear as a conspicuous lateral ridge. The skin is tough, and has a rough appearance, owing to its being transversely ribbed throughout.

The ground colour is dirty ochreous, in some specimens strongly suffused with a dingy smoke colour ; the head is of the same colour, and from it extends a pale dorsal liue, this line being bordered, on each side of the 10th to 13th segments, with an irregidar, broad, and very dark, stripe ; on segments 2 to 5 these stripes are paler and narrower, whilst on segments 6, 7, 8, and 9, they become conspicuous black X-like marks ; the side of the lateral ridges is tinged with reddish-ochreous, and there are various brown freckles between this and the dorsal line. The ventral surface is of the same tint as the ground of the dorsal surface, and is freckled with brown.

The larvse began to spin loose cocoons, in the corners at the bottom of the cage, on the 2l8t June. The pupa is about three-eighths of an inch long, smooth and shining ; the colour reddish-yellow, with the wing-cases greenish.

The first imago appeared on the 15th July, and was speedily followed by the remainder. — Geo. T. Poeritt, Huddersfield : May 2>rd, 1876.

Natural History of Cramhus tristellus. — On the 28th August, 1874, Mr. W. Eobinson-Douglas kindly sent me a small batch of eggs of tliis species loose in a quill, which were the more welcome from the fact of my having obtained a batch the year before, but with no satisfactory result beyond learning sometliing of the voracity of the larvse, for whilst young they entirely killed a large pot of grass before the following spring, and when I looked for them had all escaped in quest of fresh pastui'o.

In order to pi'cvent a similar failure, I this time provided several large pots of Aira jlexuosa and ccBspitosa, among which the ncAvly-hatched larvte were disti-ibutcd on the 12th, 13th, and 14th September, and, beyond a little attention to the grass by occasional watering, they were not disturbed until April, 1875, when I began to search the remains of the grasses for the larvce. Amongst the A. ccespitosa none could be found, only a number of quite small empty galleries, which had been abandoned at an early period, with but little damage to this grass, a proof of its unsuitability. Two pots of A. Jlexuosa had been so ravaged as to be destroyed, the lower parts of the dead grass had a number of sOken cases or galleries, both little and big, spun amongst it and covered with frass, but no larva remained, and although several vigorous plants of Luzula multiflora were by chance still growing amidst the dead A. Jlexuosa, they had not kept the larva) from wandering away, nor had they been eaten at all.

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The third and largest pot of A. Jlexuosa, though greatly ravaged, still had a little of the grass alive, and here, amongst a great niunber of the silken galleries, I was glad to find foui' tenanted ; one gallery was covered with dry frass, the other three partially protected externally with small particles of moss, some of which was growing in patches at the base of the gi-ass ; each was spun amongst the grass in a vertical position, the lower end rather over half an inch from the earth ; the length of these galleries varied from three-quarters of an inch to one inch and a quarter; their shape a little inclining to fusiform, but yet rather irregular in figure, made of strong grey silk, and very smooth within. Wlien removed to a fresh pot oi Jlexuosa these larva; fed well for a time, but early in June they deserted these dwellings and constructed little silken lined tunnels in the light soil amongst the upper parts of the grass roots, and therein, diu-ing July, they pupated. The moths appeared from August 1st to 11th.

The egg of tristellus — which, as far as the experience of these two batches enables me to speak, appears to be deposited free, and not attached by the moth to anything — is in size rather large for that of the moth, of a long elliptical shape, and ribbed longi- tudinally ; when first laid, of a wliitish straw colour, turning in about five days to buff, on the tenth day to light brown, from thence growing gradually to dark brown or dark red, and, within two days of hatching, to a dingy purplish tint. In this instance, the hatching continued at intervals from the sixteenth to the nineteenth day.

When first hatched, the larva is less than the sixteenth of an inch long, of a dingy pink colour, with large black head and plate on the second segment. Not having examined them till the following spring, I can give no account of the intermediate moults, but, towards the end of April in the following year, I found the smallest larva to be three-eighths of an inch, two others about half an inch, and the largest three-quarters of an inch, in length ; the ground colour of the smallest pale piukish- grey, the next sizes more strongly tinged with pink, and the largest a darker reddish- grey, the ground colour of each being paler on the hinder segments, and, by degrees, darker towards the head ; the belly a little paler than the back. The conspicuous chai'acter of this genus — the dark shining spots — were, in the smallest example, lightish brown, and blackish-brown in the others ; the anterior plate dingy bi'own in the smallest, and quite black in the largest, dorsally divided by a fine thread of greyish ; the head of each was quite black, and the hinder plate of the ground colour. At the beginning of June, the larvte, then full-grown, were all of about the same size, measuring three-quarters of an inch in length, and their skins changed to a light fawn colour and to light brown, and, as before, smooth without gloss, the head, plates, and spots only being glossy ; the spots on the thoracic segments transversely oval and fusiform, on the back of the other segments the first pair transversely squarish- ovate, the second pair transversely linear ; those along the sides longitudinally squarish-ovate ; those situated behind and below the spiracles of the ground colour, but shining ; the spiracles small, round, and black.

The pupa nearly half an inch in length, rather slender, withlongish wing-covers, smooth and shining, of a light brown colour. — William Buckler, Emsworth : April 3rd, 187G.

[The species of Crambus are generally looked upon as comparatively harmless insects, but, from the foregoing account, it is evident that C. tristellus, where it abounds, can be a destructive pest in grass lands. — Eds.]

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JEarly appearance of Catoptria aspidiscana and HJlachista suhnigrella. — On the Gth inst., as it was fine and warm, I paid a visit to Grange, and took a female of C. aspidiscana. I had spent five hours without much result until 4 p.m., when, to my surprise, Ulachista suinigrella turned up, and I succeeded in taking a score of speci- mens, but only one female among the lot. Gracilaria aurogtdtella, Pancalia Leeuwen- hoekella, and a few Lithocolletis, made up my catch. Two days later, I again went prepared to fill some scores of boxes, but things had changed, and I had only four moths to set after spending a day and travelling seventy-two miles. A cold wind did all the mischief — J. B. HoDGKiNSON, 15, Spring Bank, Preston : May Wth, 1876.

Note on sugaring. — In reply to Mr. Porritt, concerning my note on sugaring (Vol. xii, p. 207), I may state that the ivy was perfectly free from dew when I sugared it, and also, that no rain had fallen for some days previous. I may also state what I omitted to mention before, that I subsequently sugared several times, in the same manner and place, and invariably with the same result, — many insects at the sugar and very few at the ivy bloom. I do not think that sugaring has had the attention paid to it that it .deserves. From accounts received from difPerent quarters, ivy bloom does not seem to possess such great attraction for insects in Scotland, in some parts at least, but by making a series of trials of sugaring near ivy, next autumn, and,bynoting down the results,! may obtain more decided evidence. — Wm. Sandison, Glasgow : IWi March, 1876.

A strange Mbernaculum. — Wliile examining our one church bell on March 28th, I was surprised to find, in the interior, eight specimens of Qonoptera libatrix and three of Vanessa urticce. The bell is never rung mouth upwards, but even in ordinary chiming one would have thought the vibration must be too great to make such a situation at all desirable as winter quarters. — H. Jenner Fust, Jun., Hill Court, Gloucestershire : April Srd, 1876.

Observations on the development, indoors, of hibernating pupcB of Lepidoptera. — The often inexplicable death of pupa?, when hibernating in the house, induced me to make close observation of the matter, in order to ascertain the cause of the great mortality. The number of pupae which I collected for this purpose, in the autumn of 1872, amounted to several hundreds, and included most of the genera of the Maorop- tera. I put them, bedded on moss, in a large receptacle in the room, and moistened them with water from time to time. Treated in this manner, only one-half of the pupse produced perfect insects ; the other half became diseased, so that the segments of the abdomen gradually became contracted, movement became impossible, and thus the death of the pupae ensued. In some other species, such as Smerinthus ocellatus, in consequence of being too little moistened, the pupa-case had become so hardened that the moth could not break through it, and died inside, although fully developed. These results showed me that pupa) kept indoors must be kept damper, and in the following year I made a renewed attempt with a number of pupse equal to that of the foregoing year. At the end of December I brouglit them from a cold into a warm room, and sprinkled them with water daily, wliercupon Papilio Machaon and others, which only wanted a short time for their perfect development, were influenced

to make an early appearance ; whereas a large portion of the Boinbi/cidce showed an aversion to direct contact with water, and an entirely negative result was demonstrated with this family.

Oil the other hand, the Sphincjidiv, in consequence of the sprinkling, showed great vivacity, and therefore led me to expect the best success. I continued to moisten them, yet, after six weeks, most of them had lost their liveliness, and only about two-thirds became developed. When I examined the undeveloped pupse, I found they were covered with a thin, chalky scale, caused by the water ; the insect inside was pretty well formed, but dead. This chalky deposit on the pupae had excluded the air, and caused their death.

From this experience with pupa3 hibernating in rooms it follows, that — firstly, continuous moisture is necessary to the production of perfect insects ; secondly, the moisture must not be brought into direct contact with the pupa; : in a state of nature many insects know how to protect themselves therefrom by spinning coverings, by forming cells in the earth, &c.

These facts gave me the idea of constructing the apparatus described below, which has proved to be so practically serviceable, that even spe(jie8 difficult to rear, such as Doritis Apollo, &c., have developed most perfectly. I had also the pleasure of seeing that under my new treatment none of the pupse suffered from the evils above mentioned.

I believe that the description of my apparatus will do many breeders a service, especially as the simplicity of the contrivance permits it to be easily obtained ; and I cannot sufficiently commend the practical value of it.

Description. — The base consists of a round plate of strong zinc, with two vertical rims, an inch high, placed one within the other an inch apart, and soldered to the basal plate so that the outer one is water-tight. The inner rim must be perforated with small holes as close to the bottom as possible. The space inside the inner rim must be filled with fine sand, on which the pupse should belaid. The space between the two rims is then filled with water, which finding its way through the holes in the inner rim to the sand, causes the necessary moisture. Over the whole is put a bell-shaped cover of wire-gauze which must fit tightly over the outer rim. In this receptacle the pupaj remain untouched, and receive fi-esh moisture, as above indicated, if required by the drying of the sand.^ — 11. Backhaus, Leipsic. (Translated from / the Stettiner entomologische Zeitung, xxxvii, 192, 187G).

The colony of American white ants at Vienna. — At page 16, vol. xi, of this Magazine, when noticing the fact of an African species of Termiiidce having acquired a (happily) temporary footing in the Museum at Kew, I alluded to the colony of the American Termes Jlavipes in the gardens of Schonbrunn at Vienna. According to a note by Dr. Brauer in a just-published work on the Neuroptera of Austria (in the "Festschrift" der zool.-bot. Gesellschaft in Wieii, 1876), it appears that this colony has been destroyed by a clearing-out of the hot-house infested by it, after many years' existence. There seems, however, to be some idea that the species is found in Portugal. It can naturally endure the severity of a New York winter ; so we may expect to hear of it from other parts of Europe. — R. McLachi.an, Lcwisham : Sth April, 1876.

18 rJ'inc.

We are requested to announce that Mr. A. H. Swinton, of Binfield House, Waterden Road, Guildford, is engaged upon a -work " On the passions evinced by Insects," especially as indicated by the sounds known as insect-music, considered as instrumental and vocal. The work will also contain researches on the hearing-power of insects, and an appendix of the genera known or reputed to have the power of producing sound ; and it will be illustrated by four plates and wood-cuts. — Eds.

The Douhleday collection. — We have been requested to insert the following letter :— g^^j.j^ Kensington Museum, London, S.W. :

7th day of April, 1876.

gij. Bethnal Green Branch Museum.

I beg to acknowledge receipt of a memorial, bearing date 18th March, 1876, signed by you and seven other gentlemen representing the Haggerston Entomological Society, the East London Entomological Society, the South London Entomological Society, and the West London Entomological Society, in reference to the Doubleday Collection of Lepidoptera which has been lent by the Trustees for exhibition in the Branch Museum at Bethnal Green.

I have the pleasure to acquaint you, that upon careful consideration of the arrangements necessary for the proper care of the collection, it has been decided to give full efPect to the wishes which have been expressed on the part of the four Entomological Societies named.

A room will be specially provided, and an attendant will be in readiness to show the collection to such persons as maj apply to the officer in charge for permission to inspect it. I ^.m, Sir,

Your obedient Servant,

EENCLIFFE OWEN, J. A. Clark, Esq., Director South Kensington.

11, Duncan Place, London Fields, Hackney, E.

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MOKOGEAPniA LYGiEIDARFM HfNGAEI^. AeIR MaOYAR TeRMESZETTTTDO-

MANTi Taesulat Meobizasabol. Irta Dr. Horvath. Budapest, 1875. 4to, pp. 1 — 109, and 1 plate.

In this work, the author has described the spec'es of LygcuidcB (Hemiptera- Jleteroptera) known by him to occur in Hungary, of which three are cited as new, namely, Flmthisus hungaricus, Pachymerus validus, and Emhlethis ciliatus. The number of species enumerated is 100, but doubtless, as collectors in Hungary have been few, there are more species yet to be discovered there. The coloured plate is well executed, and the three new species are figured thereon. L^nfortunately for most Hemipteriats, the work is written in the Hungarian language, but the diagnoses of the genera and species are in Latin, and, referring mainly to known forms, may suffice for practical purposes.

Where there is so much to commend — and pains have evidently been taken to

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be right — it would appear invidious to advert to the revival of the generic names Pacht/merus, Platygaster, and Heterog aster, which have long been disused on account of prior emplovment ; the more especially, as the author has followed and not led the way : in this, as in other things, all will be set right eventually. We hail, in the person of the author, the rising of a new star in the east, which we hope may prove to be the nucleus of a new constellation, by the light of which the Insect-Fauna of Hungary, now imperfectly known, may be fully investigated.

Entomological Society of London : Zrd May, 1876. — Sir S. S. Saunders, C.M.O-., Vice-President, in the Chair.

Mons. Jules Lichtenstein, of Montpellier, was elected a Foreign Member.

The Eev. J. Hellins sent for exhibition various British Lepidoptera lately sub- mitted to M. Q-uenee for his opinion and determination. The collection included a dark variety of Acronycta myriccB from Mr. Birchall ; certain AcidalicB sent by Mr. Hellins and Mr. Gr. F. Mathew, apparently to be referred to manciiniata ; several extraordinary aberrations referred to Melanippe rivata, Oporabia sp. ?, Coremia ferrtiyata, &c., fi-om Mr. Dale and Mr. Mathew ; an example of Folia eld, var. olivacea, from Major Hutchinson ; several EupithecicB from Dr. Buchanan White, including the var. oxydata of E. siibfidvata, and an insect which Dr. White proposed to name septentrionata, not known to M. Guenee ; the most important of all was a Noctua, bearing some resemblance to Xanthia circellaris (ferrngineaj , not known to M. G-uenee, taken at Queenstown, over bramble-blossoms, in July or August, 1872, by Mr. Mathew. Concerning this insect it was remarked, that it had been shewn to Dr. Staudinger by M. Guenee, and that it was also unknown to him as European.

Mr. Douglas exhibited one of the palm-nuts (fruit of Phytelephas macrocarpa) known as vegetable ivory (or, in the vernacular, as ' Coroza,' ' Corassa,' or ' Corusco '), imported in this instance from Guyaquil, infested by the larva of a beetle allied to Bruchu.t, which occasioned considerable damage to cargoes of these nuts.

Mr. Distant exiiibited a series of six examples of the butterfly lihomia Tutia, Hewitson, from Ccjsta Eica. These had been selected to shew the very considerable variation in markings to which the species is evidently liable. He also communicated remarks on the lihopalocera of Costa Rica, as addenda to the paper by Messrs. Butler and Druce, published in the I'roc. Zool. Soc. for 1874.

The Secretary read a communication from the Foreign Office, enclosing a letter from Her Majesty's Minister at Madrid, concerning the ravages of Locusts in Spain. In this letter it was announced that considerable ajiprehcnsion existed in certain parts of Spain as to the probability of the crops being destroyed by these insects during the ensuing season, as vast numbers of young Locusts had appeared, and military aid had been ordered in the affected districts. More precise information as to the species <A Locust indicated was considered desirable.

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DESCEIPTIONS OF SOME NEW GENEEA AND SPECIES OF NEW ZEALAND COLEOPTERA.

BY D. SHARP, M.B.

Some years ago, I received from Mr. Lawson, of Scarborough, some beetles collected in ]S"ew Zealand by his brother, Mr. Thomas Lawson, of Auckland ; and, subsequently, some additional species, in which he thought I should be interested, were liberally placed at my disposal by him. Captain Thomas Broun, of Auckland (now of Tairua), shortly afterwards sent me a number of species, the greater part of which I was obliged to return to him without names ; and, lately, this gentleman has continued his entomological researches, and has for- warded me from time to time a considerable number of intei'esting species, a large proportion of which are undescribed. I have also received from Henry Edwards, Esq., of San Erancisco, some interest- ing species collected by him some years ago in New Zealand ; and I may mention that Cajjtain Hutton, of Dunedin, also forwarded me a lot of beetles from the southern parts of the islands, but these, to my great regret, were lost in the post.

I have thus had the opportunity of examining a pretty good num- ber of beetles from this interesting part of the world ; but I am sure that those I have seen form only a small portion of the existing forms, and I feel pretty confident that the New Zealand species of the Order will reach the number of two or three thousand.

I now propose describing a few forms, many of which are of con- siderable interest, from the impossibility of reconciling them even with the best and most recent classifications. It would of course be premature at present to attempt to pronounce an opinion on the New Zealand Coleopterous fauna as a whole, but it is already certain, that highly specialized forms are in less proportion to the little specialized forms than is the case in the Northern portions of the Old World. At the same time, such forms are by no means absent ; for instance, several indigenous species of Cicindela have been found.

Most of the new genera to be now described are what are called synthetic forms, i. e., forms in which the characters of what may be considered distinct groups are combined in one insect. These new genera are nine in number, viz., 1 of Catopidce, 1 of Colydiidce, 3 of Tenehrionidce, and 4 of Chrysomelidcd.

HVDROPORUS AVaKEFIELDI, 11. sp.

Fuscus, suh-opncH^, prdibus tcstaceis, thovnce lateribus, eli/f risque

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flavosiqnatis, crehre piaicfafiis ; thonice laferihiis minus curvatis, an- trorsum leviter angitstatis. Long. corp. 4i mm.

Mas, femorihus ]Josterio7'iht(s apicem versus triatigulariter dilatatis.

Head closely and rather finely punctured, blackish, with the cljiDeus reddish at the front margin. Antennae yellow, joints 5-10 infuscate, with their bases pale. Thorax blackish, with the sides broadly yellow, the hind angles are nearly rectangular, and the sides are but little curved, and distinctly narrowed towards the front, the anterior angles being greatly produced, the surface is finely, closely, and evenly punctured, the punctuation becoming more indistinct towards the sides. Elytra blackish, with yellow marks, very variable in extent, they are nearly dull, and are evenly and finely, but distinctly, punctured, and on the middle of each is a series of larger punctures, they are regularly curved towards the apex. Legs yellow, with the hind tarsi more or less infuscate, the hind tibise also sometimes darker. The under-surface is fuscous, closely and evenly punctured. The prosternal process is elongate, and much compressed laterally : the fourth joint of the front tarsi is quite visible between the lobes of the third joint.

In the male, the middle tibiae are slightly curved, and the femora of the hind legs are triangularly dilated, so as to form an acute angle on the hind margin near the apex.

Found at Canterbury by Mr. Wakefield, and given to me by Mr H. W. Bates.

Obs. — Structurally, tbis species seems mucb allied to our European H. carinatus, but the prosternal process is more compressed laterally.

HrDEOPOEUS DUPLEX, n. sp.

Fuscus,fere opacus, crehre p)unctatus, jjedihus rufis, fJwracis latcri- bus, elytrisque indistincte testaceo-signatis ; tliorace laterihus bene cur- vatis, antrorsnm angustatis. Long. corp. 4^ — 41 mm.

This species is very similar to H. Wakejleldi, but is rather larger, and the sides of the thorax are more rounded and narrowed in front ; the testaceous markings are very indistinct, and the elytra have some obscure longitudinal elevations, which render their surface a little uneven, and the hind legs are longer.

Apparently a common species in the province of Auckland ; it has been sent me both by Messrs. Broun and Lawson.

Obs. — Until I had carefully examined this species, I considered it to be only a variety of //. Wakejleldi, and I have sent it under that name to one or two correspondents. However, notwithstanding that it is very closely allied to the Canterbury species, I do not now think it will prove a variety thereof.

Ci'CLOXOTUM MAROIXALE, n. Sp.

Nigrum, nitidum, sat convexum, pcdibus rvfo-piceis, antcnnis pal-

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pisque riifo-testaceis ; crehre punctatuin, eli/tris seriebus punctoru7n apicem versus prof unde impressis ; tarsis posterioribus brevibus, articulo basalt 2° longitudine cequali. Long. carp. 4| mm.

Head closely and finely punctured, and also with some larger punctures, which are most numerous and distinct at the sides behind the eyes. Thorax short, of the form usual in Cyclonotum, black, with the margins rather more dilute in colour, rather closely and finely punctured, and rather shining. Elytra shining black, with the lateral margins pitchy, each with ten rows of coarse punctures, which are most deeply impressed towards the apex, the internal ones being quite obsolete at the base, tlie interstices are finely and sparingly punctured, the lateral margins much explanate. Prosternum with a large process which is acute at its apex, in the middle in front. Mesosternal process stout, triangular, but with the sides depressed, so that it appears almost linear. Middle of metasternum raised, the elevated part shining and sparingly punctured, limited by two lines converging towards the hind coxse, the sides densely and finely punctured, and quite dull. Legs short, pitchy, becoming more dilute towards the tarsi ; the inner (or upper) face of the hind tibia flat, shining, with a few fine punctures, without any striae ; basal joint of the hind tarsus quite equal to the 2nd in length (indeed, when fully exposed, it is a little longer), 3rd rather shorter than 2nd.

Sent from Auckland by Mr. Lawson.

This interesting species approaches in appearance to Cyloma Lawso7ius ; compared with our European Oyclonota, it is aberrant in several respects, but as the extra European allied species are numerous and but little known, it would be premature to make a new generic name for it.

Metoponcus Brouni, n. s-p.

JElongatus, castaneus, nitidus,fere IcBvis, elytris fuscis hasi dilutio- ribus, pedibus abdominisque basi testaceis. Long. corp. 5 — 8 mm.

AntennjB dark red, short and stout, 2nd joint short and stout, but larger than 3rd, 6-10 differing very little from one another, transverse, 11th rather paler than the preceding joints, and a good deal longer than the 10th. Head of a chestnut colour, with a very few, scattered, moderately large punctures, and also with some sparing very fine punctures, it is not much shining. Thorax longer than broad, a little narrowed towards the base, similar in colour to the head, appearing at first impunctate, but with a series of four or five extremely obsolete punctures on each side of the middle, the base with a very fine, short, channel in the middle. Elytra scarcely longer than the thorax, of a blackish colour, with the base reddish, im- punctate. Hind-body with the two basal segments yellow, the following ones reddish, but each with a large dark mark across the middle, it is impunctate and ehiniug. Under-side of head almost impunctate, and with a well marked lateral margin.

Numerous specimens of this insect have been sent me by Captain Broun, who informs me that it is found under the bark of decaying

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logs of Dammara australis, in company ■with Mitrastethus haridioides, Eedt., and Xenocnema spinijoes, Woll. The species varies a good deal in size.

CAMIRIJS,* n. gen. {Gatopidce). Antennce 11-articulaice, apice leviter incrassatce, articulo 8"

contigiiis minore. 'Palpi maxillares articulo ultimo magno, sub-seciiriformi. Caput parvum, oculi prominuli, liheri. TihicB piiihescentes.

Maxillary palpi with the 2nd joint elongate and slender, 3rd not half bo long as 2nd, 4th much dilated internally so as to be nearly securiform. Head small, not adapted in form to close the front of the thorax, the eyes very convex, almost hemispherical, their hind part free. Mesosternum large, slightly separating the middle coxae, which are much immersed. Hind coxse very nearly contiguous, in- wardly broad, but pointed at their outer extremity, their trochanters rather large and adapted to the femora. Hind-body with five visible ventral segments.

The very anomalous insects for which I make this generic name, I associate with the Catopidce, because they agree satisfactorily with those insects in the structure of the prothorax, though in other re- spects they are very anomalous. In many points, they approach the Scydmcenidce, and will probably ultimately be considered a distinct group, intermediate between the CatopidcB and Scydmcenidce. The two species are extremely dissimilar in appearance, and may ultimately be made distinct genera ; but as they possess in common the above pro- minent characters, I associate them together for the present.

Camirus TnoEACicus, n. sp.

Minus convexus, niger, nifidus elytris hirsufis, anienjiis pedihusque rufis ; thorace transversim suh-cordato, profunde canaliculato, punctis hasalihus et lateralihus, jjaucisque discoidalihus inngnis, eh/tris striatis, striisfortiter p)unctatis. Long. corp. Z\ mm.

First joint of antennae rather longer and stouter than 2nd, 2-4 differing but little from one another, 5 and 6 each a little shorter than its predecessor, 7th dis- tinctly stouter than 6th and quite as long as it, 8th narrower and much shorter than the adjoining joints, 9th-llth similar to one another in breadth, and a little broader than the 7th, the 10th about as long as broad. Thorax broader than long, rounded at the sides, greatly narrowed towards the front, and sinuate behind the middle, so that the hind angles are well marked right angles, it is of a shining black colour, and bears a few hairs, has a very deep channel on the middle which does not reach quite to the front or base, a deep narrow basal fovea on each side, a scries of coarse punctures (those towards the front finer) along the side margins, one or two

* Cam-i-rus. — D. S.

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other coarse basal punctures, and a few others, scattered on the surface. Scutellura moderately large. Elytra rather rounded at the shoulders, which are a good deal broader than the base of the thorax, rather densely clothed with a long, fine pubescence, and with eight rows of coarse punctures, which are placed in depressed, not well defined strise. Legs red. Tarsi slender, basal joint of hind tarsus quite as long as the two following together, spurs of tibiee minute.

Sent from Auckland by Mr. Lawson.

Obs. — I have at present before me only a single female of this very remarkable species, which is intermediate in appearance between Scydmcjeims and Catops ; I noted that a male which I formerly ex- amined, had the two basal joints of the front tarsi dilated, and a minute supplemental apical segment to the hind body ; my recollection on this latter point is not very trustworthy.

Camtrus convexus, n. sp.

Castaneus, nitidus, pn7'cius n7ireo-j)uhescens ; thorace p)unctis hasali-

hus 7 ; elijiris stria sutiirali, iiunct Isqiie liumeralibus.

Long. Corp. 2f m7n.

Mas, ta7'sis anteriorihus articuUs duohus leviter dilatatis ; ahdomine

segmento 5" ventrali fort iter emarg inato-reflexo.

Antennse similarly formed to those of C. thoraciciis, but rather less elongate. Thorax greatly narrower than the elytra, transversely convex, as well as depressed iu front, the sides sinuate and contracted behind the middle, the hind angles rectangular but not well defined, it bears an irregular bright yellow pubescence, and is impunctate, except for a series of large punctures, about seven in number, along the base. Elytra of a sliining chestnut colour, with a similar pubescence to that of the thorax, with a well marked sutural stria, and impunctate, except for some coarse punctures at the shoulders. In the male, the basal joints of the front and middle tarsi are distinctly dilated, and the apical ventral segment is very broadly emarginate, the margins of the cut away part much elevated.

We are indebted to Mr. Lawson also for this species.

Obs. — This insect has quite the facies of a Eumicrus (in the Scydmcenidee), and I had formerly referred it to that family ; but the front coxal cavities, which are closed behind in the same manner as in Catops, indicate that it cannot be classed with the Scijdm^nidce. It is a remarkable fact that two insects, so distinct from other known forms, and so closely related inter se, as this species and C. thoracicus appear to be, should yet be so dissimilar in appearance from one another.

StEENAULAX LiEVIS, «. Sp.

Nigerrimus, nitidus ; thorace margine laterali suhtiJi Integra, basi medio foveolato ; elytris hasi quadri-impressis, stria nnica externa integra.

Long. Corp. 7\ mm.

July, isrr..] 2')

Thorax with the lateral margin vory fhio, hut distinct thrcuigliuut, near the IVoul angles it is more distinct than behind, parallel with it some fine punctures, wliicii extend also part of the way along the base, where indeed they are coarser than at the sides. Elytra very smooth and shining, with four impressions at the base, froui the outer one of wliich there starts a stria, which, though much sinuated and very near t he side, reaches the apex and is there deeper tliau elsewhere ; at the extremity of tlie elytra are three or four abbreviated striae, the outer one forms the termination of the lateral stria just desci-ibed, and the one next it is continued some distance for- ward, though extremely fine in the front part, and is widely separated from the external stria. From the first (internally) and third of the basal impressions, there proceeds an extremely fine, short needle-scratch ; the one from the third impression runs very obliquely towards the external stria. Except for these marks, the elytra are quite smooth. The pygidium and propygidium are coarsely punctured.

Auckland ; a single specimen sent by Mr. Lawson.

Obs. — The genus Sternaulax consists of only two species, viz., Sfcrnaulax zcalandicus, Marseul, and a Madagascar species ; the present species must be closely allied to Marseul's S. zcalandicus, but differs from his figure and description by the striation of the elytra, and the want of punctuation at their apex.

Platysoma cogjS'atum, n. sp.

Ohlongo-ovatum, sioh-depressum, nigrum, nitidum, antennis tihiisipie

obscure riifis ; prothorace elytrisque impunctatis, illis striis dorsaJibus 3

profunde impressis, quartaque interna apicali abbreviata.

Long. corp. 3| mm.

Head with a deep and well-marked line between the antennae. Thorax im- puuctate, with the lateral and front margins entire. Elytra with three deep, entire striae, and an abbreviated one at the extremity on the inner side of these, impunctate. Pygidium and propygidium rather coarsely punctured. Front tibiae with four, middle with three, hind with two, sharp teeth.

This species also is due to Mr. Lawson, who sent it from Auckland.

Obs. — This species is extremely closely allied to our European P. front ale and P. depressum, and in form is about intermediate be- tween the two. It may, however, be readily distinguished from them by the denticles of the tibia", and the w:iiit of lateral punctiuiliou on the thorax.

8APR1NUS PEDATOR, n. sp.

Angustulus, convexus, nigro-piceua, impuhclalus ; dgtris stria sidti-

rali iategra, striisque 5 — 6 basalibus abbreviatis : tibiis anterioribus

edentafis, extus grosse cilintis, interincdiis et posterioribus dilatatis, extus

grosse punctatis. Long. corp. 4 — 4^^ mm.

Antennae pitchy. Mandibles greatly exposed. Head with a vci-y tU'c)) arclied

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impression, extending across it at the base of the mandibles, and also with an arched impressed line connecting the posterior portions of the eyes. Thorax short, con- siderably rounded at the sides, impuuctate. Elytra with a well-marked sutural stria, and with five or six oblique short basal striie; impunctate. Pygidium impunctate. Front tibise reddish, broad, rounded externally, and toothless, but fringed with coarse parchment-Uke cilise. Middle and hind tibise much dilated, furnished externally with large deep pits, in each of which is placed a coarse cilia, these ciliaj on the middle tibise are moderately long, but those on the hind pair are very sliort. Hind femora much dilated. Basal veiitral segment elongate, the others so reduced in the middle as to appear there only like approximate striae.

This extraordinary species was sent me by Captain Broun, with the No. 188 attached, and the following information : " On sea beach, one found when about to fly from Al^ce on 11th December, 1875 ; and on 9th January, 1876, four under decayed fish, and another amongst Alffce.'* The ventral segments (which, in the condition of repose, are, as I have described, completely retractile) appear to be very mobile, so as to be capable of great elongation.

SOEONIA HTSTEIX, n. SJ).

Nigro rvfoque vctriegata ; sttpra tomentosa et setis erectis adspersa ;

protliorace laterihus nndulatis. Xiong. corp. 3 mm.

Antenna? obscure reddish, 1st joint very broad and dilated, 2nd rather broader than the slender 3rd joint, 4 and 5 distinctly longer than the following, which are short and small, 9^ — 11 forming a rather long club. Head blackish, dull, covered with tomentum, and with some erect setfe, the eyes bearing a patch of setse. Thorax strongly transverse, the front margin sinuate on each side, the lateral margins waved so as to show three or four broad shallow emarginations, the base at the hind angles cut away (or suddenly narrowed), the hind angles sharply defined right angles ; the colour is blackish with red marks at the sides, the surface being uneven, velvety, and bearing short black setse. Elytra reddish, but rendered black by their clothing, which consists of a kind of tomentum, accumulated at some points into thicker patches, and bearing erect setse, most of which are black, but those about the margiim are paler. Legs reddish. Under-surface infuscate-red, passing into blackish about the middle.

Tairua ; Captain Broun,

Obs. — Though this peculiar little insect bears at first sight but little resemblance to our European Soronice, I believe, from my ex- amination, that they arc its nearest allies ; and do not detect any pro- minent structural characters to distinguish it. I atiticipate, from the specimens before me, that the species varies a good deal in colour.

Xenoscelis peolixus, n. sp.

Tarsis latis, hreviusculis, articnlo quarto ohtecto. Elo7if/atiis^ de- pressuSffusco-ferrufint'US, sat nitidus, tenuitcr 2nihcscens, antcnnis pedi- husque crnssiusculi!; ; crchre jyunctatiis. Long, cor-p. ^\ — 5.^ mm.

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Of peculiarly elongate, depressed, sub-i)arallel form. Antenuffi stouL, reddish, with the club more obscure ; in structure like those of Cryptophagus, Ist joint almost globular, 2nd short and stout, 3rd not elongate, but longer than the contiguous joints, 4-8 similar to one another, bead-like, 9th and lOtli transverse, 11th rather large. Head rather closely and coai-sely punctured, the eyes but little prominent. Thoras distinctly longer than broad, nearly straight at the sides, very slightly narrowed behind, tlie side margin in front of the hind angles with a minute acute denticle, and the hind angle itself minutely acute ; the surface is rather coarsely but not densely punctured, so that the interstices between the punctures are shining, it bears a fine and scanty pubescence, is flattened along the disc, and indistinctly bi-impressed. Elytra very elongate, bearing rows of distinct, but not very coarse punctures, the punctures bear a fine hair. Under-surface dark reddish, very finely and scantily pubescent. Legs stout, reddish ; the tibiae short, thickened towards their extremity, and curved ; the tarsi short, the three basal joints short and stout, and very pubes- cent beneath, the 3rd joint deeply emarginate, so that the short and small 4th joint is entirely concealed, and can only be detected on a careful examination ; 5th joint short.

Sent both from Auckland and Tairua hj Messrs. Lawsou and Broun, but only four or five specimens ; Captain Broun's specimens were among some species forwarded to me as found on Cyatliea dealhata.

Obs. — This remarkable species is, I have no doubt, correctly placed near Mr. Wollaston's Xenoscelis cleplanatus (Canary Islands). In general structure it is very similar to that species, so that I have given it the same generic name, notwithstanding the difference in the tarsi.

EHIZONIUM, 11. gen. (Colydiidce) .

Coxce poster lores configiicc.

Abdomen serjmento basdJe secundo longiore.

Caput lateribus hand rejlexis.

AntenncB ll-articulatcB, clava (ri-articiiJafa. N.B. — ^x offiiiitate Tercdi et OxyJcemi, sed prima visu lihlzophago shnile.

Antennae short and stout, with the basal joint quite exposed, the club consisting of the transverse 9th and 10th joints and the narrower 11th joint. Last joint of maxillary palpi longer than the pi-eceding. Eyes free and prominent. Front coxee contiguous, middle and posterior nearly so. Metasternum elongate. First ventral segment of liind-body considerably longer than the following. Legs rather slender ; the tarsi rather short and moderately stout, their basal joint not elongate.

Obs. — The insect for which I make this generic name, in its form and sculpture, so much resembles a Bhizophagus, that I omitted it in my paper on the New Zealand Colydiidce, from having placed it on one

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side (without examiuation) as an ally of that group of the NitichdiJcB. Its affiuities, however, are certainly with Tercdus and Oxijlcemiis,\hovLg\i the structure of its antenna? (which are not very dissimilar from those of Aulonium) readily distinguish it therefrom.

E-HIZOIS'IUM ANTIQUUM, H. sp.

Sub-depressum, sat nitidiim,fo)-titer punct(dum,ferriigineum, nudum.

Long. Corp. vix 2 mm. Antennae reddish, much shorter than head and thorax, rather stout ; 1st and 2nd joints stout, not longer than broad, about equal to one another; 3 — 8 broad, Tery short, quite similar to one another; 9th and 10th rather strongly transverse, quite distinct from one another ; 11th a good deal narrower than lOtli, but longer than it. Head about as broad as the thorax, rather coarsely punctured, without any raised lateral margins. Thorax quadrate, about as long as broad, and about straight at the sides, the hind angles very indistinct on account of the curving of the base ; the surface rather coarsely punctured. Elytra moderately closely, and coarsely punctured, the punctures arranged in rows, which, however, are not very distinct.

Pour specimens of this interesting little species were sent nie by Captain Broun among some insects found on CyatJiea dealhata at Tairua.

Telmatophilus depkessus, n. sp.

Colore vnriahllis, testaceus, vel fusco-testaceus, vel fere niger ; de- pressus, nudiis, sed minus nitidiis ; tliorace puree suhtiliterque punctato, laterihus sinuafis, angtilis posferiorihus reef is ; elytris siibtiliter punctato- striatis, punctis apice ohsoletis. Long. carp. 2| mm.

Antennae yellow ; 1st joint thicker and longer than 2nd ; 3rd slightly longer than 2nd ; 5th a good deal longer than either 4th or 6th ; 7th also distinctly larger than the contiguous joints ; 8th joint small; 9 — 11 of about the same width, forming an abrupt club, very loosely articulated; the 9th and 10th transverse. Head finely and sparingly punctured. Thorax considerably narrower than the elytra, rather strongly transverse, the sides somewhat sinuate behind the middle, the hind angles sharply marked and nearly rectangular, the surface dull, but only finely and sparingly punctured, transversely depressed in front of the base, and with a very minute basal impression on each side. Elytra elongate and fiat, Avith rows of fine punctures, which become obsolete at the extremity. Legs yellow.

Probably common in the Auckland district.

Obs. — Tliis species is very variable in colour. Its tlatlened form, deslitute of pubescence, give it at first sight but little resemblance to our European TelmatophiJi ; but, nevertheless, it possesses the structure of the tar.si highly developed after the manner of Telmatopliilus. The figure in Du Val's Grenera des Col. d' Eur. (pi. 52, f. 259&) of the tarsus of Psnmmcecns hipitnctntus is very like that of this species.

(To be continued.)

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IVATURAL HISTORY OF LYCJENA AROIOLUS. BY WILLIAM BUCKLER.

I have loug wished to work out the economy of this species, es- pecially with regard to the question of a second brood, and at length, partly by the kind help of friends, and partly by a lucky find of my own, I have been able to settle my problem.

In the spring of 1862, I had a few eggs laid by a captured female on the footstalks of flowers of Ilex aquifbUum ; the larvse hatched during the last two days of May, fed first on the flower-buds of holly, afterwards on the young green berries, and by June 29th, that is, about thirty days, had changed to pupae ; but, as no butterfly ever appeared from any of them, my attempt at that time came to an unsuccessful end.

Last year, I received on June 20th, two full-grown larva^, feed- ing on tender young leaves of holly, and which had been taken by beating, a day or two previously, by Mr. Gr. P. Mathew, R.N". ; one of them had already ceased to feed, and had changed colour ; the other was still feeding well, and I watched it eating a large piece out of a fresh gathered tender leaf ; the next day, this also rapidly changed colour, and on June 25th and 26th, both successively became pupse : one fixed with its head downwards on the upper-side of a leaf, the other with its head upwards on the under-side. From the second of these two pupa>, after 18 clays, there came a female butterfly, on July 14th ; the first pupa remained over till May 25th, 1876, when it pro- duced an ichneumon.

After this, on 5th August, I received from Mr. E. F. Bisshopp, of Ipswich, who had taken great pains to secure from female butter- flies of the second or summer flight, a batch of seven or eight eggs, laid just beneath the flower heads of an umbel of Hedera helix ; un- fortunately, only two of them proved fertile, and I had the further misfortune to kill one of the larva?, whilst changing its food, but in the very same process was afterwards lucky enough to find compensation for its loss. For, early in September, I found I had unconsciously gathered with a head of ivy flower buds, resting on one of the flower- stalks, a larva in its third moult : and, being thus led to look for more, I afterwards found two others in similar situations.

The dates for the changes of the larva, which I succeeded in carrying through from the egg, and which, from the first, ate tender ivy leaves rather than flowers, are as follows : hatched August 8th ; moulted by the 12th, and a second time by the 16th, and a third time by the 20th ; after that, I have recorded a moult betw'een September

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1st and 5tli ; by the 10th, it was matui'e, on the l.Jth it fixed itself for changing, and on the 17th, became a pupa ; thus passing just forty days in the larva state ; the butterfly, a male, appeared on 6th April, 1876 ; two hundred and two days having been passed in the pupa state, — perhaps its emergence had been hastened somewhat by being kept sheltered indoors.

In a general way, therefore, the year's history may be divided as follows : the first flight of the butterflies, end of April, and in May ; larvae hatched at the end of May, and feeding on holly flowers and young leaves, or on young ivy leaves through June (Mr. Harwood, of Colchester, informs me he has also found them on flowers of Rhamnus frangula) ; the second flight of butterflies in July ; the second brood of larva? feeding in August and September, on flower-buds and young leaves of ivy ; the winter passed in the pupa state.

The egg of Argiolus is very much like that of Alexis, except that it is rather larger ; being circular, flattened, and rather depressed in the centre ; the whole surface — except just a central spot — over- laid with raised reticulation, with little knobs at the angles ; the shell pale bluish-green, the raised reticulation whitish ; the larva escapes by making a hole near the centre of the upper surface.

The young larva, in the spring, is something like that of a Zygcena in shape, plump, and hairy (as was noticed both by Mr. Hellins and myself), even while quitting the egg-shell, with a greenish-white body and dark head, and very slow in its movements ; but the summer larva I found for the first few hours to be very active, walking about with almost a looping progression, and much more slender than that of any Lyccena at present observed ; the head moderately large, rough and prominent, of a chocolate-brown colour ; the body shining, very pale translucent-greenish, and apparently naked ; and looking at this unusual form of a newly -hatched Lycaena, one tried to account for it from the heat of the weather, and by thinking that it was better fitted to pierce the hard buds of the ivy just formed, than if it were at first more the shape of its congeners. After the first moult, it became stouter in figure, pale ochreous-green in colour, and clothed with un- usually long, whitish, soft, silky hairs, and was very sluggish, no longer differing from larvae of the spring brood.

"When about a fortnight old, it attains the length of to inch, and becomes of the usual Lyccena shape, with smooth glistening skin, and colour similar to that of the ivy buds ; in about three weeks, it is Te inch long, and stout in proportion, showing a paler streak on the

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ridges o£ the back, thin double slanting lines on the sides, and a margin of yellowish-white along the sub-spiracular region. In about five weeks it is full-fed, and then reaches the length of f inch, and some- times more, when stretched out in crawling ; the figure somewhat onisciform, the head very small and retractile into the second segment beneath ; the second segment, w^hich is the longest, is but slightly convex above, the others are arched on the back, the third, fourth, and fifth being the highest, and thence the others slope a very little to the tenth ; these eight segments, from three to ten, are crested with two ridges of humps, between which lies the sunk dorsal space, broad and hollow on the third and fourth, and flattened and narrowing gradually to the tenth ; on these segments the divisions are deeply cleft through the ridges — thus producing the appearance of humps ; segments eleven, twelve, and thirteen are simply convex, and slope towards the anal end : the sides, although sloping outwards, become almost concave near the projecting rounded sub-spiracular ridge, which continues round the anal segment, and overlaps all the shoi-t legs ; the belly is flattened.

In colour, there seem to be several varieties : one, a bright yel- lowdsh-green, wdth paler lines as above, the head purplish-brown, but looking almost black by contrast, and with an ochreous streak above the mouth and at the base of the papillse, the spiracles round and flesh- coloured, the whole skin of the body velvety, with its surface thickly covered with yellowish warty granules, each bearing a minute whitish bristly hair.

Another variety, of the same yellowish-green ground-colour, has dashes of deep rose-pink on each humped ridge of the back and in the dorsal channel continued to the anal end, and an additional dash on each side of the fifth segment ; along the sides, fine double lines of pale greenish-yellow, edged with darker, slanting backwards ; the sub- spiracular ridge itself of a whitish-flesh colour, but deepening above and below with a narrow border of full rose-pink, which again melts into the green ground.

Another variation, which, from the too rapid development of the example exhibiting it, was but imperfectly noted, is of a very pretty mix- ture of green and black ; the ground colour green, as before, a transverse bar of black across the middle of the second and the beginning of the third segments, a dorsal series of thick dashes from the third to the tenth, on the eleventh, a dash on either side enclosing the green ground as an interruption, with the dorsal marking again occurring on the

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twelfth and tbirteentli ; on cacli ridge of the back, a row of roundish spots, and, a little lower on the side, a row of squarish spots, and, lower again, in the spiracular region, a row of roundish spots placed at the segmental divisions ; on the fifth segment, the upper markings thicker and running together.

About four or five days before changing, the larva ceases to feed, becomes of a dingy olivaceous-pink or mouse colour, and spins a fine layer of silk as a foot-hold, and a stout thread as a cincture, crossing the front of the third segment, and strengthened near the base on either side by two other short threads joining it, and thus forming triple moorings.

In each instance, I found the operation of changing to a ])U])a had brought the cincture away from its resting place on the larva to below the thorax of the pupa, so that this thread, at first slanting forwards from the base over the larva, slanted now a little backwards over the pupa.

The pupa is about tb inch in length, and z\ inch in width, of a dumpy figure, thickest at the middle of the abdomen, with the head and thorax rounded, and the latter very slightly keeled : a depression occurs between the thorax and abdomen, where the cincture passes and holds it secure ; from thence, the abdomen swells out full and arched towards the bluntly rounded anal end ; the wing-covers are long in proportion, but not at all projecting. In colour, it is pale brownish-ochreous, with a blackish-brown thin dorsal line marking the thoracic keel, and on the abdomen a series of rather blotchy arrow-head dorsal dashes, and a sub-dorsal series of larger dark brown blotches, that nearest the thorax made conspicuous by the segment next below being without one ; the thorax is marked with oblique rows of brown freckles directed from the sides of the head towards the end of the keel at the depres- sion ; the eye-covers are blackish ; the wing covers pale greyish with rays of brown freckles, and outlined with a thin brown edging, their surface smooth, rather more glistening than the other parts, which are thickly studded with fine, short, brownish bristles.

Erasworth : June \2th, 1876.

P.S. — It may be mentioned that eggs were laid during the last month by a female Argioliis, in captivity, on holly, and also on young shoots of ivy, and that both Mr. Hellins and I find that the larva? eating ivy are more advanced than those feeding on holly.

LIST OF JAPANESE BUTTERFLIES. BY THE REV. E. P. MURRAY, M.A.

It has occurred to me, from my own difficulties in investigating tlie Lepidopterous fauna of Japan, that a list of all such species of Bhopalocera as are known to me to have been recorded (rightly or wi-ongly) from that country, may be not altogether useless to other workers ; and I have accordingly prepared the following, which must be considered as merely preliminary.

The authors to whom I am principally indebted are Motschoulsky, Menetries, De I'Orza, and Butler. I cannot help thinking that some few of the species have been recorded in error, and that a great deal of confusion exists in the synonymy of some genera.

Danais Chrysippus, L. ; Tytia, Gray (this species extends from the Himalaya, through Mongolia, to Japan).

Dehls Sicelis, Hew. ; Diana, Butler (probably identical with the next species) ; marginalis, Motsch. ; WMteleyi, Butler (possibly a synonym of the next species) ; Maachi, Brem.

Neope GaschkevifscJii, Men. (there is a second species belonging to this genus in Japan, but I am unwilling to describe it from the very worn specimen in my collection).

Satyrus Epimenides, Men. ; Dejnnira, L. ; Deidamia, Eversm. ; 8. (?) Schrenki, Men.

Hipparchia Syperanthus, L. ; PJicedra,Ij.,var. bipunctatus, Motsch.

Mycalesis G-otama, Moore ; Polydecta, Cram, (quoted by De I'Orza, but the specimens should probably be referred to M. Gotama, Moore); Perdiecas, Hew. ; Nicdtia, Hew.

Tphfhima Argus, Butler; Baldus, Don. ('? = Y.- Argus, Butler).

Ooenonymplia (Edipus, Fabr. ; Davus, Fabr.

Tripliysa nervosa, Motsch.

Argynnis Sagana, Doubl., Hew. ; PapliUi, L. ; Daphne, AV. V. ; Laodice, Pall., var. Japonica, Men. ; Niphe, L. ; Ella, Brem., ? == A. Anadyomene, Feld. ; Daphnis, Cram, (this is a synonym of A. Cyhele, Fabr., which is a N. American species. It is quoted with a query by Motschoulsky in his list of Japanese Lepidoptcra in Etudes Ent., ix, 1800); Adippe, h., Nerippe, YiilA.., pallescens, }i\xi\cY (I cannot help thinking that these are all forms of one variable species); Aglnla, L. ; Selenis, Eversm. ; Tno, Rott.

Melitcea Athalia, Rott. (Phoebe, W. V.); Didynia,Eii]). ; Lcucippe, Schneid. {Athalia, 'Eis,]).); Protomedia, Men.

Araschnia Burejann, Brem. (sfn'gosa, Butler); Prorsa, L.

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Vanessa c-aureum, L. ; c-nlhmn, L. ; Progne, Cram. ; Charonia, Dr. (De I'Orza : probably in mistake for V. Glaucoma) ; Glaucoma, Motscli. ; Antiopa, L. ; lo, L. ; xantliomelas,^ . V. ; vau-alhum, W. V. (Del'Orza: " intermediate between type and var. V. j -album, hoi&A.., Lee.").

Pyrameis indica, Herbst. ; cardui, L.

Janonia Lemonias, L. ; Orithya, L.

Hestina assimilis, L.

Euripus japonica, Feld. {JDiagoras, Hew.); Charonda, Hew.

Limenitis Sibylla, L. ; Sydyi, Led. ; Selmanni, Led. ; Ampliyssa, Men.

Neptis Sappho, Pall. ; Koempferi, De I'Oi'za ; aceris, Lep., var. Eu7'ynome, Westw.

Apatura Iris, L. (of very doubtful occurrence in Japan); Ilia, W. V. ; substituta, Butler, Sere, Feld., ? varr. of A. Ilia.

LibytTiea Lepita, Moore.

Nemeobius Lucina, L. (quoted [in error ?] by H. Pryer) .

Miletus Hamada, Druce.

Chrysophanus Phloeas, L.

Lyccena Argiades, Pall. ; Argus, L. ; Sellotia, Men. ; japonicn, Murray ; Argia, Men. ; Emelina, De I'Orza ; Argiolus, L. (= L. La- donides, De I'Orza) ; Pryeri, Murray ; Lycormas, Butler ; Arion, L. ; Areas, Rott. ; Cyllarus, Eott. ; Kazamoto, Druce ; Euphemus, Hiibn.

Thecla spini, W. V. ; rubi, L. ; ccerulescens, Motscb.

Dipsas Attilia, Brem. ; Taxila, Brem. ; japonica, Murray (? = D. smaragdina, Brem.); orientalis, Murray; lutea. Hew.; scepestriata, Hew.; aro^«, Brem. {IchnograpMa, 'BmUqv) .

Satsuma ferrea, Butler.

Anops Phoedrus, Pabr.

Amblypodia japonica, Murray.

Leucopliasia amurensis. Men.

Terias Iceta, Boisd. ; Hecahe, L., var. Brenda, Doubl., Hew., ? var. suava, Boisd. ; Mandarina, De I'Orza.

Pieris Daplidice, L. ; napi, L. (" The Japanese form is one-tbird longer in expanse of wing than tbe average size of British specimens." Butler); rapes, L. ; brassicce, L., and var. (?) crucivora,3oisd. ; Melete, Men. ; Aglaope, Motsch. ; Megamera, Butler; cratcegi, L.

Gonepteryx rhamni, L. (probably Japanese specimens should be referred to the next form) ; Aspasia, Men.

Golias viluiensis. Men. ; Erate, Esp. ; Ilyale, L. ; Simoda, De rOrza ; pallens, 3ut\ov,poliograplius, Motsch. (I cannot help thinking that these are all forms of C. Ilyale).

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Anthocark Scolymua, Butler.

JParnassius citrinarius, Motsch. {/j/lacialis, Butler).

Papilio Foh/fes, L. ; Helenas, L. ; Dehaani, Feld. {japonica, Butler); Baddci, Brem. ; Protenor, Cram.; Demetrius, Cram.; Al- cinous, Klug, and var. Mencius, Feld. ; Sarpedon, L. ; Agamemnon, L. ; Xuthus, L. ; Xuthulus, Brem. (probably the spring brood of P. Xuthus); Machaon, L. (perbaps tbe Japanese specimens sbould be referred to P. Machaon, var. Sip'pocrates, Feld.).

Ismene Benjamini, Guer., var. japonica, Murray.

Pamphila (juttata, Brem., Gray ; pellucida, Murray ; varia, Mur- ray ; vitrea, Murray ; fiava, Murray ; comma, L. ; Sylvanus, Esp.

Daimio Tethys, Men.

Pyrgus maculatus, Brem., Gray.

Nisoniades montanus, Brem. (^rusticaufis, Butler).

Beokenham : June, 1876.

ASCALAPRUS KOLYVANENSIS var. FONTICUS {an spec, distincta ?). BY R. m'lACHLAN, F.L.S.

Some time ago, I received from Dr. Staudinger a pair ( c? ? ) of an Ascalaphus, taken by him at Amasia (Asia Minor) during bis sojourn there in 1875. These I had placed with A. kolyvanensis, of v^^hich I have many examples, from the Caucasus, Turkestan, &c. : but recently, upon re-arranging my collection, it became evident that this pair forms either a distinct local variety of kolyvanensis, or a good species. At present, I consider it better to adopt the former view, and describe it as : — Ascalaphus kolyvanensis, var. ponticus.

Alarum posticaruni macula pallida apicalis hyalina (nee jiavo- opaca), annulus niger apicalis supra incompletus.

The above brief diagnosis indicates the chief characters whereby this form differs from typical kolyvanensis :■ — that is to say, the black- ringed pale apical spot on the posterior wings is purely hyaline, instead of opaque yellow as is usual, and the ring itself is interrupted above, and thus incomplete. To these characters, might be added the form of the second (sub-apical) black spot in the anterior wings, which is irregularly quadrate, not concave on its outer mai'gin, and with no extension towards the pterostigma : but, in a series of kolyvanensis, there are individuals in which this condition occasionally occurs.

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In some respects this form is more distinct from koli/vanensia than is Macaronius, for this hitter appears in reality only distinguishable by the yellow- veined black spots in the anterior wings.

Dr. Staudinger informs me that the insect was tolerably common at Amasia, and all the individuals were of the form above indicated. The pair before me are fully coloured and perfectly mature.

I might add that the South Russian pupillatus, although allied, has a good structural difference in the post-stigmatical area (setting on one side the difference in markings), which is narrower, and with the cellules less distinctly triseriate.

It is, I think, evident that the gay species of the true genus Ascalaphus are subject to local variation, parallel to that which is so common in butterflies ; and, as in the latter, it is imprudent to multiply species where there are no structural differences. For instance, A. ictericus, corsicus, and siculus, may be only local forms of one and the same ; the two latter are, I think, surely specificalh' identical.

In conclusion, I take this opportunity of noting that a second example ( $ ) of my A. syriacus is in my collection, and presents the same differences from lacteus as does the type (J") in the British Museum ; and, as an addition to the original diagnosis (Journ. Linn. Soc, Zoology, xi, p. 274), it should be noticed that the posterior wings of syriacus are narrower (less triangular) than in lacteus. This $ is rather larger than the typical ^ .

Lewisliam, London :

23rrf May, 187fi.

Diasemia literalis in South Wales. — On the 2nd inst., having business in the hilly eastern part of the county, I started, after a drive of fifteen miles, for a walk round the neighbouring country. A footpath from one main road to another lay partly across an extensive pasture, the greater part being grass land with an abun- dance of Lotus corniculatus and other wild flowers, but a portion of one side being sufficiently marshy to support a full growth of rushes. The sun being hot, Thanaos Tages and other common butterflies were flying in plenty ; the two pretty EuclidicB sprang up from my feet to settle again at a short distance, and on the marshy ground a few MelitcBa Artemis were flying lazily about, or settling on the buttercup flowers. Not having seen the last named species alive for some years, it aroused a slight feeling of vexation that I should have left my net at home under the impression that the day's travelling would be quite enough for the day's length, without any collecting.

Leaving this ground, and crossmg a rivulet, the footpath led across another pasture, — dry and hilly, with the shortest possible herbage ; and here, when half-way up- the slope, a small moth started from my feet, and settling again a yard or two

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away, revealed to uiy astonished gaze the lovely form and exquisite Diavkings of Diasemia literaJis. I had never before seen it alive, and the mixture of feelings — delight at the sight of so lovely a rarity, and vexation at having no collecting apparatus except a score of pill-boxes — may possibly be imagined. However, the beauty was not disposed to fly far, and, by a little patience and manipulation, it proved possible not only to box it, but to secure a specimen in each of the pill- boxes that I fortunately had with me. The moths were not very plentiful, and ap- peared to be confined to the very short grass and herbage on the slope of the hill, where they remained at rest until disturbed, and then flew but a short distance, often not more than three or four yards. They flew readily when disturbed at any time in the earlier part of the afternoon, both in hot sunshine and under clouds, even in spite of a moderate breeze ; but I could not see any which appeared to fly of their own accord, and am disposed to think that the time of flight is towards evening. I could see no particular indication of their food-plant, unless it is grass, upon which they generally settled, appearing more especially attached to spots which were covered with the leaves of a very short bluish or glaucous grass or Luzula which was not in flower. At the foot of the hill, where the herbage was more rank, not a specimen could be found ; and it seemed wonderful that the delicate creatures should exclusively frequent a spot so devoid of shelter that even Cramhtts pratellus ignored it, and the only species that interrupted the search for Uieralis was an occasional Dicrorampha pUimbana.

The next morning, with two of the youngsters, I started early for the thirty-six mile drive, armed with plenty of collecting apparatus ; but the weather had changed at last, the long-wished-for rain had come, and at ten miles from home we encoun- tered a storm which sent us home again without unnecessary loss of time, and when, three days later, the weather moderated sufficiently, we found Uieralis getting sadly worn, — which, considering its habitat, was not surprising.

I see that this species is not entirely new to Wales, a specimen having been taken six years ago at Langharne, in the adjoining county, at light (E. M. M., vol. vii, p. 234). This may throw some illumination on its time of flight, though not much, seeing that the Pyrausta and Ennychiie may occasionally be found in a similar situation.

As far as I can ascertain, literalis has been a rare insect for many years, the last important recorded capture that I can find being that by Mr. Readi)ig (Intell., vol. ix, p. 18), who took two dozen specimens, on a sloping bank near Plymouth, sixteen years ago. I suppose it has disappeared from the ancient locality near Brockenhurst. — ChAS. Gr. Baheett, Pembroke: 10/A June, 1876.

P.S. — If any of my old friends and correspondents, who do not possess this s])ecies, will favour me with a line, I will endeavour to save them a type.

Captures of Lepidoptera in East Sussex. — On tlic 20tli May, the Rev. T. W. Daltry, M.A., of Madcley, Mr. W. H. Tugwell, of Greenwich, and I, made a five days' excursion to East Sussex for the purpose of collecting Lepidoptera. Abbott's Wood and Eastbourne were the localities worked ; and, considering the very cold weather there had been for some time previously, we were quite satisfied with the result of our expedition, over 100 specie.^ being observed, exclusive of Micros. My

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own particular desire was to see alive the pretty Agrotera nemoralis ; and, thanks to- Mr. Tug well, who knew the ground well, we were each enabled to take a series, though it was evidently very scarce compared with last year. Amongst the other species taken or observed, were the following : of Diurni, Argynnis Euphrosyne and Selene, in great abundance ; plenty of hibernated Qonepteryx rhamni ; SyricMhus alveolus was common in woods, as was also Lyccena Adonis on the cliffs at Eastbourne ; Vanessa polyckloros, lo, and cardui, with others, occurred less commonly. Of the Bombyces, Lithosia aureola and Chelonia plantaginis were common, and Nola cristulalis, Chelonia villica, Orgyia pudibiinda, and others, were taken, as were also Lithosia quadra (?), Paecilocampa populi, Lasiocampa quercifolia, &c., in the larval state. GeometrcR were numerous, and included, in more or less plenty, Epione advenaria, Venilia manilata, Tephrosia consonaria and punctulata, Ephyra porata, omicronaria, orbicularia, and penduJaria, Acidalia subsericeata, Coremia temerata, Strenia clathrata, Numeria pulveraria, Fidonia atomaria {jcrj much larger, and the ? qviite different in colour to northern s\yQc'vcaeYLs) , Aspilates sirigillaria, Emmelesia affinitata, Eupithecia plumbeolata and dodoneata, Lobophora heocapterata, Melanippe hastata, Coremia ferrugai a, Eubolia lineolata, Anaitisplagiata, &c., &c. Plaiypteryx lacertula, falcula, and hamula, represented their genus.

Owing to the almost complete failure of sugar (probably because of the cold, clear moonlight nights), but few Noctiue were taken ; but those that did occur in- cluded Cymatophora fiamcornis (larva), Acronycta leporina, auricoma, and aceris, Xylophasia rurea (var. combusta), Apainea unanimis, Taniocampa miniosa (larvae on oak) and cruda (larva), Tethea retusa, larva? on sallow, along with those of Epunda viminalis, Agriopis aprilina (larva), Hadena genistm, Erastria fmcula, Amphipyra pyramidea, Phytometra anea, &c., &c.

Serminia barbalis was a most abundant representative of the Deltoides ; and the Pyrales included (besides nemoralis) Pyratista osirinalis, Herbula cespitalis, Ennychia octomaculalis, Botys flavalis and fmcalis, &c. The Crambites were evidently not well out, as Crambus chrysonuchellus was the only species taken worth notice. We had no time to work specially for larva-, or no doubt the list woidd have been greatly increased. — Geo. T. Poreitt, Huddorsfield : June 9ih, 1876.

Oelechia humeralis not uncommon in Perthshire. — Lately I received, in a box of insects for determination, from Sir Tiiomas Moncrciffe, five specimens of that variable c.pecies, Oelechia humeralis. Some of these specimens were so fine that I imagined they must have been taken before hibernation, and I therefore wrote at once for details, in hopes there might, perhaps, be some clue to the food of the larva of this insect.

Sir Thomas Moncreiffc replied : " The insect is very plentifid here. I have " beaten it off every tree in the place, and it hibernates in numbers, in the thatch of " an old sunmier house in my garden, appearing every fine winter's evening at dusk."

In a subsequent letter, he wrote : " I am afraid that I have no clue to the larval " history of G. humeralis. Personally, I have either beat it off various trees, taken " it in the neighbourhood of old thatch, or on the wing, but never on low plants or " near the ground. I have taken it from August 10th to May 2nd. I have beat it " off oak, birch, sycamore, poplar, &c., and it hibernates freely in the thatch (reed) " of an old summer-house, and flies in winter and early spring at the Cupressi, along "• with tlie DepressaricB. Of the five specimeus I sent you " (and which Sir Thomas

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iloticreiffe lias Very liberally added to uiy collection) " one was beaten from oak, " April 14th, 1875 ; one from pine, August lOth, 1875 ; one from poplar, August " 21st, 1875 ; and two I took on the wing, on the hill behind my house, in a mixed " plantation, 500 or 600 feet above the sea level, on the 25th October last.

" When I said it was very plentiful here, I may have used a strong temi, but I " may call it plentiful, as I have always looked upon it as rather a pest, allied in that* " respect to Cerostoma radiatella, and I think, during hibernation, on a fine evening, " I coidd fill from 12 to 20 boxes easily, and in the autumn am constantly turning it " out of my net."

As I never yet had the pleasure of seeing the insect in my net, I can well concede the point that it must be really plentiful near Perth, and I trust that where it occurs 80 freely the larva will some day be found. — -H. T. Stainton, Mountsfield, Lewisham : May 19th, 1876.

Four species of Helopliorus new to Britain. — It has been known, I think, for some time past, to most British Coleopterists, that a good deal of confusion has existed with respect to our native species of the genus Helophorus. I have lately been studying the group, and have enjoyed the great advantage of correspondence concerning it with Dr. C. Gr. Thomson, of Lund, in Sweden, who has kindly furnished me with tj-pes of several of his species, and has also examined several types which I submitted to him. I have now the pleasm'e of recording the addition of four species to our British list. Besides these, there is an insect in Mr. Eye's collection allied to (but I think distinct from) fP.neipennis, which I have not identified.

H. ^Q'^TALis, Thoms. — Allied to aqitaticus, Linn. ; smaller, darker in colour ; the sides of the thorax are less rounded, and its surface is less closely gi'anulose ; the interstices between the strise on the elytra are narrower, the alternate interstices (especially near the margin) being hardly more elevated than the rest ; the depression on the elytra behind the base (which is very evident in aquaticus) is hardly discern- ible ; the 2nd joint (apparently the first, tjie real first being concealed) of the hind tarsi is a little longer, when compared with the 3rd joint, than in aquaticus; the apex of the last segment of the hind body is smooth on the under-s'de, whereas in aquaticus it is minutely serrated.

I have this insect only from Ireland. Mr. Rye has English specimens. It is probably in most collections, and not uncommon.

H. PLANICOLLIS, Thoms. — Allied to ceneipennis, Thoms. ; rather narrower, wath the sides more parallel, the elytra being longer in proportion to the thorax; the tliorax is (as the name implies) flatter, and is not longitudinally convex ; it has, moreover, a very evident depression (almost a pit) just in front of the middle of the central channel ; the femora are dusky black in the basal half (in mneipennis faintly darker at the extreme base) ; the punctures in the striae on the elytra are very evi- dently finer and closer, and the interstices are flatter, and a little narrower.

This species does not appear to be uncommon in the mountainous districts of Scotland and Ireland, but I have not seen English specimens. I have it from Shetland.

H. BREVicoLLis, Thoms. — An interesting little species, 1 line in length, allied to granularis, but distinguished by good characters : the apical joint of the maxillary palpi is narrower and longer, with only the extreme apex faintly dusky ; on tlio thorax the intermediate sulci arc only slightly bent, and tlie oxternul sulci are not

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parallel with the margin ; the elytra are narrower and more pointed at the apex, and have the sides more parallel ; the punctures in the strise on the elytra are evidently finer and closer, and the interstices between the striae are much narrower and more elevated.

The only British exponents of this species that I have seen are two specimens which occurred to me last year at Killamey.

H. STBiGiFEONS, Thoms. — A well-marked species, placed by its author at the end of the genus. It has, I think, a facies peculiar to itself. Dr. Thomson distin- guishes it briefly from several widely separated species ; but from its size, colour, and sculpture, it is (I think) incapable of confusion with any British species except eeneipennis and planicollis. From both these species it may be distinguished as follows : — it is, on the average, a little larger (though small examples occur) ; the elytra strike the eye at once as more suddenly and strongly dilated behind the shoulders ; they have, moreover, a broad reflexed margin, the space beyond the last striae being hardly, if at all, narrower than the widest interstice ; the sides of the thorax are much more regidarly rounded ; the longitudinal fovea on the base of the head (which in CBneipennis and planicolUs widens out forwards) is uniformly narrow ; the intermediate sulci on the thorax are less angulated, and the interstices of the elytra are distinctly elevated, the alternate interstices more so than the rest (those between the 2nd and 3rd, and between the 4th and 5th, striae are almost carinate) . I notice also that the maxillai-y palpi are very long and massive. Besides the above distinctions, strigifrons differs from pIa7i{collis in having the punctures in the sti-ise on the elytra much larger and not so close, and the femora of almost unifonu colour.

This insect appears to be not uncommon in Scotland and Ireland, but I have not seen English specimens. I have no doubt it exists as an enigma in most collections.

I may, perhaps, be permitted to add that I hope to publish a sketch of the genus llelojjhoriis in my " Outline descriptions of British Coleoptera " in the " Scottish Naturalist " next October.— Thos. Blackbuen, Greenhithe : June, 1876.

Note on an unrecorded British species of Helophorus. — To the difficulties in this puzzling genus above mentioned, I must add yet another, representing a very marked species certainly not included in those recorded or mentioned by my friend Mr. Blackburn, and several of which have been taken by Dr. Pow-er at or near Woking some years ago. This insect seems, from description, to be not improbably the laticoUis of Thomson: it is readily distinguishable by its thorax being as wide as the elj'tra, convex, with narrow and shallow sulci, of which the two on each side of the middle one are but very slightly Hexuous, and the outer one is parallel to the margin ; by its elytra being not dilated behind the middle, but thence narrowed towards the apex, with very strong, almost crenate, striae, with narrow interstices ; and by the long and sometimes entirely black apical joint of its maxillarj jmlpi. It belongs to the " <c»<?/pe«?iw " group, is IJ lines long, and has bluish-metallic head and thorax, dark brown elytra, and light brown legs. — E. C. Rye, 70, Charlewood Road, Putney, S.W. : June, 1876.

Notes on some species of Psyllidce. — Psylla visci was described by Curtis in his "British Entomology," vol. xii, p. 565 (1835), where he says that he bred it in the middle of May from larva found on mistletoe at Roiigham (near Bury St. Edmunds.

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Suffolk). The species is also staled by Koerster, in the " Verliamlluu^eii iles tuitur- historisclien Vereins der preussischeii Rheinlande," Band v, 71, 4 (1848), to have been found on the mistletoe in Gt-erniany — the larva at Aachen, and the imago at Bergheim. In his work " Die Pflanzenfeinde aus der Klasse der Insecten," p. 293, Kaltenbaeh says he found the larvae in March and April on the flowers of mistletoe, and that Herr StoUwerk took the imago on the same plant. I find no other notices of the insect, which is unknown to me, and as the mode of life has not been observed in detail, or at any rate not recorded, it would be of service to our native entomology if any one, who may have it in his power to get at the plant, would take the trouble to work up the life-history of Psylla visci. I believe all the species of PsyUidm live for a considerable time in the perfect state, and so the month of July may not be too late to obtain the adult females and begin the work of investigation by observing the oviposition.

There are some other species of PsyUldie, mostly first described by Foerster (op. cit.J as from England and Ireland, sent to him by Messrs. Walker and Haliday, but no precise locality, time of capture, or food-plant, is given (except the latter in two instances). Such are : —

Psylla viridula, Frst. (on nut-trees, Walker) ; melanoneura, Frst. ; costato- punctata, Frst. ; picta, Frst. ; (eruginosa, Frst. ; occulta, Frst.

Tfioza gain, Frst. (on Galium vermn, Haliday) ; velutina, Frst. ; abieticola, Frst. (on spruce fir, and spindle-tree, Flor) ; munda, Frst. (on nettles, Flor).

Aphalara flavipennis, Frst. ; exilis, Weber and Mohr (on Rumex acetosella, V. Heyden).

It is very desirable to re-find these in Britain ; the time to obtain them in the adult state is from June to October, and, in looking for them, it is all but certain that other species, new to this country or to science, will be captured ; the latter not improbably, because hitherto there have been very few collectors of Psyllidm in particular. We know now about 40 native species ; about 150 are recorded as European, but there are doubtless many more.

Some plants nourish more than one species of PsyllidcB, yet, as a rule, each species seems to be attached to the particular sort of plant (or allied plants) on which it stays ; sometimes, however, they fly to others, and, of such as hibernate, many species are found together in autumn and spring among the foliage of fir trees. In the first instance, Psyllidce may be expected to occur to collectors of insects of other Orders ; but I hope that when an interest in them is awakened, and the fact known that the natural history of only a few species has been observed, they will be reared from the egg, and their development regarded by specialists, just as the Lepidoplera now are. In (he imago-form, the Psyllidce are easily taken from an umbrella or sweeping-net in small bottles containing a small portion of cut laurel- leaf, or chloroform, and are thus killed at once in situ, where they may remain for a day or two ; they can then be set out on card with great facility. I would, at first, even excuse a Lepidopterist who woidd insist on pinning them, although by this treatment some of the markings on the thorax must be disfigured ; by and by he would be converted to the method of fixing them on card by gum when he saw the manifest disadvantages of this plan in respect of the preservation and examination of his specimens. May I commend this neglected section of a neglected Order to the attention of some of our young Alexanders who are sighing for more worlds to conquer I

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Among the species Foerster received from England, was Psi/ila almi, Linn., of wliicli Linne, in the " Fauna Sueclea," p. 262, sajs that it lires in the convohited leaves of the sniall-lcared elm (Ulmus eampestrisj, in company with Aphides. I have not found tliis species, but I do not believe it will be difficult to get.

The following species have not yet been found in Britain, but, their food-plants being common here, there is no reason why they should not enjoy, or endure, the hospitality of these islands.

Psylla (Chermes) cerasfii is said by Linne (F. S., p. 262) to live on Cerastium viscosuni, causing the terminal leaves to curve into monstrous ventricose forms. Dr. H. Loew, in the "Stettiner ent. Zeitung," viii, 344 (1847), described a Psylla cerasfii as a new species, without referring to that of Linne of the same name ; yet, although the fond-pla'its are not the same, they are so nearly allied, and the appear- ances produced thereon are so similar, that the insects are probably the same species. Dr. Loew found his species at the end of June on Cerastium vulgatum. He says the deformation always exists at the end of a stalk, and consists in a shortening and thickening of the stem, and a diseased growth of the flower-portion : the calyx assumes a cap-like form, and is sometimes elongated nearly an inch ; the flower-petals become foliacoous and green, are enlarged more or less, sometimes as much as four times their natui-al length, and take the most varied and irregular forms ; the capsule swells into a bladder-shape, with an uneven surface, attains to three or four times its natural length, and the seeds within it shrivel. This remarkable malformation is caused by the broad, flat larvse and pupse of a Psylla which reside, either singly or several together, in the axils of the flower-buds, covered with white, flocky wool, which, however, does not adhere to their bodies. Then follows a minute description of the larva, pupa, and imago ; and figures are given of the pupa and an upper-wing of the perfect insect.

Psylla ixophila, Frauenf., is said by Kaltenbach fop. cit., p. 293) to have been found by him, in the pupa-state, at the end of April, and the adult insect was recog- nised as a species distinct from P. visci. This is worth investigation.

Trioza flavipennis, Foerst., was found near Pressbaum, in June, 1872, by Dr. Franz Low (Verb. z.-b. Ges. Wien, xxiii, 141), on Hieracinm pi/o.<tella, and lie de- scribes and figures the pupa. In July, 1869. he had found what ho considers to be the same species on Lactuea muralis (a plant of the same natural order as llieracium. growing on old walls and dry banks).

In different foreign publications, are notices of tlie habitats of other Psyllidce, but the foregoing examples may suflice at present as incentives to work in a field in which a rich harvest is to be gathered. — J. W. Dot'GL.\s, Lee* ^th June, 1876.

Postscript. — Ehinocola aceris, L. 1 his, hitherto one of our scarcest species of Psyllida;, I found last evening in profusion on a maple {Acer campestre) growing in an exposed situation by the sallow-pit at Lee. I had previously thrashed many maples growing in sheltered places without getting the insect. Linne originally found the species on Acer platanoides (not British) ; but Foerster took it at Aachen on the maple. — Ip. : \^th June.

A plague of spiders (Lycosa savcaiaj. — One sunny day towards the end of March, strolling through Onchan Bay, near Douglas, a singularly-marked stone —

spotted as I thought — caught my eye, and I stooped to pick it up ; as I did so. the spots — in the shape of several black spiders, which were sunning themselves on the flat surface — instantly slipped round the edge of the stone and disappeared amongst the loose shingle with which the shore is there covered. Mr. Meade has kindly determined the species to be Lycosa saccata.

I soon saw that spiders of the same species were everywhere around, sitting motionless on the stones, as far as the eye could reach, giving them a speckled appearance, as if there had been a shower of ink.

Now, I don't like spiders ; I have an inherited antipathy to the race, and always remember against them the poet's description :

" Where gloomily retired,

The villain spider lives, cunning and fierce, Mixture abhorred ! " Thomson's Seasons.

But I stood still to watch this — to me — novel sight, although feeling slightly uncom- fortable at finding myself in so much bad company. They seemed (for spiders) in an amiable frame of mind, and, so long as their legs did not touch, to be indifferent to each other's presence ; but the slightest contact was resented, and, when it occurred, one or other, without combat, instantly quitted the field and disappeared round the edge of the stone. I believe all these well-behaved spiders to have been males, exhibiting themselves with a view to matrimony ; but how they settled questions of precedence, or the right to occupy particular stones, I could not ascertain.

Occasionally, however, a different scene presented itself — an apparently accidental collision of the legs of two spiders occurred, when the pair instantly grappled and rolled together over the edge of the stone in a black ball. The sexes of Lyvosa saccata do not differ much in size or appearance, and I could not distinguish them at sight, but I have little doubt that these pairs were composed of male and female individuals. I tried to intercept the fall of several couples, but, owing to the rapidity of the action, and the awkwardness of the situation amongst loose shingle, I failed to do so, or to find them afterwards. What I saw may only have been innocent coyness on the part of the lady-spider, but it seemed hard on the gentleman to be seized by his bride on the wedding-day and compelled to jump over a precipice, even in her arms.

I am unable to say whether the female Lycosa is in the habit of reversing the parts in the story of the Arabian Nights' Entertainment, and with not merely doing wiiat the Sultan only threatened, but with eating him afterwards; but I noticed a great many empty spider skins amongst the shingle, and thought the circumstance suspicious, and the lady comes into court with a damaged character.

See De Geer's observation quoted by Kirby and Spence, vol. i, 1818, p. 280, and Darwin's "Descent of Man," vol. i, p. 339, that he "saw a male spider in the " midst of his preparatory caresses seized by the object of his attentions, enveloped " by her in a web, and then devoured, a sight which, as he adds, filled him with " horror and indignation."

The number of spiders was so prodigious that I tried to make a rough estimate of them : the shingle bank, over the whole of which they were scattered, is about 250 yards in length by twelve yards in width — and I am sure I do not over estimate the number of spiders at ten to the square foot — which would give 270,000 in all ! and Onchan is only one amongst hundreds of similar bays round the Isle of Man.

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I suppose it was no affair of mine, but I then began to consider how tliis mul- titude of carnivorous wretches was fed. Lycosa saccata is a hunting species of spider ; each individual insists on killing his own meat, and, like all hunting tribes, whether of man or beast, is no doubt wasteful of it ; it spins no web, has neither storehouse nor barn, and takes no thought of a cold joint for the morrow, as the web- making species obviously do ; a fellow-creature must daily die that each Lycosa may dine.

The peaceful-looking bay, sleeping in the sunshine, was, in reality, a scene of ruthless slaughter, and multitudes of happy, innocent beings were there daily put to the most cruel of deaths that spiders might live.

In the contemplation of the state of incesssant war which reigns throughout nature, there is much to give rise to painful thought. I cannot here pursue the subject without trespassing on ground forbidden in your pages, but it is worthy of careful and thoughtful reflection ; and blessed is he who even then can satisfy himself that he understands it. — Edwin Biechall, Douglas, Isle of Man : May Iblh, 187^.

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Die Neuropteren Europas, und insbesondere Oesterreichs, mit Rucksicht auf ihre geographische Verbreitung. F. Brauer : Wien, 187(5, 4to. Separat-Abdruck aus der Festschrift zur Feier des fiinfundzwanzigjahrigen Bestehens dor k. k. zoolog.- botan. Gesellschaft in Wien, pp. 1—38 (or 265—300 of the entire work).

In this exceedingly useful work. Dr. Brauer (who may be termed one of the pioneers of modern Neuropterology) has brought together a List of all the described Neuroptera (in the Linnean sense) of the European Fauna, with the recorded dis- tribution of the various species. The term " European Fauna," as here appliedj signifies in reality the Palsearctic Division of the globe, in the system of orni- thologists, and comprises all Northern and Central Asia, Northern Africa, &c., &c. ; a vast district of ill-defined limits, but yet infinitely better adapted to the investi- gations of the philosophical naturalist than is the Europe of our maps and atlases.

In round numbers, 1000 species are indicated by name. Of these, probably at least 100 may be taken as only synonyms : in other cases also, several species may be included under one name, and there are a few omissions ; so that 1000 may still be near the truth as to the species known to inhabit this faunistic division. In making a more minute examination of the materials as comprised in groups, families, or sub-orders, it is evident that the so-called Order has been unequally worked in its constituent parts. Possibly the Odonata are the best known of all, and that it will be difficult to add to the hundred (or thereabouts) of actual European Dragon-flies. 'VhelTrichoptera are now undergoing revision. The EphemeridcB have been revised up to a certain point. Other groups (more or less extensive) are tolerably well known. But there remain some in which little else than chaos still reigns supreme, and not the least important of these are the PerlidcB, the numerous species (with their possible local forms) of the genus Ilemerobius as restricted, and the genus Raphidia. In fact, there is work enough for the concentrated energies of seveml entomologists. And it is additionally desirable that a thorough revision be made of almost all the European Neuroptera, because, on the other side of the Atlantic is a vast continent, with a fauna hardly to be grouped as forming a separate division from that

of the northern oid-wovld, and wliich, in Neuroptera, is probiiblj far more rich, and with numerous hard-working entomologists who naturally look to us of Europe for assistance.

We hail with great satisfaction this laborious work, wliich supplies a long- existing want. It forms part of a publication by the zoological and botanical Society of Vienna, in celebration of the 25th anniversary of its existence. A society so useful, and so flourishing, has just cause to be a little proud of such an event.

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Edward Newman died at his residence at Peekham on June 12th, after a short but painful illness. He was born at Hampstead, on May 13th, 1801, so that he attained the ripe old age of 75, thanks to a naturally strong constitution and extremely regular and methodical habits. With the events of his early life we are not well informed ; but, before his 30th year, he was engaged in business on his own account as a rope maker at Deptford. Having, however, relinquished this business, he became a partner in a printing business at Ratcliff Highway, which soon passed entirely into his hands, and was continued by him in Devonshire Street until a few years ago, when the management was taken by his surviving son. In 1832, he commenced the first of a series of Natural History Journals, in connection with which he became so well known, and which undoubtedly have contributed to no small extent to foster and further a taste for Natural History in this country. Many naturalists, now old men themselves- — men who have acquired fame in various branches of natural science, can remember, when as mere boys, they tremblingly committed their first lucubrations to the tender mercies of the " Editor " of one or other of these journals. In 1832, Newman started, in conjunction with A. H. Davis, F. Walker, and Edward Doubleday, the " Entomological Magazine," which extended to 5 vols., and up to 1838. At about the same time, the Entomological Society was founded, and the Editors having failed in attempts to procure the memoirs read before the Society, for publication in their magazine, instead of in special " Transactions," it was proba- bly found that there was not then room for two publications having so much in common, and the magazine ceased. In 1840, however, Newman started the " Entomologist," a monthly magazine at the price of sixpence, a bold stroke, which met with considerable success, and it was continued until the end of 1842, when it was announced that " the Entomologist under its present title will now cease ;" and it was merged into its successor, the " Zoologist," which has continued uninterrup- tedly under his sole editorship from 1843 to the present time, a period of 33 years (a fact probably unprecedented in the annals of journalism), and presenting a vast ac- cumulation of facts and observations on zoological subjects. Upon the announcement of the forthcoming appearance of our own Magazine in 1864, and after having made a naturally ineffectual attempt to obtain our printing, he revived the " Entomologist," which has continued up to now. Entomology having been divorced from other branches of Zoology in the pages of the " Zoologist," a step that we make bold to think did not act to the advantage of either journal. For some time, also, Newman was con- nected with the now defunct botanical magazine known as the " Phytologist." For a long time he was entomological editor of the " Field " newspaper ; and also, for a short period, of a popular journal for young people, under the title of " Young England," though otherwise he had no interest in these publications.

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We now turn to some of his mo-it important special works. The first of these, published in 1832, was an essay intituled " Sphinx Vespiformis," an ingenious attempt to elevate the quinary system of classification enunciated by Macleay into a septe- nary arrangement, giving evidence of great originality, but, at the same time, very speculative in its nature. In 1835, he produced the " Grammar of Entomology," a popular exposition of the science, which, in 1841, was succeeded by a more extensive work under the title of " A familiar Introduction to the History of Insects," which again appeared in 1858 as " The Insect Hunters, or Entomology in verse," a very clever exposition of the first principles of Entomology, in the style of Longfellow's "Hiawatha." Two important works, also, are his "Natural History of British Butterflies," and "Natural History of British Moths" (the first appearing originally in " Young England "), and especially useful on account of the good and copious figures, though the letter-press is marred by a tendency to prejudices and crotchets, whicji, it is to be regretted, more or less characterizes all his writings, and some of which laid him open to the imputation that they were put prominently forward, more for the sake of ci'cating controversy than from any thorough belief in them by their originator. In addition to these works, the series of pleasant and well- written " Letters of Rusticus " are supposed to have been by Newman, and the authorship was not disclaimed by him, though it is probable that he really acted more the role of editor than of author in this case, and that Dr. Kidd, of Godal- ming, was the real author.

To enumerate the special papers and notes by Newman spread through his journals, would require a volume. They are mostly entomological, but there are many on other branches of Natural History, for he was exceedingly versatile, and had an extensive knowledge of general natural science, not excepting Botany, especially ferns, on the British species of which he published a useful work, which has gone through several editions. In Ornithology, he edited Montagu's " Ornitho- logical Dictionary."

During his long life, Newman made many friends, also, it is not to be denied, alienated some. He has gone from among us — let the past be forgotten ! Let us remember only the abundant and indisputable good he has done in giving to aspirants in Zoology the opportunity of making known innumerable valuable obser- vations that otherwise would have remained unnoticed. In the present rapidly advancing condition of Entomology as a science, it is impossible that tliere can ever be another Newman. He was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1833, and in 1853 and 1854 was President of the Entomological Society. Mr. Newman leaves a widow, one son, and two married daughters.

ExTOMOLOGiCAL SociETV OF LONDON : 7th June, 1876. — Professor Westwood, President, in the Chair.

The following gentlemen were elected Members : — Messrs. Alex. Augustus Berens, A. II. Swinton, and Charles Marcus Wakefield.

Mr. Douglas reverted to the exiiibition made by hiin at the meeting on the 3rd May [vide ante, p. 19), of the palm nuts known as " vegetable ivory," attacked by a species of Bruchidce. He read a letter from a friend concerning the damage done to the nuts by the beetle, and asking whetl^r it commenced on board ship, or

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before loading. It was suggested that the mischief was initiated by the parent beetle laying lier eggs in the nuts when still in a green and soft state. IVFany larvae infested each nut, reducing it to a rotten state. The metamorphosis took place in a cocoon inside the nut, and specimens of the beetle were shewn, proving to be a species of Caryoborus.

Mr. McLacliIan, in connection with the above exhibition, placed before the meeting the nuts of another species of palm fCopernicia ceriferaj from Bio, for- warded to him by Prof. Dyer, and likewise infested by a species of Cari/oborus (alive when he received them), which, according to the British Museum collection, is C. hactris. In this case each nut served as food for only one larva, which bored in it a cylindrical hole of considerable size and depth.

Mr. E. A. Fitch exhibited seeds of a (probably) Leguminous plant from Egypt, foi'ming an article of commerce, infested by a Bruchus to so great an extent that it was estimated that a loss of 50 per cent, was occasioned.

Prof. Westwood exhibited the larva of an Australian species of Uepialus (pro- bably from Queensland) which had a long fungus, with four or five branches, growing out of the back of the neck and from the tail; also the pupa of a British Noctua with a fungus proceeding from the back of the neck.

ilr. Fryer exhibited a curious variety of one of our QeometridcB, believed to pertain to Rlelauippe rivata.

Mr. McLachlan, on behalf of Dr. Atherstone, of South Africa, exhibited sundry insects and insect-productions from that quarter. First, a couple of a very singular Orthopterous insect of considerable size (belonging to the Acri/diideB), which, in colour, and in its granulated texture, so exactly mimics the sand of the districts in which it occurs as to render it almost impossible to detect it when quiescent. There was some doubt as to the species to which it should be referred, but it approached an insect noticed by Walker as Trachyplera scutellaris. Secondly, singular oval flattened cases (open at each end by a slit) from six to eight lines in length, formed of silk, to which was externally fixed a quantity of fine light brown sand. The cases were formed under stones in sandy districts, and were stated by Mr. C. O. Water- house to pertain to a beetle of the genus ParaJichas (Fam. Da.scillidce). Lastly, the case of a species of (Ecelicus, of peculiar structure. The inner lining of the tube was composed of toughened silk as usual, but to this was attached externally a quantity of fine saml, and outside this a number of small angular pebbles, only the tail end having a few rather long twigs and pieces of grass-stem : thus, the case differed from those of most species, in which exclusively vegetable substances are attached externally : the addition of the pebbles made the case (which was nearly two inches in length) unusually heavy.

Professor Wcstwood read descriptions and exhibited drawings of two very singular forms of Coleopterous insects from Mr. A. R. Wallace's private collections. For the first, which belonged to the TelephoridcB, he proposed the generic term Astychina, remarkable for the form of the two terminal joints of* the antennae in one sex, which were modified into what appeared to be a prehensile apparatus. The other pertained to the Cleridce, and was termed Anisophyllus, differing from all known beetles by the extremely elongated branch of the 0th joint of the antennae.

Mr. Smith read "Descriptions of new species of Hyraenopterous insects from New Zealand, collected by Mr. C. M. Wakefield." The number of known Hymen'

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optera appeared to be about -18. Oue species of Siricidce, one of Tenthredinidae (our well-known Blennocampa adumbrata ; probably ^ B. cerasi, Hutton), only five FormicidcB, no Mutillidce nor wasps, only a few bees, and some EnaniidcB, &c.

Mr. J. S. Baly communicated " Descriptions of new genera and species of Halticidce."

Dr. Sharp communicated a " Description of a new genus and some new species of StaphylinidcB from Mexico and Central America," collected by Mr. Salvin, Mr. Flohr, and Mr. Belt.

DESCEIPTIONS OF SOME NEW SPECIES OF BUPRESTID^ BELONGING- TO THE GENUS LIUS, H. DEYROLLE.

BY EDWARD SAUNDERS, F.L.S.

The types of the species here described are now in the collecttion of the British Museum.

I. — Species eJytris subriu/osis.

1. Castor, sp. n.

Obscure viridi-cyaneus, capilUs alhldis brevissimis obsitus, capite cupreomicante splendidissimo. Caput Iceve, inter oculos valde et trian- gulariter excavatum. Thorax punctatus, brevis, lateribus rotundatis, basi utrinque sinuatd, in media lobatd. ScitfeUum parvum, Jceve. Elytra fortiter punctuto-sfriata, subrugosa, hiimeris valde prominenfibus, lateribus sub-rotundatis, postice attenuatis, apice rotundato minutissime denticulato. Sub f us nitens, punctatus. Long. 2\ lin. ; lat. \\ lin.

Hab. : Parana.

2. PoLLrx, sp. n.

Obscure ceneus, capillis albidis brevibus obsitus. Caput inter oculos excavatum, Iceve. Thorax sparse punctatus, lateribus rotundatis, basi bisinuatd et in medio lobatd. Scutellum parvum, lave. Elytra detise et rugositer punctata, humeris tubereuloque lateral i prominentibus, lateri- bus siih-rotundatis, postice attenuatis, apice rotundato. Subtus Icevis.

Hab. : Parana. Long. 2 lin. ; lat. 1 lin.

A L. Cdstore differt colore, prcesertim capitis, capite ininusfexcavafo, et elytrorum ruqositate.

II. — Species elytris punctatis aut punctato-striatis.

3. Adonis, sp. n.

Oyaneus; capite, thoracisque angulis anticis purpureis ; subtus niger. Caput inter oculos excavatum, punctaf uni. Thorax glabcr, minute punct- atus, lateribus rotundatis, basi valde lobatd. Sculelluiu parvum. Iceve,

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Eli/tra sparsim minute punctata, piDictisque major'ihus in lineU di>ipo- sitis notata, latoribus roiundatis, poatice attenuatis, apice sub-rotundato denticulato. Lonrj. 2 Un. ; lat. 1 lin.

Sautarein ; II. W. Bates.

4. Aees, sp. n.

Cyaneus, suhtns nir/er. Caput inter oculus valde cxcavatum, punc- tatum. Thorax glaher, minute jJiHH't'dus, laterihus ant ice emartjinniis, posfice rotundatis, hasi lohafd. ScufclJ um p>arvum Iceoe. Elytra jjunctata, punctis in lineis dispositis, laterihus sub-rotundatis, postice attenuatis, apice sub-rotundato. Long. 2 lin. ; lat. f lin.

Santarcm, Ega, Para ; H. W. Bates.

A. prcEcedente dijfert oculis marjis jjroniinentibus, captife inter illos magis ecccavato, el ytrorum punctis, et forma angustiore.

5. Tereus, sp. n.

&uprii viridi-cyaneus, subtus mneo-niger. Caput punctatum, inter oculos sulcatum. Thorax p>unctatus, laterihus suh-rectis, basi lohatd. Scutellum Iceve. Elytra striato-punctata, laterihus antice suh-rotundalis, postice ad apicem attenuatis, apice denticulato. Suhtus punctatus.

A p)rcecede7ite nee non congeneribus dijfert oculis non prominentibus, thoracis laterihus suh-rectis et forma suh-comjjlanatd.

G. Ctcxus, sp. n.

Viridi-cyaneus, subtus cyaneo-niger. Caput punctatum, inter oculos late sulcatum. . Thorax punctatus, praescrtim propc angidos posticos, laterihus suh-rotundatis, hasi in medio valde lohatd. Scutelluin parvum Iceve. Elytra irregulariter sed ad basin valde striato-jnmctata , propc latera suh-undulata, laterihus rotundatis, postice attenuatis, apice denti- culato. Subtus punctatus. Long. 2 lin. ; lat. 11,1/ a.

I fab. : Bahia.

Quam L. Ares major et multo latior ; dijfert etiam elytris piuiclato- striatis,