1(3(3 [December, 



Thecla W-album in Worcestershire. — As I believe this insect has been only 

 once recorded from this district (E. M. M. ii, 183), it may be worth while to state 

 that a young collector recently informed me that he caught numerous specimens on 

 thistles, near Powick, on one day in the beginning of July, 1875 ; and, also, that I 

 caught a single worn example on the 2-itli of July last, at the same place. — Id. 



Galls of Nematus galUcola occurring over water. — A colony of the larvae of this 

 insect inhabits a willow growing by the river Teme, at Powick, the vast majority of 

 which occur on the branches overhanging the rapid current of water. This, being 

 contrary to the received opinion of the creature's habit, seems deserving of notice. — Id. 



Morayshire Nocttice and Hemiptera-Heteroptera. — During the past season, I 

 have only added two species of Noctua to the list of Morayshire insects : these are 

 Xylophasia lithoxylea and Tethea stibtusa ; the first at sugar, the latter from heather 

 near aspens at Belugas. 



In turning over stones in a pine wood here, I find a rather rare bug, Uremocoris 

 plebeius, not uncommon ; yesterday I took thirty-one specimens, and saw others in 

 the larva state. This is probably the same locality that yielded the first British 

 specimen to Mr. Hislop, for I remember this gentleman often searched the wood for 

 Coleoptera. — Q-. Noeman, Cluny Hill, Forres : loth October, 1876. 



Scarcity of autumnal Homoptera. — On the 18th October, at the foot of the 

 Addington Hills, I beat out of various trees, but chiefly Scotch and spruce fir, 

 Psylla pineti, Flor, Ps.fumipennis, Forst., Trioza hcematodes, Forst., and T. albi- 

 ventris, Forst., and from whitethorn Psylla mali var. rubida. The first two, although 

 not rare, were not so plentiful as on the 26th October last year at the same place, 

 the others were very scarce, more so than a year ago j and Fsylla ferruginea and 

 Aphalara polygoni, then taken sparingly, did not now appear at all. 



TyphlocybidcB, of which many species occur at this season in abundance, were 

 very scarce ; this has also been the case elsewhere within my knowledge, for, at Lee, 

 such species (notably T. ulmi, which in windy weather settles on the fences and sits 

 on my windows by dozens) have been only casual visitors. I think there can be but 

 little doubt that the continued rough weather of September and first half of October 

 played havoc among these tender legions, and that their typical habit of moving 

 from one side of a leaf to the other did not avail against the wind that swept and 

 the rain that washed both sides. — J. W. Douglas, Lee : Zlst October, 1876. 



On the transformation of Trombidinm. — I read Mr. R. H. Meade's note on 

 parasitic Acari in tlio last No. of Ent. Mo. Mag. It may interest you to know that 

 I have bred, several times, the scarlet Trombidinm that infests FhalangiidcB, and 

 have invariably found them turn into the oval pupa; (?) he mentions. These pupae, 

 however, I have only once succeeded in keeping alive, and that one occasion a 

 scarlet, velvety, 8-legged mite emerged after twenty-two days. I also noticed that 

 the Trombidii, after the death of the " harvest men " on which they fed, would kill 

 one another, and that they would feed on other insects, e. g., on bluebottle flies, and 

 once on a Lepidopterous larva. — T. D. Q-ibson-Caemiciiabl, AU Saints' Parsonage, 

 Newton Stewart, N.iS. : October, 1876. , 



