188 [Jiinnary, 



it was the true rujimitrana. As it is not described in any English work, I give a 

 brief description. Having only these two rather dissimilar specimens to compare, 

 greater accuracy of detail would be injudicious. 



Size and shape of Ratzeburghiana : fore- wing of $ longer, and costa less arched, 

 than in $ . Head deep yellow-ochreous ; thorax brown-grey, collar ochreous. 

 Abdomen grey, in $ with a pale ochreous tuft. Fore-wing pale bluish-grey ; basal 

 patch composed of numerous dark grey-brown transverse strise, its outer edge forming 

 a very dark, almost black, irregular fascia ; in the $ specimen strongly angulated, 

 in the <? almost straight and very oblique, but with a large externally-projecting 

 tooth in the middle. Central fascia slender, very dark brown-grey, margins very 

 irregular ; running from middle of costa to anal angle. The pale space between basal 

 patch and central fascia is irregularly striated with brown-grey, and indistinctly 

 streaked with yellow, dilating into an indistinctly yellowish blotch on dorsal margin ; 

 it is bordered on each side by a faintly metallic line. Costa beyond central fascia 

 with four pairs of whitish strigae ; from 2nd and 3rd pairs indistinctly metallic lines 

 run to above anal angle ; between them hind-margin indistinctly yellowish. Beneath 

 apex an irregular dark brown spot. Hind-wing brown-grey ; cilia paler grey, inter- 

 sected by a strong dark line. 



Although an obscure looking species, not very like any other ; nearly allied to 

 Ratzeburghiana, but easily distinguished by the different colour, and especially the 

 yellow head, which separates it at once from all its British allies. It frequents 

 fir trees, and appears to be rather local, but not uncommon, in Germany. — 

 E. Metbice, Eamsbury, Huugerford, Wilts : December \8th, 1876. 



Lygus pellucidtts, Fieb., in Morayshire. — Some time during the month of Octo- 

 ber, I took, by beating, near Forres, a species of Lygus, which Mr. Saunders con- 

 sidered to be L. pellucidus, but recommended me to send to Dr. Renter. This I 

 did, and have recently got his reply. Dr. Renter considers my insect to answer to 

 Fieber's description, also that it is the same as his (Dr. R.'s) L. pellucidus (Revisio 

 critica Capsinaruui), but thinks, after all, it is merely a variety of Lggtts pasiinacce. 

 — Geo. Nokman, Clunny Hill, Forres : 14ih November, 1876. 



Abnormal structure of the antennce of Hemiptera. — On former occasions (Ent. 

 Mo. Mag., ii, 270, & iii, 200) I drew attention to the irregular formation of antennae 

 in species chiefly belonging to the Section Lygceina, in which there had apparently 

 been a reproduction of one of the antennae, or part of it, after casual excision. In 

 these cases, one antenna had three instead of four joints, but one of these was longer 

 than in the natural condition, so that the antenna as a whole approximated the other 

 in length ; whence it was inferred, that the mutilation having occurred while the 

 insect was growing, the effort of nature to supply the deficiency had resulted in the 

 production of one joint instead of two, but shorter than the two, and always with 

 the terminal joint perfect in form if not in size. Mr. G. Norman, of Forres, having 

 recently signalised his advent as a collector of Hemiptera, by taking Erem.ocoris 

 plebeius, hitherto one of our rarest species (ante p. 160), had the goodness to send 

 me some examples, among which I found one, of which both the antennae were com- 

 posed of three joints only, and I at first thought the fourth had been accidentally 



