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set'oiul tiiiip tlie ppocips li;i8 (ircui-riMl in llic I'rilifil) Isles; tlic first Imviii^ heon 

 recorded in llu- lUiloniulogisl's Monllilv Miii^nzino fur Drci-niher, I'.IOl) ; lliis was 

 tiiktMi in ii fliiy-pil !it. LeviM-stock Green, Herts. .Sliorlly before llndiiig in_v speci- 

 ineii 1 liiid tlirown my mackintosh on tlie ground just inside Ihc door of a patient's 

 txit(,ai,'e, so tliat. tlie beetle had probably crawled iu from tlie garden. It apjjears to 

 be a rare species on the Continent — Nokman ]I. Jov, Bradfield : June I7l/i, 1901. 



He-occurrence of Cryptocephalus blpunctatus, L., var thomsoni, Weise, at 

 Woking. — Ow tlie morning of Juno 21sfc, in dull, cold, gloomy weather, eminently 

 unsuggestive of tlie " longest day," 1 was greatly pleased to sweep off a small bush 

 of iSalix caprea a fine ? example of this !i]iparcntly rare dark form of our familiar 

 red-and-black striped Cryplocephalns. During a residence of more than twelve 

 years at Woking, Mr. G. C. Champion (Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xxxviii, 1892, p. 193), 

 has met with only three specimens of C bipunctatus, var. Thomsoni, at long 

 intervals apart, and two of these were, I believe, taken within a few yards of where 

 my example was found. — James J. Walkek, " Aorangi," Lonsdale Road, Summer- 

 tow)i, Oxford : Ju/^ 8th, 19U4. 



Podagrica fuscicornis, L., a garden pest at Oxford. — While strolling through 

 some nursery gardens near here a few evenings ago, my attention was called by tlie 

 proprietor to the fact that his mallows were " being eaten up by some insect or 

 other." On going to the spot indicated, I found that a bed of two species of culti- 

 vated Malvacese — the North American ISidalcea Candida, and the white-flowered 

 form of our Malva moschata — vf&s entirely ruined by the attacks of Podagrica 

 fuscicornis, L. The plants were literally blackened —if one may use the term in 

 connection with a red and green insect — by the beetles, which had devoured the 

 parenchyma of the leaves, nothing but withered brown stalks and ribs remaining; 

 and shaking a coujile of Sidalcea plants not a foot high produced a table-spoonful 

 of the Halticid. A further inspection showed that other Malvacea in the garden 

 were attacked in a lesser degree, the seedling hollyliocks (AlthcBa rosea) and 

 Sidalcea maloajiora having a few of the beetles on them, while half-grown holly- 

 hocks were apparently untouched. I may add that I have not yet seen cither of 

 our two species of Podagrica on the luxuriant i)lants of Maloa sglvestris that grow 

 in every waste place hereabouts. — jAMEtj J. Walkeu, Oxford : Julg VUh, 1901. 



Conopalpus testaceus, Uliv., ^fc, at IVoking. — Au]ougsl a few beetles caught 

 by me on the wing, witli my hat, during the jiast fortnight, while walking about 

 in the evening in this neighbourliood, tlie following are worth noting : Triarthron 

 mdrkeli, Schmidt (June 21st), llallomenu.i humeralis, Panz. (June 23rd and again 

 on the 26th), and Conopalpus testaceus, Oliv. (June 30th) ; the last-inentioncd 

 under some oak trees, the others on the heath My boys cauglit two specimens of 

 Plusia monela in the garden on June 30tli. — Geo. C. CuAMriON, Ilorsell, Woking: 

 July 2nd, 1904. 



Lochmxa suturalis, Thorns., var. iiigrila, Weise. — 1 cainiot find that this form 

 of Lochmwa suturalis has ever been specifically recorded as Britisli, so place on 



