1904.] 



281 



uiithu' a stone on Mio siiiuly conunoii at tlie iiortii onil of tlie island. Not lindiiif^ it 

 cU-scribed or figured in " The Hemiptera-Heteroptera of the Britisli Islands," I 

 sent it to Mr. Edward Saundei's, who has kindly named it as above. — W. A. LuFF, 

 Brook Road, Guernsey : October IWt, lUUi. 



[This scciiis to 1110 to bo a very intoro.-itiiiij capture, as its recorded distribution in Kurope 

 docs not reach nearly such a high latitude a.s that of Jersey.— K. Saunder.s.] 



Hymenoptera-Aculeata and Chryxididx xaio to Guernsey. — Tlie foUowin" 

 species were taken by Mr. E. D. Marquand on L'.\ncresse Common, Guernsey, 

 during August of this year:—Pompi/ns plumbeus, Ammophila hirsuta, Prosopis 

 brevicornis, new to Guernsey, and Halictus zonulus, Smith, new to the Channel 

 Islands. Two Chrysids, Hedychridium integrum and Elampus auratus were taken 

 in a sandpit. The Aculeata were determined by Mr. E. Saunders, and the Chrysids 

 by the Rev. F. D. Morice.— Id. 



Note on I'ettix kiefferi, Saulcy. — This species very closely resembles T. hi- 

 punctatus, and is probably often confounded with it. The difference, as set forth 

 by Azam (Misc. ent., 19!.'l, vol. ix, p. 6u), consists in the longer posterior femora, 

 the somewhat stouter antennaj, and absence of the lateral spots of the pronotum. 

 There is also a variety with fully developed wings and longer pronotum. According 

 to Azani, this Tettis prefers flinty soils, and is widely distributed in Brittany, the 

 llautes Pyrenees, Sologne, and the Vosges. Entomologists would therefore do 

 well to examine carefully all the specimens of Tettix hipunctatus in their collections, 

 as it is quite possible that this form occurs in Britain, though it is perhaps doubtful 

 whether it is a good species. — Malcolm Burr, Royal Societies' Club, St. James's 

 Street, S. W. : October Zlst, 1904. 



Neuronia clathrata, KoL, in Wigtoion shire. — Some time ago, amongst a few 

 insects received from Mr. J. G. Gordon, Corsemalzie, Wigtownshire, for determina- 

 tion, I was very pleased to find a female of this pretty Triehopteron, which had been 

 swept from bracken in June of last year by his brother near their own home. Not 

 only does this capture form an addition to the Scottish list, but the occurrence of 

 the species in these Islands has hitherto been so rare that it deserves more than a 

 passing notice. 



The first authentic specimens, three in number, were taken by Chappell in 

 Bishop's Wood, Staffordshire, in 1867 (Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. iv, p. 201), old speci- 

 mens in the British Museum, from Children's collection and without locality, being 

 very doubtfully British. Down to 1888 nothing more was recorded of the insect, 

 the few British examples then known to exist having all come from or about the 

 original Staffordshire locality. In the Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xsiv, p. 173 (January, 

 1888), the late Mr. McLnchlan wrote that he had seen two very fine examples which 

 had been taken by Mr. Boden, a London collector, in the Tottenham Marshes some 

 three years before. The same collector was fortunate enough to take anotlier speci- 

 men on June 2nd of the same year. I know nothing more of the insect as a British 

 species. 



