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from the accustomed forceps, a promise of siich a list would help to make the 

 futiirc a little less cloudy than it is noAv. 



One instance of apparent neglect I am tempted to mention before I 

 close. " The Fauna of British India " volumes on Butterflies were published 

 in 1905 and 1907 by the late Col. Bingham. A third, to complete, was arranged 

 for very soon after — and is still awaited. Moore's "Lepidoptera Indica," 

 recently concluded as far as the butteriiies are concerned by Swinhoe, is beyond 

 the reach of most pockets, and collectors in one of our largest, oldest, most im- 

 portant, and (entoniologically speaking) most attractive dependencies, are still 

 without their book to tell them what they see or catch ! — J. C. Moulton, Lieut. 

 Ist/ith Wiltshire Regiment (Territorials), Chanbattia, United Provinces, India: 

 Maij 2:ird, 1916. 



Note on the Curculionid-genus Mascarauxia Desbr. — Mons. J. Clermont, of 

 Paris, recently sent me for examination some specimens of Mascarauxia cyrtica 

 Desbr., from St. Vincent de Paxil, Landes, suggesting that it might be an 

 acclimatised exotic in France, like the American Stenopelmus rujinasiis Gyll. 

 He is almost certainly correct in his surmise, as I have an example of it from 

 Monte Video, captured many years ago by Commander Walker. But how it 

 could have been introduced into the Landes it is difficult to understand. The 

 first specimen of M. cyrtica, described by Desbrochers in 1899, was found on 

 marshy ground on the heaths at Cassen, near Dax. In 190S two othere were 

 taken at Dax, from beneath plane bark, and in 1910 M. Clermont (Proc.-Verb. 

 Soc. Linn. Bord. LXIV., pp. .j(j, 57) recorded the capture by M. Degland of many 

 specimens at St. Vincent do Paul, under similar conditions. Mascarauxia is 

 very closely related to the American genus Hyperodes Jekel (= Macrops Kix'by), 

 but dift'ers from it in having a narrower rostrum. The former, it seems to me, 

 was correctly referred by Desbrochers to the section Erirrhina, whereas Leconte 

 and Morn place Hyperodes in Hyperina. This last-mentioned genus ranges 

 widely over North and South America, and some Mexican forms very similar to 

 M. cyrtica were figured and described in the " Biologia/' Mr. W. D. Pierce, of 

 Washington, at my request, has examined one of M. Clermont's examples, and 

 he informs me that the insect is not known to him from the United States. 

 Mascarauxia is very like some of our British species of Dorytomus, differing 

 from them in having a much stouter rostrum. It probably hibernates or 

 aostivates under plane bark, after tlie manner of oxir /). validirostris. M. Degland 

 thinks it may live on Senecio erratica or aquatica, a plant allied to 6'. jacobaea. — 

 G. C. Champion, HorscU, Woking : June 2Sth, 191(5. 



Trinodes hirtns F., in Oxfordshire. — -While examining a fallen elm tree at 

 Thame Park, Oxon, on April 21th last, I found a very dark ^lH<?ur (uts-like larva 

 which was unknown to me, the segments being covered with long black hairs 

 instead of the usual brown hair-tut'ts characteristic of Anlhreniis. I fed it with 

 dead spiders and iiies, and succeeded in getting it to pupate on May 3rd, inside 

 the larval skin, which retained the long dark hairs throughout. The beetle 

 burst the pupal envelope on ?vlay 13th, but remained in sitxt without moving. 



