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second edition of his Catalogue of IJritish Colcoptera (1SG6) ; and the description 

 of " Lehia e'phix)j)iuvi " in the Appendix to Stephens' Manual (p. l^S), stated to 

 have been taken in the " Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park : June," also applies 

 very well to S. elevatus. Although this interesting insect has no claim to be re- 

 garded as otherwise than an introduction into our islands, its occurrence far 

 from the coast, and under such peculiar conditions, is certainly worth recording* 

 — Jambs J. Walkbr, Oxford : August lli/i, 1916. 



Euconnus mdklini Mannh., in the Oxford district. — On the evening of 

 July 19tli, I swept a bright-looking and very active little Scydmacnid off short 

 herbage on a limestone down between Headington and Stanton St. John, 

 Oxfordshire. Mr. Champion has kindly confirmed this for me as Euconnus 

 maJdini Mannh. ^ . The elytra of my specimen, which is quite mature, are of 

 a full chestnut-red colour. — J, J. Walkkk. 



Psylliodes cyanoptera III., ah. tricolor Weise, an aberration new to Britain ; 

 and some notes on the species as British. — Through the kindness of the Hon. N. 

 Charles Eotlischild, I have recently taken a nice litttle series of Psylliodes 

 cyanoptera in Huntingdonshire. Among these were several sjiecimeus with the 

 thorax black; this is the ab. tricolor Weise [Ins. Deutschl., VI, 806 (1893)]. 



This beautiful Psylliodes is hard to catch, as it jumps very strongly. The 

 situation of its food plant, Sisymbrium sophia, in this locality (and the fact that 

 it might destroy the plants, where they can be got at, before they had produced 

 seed for another year) renders sweeping out of the question. Qonsequently the 

 beetle has to be searched for and then caught with the fingers, or in a glass- 

 topped box. The insect appears to be very rare in Britain ; there is an old 

 pinned specimen, without locality, under the name " Macrocnema triiiudicns" in 

 Kirby's collection in the Natviral History Museum, bixt none in the Stephensian, 

 the Power, or the old British Museum collections. We are unable to find 

 Stephen's statement, quoted by Fowler [Col. Brit. Isls., IV, 391 (1890) ; Ent. Mo. 

 Mag., Vol. LI, p. 265 (1915)]: — "Taken near London, in Suffolk, and about 

 Bristol," and shall be glad if anyone can svipply the reference. We are inclined 

 to think, however, that the quotation refers to some other insect, and the 

 localities must be deleted for P. cyanoptera. The only known captures, other 

 than those from Hxintingdonshire, are a few specimens taken by Chitty and 

 myself at Wicken Fen. My old friend, the late Arthur Chitty, joined me for a 

 few days collecting in the Fen, in Aiigust, 1892, and among other captures we 

 swept a few specimens of this beetle. In those days I was not much interested 

 in "hoppers" and other small fry, and I handed over my one (or two.'*) to 

 him in the field. We did not know what it was at the time ; in fact Chitty, 

 later, distributed one or more specimens as vars. of P. chrysocephala. I believe 

 oxul captures were made on rough, partly cultivated land, between Waterbeach 

 and Upware. — Horace Donisthorpe, " Durandesthorpe," 19, Haylewell Road, 

 Putney : August 16th, 1916. 



[In my short series of P. cyanoptera, which I owe to the kindness of the 

 Hon. N. C. Rothschild and Mr. W. Holland (the original captor of the species 



