208 [September, 



as a comparison of the figures of both imago and nymph clearly sliows. The 

 home of the insect is therefore almost certainly the Eastern States of North 

 America, and not India, as suggested by Distant. L. explanata is said to live 

 abundantly on mountain laxu'el (Kabnia latifolia) and Rhododendron maximum, 

 and to injure the foliage of the latter. It has been found in many places in 

 the Atlantic States, from Florida to Boston, Mass,, and westward to Ohio. A 

 full account of the life-history is given by Heidemann, and more recently by 

 Crosby and Hadley (Journ. Econ. Ent. viii, pp. 4.09-413, pis. 22, 23, 1915), who 

 figure the egg, different stages of the nymph, the imago, infected rhododendron 

 leaves, etc. The insect would perhaps be better placed under Leptohxjrsa Stal 

 (the type of which, L. stei7ii, from Brazil, was figured by myself in Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. Lond., 1898, p. 58, pi. 2, fig. 4), and Heidemann's name cx])lanata must 

 fall as a synonym, that of Horvath having three years priority. Five species 

 of the same genus from Central America were figured and described in the 

 " Biologia " in 1897. Stephanitis mitrata Stahl, from Brazil, also figured by me 

 in 1898, is the type of Calliphanes Horv. (1906).— G.C.C.] 



Chrysops sepulchralis F., and Anthrax fenestratus Fin., in Dorsetshire. — I 

 should like to record that I took 40 Chnjsops sepulchralis F. yesterday on 

 Wareham Common, and 30 on July 19th. They alighted on and around me, and 

 I could take them with my hand. Mr. Harwood says it is a record number of 

 this species, he thinks. There are plenty to be had, and they were seen in 

 similar numbers last August by my brother, N. D. F. Pearce, M. A., of Cambridge, 

 who brought home a dozen, the first he had seen there. We are natives of 

 Dorset. I also took nine Anthrax fenestratus Fin., and saw a good many more, 

 on the Wareham road on July 18th. — E. K. Pearce, Kempston, Chine Crescent 

 Road, Bournemouth : Jidij 2&th, 1916. 



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" Eeport and Transactions of the Cardiff Naturalists' Society." 

 Vol. XLVIII, 1915. Cardiff: printed for the Society by William Lewis 

 (Printers), Ltd. 1916. 



With the Heteromera and Rhynchophora, Mr. Tomlin brings his annotated 

 list of the Coleoptera of Glamorgan to a conclusion in the curi'ent volume of 

 the above Eeport. As in previous sections of the List, many rare and interest- 

 ing species are included, and our esteemed contributor may be congratulated on 

 the completion of one of the best County catalogues of the Order that has yet 

 appeared. Our knowledge of the distribution of insects in these Islands has 

 been largely increased in recent years by the publication of lists, as far as 

 possible complete, of the insects occurring within certain well-defined areas ; 

 and that now under notice will serve as an excellent model to any Coleopterist 

 who is desirous of making a census of the beetles of his county or district. As 

 before, Mr. H. M. Hallett contributed some interesting notes on Hymenoptera 

 and other Glamorgan insects. 



