Q [January, 



C. arvensis at Braclfield, Berks. Mr. H. C. Dollman has met with it 

 abundantly on C. nepium, near Ditchling, Sussex, and Bedel quotes 

 M. A. Dubois, of Versailles, as having found it associated with 

 C. sejmim and (under cultivation) C. fricolor. Foudras gives Eujiato- 

 rium cannabinum as the food plant, but Bedel commenting on this 

 says : " I'erreur de Foudras s'expliquerait par ce fait que le Convol- 

 vulus sepmm et 1' Eujjatorium cannahinum sont generalement fort 

 enchevetres." 



This species appears to be widely, but not very commonly, 

 distributed throughout the south of England. Further records are 

 necessai-y to establish the certainty of its range north of the Midlands. 



Vars. — Weise gives three varietal forms :- — 



A — profugus. Winged, with prominent shoulders and 

 shorter antennae. Of this form we have seen no 

 British examples. 



B — fumigatus. Head and thorax ferruginous or more or 

 less pitchy, antennae brown, prosternum and abdomen 

 brown or pitchy. This form appears in a greater or 

 less degree to occur with, and to be almost as common 

 as, the type, and cannot be considered in any sense as 

 a stable divergence from it. 



C — Thorax and elytra finely punctured. This form does not 

 appear to be common, and, in any case, in a group so 

 variable as regards punctuation, seems hardly worth 

 special recognition. 



L. ferrugineus, Foudr. [Mon. p. 216].— A few specimens which 

 have been referred to this species exist in British collections. Mr. 

 E. A. Waterhouse has kindly allowed us to examine the exponents in 

 the " G. R. Waterhouse " collection, and Mr. Champion, an example 

 so named for him by E. C. Kye, on the strength of which we believe 

 the species was added to the British list. One of us also possesses a 

 specimen taken at Folkestone. These few examples constitute, so far 

 as we have been able to ascertain, the entire I'epresentation of 

 L. ferrugineus in British collections. With so small an amount of 

 material available, it becomes difiicult to decide on their specific 

 validity, but so far as our examination of them takes us, we have little 

 hesitation in regarding them as a small form of L. rubiginosus with 

 antennae darker than usual. 



Of the sanu^ shape, but smaller, with similar elongate antennae, 



