1912.! Ill 



TlNGITID^. 



Piesma capitata, Wolfff .- Cai-marthen. Serenthia lieta. Fall.* : Pendine. 

 Acalypta parvula, Fall. : in moss on Pendine sandhills. Dictyonota tricornis, 

 Schr. : Carmai-then. D.strichnocera,Fieh.: on furze, Carmarthen. Derephysia 

 foliacea. Fall. : Carmarthen ; one specimen is miich smaller than nsm\l, and has 

 the hairs of the antennte and thoracic keels miich shorter, and the second 

 row of meshes of the raised sides of the elytra is almost iinrepresented on one 

 side, and reduced in size on the other. Monanthia cardui, L : Carmarthen ; not 

 common. 



CtERBIDID^. 



Hydrometra stagnorum, L. : Carmarthen, March and Auj^nst. Telia currens, 

 F. : common on rimning water. During the two summers in which I was at 

 Carmarthen, I found a large nixmber of the winged forms in August at Pond- 

 side. The peciiliar conditions of this piece of water may perhaps have some 

 influence in bringing about this abnormally large percentage of developed 

 specimens. Gerris najas, De G. -. exceedingly abiindant at Pondside, Carmarthen. 



G. lacustris, L. : common. 



Eeduviid^. 



Coranus subapterus,De G.f: Ferryside and Pendine. Nahis lativentris, Boh., 



N. major, C\xrt., N. flavomarginatus, Scholtz,* N. limhatus, Dahlb. : all common. 



N. lineatus, Dahlb. : on a boggy heath, near Sarnan. N. ferus, L. : abundant 



under Ononis at Pendine sandhills. N. rugosus, L. : common. N. ericetorum, 



Scholtz : on heathy ground at Sarnan. 



(To he continued). 



COERECTION OF IMPOSSIBLE NAMES. 

 BY EDWARD MEYEICK, B.A., F.E.S. 



I am glad to see that Lord Walsingliam approves of my correc- 

 tions in general, but should like to add a few words on the two points 

 to which he takes exception. 



(1) If my friend and esteemed correspondent, Mr. A. Busck, 

 testifying on his own behalf, can affirm that he intended to call one 

 of his species " frog " and another " banana " (never having used 

 substantival names of this sort in any other instance), and a third 

 " white," when it was really dark fuscous, I should of course accept 

 his statements, but coming from any other source I can only regard 

 these explanations as highly improbable conjectures, and of no value as 

 evidence. When, therefore, on such scanty grounds Lord Walsingham 

 pronounces Mr. Busck " certainly not guilty," the verdict would seem 

 to be due to an amiable prejudice on his part ; but Mr. Kearfott 

 would have had just cause of complaint against me, if I had not 

 measiu-ed his work and Mr. Busck's by the same rule. I am con- 

 strained to point out that Mr. Busck's names fit into Mr. Kearfott's 

 series, and even seem to be the original source of contagion. 



