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bright grass green, and the mark was most conspicuous as soon as the insect 

 was seen at all. In many specimens there was a good deal of green about the 

 femora, &c., although in others these parts were brown. It is indeed in the 

 living insect far more distinct from P. brachyptera than the descriptions would 

 indicate. I understand that the insect, although hitherto so very rare in 

 Britain, has this year been taken in several localities on our south-east coast, 

 but never in any other nearly so far north as Trusthorpe. The only other 

 Orthoptera noticed, apart from Forficula auricularia, were Stenohothrus elegans, 

 which abounded on the sandhills wherever I went, and S. hicolor which was 

 com^jaratively rare. The only Odonata seen were Sympetruyn striolatum, which 

 was plentiful when a gleam of sunshine would allow it to fly, and Ischnura 

 elegans. Of Neuroptera only Panorpa communis occvirred, and notwithstanding 

 the large quantity of water, but few species of Trichoptera were observed. One 

 interesting species turned up in Grammotaulms 7iitidus, an insect I have only 

 seen in our eastern or south-eastern counties, but the others were such ordinary 

 species as Limnophilus affinis, abundant ; L. jlavicornis and Glyphotselius pellu- 

 cidus, common ; Stenophylax permistus and Colpotaulius incisus. The weather 

 was not siifficiently tempting to encourage work for Lepidoptera. I sugared on 

 three evenings, posts close to the sandhills, but very few moths came, and no 

 specially sandhill species. Agrotis saucia, not uncommon, was as good as any- 

 thing seen ; the only two Agrotis nigrica7is were of the almost black Lancashire 

 coast form ; and the fine Gonoptera lihatrix were, I think, darker than any I 

 have taken in other localities. Belated Nonagria elymi were still to be foiand 

 sitting on the sandhill grasses. Of larvae, Arctia fuliginosa was plentiful, and 

 there were still a considerable number of Euchelia jacobsese on the ragwort, 

 Bombyx rubi, Odonestis potatoria, Hadena pisi, &c. — ^Geo. T. Porritt, Elm Lea, 

 Dalton, Huddersfield : November 2nd, 1912. 



Norellia spinigera, Ztt., in Perthshire.— In his paper on the Bi'itish species 

 of the genus Norellia (Ent. Mo. Mag., 1900, p. 199), Colonel Yerbiu-y refers to 

 spinigera, Ztt., as requiring confirmation as a British insect; it being repre- 

 sented in the late Mr. Verrall's collection by a single S from the Wilson 

 Saunders collection, presumably withoiit data. I have seen no notice of the 

 capture of the species in the intervening twelve years, so it may be of interest 

 to record its oecurrence in this district. I have a g and ? taken June 27th, 

 1908, and a $ on June 25th of this year. The ? ? agree Avith Zetterstedt's 

 description, but they have the wings very distinctly darkened on the front 

 margin towards the apex ; this is only faintly shown in the g . At first I 

 thought this discrepancy of importance, as the dark cloud on the wing is given 

 by Zetterstedt, Becker, and others, as a character of the closely allied liturata, 

 Mg. Becker, however (Berl. Ent. Zeitschr. xxxix, p. 128 [1894]), apparently 

 places little value on the character. 



My specimens have the abdomen shining black with very fine white hairs 

 on all the disc and sides. The frons is wider than in liturata (which I also 

 possess from this district) ; and the dorso-central bristles are fewer in number : 

 liturata has four distinct pairs of these bristles ; spinigera has but three pairs, 

 thei-e being only one pair in front of the suture. — A. E. J. Carter, Blairgowrie, 

 Perthshire : October 5th, 1912. 



