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Opomyza lineatopunctata, v. Ros., at Crowborough. — In previous years I have 

 taken a few odd specimens of this neat little insect, but I conld never discover 

 how to get more. Last summer I was more successful. On seven evenings 

 between Jiily 20th and Augiist 9th I secured fifty specimens. All were taken 

 after 7 o'clock by sweeping among a grass which Mr. C. E. Moss, Ciu-ator of the 

 Herbariimi at Cambridge, determined from a poor specimen as Molinia cserulea 

 (probably) var. major. Pipunculus maculatus occurred at the same time, and a 

 few specimens of Scellus notatus. There is no reason to suppose that they might 

 not have been caught even later than 7.4.5, bvit it then became too dark to see 

 them. Their appearance and movements in the net are very jiecviliar. They 

 crawl up very deliberately after most other insects have run or flown away. In 

 this respect they are qiiite unlike 0. germinationis and 0. floruni, whic'i are at 

 least moderately active. The outline, when the wings are folded, is very narrow, 

 and there is a certain darkening about the thorax and the tips of the wings, 

 which gives the insect (in the dim light) rather the appearance of an attenuated 

 dumb-bell. I should add that most of my specimens proved to be females ; so 

 that it would be advisable to look ovit for the insect somewhat earlier in the 

 season. — F. Jenkinson : January I7th, 1913. 



Hasmatopota italica, Mg., in Cornwall. — As little is known regarding the 

 distribution of H. italica in the British Isles, its occurrence in Cornwall appears 

 worthy of notice, more particularly as these captures extend the range of the 

 species far to the westward of all previous records. Two female specimens 

 were taken in Sheviock Wood close down to the tidal waters of the River 

 Lynher, on September 4th and 9th, of this year ; the only other Hsematopota 

 met with this year near Sheviock was a single female of H. pluvialis caught on 

 September 13th, on the shoulder of a cart-horse drawing a load of road metal 

 along the road between Crafthole and St. Germans. — J. W. Yekburt, Army 

 and Navy Club, Pall Mall : February 13th, 1913. 



" PsYLLiDARUM Catalogus," by Dr. G. AuLMANN : pp. 92. Berlin : 

 W. Junk. 1913. 



Dr. Aulmann's Catalogue of the Psyllidse ( ^= Psyllina, Edwards, and 

 Chermidse, Kirkaldy), an obscure and little studied section of the Hemiptera- 

 Homoptera, will be welcomed by all Entomologists interested in the family. 

 The food-plants, &c., moreover, are given, as was done in Kirkaldy's Catalogue 

 of the Cimicinaj (1909), this information greatly increasing the value of such 

 lists. For the whole world 478 species of Psyllidse (137 of which belong to 

 Psylla and 120 to Trioza) are enumerated, under six sub-families, four of which 

 are represented in Britain. The known forms are nearly all from the Palsearctic 

 or Nearctic regions, and it is evident that a great deal remains to be done 

 amongst the tropical Psyllids. To jiidge from the long list of references under 

 some of the common European forms, such as Livia juncorum, Latr., there is an 

 extensive literature on some of thefn. Oshanin (1912) gives 250 species as 

 Palsearctic and Edwards (1896) 50 as British. 



