250 (September, 



I have been constantly afraid of passing it over, but the different style of flight of 

 the specimen I have just caught told me at once that I had got something unusual, 

 and distinct from an Halictus. I hope more specimens may be found before the 1st 

 of August, 1901. — Edwaed Saundees, St. Ann's, Woking : August \Mh, 1891. 



Various Captures in June and July. — Although the season has not been 

 altogether favourable, still I have met with a few rarities, the best being a couple of 

 Scyhalicus ohlongiusculus at Lulworth, and three of Platymetopius undatus at Hook 

 (fresh localities for both species) ; I have also taken Allantus hcematopus, Calohata 

 ephippium, and Platycheirus immarginatus at Abbottsbury, Beris Morrisii at Hook, 

 !EupcBcilia pallidana, Pelecocera tricincta, and Cryptocephalus lineola at Bourne- 

 mouth, Cramhus selasellus, Butalis siccella, Leucopis puncticornis, Harpalus 

 melancholious, and H. vernalis on the Chesil Beach, Nephrotoma coxalis, Tipula 

 vittata, and Pompilus hyalinatus, var. black abdomen with red band, at Glanvillcs 

 Wootton.— C. W. Dale, Glanvilles "Wootton : August I2th, 1891. 



Microdon mutabilis, Lin. — Mr. Bignell, in recording the capture of this species 

 in Ent. Mo. Mag. for August, writes — " Mr. Vorrall had placed it in his list in italics 

 as much as to say it was a doubtful British species." Now it was figured as a British 

 species by Curtis in his British Entomology as long ago as 1825 ; in it he says — " I 

 had the pleasure of seeing Mr. Dale beat one out of an oak in the beginning of June 

 near Lyndhurst, and ho informs me that he has taken three off grass and birch 

 on the borders of Dorsetshire." I have taken it myself at Glanvilles Wootton in 

 1869 and 1889. Now Mr. Verrall inserts both mutabilis and devius, L., in italics. 

 Our species is most probably devius and not mutabilis. — Id. 



FURTHEB COCCID NOTES : WITH DeSCEIPTIONS OF NeW SpECIES FROM NeW 



Zealand, Austealia, and Fiji ; by W. M. Maskell, F.R.M.S. ; pp. 1—36, 

 7 plates, 8vo. Wellington, N. Z. (Extract from the Transactions of the New 

 Zealand Institute, 1890.) 



Attention is being more and more directed to the Coccidm, which, as regards 

 form, metamorphosis, and economy, are among the most wonderful of insects, and 

 besides the interest they, for these reasons, have for entomologists, the vast injuries 

 they often cause to plants and fruits are compelling cultivators all the world over to 

 study them, if only for the purpose of discovering the best means of destroying 

 them. In the present paper, which is supplementary to his former excellent works, 

 Mr. Maskell describes and characteristically figures many new species of the extra- 

 ordinary genera peculiar to the Southern Hemisphere, and gives general and special 

 critical remarks on Coccidce, which are of great value to students, as, for instance, 

 where he says, with regard to the anomalous Coelostoma assimile, " Whatever be the 

 rule amongst other orders and families of insects, Coccids present this difiiculty to 

 students, that one must be prepared at any time to find very distinct departures 

 from generic, or even group, types, and to consider any character whatsover as 

 elastic and variable." 



