mediately aftei- mating tlic first time, and although watched for several weeks after 

 the others liad died, no sign of ovipositing was noticed. The branch of green oak 

 was preferred in depositing the eggs, and none were placed on the stick from the 

 shop. Ovipositing occurred about once in half an liour, and lasted but one day. 

 One week after ovipositing young larvae were found." — Eds. 



Oonioctena litiira — red variety. — ^The Rev. Canon Fowler, in a note on Cole- 

 optera taken by liim at Charmouth {ante p. SOi), mentions this insect, of which he 

 had not seen a record. On two occasions I have taken this red variety, once at 

 Weybridge when collecting with the lute Dr. Power, and once at Higham in Suffolk. 

 In the last named locality the insect was in the greatest abundance, of course on 

 broom, and quite half the specimens I took were bright scarlet, but a few days after 

 death the colour faded away, leaving no trace of redness. — Arthitb Cottam, Elder- 

 croft, Watford : October Zlst, 1891. 



Cneorhintts ludificator and C. geminatus.- — [Mr. Albert C. F. Morgan, of Villa 

 Nova da Gaya, Portugal, writes in a letter to me as follows. — J. W. Dottglas]. 



" Cneorhirms ludijicator has appeared here this year in great abundance on the 

 vines, and, curiously enough, Ciieorhimis (^eminatus has occurred for the first time in 

 large numbers on the vines in France. Singular, it seems to me, that two different 

 species, each in its own geographical habitat, should have appeared simultaneously 

 in great quantities this year." 



[C. ludijicator, Gyll., appears to be regarded as a variety of C. Jilspanus. — 

 W. W. F.] 



Icerya Furchasi at St. Helena. — Mr. D. Morris, Assistant Director of the Royal 

 Gardens, Kew, has sent for identification specimens of a Coccid, supposed by him to 

 be Icerya Purchasi, just received from St. Helena. They were found there on some 

 rose bushes which had been imported from the Cape of Good Hope. There is not 

 the least doubt that the specimens received are females of Icerya Purchasi ; and if 

 the brood of which they are samples be not extirpated at once by burning all the 

 plants on which they exist, so as to destroy all eggs and young larvae, they would 

 form the beginning of a pest that would be intensely serious in such a small island. 

 The probability is that they were introduced as eggs or larvae and so escaped obser- 

 vation.— J. W. Douglas, 153, Lewisham Road, S.E. : November I2lh, 1891. 



Birmingham Entomological Society: Oct. Vdlh, 1891.— Mr. R. C. Bradley 

 in the Chair. 



Kcv. C. F. Thornewill showed a number of insects taken on Cannock Chase this 

 year, including a melanic variety of Cymatophora duplaris, also a collection made 

 in Bucks this year, including Cleora lichenaria, Boarmia roboraria, Arenliajlexula, 



