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Captures of Uemiptera at Wokltirf, ^'c. — Ceraleptus lividus, Stein : a specimen 

 of this rare British insect was picked up in the road here on May 25th by Mr. J. 

 J. Walker. Corizus maculatus, Fieb. : this species lias been confused with C.parum- 

 puDctatus, Schill., in my collection for some years ; I have taken it twice at 

 Woking, as well as at Fleet, Hants, and in the New Forest, all the specimens being 

 of a bright rufo-testaceous colour, with a row of conspicuous black spots along the 

 sides of the connesivum. Scolopostethus puberulus, Horv., and Monanthia ciliata, 

 Fieb., Bios worth, Dorset, in June. Eysarcoris melanocephalus, Fabr., Loxops 

 coccineus, Mey., and Slronc/j/locoris leucocephalus, Linn., Q-omshall, Surrey. — Id. : 

 October lOtk, 1899. 



Acanthosoma tristriatuni, i!>(c., at Tring. — During a short visit to Tring at the 

 beginning of September I found Acanthosoma tristriatum, Linn., not uncommon on 

 young junipers on the chalk hills at some little distance from the town ; the locality 

 has apparently not before been published for this beautiful species, the delicate pink 

 and green colours of which unfortunately disappear to a great extent when the 

 specimens are dry. On the same occasion A. hcemorrhoidale was beaten in some 

 numbers out of hawthorns, while a couple of specimens of Corimelcena scarahceoides 

 turned up in moss on hedge banks where scattered plants of Viola were growing. 

 A single Zicrona caerulea occurred under a juniper bush, one Podops inunctus at 

 roots of Helianthemum vuJgare on a hillside, and one Pentatoma prasina and nume- 

 rous Pantilius tunicatus by beating hazels in the hedges. Coleoptera as a whole 

 were decidedly scarce ; Cassida hemisphcBrica (2) being the best thing in that Order. 

 — F. B. Jennings, 152, Silver Street, Upper Edmonton, N. : October, 1899. 



Podops inutictns, Fabr., in the Lea Valley. — I swept a specimen of this species 

 in a field bordering the Lea, about five miles from here, ou June 11th. I have taken 

 Podops in chalk districts and also on sand hills on the coast, but was not aware that 

 it also frequented marshy situations. — Id. 



Odonestis potatoria with malformed tarsi. — Mr. J. R. Malloch has sent up for 

 inspection a very curious instance of malformation in a male Odonestis potatoria, 

 reared by Mr. J. E. Murphy, of Glasgow, from a larva found at Suss, Loch 

 Lomond. In it the left leg of tiie front pair is branched below the knee, so 

 that it has two tarsi, each with its hooked claw, one a little shorter and less clothed 

 than the other, indeed, neither has the full clothing of scales which, in tliis species* 

 usually gives the foot so abrupt a termination. The moth is otherwise perfect, and 

 the interesting question, whether the possession of this extra foot would give the 

 creature any advantage in the " struggle of life," is one which apparently will not 

 now be solved. — Chas. Gr. Baeeett, Nunhead : September, 1899. 



Liiffia lapide/la, Goeze C= lapidicella, Z.J, at Stonehenge, Wiltshire. — On the 

 18th inst., I bicycled over with some friends to see Stonehenge, and was pleased to 

 find on some of the large stone pillars, that were covered with a minute grey powdery 

 lichen, plenty of cases — empty, of course — of Luffia lapidella, which has just been 

 added to the British List by Mr. J. W. Tutt, in Ent. Record, xi, 207-8 (1899), on 



