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entomological work ; and the greenhouse, where plants infested by 

 injurious insects are under continual observation, and the subject of 

 experimental treatment — are all available to the student, and in addi- 

 tion several private laboratory rooms and a photographing room and 

 outfit are provided. The large hothouses, grounds, gardens and 

 orchards of the college are also to be mentioned under this head, 

 providing as they do a wide range of subjects for the study of the 

 attacks of injurious insects, under natural conditions. 



OROCHARES ANGUSTATUS, Ee. : A GENU3 AND SPECIES NEW 

 TO THE BRITISH LIST. 



BY EEV. CANON W. W. FOWLER, M.A., F.L.S. 



I have received a specimen of this insect from Mr. Albert Piffard 

 of Felden, Boxmoor, Herts ; it was taken by him about twelve years 

 ago, in November, hibernating at the roots of rushes in a disused clay 

 pit which had belonged to a brick field at Bennett's End, Leverstock 

 Green, Herts. Mr. PifEard informs me that it was verified by Mr. 

 0. E. Janson, but was not recorded. 



The genus Orochares was founded by Kraatz (Naturgeschichte der 

 Ins. Deutschl., ii, 958) for the reception of this species, which is the 

 Deliphrum anqustatum of Erichson (Gen. et Spec. Staphyl., 874). 

 The genus is certainly very closely allied to Deliphrum, Er., from 

 which it differs in having one of the mandibles toothed in the centre, 

 and in the general shape of the head and thorax ; it also bears a close 

 afiinity to Arpedium, Er., in one or two points, but it has quite a 

 different facies. The following is a description of the insect: — 



Of rather slender build, black, shining, with the elytra fuscous or fusco- 

 testaceous ; head long, produced before the eyes, with two distinct and deep roundish 

 impressions between the eyes, and a transverse furrow in fi-ont of these ; antennse 

 long and slender, gradually but not strongly thickened towards apex, blunt, with 

 the base reddish-testaceous ; thorax not much broader than the head, but much 

 narrower than the elytra, about as broad as or a little broader than long, truncate 

 before and behind, with the sides slightly rounded and all the angles obtuse and 

 subrotundate, sparingly and very finely punctured ; scutcllum distinctly impressed ; 

 elytra more than double as long as thorax, somewhat depressed, rather thickly and 

 finely but distinctly punctured, the punctures being moi-e or less plainly arranged 

 in rows, at all events in certain parts, extreme apical margin light testaceous ; legs 

 testaceous or reddish-testaceous ; abdomen very shiny, smooth, and scarcely visibly 

 punctured, with the apex acuminate. Long., 85 mm. 



The species appears to be very rare, and has been recorded from 

 Germany and France ; it is said to be found on flowers in mountainous 



