1901.] 255 



Length of body, 10 ; wing, J 9, ? 10 ; sctee, S i™- 12—13, subiin. T'S, ? ira.. 

 10, siibini. 8 mm. 



Hub. : Aal, 85 ex. 



Figs, of details, all enlarged :— 2, wings of <? ; legs (1, fore leg ; 2, middle leg ; 

 3, hind leg) with detached portions on a more enlarged scale ; a, S genitalia (parte 

 omitted) from beneath, with penis (on a rather larger scale) detaclied. 



Rhithrogena sp. (undetermined) — Aal, 1 ? im. 



Heptagenia siilphurea, Miill. — Gjulsjilen, '1 ex. ; Aal, 2 ex. 

 Ecdyurus sp. (undetermined) — Aal, 1 ? subim. 



Tiie absence of Ephemerella and CoitroptUum from this collection is noteworthy ; 

 species of both occur in Norway. 



Woodlands, Seaton, Devon : 

 1901. 



MELANDRYA BARB ATA, Fabr., IN THE NEW FOREST. 

 EY G. C. CHAMPION, F.Z.S. 



Mr. Vj. C. Bechvell lias recently sent me for examination a speci- 

 men of this insect, captured by himself at Brockenhurst in June 

 last, on an oak trunk, in the evening, when almost dark. This is the 

 31. canaliculata, Fabr., of our older British Catalogues, having been 

 introduced by Curtis somewhat doubtfully under that name, on the 

 authority of an example captured on the wing by Mr. Bentley at 

 Brockenhurst in June, 1823. The species is so rarely found in the 

 New Forest that few British entomologists have had an opportunity 

 of seeing it. Three other specimens found during recent years have, 

 however, at various times come under my notice, all found by Mr. 

 Gulliver, and these are now contained in the collections of Messrs. 

 P. B. Mason or F. Bates; and I possess a very old example of. it, 

 supposed to be of British origin. The differences between the two 

 species, M. harhata, Fabr. {^flavicornis, Dufts., and nifipes, Gucr.), 

 and M. duhia, Schall. {^= canaliculata, Fabr.), are clearly and con- 

 cisely given by Dr. Seidlitz (Naturg. Ins. Deutschl, Col., v. 2, pp. 

 628, 630), as follows:— 



M. BARBATA. 



Nigra, antennis pedibusque plcrumrpie Jiavis, protliorace antror- 

 sum rotundato-angustato, leviter canaliculato, hasi utrinqxie impresso, 

 clytris postice hand dilatatis,antice linud depressis,fortUer canaliculatis, 

 interstitiis 5, latis, coiiveocis, cequalihus. Long.., 9 — 10 imn. 



M. DUBIA (canaliculata). 



Nigra, prothorace laterihiis suhrectis, canaliculato, hasi utrinque 



