1 o [January, 



able interest : CorimelcBJta scaralxeoides, not uncommon in early spring in a heap 

 of flint stones ; I'odops inunctus ; Sehirus bicolor &\\A. S. morio ; Gnathoncus albo- 

 inarginattis ; Pentatoma viridissimum ; Straehia oleracea, a red variety which at 

 first sight resembled S. /estiva ; Podisus luridus, rare, by heating hedges ; Acan- 

 thosoma inter sthwtum ; Syromastes marginatus ; Verlusia rhombea ; Basycoris 

 hirticornis ; Corizus pantmpttnctatus, very common by sweeping in one or two 

 spots; Berytus minor; Peritrechus luniger and P. nubilus ; Dry mux brunneus ; 

 Gastrodes ferruginetis ; Eeduvins personatu.i, of this rare species I have taken three 

 specimens, one on my doorstep, and the other two flying to light ; Nabis lativentris 

 and N. ericetorum ; Temnostethus pusHlus ; Miris calcaratus ; Phytocoris tilicB 

 and P. ulmi ; Calocoris bipustulatus and C. roseomaculatus ; Lygus Kalmii and L. 

 pratensis ; Camptobrochis lutescens ; Liocoris tripustulatus ; Rhopalotomus ater ; 

 Pilophorus perplexus ; Dicyphus globulifer ; Heterocordylus tibialis; Harpocera 

 thoracica; lleterotoma merioptera ; and some others not determined. 



Coleoptera seem somewhat scarce in the neighbourhood ; the following are 

 perhaps worth mentioning : — Harpalus azureus ; Homaloplia ruricola, one speci- 

 men on a road ; Paris picicornis, fairly common on Reseda lutea ; Rhynchites 

 sericeus, a few by beating hedges, in company with large numbers of .8. cequatus ; 

 Phyllotretaatra ; Thy amis gracilis ; Chrysomela hyper ici ; Cryptocephalus morai ; 

 Apion ebeninum, marchictim, varipes, and iSpencei ; Hypera murina ; Polydrusus 

 micans ; Palaninus turbaius ; Strophosomus faber (in some numbers on the outside 

 of the window panes of my house) ; Micrurala melanocephala, in numbers on black- 

 thorn bloom ; Nitidula rnjipes (in old boxes) ; CisteJa luperus ; an immaculate form 

 of SubcoccineJla 24-punctata {Lasia globosa) is found rarely ; Lampyris noctiluca 

 is fairly common, the male flying to light ; I have seen the female displaying her 

 light as late as November.— W. W. Fowler, Kotherfield Peppard Rectory : 

 October \Zth, 1902. 



A melanicform of Miris virens, Linn. — Since the publication of my note on the 

 dark aberration of Miris Icevigatus captured by me in Kent (E. M. M., 1902, p. 224), 

 I have been interested to hear from Mons. H. 8chouteden,of Brussels, that a similar 

 form of M. virens Linn, (a species closely allied to Icevigatus, but not yet known as 

 British), was discovered some years ago in Holland, and was desci-ibed by M. Fokker 

 in the Dutch " Tijdschrift voor Entomologic " (xxviii, p. 5i) as " var. nigrofusca, 

 entirely browii-black." Only a single specimen was known to M. Fokker, which he 

 captured at Leyden, but M. Schouteden has also taken a specimen at Tervueren, 

 Belgium, as mentioned in some notes on Belgian Reteroptera published by him in 

 the " Annales de la Soc. Ent. de Belgique " for 1900, of which he has kindly sent 

 me a copy. Two other interesting records contained in these " notes " are those of 

 the occurrence of Phytocoris Reuteri, Saund., at Brussels and Boendael, and of 

 Gastrodes abielis, L., on walnut {Juglans) at Marbesle ChAteau. Both G. abietis and 

 ferrugineus have hitherto only been known here as attached to Conifers, and they 

 arc only so recorded by Puton in his " Hem. Het. de France." — F. B. Jennings, 

 152, Silver Street, Upper Edmonton, N. : November 4th, 1902. 



Coleoptera taken near Chesham and Tring. — During the past twelve months 

 I have been fortunate enough to secure two examples of Apion annulipes, Wenck., 



