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Micklt'li!iiii, tlie species is unreprescnled in his collection ;it. South Kensington. 

 Tliere are, however, two small specimens of a iJn/miis, latjclled " Micklciuitn," in 

 the collection, standing under D. pilicornis, Muls. 



Monanthia ciliata, Fieb. — Douglas and Scott (quoting Fieber), give, as food- 

 plants of Monanthia reticulata^ 11. -S. {ciliata^ Fieb.), Verbascutn and Senecio 

 jacobcBCB. Puton, however (Hem. llet. de France, I, page 113) says: "en inai dans 

 les fleurs de I'Ajuga reptans." My own observations would confirm the latter 

 statement, as on August 5th, 1900, at Box Hill, I discovered a rather large colony 

 of it in a place where a few plants of .IjM^a »e/7<a/is (common bugle) were growing 

 amongst wood-sage and ground-ivy. A few were actually on the Ajuga, but the 

 uiajority were amongst thick moss at the roots of the various plants; one of the 

 ground-ivy plants appeared to me to have also been attacked by the Monanthia. 

 This colony has since, from some cause, unfortunately disappeared. 



Calocoris chenopodii. Fall. — An individual of this Capsid, which was placed in 

 a box with a specimen of the Homopteron, Eoacanthus interruptus, during a visit to 

 Eox Hill hi August, 1900, was found on arrival home with its rostrum fixed in the 

 body of the latter, which it sucked completely dry. I watched it for some time 

 and saw it withdraw the rostrum and " try " other parts of the Homopteron in a 

 manner highly suggestive of its being used to the business. This observation is, I 

 think, of some interest in connection with that of Mr. J. W. Douglas, who in this 

 ftlagazine for 1895, p. 238, recorded having found Capxus laniarius feeding on 

 Aphides in his garden at Lewisham. The members of this family had been 

 previously supposed to feed exclusively on vegetable juices. 



Fseudoph/oeus Fallenii, Schill. — A 9 of P- Fallenii, boxed at Deal on August 

 ISth, 1900, laid ten eggs in the box ; these were oblong in shape, whitish, semi- 

 transparent, about 1 mm. long, and (under a pocket lens) smooth. 



Teratological specimens. — Amongst several abnormal specimens I have come 

 across I may mention one of Zicrona cuerulea, which has the left posterior leg 

 much shortened, each joint, however, being relatively of the same length in pro- 

 portion to the others, as though the leg were of the normal length ; also one of 

 Onathoconus albomarginatus, in which one of the legs is in the larval condition, the 

 insect being otherwise mature. — F. li. Jennings, 152, Silver Street, Upper 

 EdiQonton, N. : January 2%th, 1903. 



Notes on CLunio marinus, Halid. — In the Ent. Mo. Mag. for 1894, pp. 129 and 

 164, are notices of this very interesting marine Chironomid by Mr. G.H. Carpenter, 

 who met with it in April of that year on the shore of Killiney Eay, Co. Dublin. He 

 describes the female and larva, which had been previously unknown, and mentions 

 the former occurrences of this species in Ireland and England as far as then known, 

 and adds, " it would be interesting to ascertain its range around our shores." Only 

 one certain occurrence in England is mentioned. " It was observed skimming over 

 the surface of rock pools at Hastings, in April, 1872, by Mr. C. W. Dale," as recorded 

 in Vol. XX, p. 214, of this Magazine. I can now add an earlier notice than this, since 

 it is given ill Mrs. Merrifield's Natural History of Brighton as occurring on the 

 coast in the Brighton district. This was certainly previous to 1859, the date of 

 Mrs. Merrifield's book, and was doubtless on the authority of Mr. Unwin, of Lewes, 

 who took much interest in the Diptera, and furnished most of the lists of insects. I 



