1903.] X43 



[That the larva had spim up between Oleander leaves must not, I think, be 

 taken as proof that it ImdJ'cd upon this plant. The pupa looks quite like that of 

 our own 2'. Fodana or T. ribeaiia, thrust out of the web in the same manner, and 

 split down the back. The moth is of about the size of T. ribeana, and somewhat 

 resembles it.] 



Adela natalensis, ZteW. — " One evening I went across the river to the garden 

 on the other side. Going along a winding path by the river just as the sun was 

 setting, 1 emerged into an opening, where was a stretch of long grass with a 

 fringe oi Mimosa trees, and there were clouds of these tiny ' longhorns ' Hying for 

 a few minutes just over this grassy patch. I got three or four at a time in the net. 

 Their flying was most curious — in curves with a drop — as though their long horns 

 were too heavy for them." 



[This pretty little species has fore-wings dull silky purple, with a narrow, 

 transverse, straight yellow band across the middle. The antenna) are very long, and 

 nearly white.] 



Psecadia livida, Zell. — " I noticed a web in a low bush, after rain, and unck'r its 

 shelter, several little larva;. They were very nimble, but I secured some of them, 

 and they fed well. The web in which they live is in the centre of the food-plant, 

 and they drop readily if disturbed. The first moths are now (November) coming 

 out, while there are still larva; feeding. A ground spider had made his hole and 

 web just beneath them, but I think 1 robbed him of his intended prey." 



[This is a neat little moth, about an inch in expanse, the fore-wings narrow, 

 silky yellowish-white, with six black dots ; the hind-wings silky-white ; the abdomen 

 yellow.] 



Psecadia ocuVigera, Mschl. — " This larva was so like that of V. livida that I 

 nearly put it with them. Both species were feeding on the same species of tree, 

 but not on the same bushes. It is the same plant as that from which 1 reared those 

 Smerinthiis Grayi for you." 



[This is a much more beautiful species, of about the same size, the fore-wings 

 narrow, slate-grey, with a dozen or more black dots, those in the mitldle area ringed 

 with white ; the hind-wings bright yellow with a black tip.] 



HYDROPORUS BILINEATUS, Sturm, AN ADDITION TO THE 

 BKITISII LIST. 



BY A. J. CHITTY, F.K.S. 



Mr. E. A. Wiiterhouse has kiudly given mo au opportunity of 

 adding a species of Rydroporus to the list of British beetles, and of 

 correcting an erroneous record of the capture of K. granulans, L., at 

 iSaudwich in 1891.* The beetle in question is R. bilineatus, Sturm, 

 which occurred on the 29th— 31st March, 1891, in the ditches behind 

 the sandhills at Deal, on the road to Sandwich. As Mr. Waterhouse 



* Ent. Mo. Mag., xxvii, p. 332. 



