236 [October, 



little expected as it was in this neighbourhood.— W. R. Jeffrey, Ashford : 

 September llth, IOCS. 



[JIf. cribrella is now known to occur in many inland localities. Barrett gives 

 eleven counties for its distribution in Britain, sis of which are inland. — G. T. P.] 



Lophosia fasciata, Mg., in the New Forest. — On July 25th I again took in my 

 garden at Lyndhurst a specimen of this rare Dipleron, whicli I have not seen since 

 taking tlie three examples recorded in vol. xxxvii, page 212, of this Magazine. — 

 F. C. Adams, 50, Ashley Gardens, S.W. : September, 19U5. 



Abundance of Lociista viridissima, tfv., at Deal. — During the last fortnight in 

 August this year I noticed a great abundance of the fine grasshopper, Locusta viridis- 

 sima at Deal. On the rank vegetation growing on both sides of the well known broad 

 ditch on the sandhills, nearly opposite the coastguard station, it was especially 

 plentiful, and alinost every night probably a hundred specimens might easily have 

 been picked off the thistles and other vegetation. In the day-time they were much 

 more difficult to see, as they usually dropped to the bottom of the thick hei'bage on 

 the least alarm, but with the aid of a lamp at night could be picked off without 

 any trouble. Near the ditch, too, the local Xi2}hidium dorsale occurred, and on the 

 drier parts of the sandhills Stenohothrus elegans was plentiful. 



In Folkestone Warren Stenobothrus lineatu^ and Gomphocerus rufipes were 

 taken, but were not observed elsewhere. In the Warren, too, Platycleis grisea was 

 fairly common, but I saw nothing of Thamnotrizon cinerea, which in 1888 I found 

 of frequent occurrence there. Tlie various common species of Stenobothrus were as 

 usual abundant all over the district. — Geo. T. Porritt, Edgerton, Huddersfield : 

 September '7th, 1905. 



Note on the Heteropterous genus Euloba, Westioood. — ^The genus Euloba, 

 Westwood, type M. pallida, Westw. (Thesaurus Entomologicus Oxoniensis, p. 191, 

 t. 3G, figg. 4, Aa, b (187'1)] = PhyUotingis, Walker, type P. arida, Walk. [Cat. 

 Hemipt.-Heteropt. vii, p. 3 (1873)], was omitted from Scudder's " Nomenclator," 

 and in the " Index Zoologicus," published by the Zoological Society of London 

 (1902), it was incorrectly ascribed to Uhler, on the authority of Bergroth. 

 Lethierry and Severin, too, omitted the reference to Westwood in their Catalogue 

 (1896), also ascribing it to Uhler, who simply used the name Euloba pallida in his 

 contribution to Kingsley's " Standard Natural History." The same mistake was 

 made by myself in the " Biologia Centrali-Americana," Rhynchota, ii, p. 68 (1898), 

 following Lethierry and Severin. As the name Euloba must be dropped as a 

 synonym of PhyUotingis (the descriptions of Walker and Westwood having been 

 made from the same insect from Ega in the British Museum), and the species itself 

 having been previously named by Haglund, it is perhaps hardly necessary to call 

 attention to the matter. I only note it to show how easily a generic description 

 may be overlooked, even when accompanied by excellent figures, and published in a 

 well known work. — G. C. Champion, Horsell, Woking : September lUh, 1905. 



