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Apion marcJucum and Sitones camhricus and waterhousei. The driest and most 

 exposed parts of tlie cliffs yielded Apion sedi (in some numbers on Seduin album), 

 A. Ixvlcnlle, and Ceuthorrhy nchidlus datosoni. Sweeping Polygonum in damp places 

 produced Phytohius comari and loaltoni. StUicus orbiculatus, Clambus miimtus, 

 Antherophagus sllaceu-i, Chrysomela variaiis, Phyllotrela sinuata, Psylliodes cuprea, 

 Apion sanguinenm, Orohitis cyaneus, and Ceuthorrht/nchidius terminatus occurred 

 singly by sweeping, and Staphylinus stercorarius in dung. Platynaspis luteorubra 

 was common in one furze hedge, and Cionus scrophalarix on its usual food-plant. 

 PsylUodes na p i a,ndi chalcomera, Sypera polygoni, Apion hookeri, Sibinia primita, 

 and Nanophyen lythri turned up pretty frequently in the sweeping-net. At Bos- 

 castle I Look several specimens of the dark var. of Galeracella lineola on alder. — 

 E. A. Butler, 56, Cecile Park, Crouch End : December 31si, 1908. 



Variety of Phyllotreta nemortim. — -Looking over some specimens of Phyllotreta 

 lately, which were collected near Bangor, North Wales, in 1907, I found one example 

 of P. nemorum, L., with the tibiaj entirely black, excepting the extreme base and 

 apex, which are very slightly lighter ; the second joint, of the antenna, too, is black, 

 with the base reddish-fuscous, and the third joint is entirely of that colour. Such 

 a variation shows that it would not always be quite safe to rely upon the colour of 

 the tibite in separating the species from P. undulata. This form of P. nemorum is 

 evidently the var. a of Weise (Ins. Deutschl., vi, p. 875).— E. Geo. Elliman, 

 Chesham : January 12th, 1909. 



Limnophilus jwlitus, McLach., at Wakefield. — Each season, Mr. B. .Morley, of 

 Skelmanthorpe, near here, when out collecting Lepidoptera, kindly picks up for 

 me specimens of such species of Neiiroptera and Trichoptera he meets with as 

 seem unfamiliar to him ; and among those he brought me during the past autumn 

 I was interested to find three examples of Limnophilut j)olitus. In reply to my 

 enquiry, he writes me that he found the species commonly on September 17th last, 

 on herbage growing between the canal and the reservoir near Haw Park, Wakefield. 

 He says, " they were mostly in pairs, but jumped off the plants into the bottom of 

 the herbage on the slightest disturbance." The species has usually been regarded 

 as a local fen insect, but I had one previous Yorkshire example given to me many 

 years ago by the late Mr. John Harrison, of Barnsley, but of which he did not 

 know the precise locality. — Geo. T. Porritt, Elm Lea, Dalton, Huddeisficld : 

 January 4th, 1909. 



Eccoptomera micropx, Mg., in Herefordshire. — This species occurred to me in 

 a mole's nest, at Stoke Edith Park, near West Malvern, on New Year's Day. I am 

 indebted to Dr. Wood for the name. — J. R. le B. Tomlin, Reading: January 

 \2th, 1909. 



Diptera in Dumbartonshire in 1908. — The year 1908 proved a very good one 

 for Diptera in this district, and the species taken added very considerably to the 

 local list. A complete list of the species taken that are not in the Clyde list would 

 be too lar^e for the amount of space available, but it may be of interest to Dipterists 



