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Cryptomorpha desjardiiisi, Ouer., in London. ^Ow the occasion of the annual 

 gatliering of (he Entomological Club at the Holborn Restaurant on January 19th, I 

 brought away with nie an interesting souvenir of the event in the shape of a specimen 

 of this almost cosmopolitan species of Cucujidx, which was found by Mr. Stanley 

 Edwards running over the supper-table, having probably come from the bananas 

 which formed part of the dessert. It has twice been recorded from this country in 

 recent years, and having regard to the extensive importation of foreign fruit, it is 

 strange that it is not oflener found here.— F. B. Jennings, 152, Silver Street, 

 Upper Edmonton, N. : March 8lh, 1909. 



Idloceri met loU/i in August and September, 1908. — Finding Coleoptera scarce 

 during (he months of August and September last, T devoted some attention to the 

 Romoptera, and in doing so I was especially attracted by the interesting, if some- 

 what difficult, genus Idiocerus. Of the twenty species which now figure on the 

 British list (three of which, however, rest on single specimens only, and a fourth, /. 

 tibialis, Fieb., has not been met with for very many years), I succeeded in taking 

 fourteen, and amongst these ai-e several species which appear to be of interest. 

 Records of Romoptera are not too frequent, so I give the list in full. 



I. scurra, Gevm. It is really astonishing that this, the finest of the British 

 species, should have so long eluded discovery. By Mr. E. A. Butler's kindness I 

 was able, early in September, to take a few specimens of it in the original locality at 

 Crouch End (Ent. Mo. Mag., Ser. 2, Vol. xviii, p. 245). I afterwards found the 

 species myself in some fresh localities, viz., Ealing, September 19th ; Lower Ed- 

 monton, September 20th ; Kew Grardeus, October 10th. Mr. Butler also met with 

 it at Highgate, and Mr. W. West in abundance at Blackheath, so that it is evidently 

 widely distributed in the metropolitan district. All my own captures, and I believe 

 those of Messrs. Butler and West, were from the Lombardy poplar only. 



/. adiistus, H.-S. Edmonton, on ISalix alba, and Cheshunt, Herts, on the same 

 tree, and also (on one occasion), on alders; common. 



I. varius, Q-erm. In some numbers on the marshes between Cheshunt and 

 Broxbourne, Herts, on a bushy Salix which I have not yet been able to get satis- 

 factorily determined. It appeared to be absolutely confined to this particular willow, 

 and not a single example came from the neighbouring trees of S. alba, neither were 

 any of /. adustus, which swarmed on the -S. alba, to be found on the bushy willow. 

 Mr. James Edwards only records this pretty and well-marked little species, in his 

 work on the '• Hemiptera-Homoptera of the British Islands," from a single locality, 

 namely, the vicinity of Norwich. Mr. West informs me that he took two <J $ in 

 July, 1907, at Great Yarmouth, in the same county. It is not, however, recorded 

 from Suffolk in Mr. Morley's list of the Hemiptera of that county, though it is 

 extremely likely that it will be found there. 



/. cognatus, Fieb. {distinguendus, Kbm.). On Populus alba at Edmonton and 

 Hanwell, Middlesex ; fairly common. 



J. tremulse, Estl. Five specimens beaten from aspen by the roadside between 

 Basingstoke and Bramley, Hants, September 12th. 



I. elegans, Flor. One example of this scarce insect from sallow at Hanwell, 

 September 19th ; I. laminatus, Flor, one from white poplar in the same locality. 



