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it is certainly the same as my own, bnt unfortunately no such species as 

 ornata, Steph., is mentioned in any British or foreign list that I possess, nor 

 can I trace it as a synonym. I shall therefore be much obliged if any of 

 your readers can inform me what species Stephens' figure really represents ? — 

 Fredk C. Adams, 30, Ashley Gardens, S.W. : January 11th, 1911. 



(Sfiecics of Ejncypta and Phronia bred.- — In the May number of this Maga- 

 zine for 1910, p. 119, there is a short notice on the breeding of a Mycetophila 

 from some very small limpet-like larvae found crawling on barkless sodden oak 

 branches. Mr. Swanton has again found apparently the same kind of larvae 

 both near Haslemere, May 18th, and at Weston-super-Mare, J\ine 26th, on 

 barkless sodden fir branches ; these he sent to Mr. F. Jenkinson, of Cambridge, 

 who in each case, bred from this material specimens of Phronia hasalis, Winn., 

 or a very nearly allied species. On searching again at Haslemere Mr. Swanton 

 found, on November 4th, some dark slug-like larvae feeding on sodden barkless 

 fir-wood, from these he bred, early in December, several flies, which he sent to 

 Mr. Jenkinson who determined two of them as Phronia ? hasalis $ and ? , with 

 them were a species of Rhymosia and of Mycetophila ; but one or other of these 

 was caught on a window, and perhaps had not been bred from the fir wood. 



Mr. Jenkinson has also seen one of the specimens bred in 1909, and says it 

 is certainly a species of Epicypta, jjerhaps trinotata, Staeg. 



Thus we have species of two different genera of Mycetophilidm appai'ently 

 bred from these two kinds of larvae ; it remains for Entomologists to collect 

 and breed these larvae and discriminate betw^een them. — E. N. Bloomfield, 

 Guestling Rectory: February 11th, 1911. 



Hemiptera in Surrey and Dorsetshire. — During an excursion from Woking in 

 the early part of Ai\gust, 1910, I foimd Oncotylus viridiflavus in abundance on 

 the top of the Hog's Back. Within some hundred yards there must have been 

 thousands on the Centaurea, for, every time I swept, there were forty or fifty 

 in the net. I also foimd it on the next day in some quantities on Centaurea 

 near Byfleet Station. 



On another day I managed to take three specimens of Anthocoris limbatus 

 on sallow, but not on the same bush as I had taken it in two previous years, so 

 that the species seems to be spreading. I may also record Salda marginalis 

 from Studland, Dorset, which is a new locality for it. I have also to add 

 the captvu'e of Aphanus quadratus by myself at Swanage last July. — H. A. 

 Saunders, Brookfield House, Swanage : February 19th, 1911. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society : Meeting held at 

 the Eoyal Institution, Colquit Sti-eet, Liverpool, Jamuiry IGth, 1911. — Mr. Geo. 

 Arnold, M.Sc, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



