mi.] 19^ 



fuscous, sprinkled throiighoiit with elongate groups of pale golden yellow 

 scales ; cilia dark grey Exp. al. 4"5-5 mm. Hindwings shining, dark grey ; 

 cilia concolorous. Abdomen dark grey. Legs : posterior pair golden yellowisli. 



Type ? (96915) ; mine (96920). Mus. Wlsm., British Museum. 



Hab. Algeria : Beni Mora, near Biskra, © Zlzyphns sp., 16. II, ex. 

 21-28.III.1903 {Wlsm..). Five specimens. 



Allied to etiphorbleUa Stn. The yellowish larva makes a broad con- 

 torted mine, in which the frass appears as a narrow black, track in the 

 leaves of Zizi/pJius. 



Homalota picipennis, Ma7inh., in Biichs. — It Avill be remembered that 

 Dr. Joy introduced this species to the British List on specimens taken by him 

 as far north as Inverness-shire (Ent. Mo. Mag., xxi, 252). It may therefore be 

 of interest to record its occurrence in Buckinghamshire. I took an example 

 last October in rotting fungus in a wood near Little Marlow, which Dr. Joy 

 has been good enough to confirm as referable to this species. 



H. sodalis, Er., was abundant in the same fungus, and it seems probable 

 that, as Dr. Joy suggested in his note, H. picipennis has a mvich wider range in 

 this country than the first capture might lead one to suppose, and has perhaps 

 hitherto been overlooked. — W. E. Sharp, Soixth Norwood: July 4th, 1911. 



Notes from the Isle of Sheppeij. — I was at Sheerness from June 12th to 26th, 

 and despite the cool and windy weather which set in on the evening of my 

 arrival and prevailed during the whole of my stay, succeeded in taking a good 

 many of the Coleoptera chai-acteristic of this well-known locality. These are, I 

 find, more difficult to obtain in every successive year, as all the choicest spots for 

 insects in the Island are being slowly but surely destroyed. Thus I have good 

 reason to fear that Hsemonia curtisii, which is still to be found freely in its 

 special ditch close to Sheerness, will soon be a thing of the past, owing to the 

 near approach of building operations ; Berosus spinosus, usually found in plentj- 

 in its company, is fortunately miich more widely distributed. In wet moss at 

 the edge of a little pond near Leysdown, no fewer than seven species of 

 Ochthehius — exaratus, nanus, punctatus, viridis, marinus, pygmxus, and bicolon — 

 were found together, the four last-named being very plentiful. One of the 

 chief objects of my search was Malachius vulneratus, Ab., but this I found on 

 one occasion only, by sweeping the luxiu-iant herbage of a salt-marsh which is 

 covered by tlie highest tides of the Medway, all the specimens taken being 

 9 's. ; its ally, M. marginellus, 01., was not scarce on the remains of the once 

 productive little salt-marsli on the Thames foreshore just beyond Sheerness. 

 The habitat of Quedius hammianus, Sharp, of which I found a very few speci- 

 mens outside the sea-wall, is also of a decidedly saline character. Only one 

 noteworthy beetle, a fine $ Magdalinus harhicornis, a species not previously 

 noted in Sheppey, was obtained by cliff-sweeping. Lepidoptera were notably 



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