92 rApwi, 



doings, .and almost daily brouglit me Cicindela cnmpestris, Geutrupes sijl- 

 vaticm, aud other notable members of the beetle family. TJiis Idndly interest 

 was the means of my obtaining a most peculiar form of Holtiea hritteni 

 wliicb lias the elytra Tery dark bronze-green and extremely rngose, and which 

 l)r. Sharj), to whom I submitted it, considers ninst be a "sport" of that 

 species.— James F. Black, Nethercroft, Peeljles, N.B. : March 9th, W2Q. 



I'/(if/iiii/)iafhi(s {^euco)-is) niyritulus Zetf. and holiemani i-'«//. —British 

 Heniipterists may be interested to know that according to Renter some 

 alteration is needed in our catalogues with regard to these two insects. 

 Saunders (Hem. Het. Br. Is. p. 321) puts fortli the suggestion that both are 

 varieties of one species, one reason given, apart from their close resemblance 

 except in size and colour, being that they are found together. To this Beuter 

 (Ofv. Finsk. Vet. Fiirh. 1911-12, Hemipterolog. Miacellen. p. 6'!) replies that 

 when Saunders wrote that he had not the true Microi-i/namvia [Neocoris) 

 ?iif/rifnl(i Zett. before him, but the var. scotti Fieb., which, though published 

 in Reuters Hem. (tj m. Europae, i, p. 57, as a var. of N. nigritulus, belongs in 

 reality not to that species, but to N. hoht/iuiiii Fall. Hence Reuter finally 

 came ti) the conclusion that Saunders was right in his surmise that the two 

 forms before him were but vars. of the same species. The true N. nigvitulus 

 Zett., which, according to Boppius, has a longer scufellinn aud not pronotmn as 

 originally stated by Reuter, has not yet been found in Biitain nor in France, 

 in which latter country both the vars. putoni Rent, aud scotti Fieb. occur along 

 with Is. boliemani. Boppius stated that, so far as he could remember, true 

 N. niyntulus aud boheninni do not occur together in Lapland and Siberia, 

 although Bianchi has stated that he has found them together in one part of 

 Ru.ssia, but unaccompanied by the vars. IJeuter considered JV. /nf/ritulus to 

 have branched off from i\'. bohemani, and that it was hardly yet fully established 

 in all places as a vera species. But, however that may be, it would appear that 

 P. m't/ritidiis sliould be deleted from the British catalogue, and that var. scotti 

 Fieb. sliould be added after P. bu/iema)ii.--E. A. Butlek, 14 Drylands Road, 

 Hornsej, N. 8 : March 5th, 1920. 



Xearoptera ajid Trichuptera new to Cuiid>erl((nd. — Among a number of 

 tliese insects taken by me in 1918 and 1919, and kindly named by Mr. G. T. 

 I'orritt, are the following species which I believe have not hitherto been 

 recorded from Cumberland : — Nemoura caiiibrica Morton, Carlisle; Hemerobius 

 nitidulus F., (himwhitton Moss, Broadfield; //. oroti/pus Wallengr., Durdar, 

 Broadtield; H. qKctdrifasciatus Reut., Cuunvhitton Moss; Chrijsopa phijllo- 

 chroma Wesin., Cumwhitton Moss; ('. pcrla L., Orton ; Neuronia rajicriis 

 Scop,, Cumwhitton Moss ; Glyphotuelius pellucidas Retz., Cumwhitton Mo.ss; 

 Brarhycentrus subniibilus Curt., Carlisle ; Leptocerus anntdicorjiis Steph., Car- 

 lisle ; //. cinereus Curt., Carlisle; Glv,ssusi>iJia ccrnale I'ict., Carlisle, Newton 

 Marsli.— F. 11. J)AY, Carlisle: March 3rd, 1920. 



L'riorrJiina ramuiculi Pan-, in Berks. — (_)n March 7tli last, while walking 

 througli a wood near Tubuey, Berks, 1 saw a large Humble-bee-like fly at rest 

 on a birch trunk. At first sight 1 was by no means sure that it was not a 

 Humble-bee, but on getting close to the insect I saw it was a Dipterou. 1 lost 



