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Watlinorton. A. abdominalin Z. appears to be scarce. I have two specimens, 

 not in very good condition but quite easily recognisable, one taken near 

 Stokencburch in Jkicks on Aug. ord, 1914, the other taken at Streatley in 

 Berks on Augx 8th, 1919. It is an addition to the Berkshire list (the Bucking- 

 hamshire county list mentions no species of Ar(/i/re.<fltia). A. afnioriellrt Bnks. 

 is common on larch at Cothill (Berks) and probably in many other places in 

 this district. On the strength of the article by Mr. E. R. Bankes, which 

 appeared in this Magazine, vol. xxxii ( = Second Series, vol. vii), 1896, p. 25, 

 I. should not have hesitated to call the species that occurs here A. laevigatelln 

 HS. rather than A. atmorieUa. I have a good typical specimen of A. atviorivlla 

 which I took ia .Juue 1913 near New Radnor (Wales), and find the Oxford 

 specimens to be decidedly and uniformly lighter in shade, and to have the 

 hind-wings distinctly lighter than the fore-wings. But INlr. J. Hartley 

 Durrant, F.E.S., to whom I have shown specimens, assures me that they 

 should all be referred to atmorieUa, laevir/ateUa being a very doubtful species. 

 A. (jlabratella Z. is an interesting addition to the local list. I have five 

 examples of this species, which Str. J. Hartley Durrant very kindly identified 

 for me. They were taken as follows: — Two in Wytham Woods (Berks) on 

 June .'jth, 1913: one in the same locality on June 3rd, 1916; and two on the 

 Chilterns above Watlington (Oxfordshire) on May 31st, 1914. In each case 

 they were disturbed from old spruces. I have not yet succeeded in finding 

 the species in any numbers, but should not be surprised if it is fairly common. 

 Under the name Blastotere (jlahratella, this little moth was introduced into the 

 British list in 1906 by Lord Walsingham (Ent, Mo. Mau-. vol. xlii, p. 169), 

 but it has not hitherto been recorded from any British county except Norfolk. 

 In the Ent. Mo. Mag. for Nov. 1920 (p. 259) I wrongly recorded this 

 species a^ An/yresthia illuminatella Z. I have not yet come across the true 

 A. illumin atelia, which is apparently not a spruce-feeder; it is in fact hardly 

 likely to occur here, owing to the absence of any extensive pine-woods. — 

 E. (t. 1!. Waters, 40 Leckford Road, Oxford: Jan. I2th, 1921. 



Tivo records of Heim'ptera. — Among some Hemiptera recently sent by me 

 to Mr. E. A. Butler, who has been good enough to name them, are two 

 specimens that deserve notice. The first is a developed female of Mecovima 

 ambulans Fall., from Culgaith, Cumberland, only three other macropterous 

 British examples of which are known. The other insect is a male of Ulopa 

 trivia Germ., from Tidworth Pennings, Wilts. — G. E. Hutchinson, Aysthorpe, 

 Newton Road, Cambridge : January Idth, 1920. 



Aiidrenu jacobi n. n. for A. trimmerana auct. and a new Irish variety of 

 this A^jeceVs.— Recently through the kindness of the Rev. W. F. Johnson I was 

 able to examine a small series of Irish Andrena trimmerana auct. None of 

 the females sent belonged to the common English form, but were either var. 

 scotica or a still more extreme variety, which I have named j'ohnsoni n. var. 

 In this variety the thoracic hairs become to a greater or less extent fuscous or 

 sooty ; even those on the propodeum are more or less sordid. The yellow hairs 

 of the first two abdominal segments are reduced in number ; those on the basal 

 part of the first are black. The extreme form of johnsoni would be an insect 



