Hi TMay, 



and tlie description of a new one, C. zvoocli, from Windermere. The 

 extract from Wingelmiiller's " Monograph of the Palaearclic Cioniui " (1914), 

 regarding the " so-called " Portsmouth examples of C. long {colli s, requires some 

 comment. This species was introduced as British by myself in 1894, upon 

 specimens captured by jNloncreaff, a c? and 5 of which had been compared by 

 M. Bedel with Brisoiit's types, from Veruet, Pyrenees Orientales. Tliese two 

 insects must be the actual pair mentioned by the German author as being in 

 las possession. They were lent by me to Dr. Daniel, of Ingolstadt, in March 

 1914, and not returned ! If M. Bedel's determination was correct, the varietal 

 name moiifanus Wingelm. must fall as a synonym. I have taken C. longicollia 

 in abundance in the Austrian Tyrol, in many localities in Spain, and in 

 S^vitzerland, but the only member of the thapsus-^vctw^ seen by me at Vernet 

 in 1891 was C. hortidanus. The new species, C. woodi, based upon a J and 2 

 captiu'ed by the Rev. T. Wood in 1914, is described as near C. lonc/icoUis, 

 var. onontanus, diff.'ring from it in wanting tlie pubescence on the tliorax, 

 the surface of which is sprinlcled all over with very small, flat, roundish, 

 yellow scales. — G. C. Champion. 



The Food-Pkint ofBruchus rufipes Hbst. — Mr. Doniathorpe in his interesting 

 note on Bruchus riifipes {cmte, p. .51), puts forward the suggestion that this 

 species breeds in the seeds of the sloe. Skaife, however (Bull. 12, Union of 

 S. Africa, Dept. Agr. Pretoria, 1918), states that the beetle has been imported 

 from Europe into South Africa in vetch seed, and such a leguminous host- 

 plant would appear to be much more likely than the sloe, when the known 

 host-plants of other species of the family are taken into consideration. — 

 F. Laing, Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) : March 2-2nd, 1921, 



Entomological Society op London: Wednesday, February 2nd, 

 1921.— The Rt. Hon. Lord Rothschild, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The President announced that he had nominated the following Fellows to 

 be Vice-Presidents for the ensuing year: Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, Mr. J. 

 Hartley Durrant, and Commander J. J. Walker, R.N. He also announced that 

 three Committees (Finance, Publications, and Library) had been formed in 

 place of the Business Committee, and the names of the Fellows appointed to 

 serve thereon respectively. 



Mr. A. Bacot exhibited living specimens of Cimex hirimdinis, and gave an 

 account of his breeding experiments therewith. Dr. K. Jordan, samples of the 

 Saturniau genera Holocera, Ludia and Orthogonioptihwi, and demonstrated 

 the presence of a kind of stridulating organ, absent in the males ; also two 

 species of Grnpliiptertis, G. rottmdatus King and G. peletieri Cast., from 

 Algeria, both provided with stridulating organs. He said that the latter was 

 found in association with Cicindela tniquii Guer., and that although the 

 difference was apparent in the cabinet, in nature they were practically indis- 

 tinguishable. Dr. C. J. Gahan remarked on the great interest of the discovery 

 of these organs in female Satiirniidae ; the only other instance known to him 

 being that of Fhonapale, a genus of beutles of the family Bostricliidae. 



