1921.] 227 



is probable that it will be found in other orchards in Tvcnt in the near 



future. 



Mr. Champion has confirmed this capture, and added a few notes on 



its distribution, etc. 



2 Westbury Terrace, 



Westerbam, Kent. 

 September I6th, 1921. 



\_AnfJionomiis cinctiis KolL 

 Amongst our British Antlionomi, A, cinctns KoU. ( = p^ri Bob. 

 and bittiherculafus Thorns.) is perhaps nearest allied to A. clievrolati 

 Desbr. It is a more robust insect than the variable A. pedicularixis L. ; 

 the tooth on the anterior femora is veiy long and stout ; the elytra have 

 the third interstice swollen at the base, and the subapical white fascia 

 (which in some specimens covers the greater part of the apical declivity) 

 is sharply defined anteriorly ; the rostrum is very long and rugose ; the 

 prothorax is moderately rounded at the sides, and the white line ex- 

 tending down the middle of the disc is sharply defined. According to 

 Bedel A. cinctus is found in orchards and nurseries, and he states that 

 the larva lives in the buds of pear-trees ; Eeitter says " in the blossoms 

 of apple and pear." The species is widely distributed on the Continent, 

 ranging from Sweden to the South of Fi-ance and Piedmont, and east- 

 ward to the Adriatic ; and it may not be a desirable addition to the 

 British list, if destructive in the larval state, as A. pomorum L. appears 

 to be in certain localities. The life-history has been described by Aube 

 (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1868, p. 434). Mr. Harwood's specimen agrees 

 well with my examples of A. cinctus from Rouen and Istria. The 

 specific name, pyri Boh., is adopted by Bedel, Reitter using the 

 later name, cinctus Kollar. It is perhaps worth while to notice that 

 A. pomorum is to be found on the crab-apple, and I have seen it in 

 abundance on this tree in the New Forest, and at Gromshall and 

 Woking ; but of its depredations on the cultivated apple in orchards 

 I have no personal knowledge. — G. C. C] 



ARABTJS BETULAE L., AN ADDITION TO THE BRITISH 

 HEmPTERA-HETEEOPTEEA. 



BY P. HAEWOOD, F.E.S. 



On July 10th last I found this fine Hemipteron in some numbers 

 under bark of an old birch on the edge of the famous birch-woods at 

 Rannoch, near the hamlet of Camaghouran, but, though I searched 



