134 THE entomologist's record. 



noon. — G. 0. Sloper, F.E.S., Hotel Beau Site, Aigle, Suisse. April 

 18th, 1903. 



Hemiptera in the Isle of Wight. — During a visit to the Isle of 

 Wight in ^lay, 11S99, the primary object being to collect coleoptera, 

 lists of which have already been published in the Knt. llcronl, the 

 following Hemiptera were met with — Podopa innnctim, common at 

 Culver Cliff, at which place also occurred Se/iinis birolor, S. alho- 

 Dianiinatus, Coreiis neapha, Ikwirorh Itirtlcornis, Stenocephaliiii aijiliii 

 and Asirara clavicornh. At Alverstone, Si/romastt's inanfinatUH was 

 taken, and at Sandown the following were captured: Scolopostethiis 

 a(ljiinefns,S. contraction, lihyparuclirotiins clriraura, Stijiinocoriti arenarius, 

 Ci/iiins claricnliis, Xancon's ciniicuiilcH. At Bembridge I found l^iestna 

 (liuvlrafa and Moiiautliia canhd. — H. Willoughby Ellis, F.E.S. 



dfUR RENT NOTES. 



Our next four numbers will be published on June 1st (no. 6), July 

 1st (no. 7), July 20th (no. 8), and September loth (no. 9). We 

 publish this notice here as quite a number of our subscribers write us 

 regularly about August 16th stating that no. 8 has not yet reached 

 them, when, as a matter of fact, they have had it three weeks. 



We are pleased to hear that Mr. E. E. B. Prest, M.A., F.Z.S., and 

 Dr. H. M. Stewart are engaged upon a new edition of Merrin's 

 Lej>i(ln}>terist\ ( 'alcndar. We understand that these gentlemen desire the 

 assistance of practical workers, so that the book may be made as 

 complete as possible ; any entomologist willing to assist is asked to 

 communicate with Mr. E. E. B. Prest, Arva, Danes Road, Forest 

 Hill, S.E. 



At the meeting of the Entomological Society of London, March 

 18th, 1903, Mr. A. Bacot exhibited a number of specimens of Mala- 

 cosoina hybr. HcliaufuKKi in various stages, including a series of six 

 males and sixteen female imagines, reared during 1902, from one batch 

 of ova laid by a female M. castremis, which had been mated with a 

 male M. nenatria, and two females reared from another batch of ova 

 the result of a similar cross ; also blown larva^ of hybrid parentage, 

 and twigs showing attempts at ovipositing on the part of female 

 hybrids that had paired with hyl)rid males of the same brood ; also 

 series of M. wiixtria, M. caxtrenMs and the hybrid moths, reared during 

 1901, for comparison. He said that the larvae of the 1902 broods, as 

 stated in the Society's Proccciliui/s for June 4th last, exactly followed 

 those of the previous year in respect of their division into " forwards" 

 and " laggards," the former again producing only females, and the 

 latter males. By forcing the pupjB of the " laggards " it was found 

 possible to synchronise the emergences this year, and pairings between 

 the hybrid moths were obtained. The females attempted egg-laying, 

 adopting the position and motions of normal females of M. castrcnsU, 

 but at each opening of the ovipositor they ])roduced only the small drop 

 of cement which accompanies the eg(^ in the normal oviposition of the 

 parent species, resulting in a more or less perfect spiral band of cement 

 upon the twigs. The length of time occupied in producing this result 

 was about the same as that required by M. castrcnsis J for depositing 

 her normal batch of eggs, which are laid at the rate of about eight or 

 nine per minute. Pairings or attempted pairings were also obtained 



