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Camilla, going over ; Mditat-a iliih/nia was abundant, with plenty of 

 females, type form ; Kpineithde h/caon, very plentiful, and I got a tine 

 series; K.janira, not fully out, and of the hiapnlla form. One or two 

 ( 'air/iarodioi laraterae were netted, with a few each of lloipcvia cart/iaiiii 

 and Pi/n/Ks saa. 



One much looked forward to excursion, after Melanarijia iapi/i/ia 

 var. deanthc, did not come off. .1/. var. deanthe is found in the 

 recesses of the " Montague de Lure," some seventeen or eighteen 

 miles from St. Auban. I had hoped that some kind of conveyance 

 might have been procured, but careful enquiries, locally, could elicit 

 nothing better than that " possibly " a mule might be got at one of 

 the villages near ; we had, therefore, reluctantly to conclude that 85 

 long, stony, mostly up-hill, miles, would comprise more walking than 

 we cared to undertake under the tropical sun. 



(To be conduded.) 



;ili E M I P T E R A . 



Hemiptera in the New Forest in 1904. — I captured the following 

 Hemiptera-Heteroptera whilst in the New Forest in July last^Y'/v^//'- 

 ciirix ntfi}n>i, very common, beating oaks; PkromeniH bidens, bred from 

 larvie ; beating oak produced Phi/tocoriH dimidiatHs ; the three species 

 of Miris were obtained by sweeping ; Aradiis depiefisus, under bark of 

 oak stumps ; MonantJda diiinetorinn, beating old blackthorns ; ^[. 

 huiindi, by sweeping Myosntis; Mijrrojihysa dcr/antida 2, by beating 

 lichen-covered trees. I also took the following Homoptera — Olianis 

 leporintis, my best capture ; the larv;i? of Ledra aiirita were common 

 on oaks. I also captured many others which I am unable to work 

 through at present. — W. West, 8, Morden Hill, Lewisham. Fehnianj 

 1st, 1905. 



^OLEOPTERA. 



Oxypoda sericea, Heer — a Species of Coleoptera New to Britain. 



By HORACE St. J. K. DONISTHOliPE, F.Z.S., F.E.S. 



On June 17th last I swept a small (hypoda in Dulwich Wood, 

 which I was unable to name, and which I sent eventually to Monsieur 

 Fauvel. He has now returned it to me labelled serici-a. It agrees 

 with Heer's description {Faun. Hdr., i., p. 321), and also with what 

 Ganglbauer has to say about it, so that so far all seemed plain sailing; 

 but Ganglbauer, and Fauvel also, according to Fowler, consider 

 Oxyjinda niijrina, Wat., to be synonymous with this species. To make 

 matters worse, the European Catalogue gives niyrina, Wat., as a 

 synonym of cxiyna, Er., which is, of course, not the case. On com- 

 paring my insect with the specimens of niijiina in the Bates and 

 Power collections, I found that it was quite distinct; also Mr. E. A. 

 Waterhouse has kindly lent me his father's type of niffrina. We thus 

 see that iiii/rina is a distinct and good species, and, therefore, my beetle 

 is an addition to the British list. It comes nearest to innbrata, the 

 tarsi being a little shorter and thicker. It is also smaller, and the 

 first joint of the posterior tarsi is not, or hardly, longer than the two 

 following taken together. From nii/rina it may be known by its more 

 fuscous colour, longer antenna*, and more strongly notched elytra. 



