OOLEOPTERA. 1B8 



®RTHOPTERA. 



Paiking of Abcyptera fuscum. — 1 sent Mr. Burr a couple of 

 specimens of what I believe to be the same species of grasshopper as 

 those I observed pairing at Au Pra (of which I seem to have kept no 

 examples), taken at Bobbie, in the same beautiful Pellice Valley, and 

 he informs me that the species in Arcj/ptera fiiscani, Pallas. I think 

 we shall be safe in assuming that the first part of the notice (antea, 

 p, 95) therefore refers to this species. — J. W. Tutt. 



^^ARIATION. 



Melanic Larentia multistrigaria in Durham. — 1 obtained a 

 melanic male of Larentia imdtistrif/aria here on the 30th ult., and on 

 Wednesday captured a female with a black band upon its forewings. 

 This species has appeared here in hundreds this year, although I 

 never saw it in the district before, yet I have searched within a hundred 

 yards of the place in which I have discovered it. — J. W. PI. Harrison, 

 The Avenue, Birtley, B.S.O. April Ut, 1905. 



(grOLEOPTERA. 



Grammoptera ruficornis ab. holomelina, n. ab., a wholly black 

 FORM OF Grammoptera, Ser., not hitherto recorded. — Entirely 

 black, somewhat resembles (Tratiunoptera ruficornis, F., of which 

 species Mr. Gahan thmks it is a variety. It may be at once distin- 

 guished from the ordinary forms of G. ruficornis by the entire absence 

 of the yellow silky pubescence with which the members of that species 

 are clothed. The difference in the general appearance of the two 

 insects, when seen side by side in the sunshine, is very striking. I 

 propose for this very distinct and interesting form the name of hoLo- 

 nielina, and, for the time being, it would, perhaps, be best to treat it as 

 a form of G. ruficornis. It appears to have a stronger claim to specific 

 rank than many of the insects appearing in our lists, but I must leave 

 this question to be decided by further observation and study. My 

 three specimens were beaten from hawthorn blossom in May, 1904, 

 at Enfield, Middlesex. Mr. E. A. Waterhouse took a specimen, exactly 

 like my three, at Ripon, in Yorkshire, thirty years ago. I should be 

 glad to know of any similar specimens existing in other collections. — 

 Charles J. C. Pool. Aftril 5th, 1904. 



Hylotrupes bajulus, L., at Enfield. — I am indebted to a local 

 friend for a fine specimen of this rare Longicorne beetle. It has been 

 cased up with a number of common beetles, hornets, etc., for the past 

 thirty years. A large pin was inserted between the elytra, which, 

 fortunately, were open. The insect has now been relaxed and carded, 

 and makes a perfect specimen. My friend cannot remember the exact 

 circumstances of its capture, but he says the whole of his little collec- 

 tion was formed in and around a place known as Wilkinson's woods, 

 near Enfield, about thirty years ago. The other insects in the case 

 are all common and conspicuous species : — Stran(/alia armata, Clytus 

 arietis, Hhatfiuni intjuisitor, Lucanus cerrus, and L'ctoiiia aurata, all of 

 which are still common in the district. There is an abundance of old 

 timber, which has already produced some very good beetles, and I see 

 no reason why iiylotrupcs bajulus should not be found there again if 



