6 THE ENTOMOLOGISTS RECORD. 



J^hianopliila aniuivuita, UeG., and (:riuir}>halns pulunicus, Mots., 

 all from the Woking district. Commander Walker, Haemonia 

 appendicnlata, Panz., from Kidlington, near Oxford, in some 

 numbers, in August, this is one of the most interesting records 

 of the 3'ear ; Cato]>s raricornis, Eosenh,, from Streatley ; Trichoni/x 

 sulcicollis, Reich, from Brockenhurst ; Ti/chins iiohflineatiis, Germ., 

 from Htreatlej' ; ('t'lithorhi/nchidius mLrtiis, Muls., from Tubney; and 

 Cathormiocetiia niaritiunis, E3'e, from Milford-on-Sea. This latter 

 species has been taken in some numbers by Mr. C. J. C. Pool in the 

 old localitj' at Southsea. The author has taken rteroiitichvs aterywnia, 

 Pk., and Steniis proditor, Er., at Stalham, Norfolk, L'ri/pJialus abietifi, 

 Ratz., near Edinburgh ; and Bryojwrus riKjipennh, found on Cairn- 

 gorm ; he also found Zeuf/ophora svbspinnsa, F., with Z. tiirneri, Pow., 

 at Aviemore ; there has been no record of the former of these two 

 species further north than the IMidlands. 



Many interesting notes have appeared in our entomological 

 journals. Those dealing with synonymy include the following : — A 

 paper by Dr. Sharp [Ent. Mn. Maij., xlvi., p. 4) on the British species 

 of the genus Pltaedon : in this paper Dr. Sharp describes a new genus 

 I'aiaphaedon, in which he places the species timiidiila.^, Germ. ; he 

 also expresses the opinion that cnncinntu^, Steph., is a genuine species. 

 Some of the continental authorities treat this species as a variety 

 only. On p. 89 of the same journal, Dr. Sharp discusses the question 

 as to whether Galerucella vyiiip/iaeat', L., and i^aiiittariac, Gyll.. are 

 distinct species ; he is of opinion that they are. 



Dr. Joy contributes two valuable notes on the genus Colov. In 

 the first of these {loc cit., p. 25), he gives an interesting account of 

 an apparent "assembling" of C. vienncnse, Hbst., ('. serripes, Sahl., 

 and C. bninneinii, Lat., in one very restricted spot near the edge of a 

 wood. In the second article {loc. cit., p. 267), to which reference has 

 already been made, he gives a table of characters for separating the 

 species which occur in this country. It is undoubtedly the best table 

 which has so far been published. 



(To he continued.) 



Five days in tlie Hospentiial district. 



By G. T. BETHUNE-BAKER, F.L.S., F.E.S. 



After an exceptionally hard year's work I was glad to start on July 

 14th for Switzerland, and was hoping to meet my friend Dr. Chapman 

 somewhere between Andermatt and the Rhone Glacier. I therefore 

 w-ent straight through to the former spot, where I arrived just before 

 12 noon, and was not sorry to have a good lunch, but I muse 

 acknowledge to feeling pretty well tired out ; not knowing however 

 exactly what to do, I thought the best thing to clear one's brain was 

 to walk the weariness oft", and with this object in view I started up to 

 the Ober Alp See. The afternoon, though bright, was cold, and very little 

 was on the wing, a few Erebia lappona and Culian phiroiiionc were to 

 be seen, an occasional Cijcniin's semiavf/ns presented itself, whilst in the 

 w^arm sunny stretches of the road crowds of Titanin phripiialis rose at 

 ever-y step, intermingled with an occasional T. ^chrankiana. As I 

 Beared my goal it clouded over, and the last mile was walked in a heavy 



