234 THE entomologist's record. 



rest in the Coliads, here they may accumulate and even develop and 

 hatch and be living larvae when laid. Here, however, this is a natural 

 process, not as with the butterflies, a pathological and almost a 

 posthumous one. 



It is very different from the case of the beetles I have observed 

 (Orina), in which the eggs are fertilised in the ovarian tubes, even 

 before they are of full size, and the resulting \awse are ready to hatch 

 at about the time they reach the common oviduct. In the butterflies, 

 fertilisation does not occur till the eggs have passed the common 

 oviduct. 



Unfortunately we know nothing of the mechanism of the viviparity 

 of the one or two Tineae that are viviparous, so cannot institute any 

 comparison with them. 



Halticus saltator, Geoffr., an Addirion to the List of British 

 Heiniptera= Heteroptera. 



By E. A. BUTLEK, B.A., B.Sc, F.E.S. 



This species superficially resembles our well-known Halticus 

 (tpterm, but may be easily distinguished from it by the following 

 characteristics : — The colour of the head is rufo-testaceous, with the 

 sharply carinated vertex, the clypeus and the genae, more or less 

 piceous. The anterior and intermediate femora, as well as the 

 anterior coxjb, are yellow. The hinder part of the pronotum is trans- 

 versely strigose. In the brachypterous form, which is the only one 

 I have seen as British, the strongly convex hemielytra are longer than 

 in H. aptenifi, and almost entirely cover the abdomen. The insect is 

 scantily clothed with rather long golden pubescence, which is easily 

 abraded. The length is 2fmm. 



Two examples of H. saltator were taken by Mr. H. Donisthorpe at 

 Deal on September 6, 1907, and are now in the University Museum, 

 Oxford. There is a long series of specimens of both sexes in the 

 British portion of the Hope Collection at the same Museum, but Prof. 

 Poulton informs me that nothing is known as to the locality from 

 which they were obtained. The species is widely distributed on the 

 Continent, where it has been found on Althaea rosea (a non-British 

 species of marsh mallow) and on EcJditm ndijare. Kirschbaum 

 records that in the former case it produces by its punctures a 

 deformity of the leaves. I learn from Mr. Donisthorpe that his 

 specimens were taken while he was sweeping Mercurialh annua, but of 

 course this does not amount to proof positive that the MercuriaUs was 

 the food-plant. 



Four days at Saas-Fee. 



By G. BETHUNE-BAKEE, E.L.S., F.Z.S., F.E.S. 

 The break in the Aveather produced a marked impression at this 

 altitude, the next day, though bright, being really cold, with the result 

 that only sheltered spots produced anything. Erehia goante and K. 

 euryale, Avith a few F.. tipidarus, were the only species of the genus 

 taken. Colias phicomone was the only Pierine seen. Arcjynnis aylaia 

 and MeUtaea athalia came as solitary examples of their respective 

 genera, though the latter was quite passe. The following days proved 

 somewhat warmer, but still by no means up to the average ; however, 



