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experiments being carried out there. Ail who were privileged to be 

 present were intensely interested by the practical nature of the work 

 going on, and the methods and means of testing and recording the 

 results at every point of any experiment, which was suspected as 

 capable of giving useful information. All this, it must be understood, 

 had been going on at the expense of the late Sir John Lawes, on his 

 initiation, and under his personal care, for some sixty years, the 

 institution having only recently received subsidies from various 

 associations more or less interested in agriculture. The kind of work 

 in progress at Rothamsted will, by the substantial encouragement 

 announced above, be now carried on on a much more solid basis, and 

 its practical utility will be brought more prominently forward under 

 the direct state influence and support now forthcoming. 



Mr. J.H.Keys, F.E.S., describes and figures (77??^. Mo. J/a//.) a species 

 of Coleoptera new to science, Barypithes diiplicatus. He has differentiated 

 it from B. pellucidua with which it has been confused hitherto. The 

 species was taken in great numbers in July, 1886, near Margate, by 

 the Rev. Theodore Wood, and also in June, 1898, at Blean Wood, 

 by Commander Walker, R.N. Captain Sainte-Clair Deville reports 

 that ditplicatiifi appears to be confined to the Armorican peninsula 

 and to Limousin. Mr. Keys adds an analytical table of the characters 

 separating the British species of the genus Barypithes. 



Mr. C. D. Butler, B.A., B.Sc, F.E.S., announces {Ent. Mo. Mmj.) 

 a species of Hemiptera, Stenocephalus tnediits, M. et R., as new to the 

 British List. It has been taken by himself at Maidenhead (August 8th, 

 1893), by Mr. Champion at Darenth, by Mr. W. West at Darenth, by 

 Commander Walker near Oxford, and by others. 



Mr. J. E. Collin, F.E.S., continues {Ent. Mo. Mag.) his annotated 

 list of additions and corrections to the British List of Dijitera, Miiscidai>- 

 Acah/ptratae. The following species and forms are new to Britain : — 

 Psila nigromaculata, from Nethy Bridge and Herefordshire; P. 

 hnmeralis, from Nethy Bridge and Golspie ; Diplotn.va appro.viiiiatonervis, 

 from Nairn ; D. limbata (inconstans), from Chippenham Fen, Newmar- 

 ket, etc. ; Chlorops planifions, from Herefordshire ; C. hypostigma 

 {minitta), from many localities; C. serena, from Herefordshire and 

 Suffolk ; (J. tn'angidaris, from Lyndhurst ; ( '. interrupta {hirsuta), 

 from Oxfordshire and Weils ; Chloropisca obscurella, from Kent, 

 Suffolk, Glamorgan, and Sutherland ; C. rufa, odd specimens from 

 Newmarket, Cambridge, and Walton-on-Naze ; Siphonella tristis, from 

 Walton-on-Naze, Suffolk, Gravesend, and Glamorgan ; .S'. longirostris ; 

 S. dninensis, from Woodbridge, Walton-on-Naze, and Belvedere ; 

 S. pumilionis, from Abbot's Wood, hhere, and the New Forest ; 

 Siphunculina aenea, a 3' from Herefordshire and a $ from Ringmer, 

 Sussex; Oscinis iiitidissivia, from Suffolk ; 0. cognata (c/ilvipes), from 

 Brandon and Chippenham Fen ; 0. laevifrons, a 3- from Nairn, 

 July 6fch, 1904 ; O. sordidella, a ^ and 2 from Orford, Suffolk, 

 July, 1907, and a $ from Eynsham, July 3rd, 1910 ; 0. frontella, from 

 various localities; O. [Notonaulax) lineella, from Newmarket; Dicraeus 

 vagans, from Cambridgeshire and Suffolk ; D. tibialis, from Porthcawl, 

 Glamorgan, June, 1906 ; Elachyptera tuberculifera, one $ from Crow- 

 borough, Sussex ; E. megaspis, from several Southern and Midland 

 Counties ; ■ E. scrobiculata (trapezina), from Chippenham and Wicken 

 Fens; E. \iiibesrens, from Studland and Christchurch ; (iaitrax ephip- 



