1917.] Ill 



imago and several larvae found in willov;. Xestobium tessellatum F., in 

 company with the last. Tetropium gahrieli var. craivshayi Sharp, many beetles 

 and larvae fonnd in a fallen spruce at Northwood, Mx., June, 1915. Clytus 

 mysticvs L., not uncommon at hawthorn blossom in May, 1915, at Harrow, 

 Pinner, Rickmansworth, etc. Cry ptocephalus frontalis Marsh., several specimens 

 beaten from black poplar at Euislip, Mx., 13.vi.'15. Hypophloeus hicolor 01., 

 Kenton, Mx., 7.iii.'15, under elm bark.— Harold E. Box, 55, Baxter Avenue, 

 Southend-on-Sea, Essex : April '.^rd, 1917. 



Additional localities for Cry ptocephalus biguttatus Scop. — In the "Dale 

 collection " of Bi-itish Coleoptera, now in the Oxford University Mvisemn, there 

 are six specimens of Cry ptocephalus biguttatus, four of which are on very 

 ancient pins and bear no data whatever. The other two are good and perfect 

 examples, mounted in C. W. Dale's some^vhat careless style, on separate cards, 

 each of which is marked beneath in his iinmistakeable script, " Bournemouth, 

 June 7th, 1892." It may, I think, be fairly presumed that these specimens 

 were taken there by Mr. Dale himself, especially as the Rev. W. W. Fowler records 

 C. biguttatus from " Bournemouth (Kemp-Welch) " in Coleopt. Brit. Islands. 

 Vol. IV, p. 281. The •' Hope-Westwood" series of British beetles contains 

 also several old pinned examples of this species, the only one with any data 

 bearing a label " Weaver, N.F." ; these lieing- almost certainly thp initials of 

 " New Forest," where Weaver is well known to have collected, and where I 

 believe this rare Gryptocephalus, already (I.e.) recorded from Lyndhurst, may 

 be looked for with some prospect of success. — James J. Walker, Oxford : 

 Afril nth, 1917. 



The Azalea Tingid, Stephanitis {Tingis) pyrioides Scott. — This Hemipteron 

 has not yet, I believe, been detected in, or recorded from Britain, but as it is 

 certain to appear here sooner or later, attention may be called to a full account 

 of its life-history by Messrs. E. L. Dickerson and H. B. Weiss, in Ent. News, 

 XXVIII, pp. 101-105, pi. IX, March, 1917. The insect was described by Scott 

 in 1874, from a specimen from Japan (the type subsequently passing into the 

 British Museum with that author's collection), and it has been detected during 

 recent years at Boskoop, in Holland, and in varioiis parts of the Eastern 

 United States. The American writers state that S. pyrioides was evidently in- 

 troduced into New Jersey in the egg-state on evergreen azaleas, from Japan, 

 and that the deciduous varieties are not so badly attacked as the evergreen ones. 

 They give figures of the egg, the five stages of the nymph, and the imago. The 

 nymphs and adults feed on the under-sui'faces of the azalea leaves, the abstrac- 

 tion of the sap resulting in a discoloration of the upper surface, so that the 

 presence of the bug, as in the case of S. rhododendri, is soon detected. The 

 mature insect is not unlike the last-named species, which was formd in abundance 

 by Mr. E. E, Green, in his garden at Camberley, Surrey, during the past year 

 (cf. Ent. Mo. Mag., 1916, p. 207). Horvath considered the sjiecific name 

 pyrioides to be absurdly compounded, and renamed it azaleae, thus adding to 

 the synonymy. — G. C. Champion, Hor.«ell, Woking: April ~th, 1917. 



