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Sniicrom/.v 7-eichei Gyll. and Ceuthorrhynchus viduatus Gyll. in Gloucester- 

 shire. — Among other Coleoptera collected by myself in ibis district, I find I 

 have takeu singly tb6 above-named scarce species, and as apparently they have 

 not been previously observed in the county, I thought them worth recording. 

 The Smicro7iyx was swept on a hillside near Stroud, Aug. 30th, 1905, and the 

 CfuthorrhjncJms from some waterside plants near Chalford, June 14th, 1915. 

 1 am indebted to Mr. J. ICdwarda of Culesborne for their identification. — W. 

 B. Davis, 3 Rosebauk Villas, Churchfield Road, Stroud : April 1917. 



Sfenolopkus teutonus ah. ahdominalis Gene. — In the apparent absence of 

 any records of the capture of the above well-marked form in Britain, it may 

 be mentioned that two specimens were found under stones on the undercliff at 

 Jiarton-on-Sea, Hants, in September 1907, by my friend Ur. C. F. Selous, one 

 of which he kindly presented to me. Both were rather smaller than the 

 average size of ^S". teutonus. — E. A. Newbery, 13, Oppidans Road, N.W. 3 : 

 April 21th, 1917. 



Psylliodes affinis as a Potato-pest. — In the May number of the Ent. Mo. 

 Mag. (p. 98) Ml'. G. C. Champion refers to the Potato Flea-beetle (Psylliodes 

 affinis Payk.), stating that no records of its occurrence as an insect of economic 

 importance in these countries appear to have been made since the time of John 

 Curtis. Prof. F. V. Theobald, in 1903 ("Notes on Economic Zoology" from 

 ' Reports of the S.E. Agric. Coll. Wye,' p. 15), gives observations as to its 

 ravages on the leaves of potato, rhubarb, and artichoke. In the same year I 

 received potato-leaves badly eaten by P. affinis from Co. Dublin and Co. Clare. 

 This and subsequent records from many parts of Ireland may be found in the 

 ' Economic Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society ' (vol. i, pp. 251-5, .329, 

 572; vol. ii, pp. 38, 82-3L — Geo. H. Carpenter, Royal College of Science, 

 Dublin : May IQth, 1917. 



On species referred to Rhinosia. — In Staudinger's ' Catalogue of Palaearctic 

 Lepidoptera ' the name Rhinosia Tr. is applied (by a mistaken use) to a group 

 of species which I find to be a miscellany connected together mainly by 

 .superficial appearance. I refer the eight species composing it as under, viz. : 

 denisella, monastriceUa, sordidella, and ferruyella to the Oecoph&rid genus 

 Cryptolechia ; cervinella to Aristotelia ; Jlavella and formosella to Acompsia 

 (= Brachycrossata Hein.); and incertella to Metzneria. The receipt of allied 

 species of ^. conipsia from Africa led me to notice this source of confusion. — 

 Edward Meyrick, Thornhauger, Marlborough: May 1th, 1917. 



Meyalmnus hirfns on Kincardineshire Coast. — With reference to Mr. King's 

 note on p. 87, it may be Avorth pdinting out that the late Mr. McLachlan 

 recorded the capture of Meyalomiis hirtus by Professor Trail a few miles south 

 of Aberdeen, in Ent. iMo. Mag. vol. x, p. 90 (1873). — Kenneth J. Morton, . 

 13, Blackford Road, Edinburgh : May 10th, 1917. 



