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one specimen, flying in tny garden ; Mohrchiis minor L., on hawtliorn blossom 

 and on sallow, in June ; Pachyta ceranihycifonnis Schrank, on flowers, and by 

 sweeping in long grass. At Perranporth, Cornwall — Cassida murraea L., ia 

 quantity, in May 1916, near the buried church. — Edward J, Newill, Witley 

 Vicarage, Godalming : May 30th, 1917. 



[Asemum is attached to pine, Tetropimn to larch, and M. mhior to spruce, 

 the last-named usually frequenting hawthorn or other flowers in the vicinity 

 of the spruce in which it breeds. I have taken it in three localities in Surrey 

 —at Ilydon's Ball, near Milford, on hawthorn blossom, beneath spruce ; at 

 Compton, near Guildford, on the wing, beneath spruce, during the past month ; 

 and at Mickleham, both on hawthorn flowers and in a large decaying spruce, 

 from the trunk of which it was once found emerging in numbers by Mr. K. W. 

 Lloyd and myself. — G. C. C] 



I\ote on Trofjoderma khapra Arrotv, a recently described Dermestid granary 

 jjest. — In the current number of the Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, No. 114, 

 pp. 481-2 (June 1917), Mr. G. J. Arrow describes, under the name Trogodervia 

 khapra, a new and destructive Coleopterous pest from India attacking grain, 

 especially wheat. On July 30th, 1908, while examining screenings of barley 

 from Karachi, at Messrs, Horsnaill & Reynolds's granary at Strood, Kent (well 

 known to Coleo]>terists), I found a few specimens, mostly defunct, of a species 

 of Troyoderma. These have hitherto remained in my collection without a 

 name, and are identical with Mr. Arrow's insect. A few larvae of this 

 beetle (which I failed to rear) were also present, as well as Latheticus, Tri- 

 boliiim, Silvcmus, etc., more or less commonly, and the two ordinary Calandras 

 in great abundance. I have not seen the Troyoderma in subsequent visits to 

 the granary, but I understand that it has been taken in England by Mr. Toniliu 

 and Mr. G. B. Walsh. — James J. Walker, Brockeuhurst : June 1917. 



Ceuthorrhynchus alUariae Bris., in Cumberland. — On May 22nd, 1915, I 

 beat a couple of specimens of a small black Ceuthorrhynchus from Hedge 

 Mustard growing by the roadside, near Wreay in this county, which I 

 identified as alUarice Bris. Fowler (Col. Brit. Isls. v, p. 353) says it is con- 

 flned to the London and Southern districts, while in Vol. vi, p. 314, its 

 distribution is extended northward to Theddlethorpe in Lincolnshire. Feeling 

 doubtful of their correct determination, I submitted my specimens to Mr. E. 

 A. Newbery, who says they are "certainly correctly named." My friend 

 Mr. F. H. Day tells me that he and Mr. H. Britten took this species at 

 Great Salkeld in 1908. It has thus occurred in two stations in Cumberland 

 some 12 miles apart, and probably occurs in other northern localities if 

 searched for, as it appears to be a very local insect. — Jas. Murray, 2 Balfour 

 lioad, Carlisle : June Ath, 1917. 



Psylla ulmi Forst., in Oxfordshire. — Whilst examining an unusual-looking 

 elm-tree growing in private grounds at Oxford, uu July 10th, 1916, I was 

 much surprised to find numbers of a green Psylla on the undersides of the 

 leaves, although 1 had never been able to find any species of Psylla on 

 our native elms. On sending examples to Mr. J. Edwards, he identified 

 them as Psylla ulmi Fiirst., and stated that his examples came from the 

 European white elm, Ulmus pediinculuta Foug. The Oxford elm proves to be 



