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very uice male example of Ploiariola baerenspnin(;i Dohrn, hiding beneath one 

 of the pieces, its colour making it very difficult to detect, as it rested among 

 the loose spiders'-wehs which covered the inner side of the bark. — II. 

 Britten: July IQth, 1917. 



Berytui chivipfs F. iti Oxfordshire. — While sweeping Ono7iis at Bays- 

 water, near lleadington, Oxon., on July 14th, 1917, I was much pleased to 

 tiud a tine female Berytus clavipes F., and also two immature examples in the 

 next sweep. On carefully working over the patches of this plant I secured two 

 more fully developed specimens, one of each sex, with several more of the 

 insect in its earlier stages. — H. BRriTEN : July IQth, 1917. 



The food-plant of Calocoris alpestris Mey. — There appear to be no British 

 records of a food-plant for this fine bug, but Mr. Butler informs me that on the 

 Continent it has been found on nettle, and on several other plants which are 

 not British, and also on pine in the Carpathians. Having lately met with the 

 species in some small numbers, it will be of interest to record the following 

 facts: — On June 16th Mr. Routledge and I were working through the Gelt 

 AVoods when a casual capture of a specimen on the wing reminded us that the 

 species had formerly been taken in the locality by Mr. Murray. Careful 

 search resulted in our finally running it down to a thick tangle of herbage in 

 a moist part of the woods, consisting of Nettle, Dog's Mercury, a common kind 

 of Hemlock, some coarse grasses, and here and there small patches of the 

 Wood Woundwort {Stachys sylvatica). Each plant was considered in turn, 

 and in the end we found that it was from the last-named that C. alpestris 

 came. Owing to the rank growth of the herbage searching was difficult work, 

 and most of our captures were made by sweeping, but wherever the Stachys 

 grew the bug always turned up in the net, while where the plant was absent 

 from the herbajre so was the insect.* On the same plant Dicyphus stachydis 

 Rent, was common.— F. 11. Day, 26 Currock Terrace, Carlisle : July ISth, 

 1917. 



Tico Drayen-Jlies new to Cumberland. — On June 30th I met with Leucor- 

 rhinia dubia Lind. on Cumwhitton Moss, about ten miles to the east of 

 Carlisle. The day being warm and sunny the insect was very active, but I 

 managed to secure examples of both sexes, the female being scarcer than the 

 male. Although a northern insect Z. dubia has not hitherto been recorded 

 from Cumberland, but Lucas records it from Westmorland. Cumberland has 

 not, however, had much attention paid to its Odonata. 



Ayricn pulchellum Lind. was taken by me in the Penrith district on 

 June 2oth, 1905, somewhat sparingly, and I have not seen it since. 1 know 

 of no previous Cumberland record. According to Lucas this seems to be 

 mainly a southern species. He, however, gives one locality farther north 

 than Cumberland, namely, ArgylLhire. 



These two species bring up the list of Cumberland Odonata to thirteen. — 

 F. H. Day : July I'Sth, 1917. 



* I have seen it in abundance at Vissoye, Switzerland, resting on Umbelliferae. — G. C. 0. 



