252 [NoTember, 



The other addition to our list is the Tingid Acahjpta platychila 

 Fieb. A few specimens of this insect were sent me for naming about 

 two years ago by Mr. W. West, who had received them from Mr. B. S. 

 Harwood ; Mr. Harwood states that they were taken by liis brother at 

 Brandon, 29.v.iyi2. I should have brought forward this addition before, 

 but that I hoped more specimens might turn up and so render a fuller 

 account possible ; there seems, however, no chance of this at present, and 

 the announcement should no longer be delayed. 



The nearest allies of this insect in our British Fauna are A. nigrina 

 and A. macrophtliahnn, to which it bears considerable superficial resem- 

 blance ; it differs from them in having the marginal membrane of the 

 pronotum angulated instead of rounded in front, and composed of from 

 three to four rows of lueshes instead of two or three as in the other 

 species. A. platycliila exists in two forms, and Mr. Harwood was 

 fortunate enough to capture both. The brachypterous form has the 

 hemielytra rounded at the apex as in other members of the genus ; but 

 the macropterous has them elongated, thus acquiring a form more like 

 that of a Monanthia. 



Length, macropt. 3-3^ mm., brachypt. 2^-21 mm. 



Horvath has already recorded this species from Britain, but on 

 what evidence I do not know. It has been found also in Sweden, North- 

 western Bussia, France, Holland, Germany, and Austria-Hungary; Reuter 

 records it also from Siberia. 



14 Drylands Road, Hornsey, N. 8. 

 Oct. l^th, 1917. 



NOTE ON APHELOCHIRUS AESTIVALIS Fabr. 

 BY DR. E. BEROEOTII, C.M.Z.S. 



In the August number of the present Volume of this INIagazine, 

 pp. 180-182, Mr. E. A. Butler has published a paper to the effect that 

 the British representative of this genus should bear the name A. viontan- 

 doni Horv. I feel sure, however, that it should retain its old name, 

 aestivalis Fabr. 



Horvath, in his monograph of the genus, described seven species 

 (not four, as Mr. Butler says), three of which are recorded from 

 Northern and Central Europe. Of these, the new species montandoni 

 is said to have been confounded with acsticalis, and the other, nigrita, 



