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Psylliodes cyanoptera, Illig., at Wicken Fen. — My friend Mr. A. J. Chitty has 

 recently been kind enough to give me a specimen of this rare species from Wicken. 

 Four examples were captured by him just off the Fen by the lock adjoining the 

 well-known inn, " Five miles from anywhere, no hurry." Three of them belong to 

 the typical form in which the head and thorax are rufous and the elytra cyaneous. 

 The other has the head and thorax infuscate, and approaches the var. d of Weise 

 (Naturg. Ins. Deutschl., vi, p. 8C6). The insect is closely allied to P. chrynocephala, 

 Linn., of which it was considered a variety by Foudras. Weise gives Sisymbrium 

 Sophia as a food-plant. — Q. C. Champion, Horsell, Woking: June 30th, 1896. 



Gnorimus nohilis at Farningham. — On June 13th I beat a fine specimen of this 

 rare insect out of elder blossom on the road from Farningham to Darenth Wood, 

 close to the ruins of the Roman Villa.— R. W. Lloyd, St. Cuthberbs, Thurloigh 

 Road, Balham, S.W. : July, 1896. 



Euryusa laticollis, Heer. — I took an example of this rare Staph, in 1893 at 

 Windsor Park. I believe my specimen, like those recorded by Dr. Power and Mr. 

 Champion, was found in a rotten beech tree. — A. J. Chitty, 27, Hereford Square, 

 S.W.: JunelQth, 1896. 



Malthinus fasciatus, 01., and halteatus, Suf.— In Canon Fowler's " British 

 Coleoptera " (vol. iv, p. 146) the male of M. fasciatus is said to have the posterior 

 tibiffi " furnished with a tubercle on the inner side behind middle." No mention is 

 made of this peculiarity in the male of M. balteatus, but the latter is said to be very 

 closely allied to fasciatus, " of which it has been by some authors considered a 

 variety, or one of the sexes." 



I have long doubted the correctness of the statement respecting the presence of 

 this tubercle in the male of what we caX\ fasciatus, 01., and have this year (which 

 has been a remarkably good one for both Malthinus and Malthodes) taken several 

 pairs of the insect in cop. In neither sex is there any trace of a tubercle, but in M. 

 halteatus (also taken in cop.) I find the male has the tubercle ascribed to fasciatus. 

 The posterior legs of balteatus S • however, are not fuscous, this character applying 

 only to the ? . The fact of the males of the two species being dissimilar disposes 

 of the question of balteatus being a variety or sex oi fasciatus. 



The thorax of balteatus is in both sexes narrower than in fasciatus. The males 

 may be known by their more triangular head. In all the specimens of fasciatus 

 taken in cop. the head of the male is red, yellow behind eyes (viewed from the side), 

 this part being black, or nearly so, in the female.- E. A. Newbeey, 12, Churchill 

 Road, Dartmouth Park, N.W. : July Ibtk, 1896. 



Cionus scrophularicB on Buddlea.—h^sccts are excellent botanists. I found 

 quite a number of Cionus scrophularicB, L., upon a plant of Buddlea ylobosa 

 growing in my garden. The shrub comes, of course, originally from Chili ; but I 

 see on looking up its botanical position, it is placed among the figworts {Scrophu- 

 lariacecB).-W. D. R. Douglas, Orchardton, Castle Douglas, N.B. : June 20th, 1896. 



