1806.] 233 



British Chri/sididcB : correction of an error. — Having been absent from England 

 since March last, I have only just become aware of an error which I did not observe 

 in correcting the proofs of my List of British C/trt/sididce (Ent. Mo. Mag., 1896, 

 p. 124). Under the heading " Grenus Chrysis, Linn.," the first item should be 

 "1. neglecta. Shuck." (instead of " succincta "). Fortunately this slip does not 

 affect the Synoptic Table, where (on p. 126) the name " neglecta" is duly given. I 

 should like, however, to take this opportunity of mentioning an additional character 

 to those there enumerated for distinguishing C. neglecta from the species most like 

 it, -viz., pustulosa, hirsuta &\\(\. osmice. These latter have all rather long " gense," 

 i. e., there is a considerable space between the eyes and the base of the mandibles, 

 whereas in neglecta there are practically no " gense," the eyes almost touching the 

 mandibles. — F. D. Mokice, Brunswick, Woking : September 8th, 1896. 



Bare Diptera taken in the New Forest in 1896. — Although the commoner kinds 

 of Diptera were not so abundant as usual during the past hot and dry summer, it 

 seems to have been favourable to some of the rarer species, and during June, July 

 and first half of August I was fortunate enough to take the following : — Epiphragnta 

 picta, July 2l8t (1), Atylotus fulvus (1), Laphria marginata (12), Dioctria linearis 

 (1), B. flavipes (2), Nephrocerus flavicornis, July 9th (1), Didea fasciata (2), Syrphus 

 guttatus, June 22nd (1), Xylota nemorum (1), Myopa fasciata (2), Stevenia maeulata 

 (1), Acanthiptera inanis, June 11th and July 26th (2), Lissa loxocerina (1), and on 

 August 13th a splendid specimen of Callicera cenea taken on flowers of Mentha 

 growing in the brook on Butts Lawn, near Clay Hill, Lyndhurst, which brings the 

 number of recorded British specimens up to six. Nephrocerus flavicornis has only 

 been taken once before, in 1894, as recorded by me in this Magazine (vol. vi, 2nd ser., 

 p. 255), but through an error, the middle of May instead of June 16th was the date 

 of capture then given. Syrphns guttatus has also only been recorded once previously 

 by Mr Coryndon Matthews (vol. v, 2nd ser., p. 39), and Acanthiptera inanis is not 

 included in Mr. Verrall's list, but will be found described by Mr. Meade (vol. 

 XX, p. 9) in his '* Annotated List of British AnthomyiidcB." Epiphragma picta is 

 figured by Curtis in his " British Entomology " (plate 50) under the name of Lim- 

 nobia ocellaris, but my specimen unfortunately is rather faded and possessed only 

 three legs when captured. — Feedk. C. Adams, 68, St. Ermin's Mansions, West- 

 minster : September, 1896. 



Teansactions of the New Zealand Institute, 1895 (Extracts from the). 

 Wellington, N. Z. 

 Art. 38. — Further Coccid Notes : with Descriptions of New Species, and discussions 



of questions of interest (pp. 379-410, 8 plates). 

 Art. 39.— Contributions towards a Monograph of the Aleurodidce, a Family of 

 Hemiptera-Homoptera (pp. 411-449, 11 plates). 

 Both articles by W. M. Maskell, Registrar of the University of New Zealand, 

 Corr. Mem. Roy. Soc. of South Australia, and all the figures in the plates are from 

 the author's drawings. 



