18UC.] 253 



Mustard, showing injury caused by beetles, Phaedon cochlearice. 



Red currant, showing habit of Trochilium tipuliforme. 



Gooseberry and currant, showing habits of Abraxas grossulariata. 



Oak, showing habit of Tortrix viridana. 



Red currant, showing injury to young shoots caused by larvoe of Incurvaria capi- 



tella. 

 Cabbage, with diamond-back moth, Plutella cruciferarum. 

 Apple, with small ermine moth, Hyponomeuta padella. 

 Elm, with leaves curled by Aphidce, Schizoneura ulmi. 

 Poplar, with purse-galls formed by Aphidce, Pemphigus bursarius. 

 Red currant, with leaves blistered by Aphis ribis. 

 Oak, with leaves showing presence of Phylloxera quercus. 

 Beech, with hairy galls on leaves, formed by a fly, Hormomyia piligera. 



British Museum (Natural History) : 

 September 10th, 1896. 



ANISODACTYLUS NEMORIVAGUS (Duftschm.), A BKITISH INSECT. 

 By G. C. CHAMPION, T.Z.S. 



The insect known to British Coleopterists under the name of 

 Anisodactylus {Sarpalus) atricornis, Steph., is a variety of A. nemori- 

 vagiis (Duftschm.), and not of A. hinotatus (Fabr.), as hitherto 

 supposed, and Duftschmid's name must therefore be added to our list 

 of Carahidce, it antedating that of Stephens by twenty years. The 

 two species are abundantly distinct, and they may be separated by the 

 following characters : — 



Marginal sulcus of the prothorax extending rather broadly to the anterior angles ; 

 elytra with the sides and apex broadly and distinctly pubescent in both sexes, 

 the sides moderately sinuate near the apex ; legs black or black with the tarsi 

 reddish [binotatus, Fabr., rufitarsis, Steph., and calceatus, Steph.], or entirely 

 reddish [spurcaticornis, Dej.] binotatus, Fabr. 



Marginal sulcus of the prothorax becoming very narrow in front ; elytra shorter and 

 less parallel, with the sides very narrowly, and rarely the extreme apex, indis- 

 tinctly pubescent in both sexes, the sides strongly and abruptly sinuate near the 

 apex ; size much smaller; legs black or black with the tarsi reddish [_atricornis, 

 Steph., and nigricornis, Steph. (1832)], or entirely reddish [jiemorivagus, 

 Duftschm. {1S12), gilvipes, Dej. (1828)] nemorivagus, Du.itsch.m. 



The typical form of A. nemorivagus has not been previously 

 recorded from Britain, but it occurs on the heaths about Woking 

 and Chobham in company with the black-legged variety, which does 

 not appear to have been noticed on the continent. This species 

 has been quite plentiful about Woking during the past summer, 



