204 [September, 



MonantJiia, but the brachypterous has the oval outline which such a 

 condition usually produces and with which we are familiar in Acnlypto. 

 A sjjeeimen in the British Museum is intermediate between these. 



L. capiicina Germ, 



Head black, with five forwardly directed straight ocbreous spines; pro- 

 notiim black, with anterior vesicle, three discal carinae, and raised side margins, 

 ocbreous, the latter with setigerous denticles which are often indistinct, so 

 that it appears to be merely ciUated ; bemielytra ocbreous, discoidal area with 

 4-5 series of meshes at the widest part, costal area with two rows of meshes, 

 the dividing lines of the outer row black, lateral margins with distinct setigei'ous 

 denticles; whole of upper surface strongly pilose, hairs curved at the end; 

 antennae with first two joints brown, third ocbreous, fourth black, third about 

 2\ times as long as fourth; femora brown, tibiae and tarsi ochreous, claws 

 black ; underside black. 



Length, brachypt. '2\-2^ mm ; niacropt. -§-3 mm. 



The species lias been recorded from France, Germany, Switzerland, 

 Italy, Austria, Hungary, Serbia, Rumania, S. liussia, and the Caucasus. 



Douglas & Scott, in their " British Hemiptera," include it, as 

 Monantlda capiicina, amongst the "reputed" British species (p. 619), 

 so that in their daj^ there were apparenth^ rumours of its occurrence in 

 Britain, but no autlientic specimens were known, and it is satisfactory, 

 therefore, to be able now to place the species definitely on our list. 



I am indebted to Mr. Keys for kindly presenting me with some of 

 his captures. 



14 Drylands lioad, Ilornsey, N. 8. 

 Au(/Jist 1st, 1919. 



LYGAEONEMATVS WESMAELI Tischb., A HITHEKTO UNRECORDED 

 BRITISH SAWFLY (FROM YORKSHIRE). 



BY THE nEV. F. D. MORICE, M.A., r.Z,S. 



In August 1917 information was received at the Pathological 

 Laboratory, Kew Gardens, that " the larch Saw Fly " was attacking 

 larch-trees (aged about 14 years) in woods belonging to the Arncliff 

 Estate in Yorkshire. Mr. Fryer asked that specimens of the larvae 

 should be sent to him, and these were reared in the Laboratory, the 

 imagines beginning to emerge by the end of May 1918. 



It was expected that these would be examples of Lygaeo7iematns 

 laricis Hartig ; but when they were sent to me for identification. I 



