208 [September, 



there is unfortunately an incorrect record. Mr. E. A. Newbery drew my 

 attention to the improbability of Hydremia palustris occurring in Somerset, 

 and, on re-examination, I find the specimens so labelled to be H. testacea Curt. 

 My thanks are due to him for enabling me to correct the error at once. — 

 C. T. GiMiNGHAM, Long Ashton, Bristol : August 18th, 1919. 



A few Insects in the New Forest. — A hurried visit of three or four 

 days to Lyndhurst on July 25th produced a very few interesting species ; but, 

 as a whole, insects were not numerous, and assiduous working produced far 

 less numbers than in Suffolk at this time of year. Limenitis sibylla was 

 worn but still abundant in the enclosures, with Lycaena aegon on the heaths at 

 Ringwood and Matley. Satyrus aegerla was as frequent as in 1895 {cf. Eiit. 

 Mo. Mag. 1895, p. 192) ; it is now become quite extinct in Suffolk, where 

 I have not seen it in thirty years' collecting. In all we noted twenty-five 

 species of butterflies. Choerocampa elpenor and Bonibyx riibi larvae were rare ; 

 but imagines of Fseudoterpna cytisaria, Eubolia paluinbaria, and Gelechia 

 ericetella were common among heather ; and Pyrausta purpuralis was every- 

 where. The dragon-flies were represented by Orthetruni caerulescens and 

 CorduU'(/astei- (mnulatiis, both rarer than in August 1901 (cf. Ent. Mo. Mag. 

 1903, p. 25) ; and the only other conspicuous Neuropteron seen was Calopteryx 

 viryo. Platycleis braehyptera was not rare in bogs at Matley and Bratley ; 

 Nemobius sylvestris, whose song we at first mistook for that of Cicadetta 

 montana [cf. Entom. 1911, p. 333), and Ectobia panzeri were comnuui ; but we 

 saw nothing of Mecostethus grosstts. Beetles were distinctly scarce, and I never 

 saw so few Lougicorns here ; nothing but Strangalia armata iu plenty, and one 

 S. nigruy Anomala frisehi,yv\th. green elytra, was in a sand-pit by Matley Bog, 

 where Sjyhindus dubius occurred in a black fungus on a felled tree ; Cryptv- 

 cephalus labiatus and both sexes of C. pusillus were on Myrica in Boldi'ewood ; 

 and Gonioctena viminalis on sallow ; Orchestes iota was not very common on 

 the above plant at both Boldrewood and Matley ; and Ilylobius abicfis was 

 lying under every felled pine log. The only really local Coleopteron was a 

 pingle Pliitypus cylindms J, new to ray collection; this was walking busily up 

 the inside which faced west of a ten-foot high dead oak stump in the 

 " Cicada paddock" at 11 a.m. (Greenwich time) on 26th ; Fowler, v, p. 45?, 

 gives as localities Windsor, Shipley, New Forest, Monmouth, Herefordshire, 

 and Scarborough ; with no addition to these in the Supplement. Two un- 

 coniujon Hemiptera were Pilophorus peiylexus on Myrica yale at Boldrewood, 

 along with numerous Oliarus leporinus, new to me, and recorded by Edwards 

 onl}^ from Clifton, Lulworth, Purbeck, and Ryde ; the latter was also found on 

 tlie same plant at Matley Bog. Macrodevia micropterum, Atractotomus mali, 

 Idiocerus distinguendus, Pediopsis virescens, and Callipterus bettdicola were 

 noted. The larger Diptera were scarce with the exception of Tabanidae ; 

 these attacked us with considerable eclat, and we thinned out Haenmtopota 

 pluDialis, Theriojilectes distinguendus, Tabanus buvinus, T. brumius, and T. macu- 

 liconiis, Atylofus fulvns, Chrysops caeeatiens ; but saw neither C. quadrata nor 

 Anthrax fetiestratus, hoth of which used to occur at Matley Passage. Dolichopus 

 atratus,Piptmculus unicolor, Criorrhina oxyacanthae (I took C. floecosa in Denny 

 Wood in 1911 and at Newport in W^ight in \d07 ) , Sericomyia borealis, Rud 

 Chrysotvxuni bicinctunt were all distinctly rare, with a single Alophora hemi- 



