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Rooms on April 23rd, 1912, lots 257 and 258, which were put up 

 together, contained five specimens of a Crambus, taken at Deal in 

 1889, which in my opinion belong to this species. Crambus lithargy- 

 rellus should therefore, I fancy, be regarded as a British insect. The 

 five specimens referred to are now in the collection of the Natural 

 History Museum. 



The same lots contained a single specimen of Crambus poliellus, 

 Treitschke, taken at Deal in 1885 ; so this species also has claims to be 

 considered British. C. poliellus, which is essentially a sand-frequenting 

 insect, appears on the wing at the beginning of September, and is well 

 worth looking for. This specimen is also now in the collection of the 

 Natural History Museum. 



Arundel House, 



Kensington Palace Gardens, W. : 

 April 1th, 1914. 



NOTE ON THE GENUS ABACHNOCORIS, Scott. 

 BY DR. E. BERGROTH, C.M.Z.S. 



Scott's description of this remarkable genus of Nabidse, and of the 

 two species known to him, is very detailed ; but in considering it to be 

 " very nearly allied to Allseorliynchus Fieb.," he overlooked some of its 

 most important characters, and his account of the rostrum, etc., is in- 

 accurate. All this has been corrected by Reuter, who, in 1890, erected a 

 distinct subfamily for the genus. Later, after the discovery of the genus 

 Pararachnncoris Reut., Reuter found that it could not be separated 

 from the subfamily Beduviolinee. The disagreement between Scott's and 

 Reuter' s description of the veins of the membrane is simply due to the 

 fact that the venation is very inconstant in the members of this genus 

 and cannot be relied on even as a specific character. In the British 

 Museum I have seen Scott's type and the type of the Nabid Velidia 

 berytoides, Uhl., from the island of Grenada. This latter insect is 

 a very tiny form and distinct from the other species of Arachnocaris 

 by the beautifully banded legs ; but the generic characters are the 

 same, and Velidia, Uhl., must be united with Arachnocoris. Herdo- 

 nius (?) panamensis, Dist., also belongs to this genus, Distant having 

 described a Nabid as a Capsid. In rearranging the Nabidse of the 



