200 tAugust, 



Mr. E. A. Elliott and I found both plant and insect common upon the 

 Lincolnshire coast at Skegness during June 1912. 



In Suffolk the Sea Buckthorn has been recorded from two localities only • 

 in sandy lanes between Shottisham and Sutton Heath (five miles from the sea 

 and three from the River Deben) and at Thorpe (a mile or so to the north of 

 Aldeburgh, on the east coast). I have searched in vain for it at the former 

 locality, where it may now be extinct. I have searched in vain for it at the 

 latter, till July 10th, 1914, when I discovered a small patch of very low bushes, 

 some thirty yards by less in extent ; and upon these the Psylla was at once found 

 to be abundant. Edwards only describes a greenish white form of this species 

 with pale rust-yellow markings ; this is occasionally entirely pale flavidous and 

 not always with rufessent markings, the elytra not infrequently have no infus- 

 cate tinge. But there is a very distinct form (doubtless of the same species), 

 occurring in both sexes, which is pale brick-red throughout with pure white 

 pronotum, scutellum, &c. ; the abdomen banded above with piceous or black ; 

 the occiput and more of the fiagellum black ; and the anterior femora inf uscate 

 above ; it is a larger and stouter form than the viri descent one, with the elytra 

 strongly infuscate towards their apices. Of those I captured only one-fith 

 belonged to this darker form, which I here name var. suffolciensis. 



The Psylla associated here with few other insects, the majority of which 

 doubtless came from the rough heath grasses and Ononis reclinaia, among which 

 its pabulum was considerably intermingled and partly hidden. The only ones 

 seen in the course of a somewhat thorough search were Macrotylus paykulli, 

 Fall, (abundant), Dicyphus annulatus, Wolff, Stiroma affinis, Fieb., RMzobius 

 litura, Fab., Agelastica halensis, L., Sapromyza lupulina, Fab., Lasius niger, var. 

 alienus, Forst., and among marram grass on the surrounding sandhills, Pompilus 

 plumbeus, Fab. I shall be delighted to give the Psylla to any one whose series 

 is not full of it. — Claude Morlet, Monk Soham House, Suffolk : July lHth 

 1914. 



Societies. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society ; 

 Thursday, May 28th, 1914.— Mr. B. H. Smith, B.A., F.E.S., President, in the 

 Chair. 



Mr. Buckstone, 1 $ and 3 <j> hybrids of the cross Nyssia zonaria $ and 

 Apocheima hispidaria $ . The larvae were very like those of the latter species 

 and were constitutionally weak, only four imagines resulting from some 300 

 fertile ova. Mr. West (Greenwich), a specimen of the extremely rare Hemi- 

 pteron, Pygolampis bidentata, taken by him in the New Forest in May. Only 

 one specimen had previously been captured in Britain. Mr. Newman, a living 

 pupa of Strymon pruni, which closely resembles bird's excrement. Mr. Oahan, 

 examples of a mealy-bug, both sexes of which had occurred two years running 

 on flowering currant in his garden at Bedford Park. It was supposed to be 



