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conditions which ied me to suppose that it is a true inmate of the nest of this 

 ant, like Q. brevis, which occurred in its company, as well as Microglossa 

 gentilis, Mark, (not rare), three species of Myrmeclonia, &c. This particular 

 nest has for two or three years past produced in large numbers two beetles not 

 usually associated with L.fuliginosus, viz., Heterothops nigra, Kr., and Myceto- 

 phagus quadriguttatus, Mull. ; Microglossa suturalis, Sahib., is usually present 

 in plenty. My friend Mr. J. Collins also took Q. puncticollis in another nest of 

 L.fuliginosus some time ago. — James J. Walker, Oxford : September 8th, 1914. 



A melanic form of Galerucella tenella, L. — On August 29th I swept off meadow- 

 sweet (Spirsea ulmaria) at Cothill a specimen of this common species, entirely 

 pitchy-black with the exception of the femora, which are somewhat lighter in 

 colour, and the pubescence, which is of the normal pale-brown hue and gives 

 the insect a peculiar mealy appearance. Except for the difference in outline, 

 it is curiously like a small G. fergussoni, Fowler. Further search on the same 

 ground has up to the present failed to produce any further examples of this 

 interesting form. — James J. Walker : September, 1914. 



Species of Cionus on Buddleia globosa. — At the beginning of last month a 

 neighbour called my attention to a large shrub of the Chilean Buddleia globosa 

 in his garden, the leaves of which were covered with brown blotches due to the 

 parenchyma having been eaten away by some insect. Suspecting the cause, I 

 shook the shrub into an umbrella with the immediate result of a crowd of Cionus 

 pulchellus, Hbst., and its larva ; this being a species I have hitherto found only 

 on the small figwort, Scrophularia nodosa, growing in shady places in woods. 

 Two other species of the genus, C. scrophularise, L., and C. blattarise, F., were 

 also present, but in much smaller numbers ; the former has already been 

 recorded by Mr. W. D. E. Douglas (Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xxxii, p. 179) as having 

 been found on Buddleia globosa in the South of Scotland. The genus BuddJeia 

 is now referred to the Natural Order Loganiacese, but until quite recently it 

 was included in the Scrophularia cese ; so these weevils have showed themselves 

 to be good practical botanists in their selection of this shrub as a '• substitute " 

 food-plant. A day or two ago I was informed by a nurseryman that his young 

 plants of Buddleia globosa had been so much injured by the ravages of 

 " beetles " in the early summer, that he had been on the point of uprooting 

 them all. On examining the new growth of the plants I at once found Cionus 

 pulchellus, which appears in this case to have been the sole culprit, as my 

 informant said that the " beetles " were all of one kind. — James J. Walker : 

 September 20th, 1914. 



Buddleia as an attraction to Lepidoptera.—Th.e Buddleia magnifica of the 

 nurserymen's catalogues — which is, I believe, a comparatively new cultivated 

 form of the Chinese B. variabilis, Hemsl. — appears to possess attractions to the 

 Diurnal Lepidoptera superior to those of any plant I have ever seen, with the 

 possible exception of the Verbenaceous Lantana camara, L., now so universally 

 distributed throughout the warmer parts of the world. Its large racemes of 



