1878. J 19 



The pupa is nearly | inch in length, and about ^ in diameter, of somewhat 

 dumpy shape, the head and thorax thick and rounded, the three flexible rings of the 

 abdomen well cut at the divisions, their anterior ridges having punctate roughness, 

 convexly tapered towards the rather blunt tip, which is furnished with four diverging 

 shortish spines, the outer pair much the shortest ; the colour is dai'k purplish-brown, 

 and the surface shining.— William Buckler, Emsworth : A2}ril 30th, 1878. 



Clivina fossor myrmecoph ilous. — Whilst out collecting at Wliinmoor, near Leeds, 

 early in April this year, I came across several nests of Formica Jiava,J)e Greer, which 

 I searched for myrmecophilous Coleoptera, and, to my surprise, found in them Clivina 

 fossor, L., an addition to Mr. Janson's published lists. 



I have found this beetle, singly, in several localities round Leeds this season, but 

 here in a few moments, from two or three nests I took above a dozen specimens, picking 

 them up with the wetted blade of a penknife, and then with difficulty, as the ants 

 invariably seized them and attempted to carry them off ; the loss of several specimens 

 testifying to their success. — Ht. Ceowthee, The Museum, Leeds : May 6th, 1878. 



Phryganea ohsoleta in Ireland. — I possess a specimen of Phryganea obsoleta 

 captured at Ivillarney, in tlie summer of 1867, by Mr. John Ray Hardy, of Man- 

 chester. It is lai'ger and darker coloured than my Scotch examples. See Enfc. 

 Month. Mag., Vol. xiv, p. 117. — Benjamin Cooke, Bowdon : 2)1(1 May, 1878. 



Occurrence of Thereva fuscipennis, Meigen, an addition to the British List of 

 Diptera.—ln June and July, 1875, I captured, on the banks of the BoUin, one male 

 and five females of a Thereva, which Mr. Meade and I have determined to be T. 

 fuscipennis (Meig.). Both sexes are described by Scluner. — Id. 



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Hemipteea Gtmxocerata Etjeop^. Hemipteees Gtmnoceeates d'Eueope, 

 DU Bassin de la Mediteeeanee et de l'Asie Russe, decrites par O. M. Reuter. 

 Tome premier, avec 8 planches. Helsingfors : Imorimerie de la Societe Finlandaise 

 de Litterature. 1878. Pp. 1—187. 4to. 



Except in Fieber's Europaischen Hemiptera (1861), there is no work in which 

 the European Semiptera-Heteroptera have been treated as a whole, the works of 

 other authors having reference to the product of more restricted limits, and although, 

 in that a great advantage was gained by concentrating into one view the labours of 

 previous Hemipterists, yet the advance in knowledge of new species and of conse- 

 quent views of classification since the date of publication of Fieber's work has been 

 so great as to make the present work extremely welcome. The scope of the term 

 " European " is here extended to include the area lying within the following limits : 

 on the north — the Frozen Ocean ; on the west — the Atlantic ; on the south and east 

 — the Atlas Mountains, the Sahara, the Arabian Gulf, the Syrian Desert, Mesopo- 

 tamia, Chorassan or the Great Salt Desert of Persia, the Hindukoosh, the Bolortag, 

 the Mus-tag, the Thian-Schan, the Altai and Daur Mountains, and also the Seas of 

 Ochotsk and Kamtschatka. Thus are included the following countries which are 

 geographically out of Europe :— Algeria, the coasts of Tunis, Tripoli, and Egypt,, 



