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For this novelty I propose the name of — 

 Tinea okientalis, 

 and have thus described it : 



Exp. al. 8 — 11 lines, the largest specimens fully equalling the smaller specimens 

 of the South African vastella, Zeller (gigantella, Stainton). Anterior-wings grey, 

 rather glossy, with a faintly darker discoidal spot — (the male specimen, which is 

 rather worn, is paler and more ochreous-grey) — no black at the buseofthe coda; cilia 

 dark grey. Posterior-wings with a tuft of long scales at the base, dark grey, with a 

 purplish gloss ; cilia pale grey. Head and face ochreous-yellow. Thorax dark grey. 

 Antennae rather thick, dark grey. Palpi with the 2nd joint dark brown, the short 

 terminal joint ochreous. 



Three specimens (1 (^,2 ?), taken by Mr. C. "W. Simmons, at 

 Poplar, in his conservatory, in which was a buffalo horn from Singapore. 



Mountsfield, Lewisham, S.E. : 

 October 16th, 1878. 



Harpalus tenebrosus at Bridlington. — At the end of August, I took a fine speci- 

 men of Harpalus tenebrosus, at Bridlington, Yorkshire ; as far as I know, it has not 

 before been recorded from a locality so far north. Nebria livida was abundant at the 

 same time and place : on hot days, it seemed to prefer sandy places part way up the 

 low cliffs, and was then very easily obtained — as a rule, however, it was to be got by 

 splitting the clay boulders, an operation requiring a good deal of hard work and per- 

 severance. It was invariably concealed, and never to be seen running in the sun : it 

 seemed, too, though abundant, to be gregarious and local. — W. W. Fowlee, Repton, 

 Burton-on-Trent : October, 1878. 



More enquiries about Plant-lice. — Following up my ideas about the cycle of life 

 of the Aphidians, I bred this year a good quantity of plant-lice, mostly of the family 

 of the Pemphigians {PempMginw, Passerini). My last and most important discovery 

 was the sexuated forms of the apple tree-louse {Schizoneura lanigera) ; they consist 

 of small insects without rostrum and with five-jointed antennae, the length being, for 

 the $ , 0'63 mm., and for the S , ObO mm. As with Phylloxera, and, in fact, with all 

 Aphidians I am aware of, these sexuated little creatures are laid by a winged-louse, 

 of what I call the " pupiferous " form. The act of depositing the little pupae, out of 

 which the sexuated insects come almost immediately, takes place in the same way as 

 the laying of an egg ; yet the best proof that it is not an egg but really a pupa, is 

 that with this louse, and still more clearly with the poplar leafstalk-louse {Pemphigus 

 spirothecce) , the pupa is so transparent that the sexuated female and the large egg 

 which she carries in her abdomen are perfectly visible. Now, as the true egg is in- 

 side, the skin in which it is enveloped, along with the female, represents a chrysalis 

 or pupa, and not an egg. 



An Englishman, Sir Joseph Banks, has given, in 1819, in the Trans. Hort. Soc, 

 vol. ii, pp. 162 — 169, a note on Aphis laniger. I should like to know, as I cannot 

 procure the work here, if he speaks of the sexuated insects, or if they were unknown 

 to him. 



