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Typhlocyha tilim, Geoff, {c.f. E. M. M., xii, 79, and xiv, 132). — At the same 

 time and place as above I took three S and one ? from a fir tree. In this species it 

 is to be observed that the costal area on the whole length of the elytra in both sexes 

 has a vittate suffusion of rose colour, which is not apparent in the otherwise very 

 similarly marked T. blandida. In the S the postei'ior tarsi are wholly black, but in 

 the ? , except the claws, tliey are wholly pale. 



Typhlocyha rosea, Flor. — In the E. M. M., xii, 77, I indicated this species as 

 British, on the strength of one example, but I find now, on the re-examination of it 

 by the side of the $ tilics, above mentioned, that it is only that species, and that I 

 had not observed the peculiar great length of the Ist joint of the posterior tarsi, 

 characteristic of rosea, is wanting in my example. T. rosea must, therefore, be ex- 

 punged from our list, but I hope only temporarily, for, as it is found on spruce firs 

 {Pinus abiesj it may surely occur in Bi'itain. 



Typhlocyha quercus, Fab. — At the beginning of July I saw this species in all 

 stages of existence, except the adult, on the underside of the leaves of cherry trees ; 

 subsequently, the first-developed insects were to be seen alongside pupae, and after- 

 wards, for two or three months, plenty of adults were to be met with on every tree in 

 the garden. 



Typhlocyha dehilis, Doug. (E. M. M., xii, 204). — This still remains scarce, and 

 hitherto I have seen only the ? . I found one on oak at Darenth Wood, October 

 2nd, and one on beech at the Addington Hills, October 14th. Mr. Edwards also took 

 one on beech at Norwich (p. 136 ante). M. Lethierry reports that the species has been 

 found in France — in the Landes and the Hautes-Pyrenees (Comptes rendus Soc. Ent. 

 Beige., 7 March, 1878) — but the food-plant is not yet ascertained. 



Typhlocyha nitidula, Fab. — I have examples of this with the black colour on 

 the corium of the elytra so much extended that it covers nearly the whole surface, 

 and I believe, as indeed M. Lethierry himself suspects, that this form is his Anomia 

 Norgueti (Hem. Nord, p. 73). 



Typhlocyha gratiosa, Boh. — Last year, for the first time, I found the $ on beech 

 trees, September 7th, but then newly developed and limp, there were also females ; 

 on the 27th, I obtained plenty of the $ fully coloured, but no males. I do not un- 

 derstand how, in so short a time, the males had vanished, except by supposing they 

 had fulfilled their functions and died. The females always long survive the males. 



Typhlocyha Douglasi, Edwards (E. M. M., xiv, 248). — On the 28th September I 

 got (J and $ out of beech trees, on the leaves of which I am convinced the species 

 must live, there being scarcely any other kind of tree in the place, and it comes only 

 from the beech. 



Eupteryx stachydearum, Hardy. — In his description of this species (Trans. 

 Tyneside Nat. Field-Club, i, 422), Hardy says, "legs entirely yellow, or the greater 

 part of the tarsi black." This difference of coloration is a sexual character; last 

 autumn I captured a great many examj)les on some plants of balm {3IeUssa officinalis) 

 in the garden, and found that in the male the second joint of the posterior tarsi was 

 always more or less black, and in the female it was always pale like the other joints. 

 Tliere could be no doubt that they were the sexes of one species, for I saw many 

 in cop. 



Eupteryx melissce, Curt. — As Curtis says, and Marshall also observes, the elytra 



