QQ [October, 



drena fulvicrus. N. sexfasciata, one $ near Fairlight, tliis is usually 

 quite an early species, appearing in the beginning of June, and para- 

 sitic on Eucera. 



Stelis aterrima, off Veronica in a garden. 



Goelioxys acuminata, two $ oft Veronica in a garden. 



Saropoda himaculata, occasionally. 



Antliopliora furcata, one specimen, near Guestling. 



Holmesdale, Wandle Road, Upper Tooting : 

 12th September, 1879. 



DESCRIPTIOlSr OF AN ADDITIONAL SPECIES TO THE LIST OP 

 BRITISH HEMIPTERA. 



BY EDWAED SAUNDEES, P.L.S. 



Ateactotomus magin'icoe:n'is. Fall., Hem. Suec, 119, 8. 

 ? . Brown, densely covered with decidvious golden scale-like pubescence, inter- 

 mixed with black semi-erect hairs. 1st joint of the antenna; with its sides sub- 

 parallel. 2nd joint barely as long as the 3rd and 4th together, considerably swollen 

 and covered with short black hairs. 3rd and 4th pale whitish. Pemora with their 

 apices paler ; tibijB and tarsi pale, the former with small black spots and black 

 spiue-Uke hairs. Length, li — 1\ lines. 



Very like A. mali, but with the first joint of the antenuje much 

 thinner, and not widening to the apex, as in that species. 2nd joint 

 shorter and less swollen, and the tibi« with a small black spot. 



I caught 3 $ by beating larches in the neighbourhood of Croydon 

 on the 30th August, but did not succeed in taking the ^ , which, how- 

 ever, may be known at once by the long, comparatively narrow, pa- 

 rallel sided 2nd joint to the antennae. 



Holmesdale, Wandle Road, Upper Tooting : 

 Sth September, 1879. 



NOTES ON RARE LEPIBOPTEEA IN SOUTH DEVON. 

 BT A. H. JONES. 



During a stay of three weeks in June near Torquay, I met with 

 several of the rarer Lepidoptera, and a note of them may not be devoid 

 of interest, especially as the season has proved so bad for insects 

 generally. 



Three specimens of Deihphila livornica came under my obser- 

 vation : one on June 8th, which had been found at rest in a garden, 

 a second on the 11th, which I took at the flowers of Silene maritima, 

 and a third on the 13th, which I saw, at the blossom of red valerian, 



