26G IM«y, 



Meyr. ; the species lias, of course, no possible connection with 

 Conchylis. The insect alluded to as a new Penthina (p. 99) is the 

 female of the above species. 



• Conchylis ? auriceps, Butl. (see note, p. 99), has no affinity what- 

 ever with the Tortricina, being, in fact, a species of Philohota 

 (^CEcophoridce) closely allied to P. Arahclla, Newm., from which it seems 

 to me that Mr. Butler is mistaken in asserting that it differs in neu- 

 ration and other respects. The locality is given as " between Sydney 

 and Moretou Bay," places 500 miles apart. 



Cliristchiirch, New Zealand : 

 January 4-tA, 1883. 



ON THE BEITISH SPECIES OF EREMOCORIS. 

 BY J. W. DOUGLAS. 



In the "British Hemiptera " (1865), under Eremocoris erraticus 

 (1) is described, at p. 17S, a form (2) which had been deemed to be 

 distinct, but both forms having been submitted to Dr. Fieber were 

 returned as E. erraticus, Fab., No. 2 with the remark " Eremocoris 

 erraticus, Fab. : ist vollkommen gezeichnet und hiernach die europ. 

 Hemipt. zu berichten." The two forms thus became to us but varied 

 representatives of one species ; but when I said (Ent. Mo. Mag., xi, 

 2t55, [1875]) that the Fabrician type specimen of LxjgcEus podogrictis 

 agreed with our E. erraticus it was the form No. 2 that I had specially 

 in view : this identity has been since cori'oborated by Mr. Edward 

 Saunders. Eecently I sent to Dr. Ilorvath an example of No. 1 and 

 2, the same in fact that had been to Fieber, and No. 2 comes back as 

 L. podngricus. Fab., this conclusion verifying that derived from my 

 examination of the original, of which Fabricius says " Femora antica 

 hidentata atra, pedes reliqui picei ;" the original idea of Douglas and 

 Scott that it was a distinct species being also corroborated. Until I 

 identified it as above visited., podagricus had been referred to as a 

 synonym of various species, but in 1874 it was acknowledged as distinct 

 by Populus who described it under the name icaunensis. 



Our-E". erraticus (No. 1) is pronounced by Dr. Horvath not to be 

 the Fabrician species of that name, but Facliymerus fcnestratus, 11.- 

 Schf., AV^inz., iv, 95, T. 140, fig. 437, a species very similar but distinct, 

 the special characteristics being that all the thighs are black and the 

 first pair have two prominent teeth on the under-side. Herrich-Schiiffer 

 only says " Schienen und Tarsen rostroth," but the figure has all the 

 thighs black. The species has been placed, by those authors who have 

 referred to it, as a synonym of E. erraticus. 



