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COCCINELLID.^. 



Coccinella Vl-qxiitata. 



Of this species, which is hardly ever seen in any collection, Mr. Mason and I 

 discovered a specimen in Mr. Griesbach's collection, which passed into the possession 

 of the late Mr. W. Garneys. 



SCTM^"US QUADRILUXATUS, 111. 



This insect has alternately been inserted in and omitted from the British list ; 

 there is an authentic specimen from Kent in Mr. Rye's collection. 



ScTMNTJs Eedtenbacheri, Muls. 



M. Brisout named a doubtful Scymnus from Mr. Wilkinson's collection (now 

 in the possession of Mr. Mason) for me, as this species. It is a small insect (f lin.) 

 of long oval shape, with long grey pubescence, sometimes entirely black, but usually 

 with a longitudinal curved band of a red or yellowish-red colour on each elytron ; 

 th.e legs are entirely of a pale yellow colour (Ent. Mo. Mag., xix, 67). 



Scymnus arcuatus, Rossi. 



This is a very distinct species, " the elytra having in common two horse-shoe- 

 shaped whitish-yellow lines, open towards the front, of wliich the lower encloses the 

 upper." One specimen was brushed out of very old ivy at Shenton Hall, near 

 Market Bosworth, Leicestershire, by Mr. WoUaston, on August 24th, 1872 (Ent. 

 Mo. Mag., ix, 117). 



SCTMNUS LIVIDUS, Bold. 



Smaller, more oval, and much more finely and evenly punctured than S. dis- 

 coideus. It is livid testaceous in colour, and has the head and claws black. One 

 specimen found on the sea-banks near Hartley by Mr. Bold (Ann., 1872, 91). 



Lincoln : June, 1883. 



THE BRITISH SPECIES OF DICYPHUS. 

 BY DR. O. M. REUTER. 



Messrs. Douglas and Scott (Brit. Hem., i, pp. 370 — 381), as well 

 as Mr. Saunders (Syu. Brit. Hem., pp. 284—285), describe from 

 Britain five species of the heteropterous genus Dicyphus, Fieb.,Eeut. 

 {Idolocoris, D. & S.), \iz., glohuUfer, Fall., annulatus, WolS, pall icornis, 

 Fieh., palUdus, H.-Sch., and errans, Wolff . One of these species, viz., 

 pallidus, is, however, wrongly determined, the British species noted 

 by this name being quite distinct from the true paUidus, originally 

 described from Germany by Herri ch-Schaffer, and living on Stachys 

 sylvatica. The British species occurs on Epilohium ; and regarding it 



