1883.] 79 



portion, and from them the abdomen tapers obtusely to the tip, which is 

 furnished with two fine points and minute curly-topped bristles ; its 

 colour at first is of a light drab, but towards May of the year 

 following, it becomes a dark brownish-green, and is rather shining. 

 Emsworth : July 2Mh, 1883. 



A NEW SPECIES OF PELTASTICA, MANNERH. {TEOGOSITIDM). 

 BY GEORGE LEWIS, P.L.S. 



This genus was formed in 1852, for the reception of an insect 



from Sitkha, and in 1879, Herr E. Eeitter described a second species 



from the Amur. The type of the latter has been kindly sent to me 



for inspection, and I find it is specifically distinct from one I have 



lately taken in Japan, and which I now describe and dedicate to my 



friend, 



P. Eeitteei, n. sp. 



Oblong, pale testaceous, rather shining, club of antennae pitchy, head between 

 the eyes, and disc of thorax, black. The thorax is transverse, rounded, and much 

 dilated at the sides, where it is closely and deeply punctured : the disc is rough and 

 irregular, with ill-defined tubercles. The front of the head, anterior and lateral mar- 

 gins of the thoracic disc, and legs, are reddish. The elytra are deeply punctured in 

 regular rows, with the suture and four lines of costa elevated, having tubercles 

 more or less distinct. The tubercles are black, with several spaces between them, 

 less raised, whitish. Beneath, pitchy-black. Length, 2 lines. 



It differs from amure^isis in being rather less elongate, propor- 

 tionally broader and more convex. The convexity is most conspicuous 

 in the region of the elytra, and the punctuation of the thorax at the 

 sides, where it is pale and dilated, is close, not scattered as in amu- 

 rensis. The sides of the thorax are also more rounded, and the basal 

 angles less broken in outline. 



Suyama, Nikko, and Fukui are localities for it, where it is not rare 

 in May and June at fermenting sap in forests of fair elevation, and I 

 have taken it as late as August. 

 Wimbledon : Wth July, 1883. 



SOME FRIENDLY REMARKS ON MR. BUCKTON'S STANDARD WORK 

 ON THE BRITISH APHIDES. 



BY JULES LICHTENSTEIN. 



I have just received the 4th and last volume of Mr. Buckton's 

 splendid " Monograph of British Aphides," and cannot sufficiently 

 praise the immense quantity of interesting observations and valuable 



