1 qa [September, 



more extensive and less interrupted by black, forming a complete band across 



the middle segments mixta, Kl. 



(= femoralis, C). 



— Clypeus and labrum white ; s.s. of ? scarcely pilose, and its mucronations 

 strongly divergent. Femora of $ whitish-yellow. Red of abdomen obscure, 

 forming rather an irregular dorsal splash than an actual band... macul a , Kl. 



Macula is probably the commonest species, at any rate in Southern 

 England, and is the only one that I have personally met with. Mixta 

 has been sent to me by Mr. Evans, of Edinburgh. Contigua 

 (= mixta, C.) and sharpi I only know from the collections at South 

 Kensington. 



Stbomboceros, Konow. 



This genua is distinguished from its allies by the very thick 

 1st joint and the elongate (not transverse) 2nd joint of the antennae, 

 and in the ? by the short saw-sheath with simply rounded apex. We 

 have, I believe, one species only, viz., delicatulus, Fall., generally 

 occurring upon ferns. 



It is a small and frail-looking, but pretty, little insect, with the 

 unstable coloration (greenish fading to yellow) of a Pteronus of the 

 miliaris group. No doubt, as Mr. Cameron says, it is more frequent 

 in JSorth Britain than in the south. But it is certainly not "entirely 

 absent," and I doubt even if it is " very rare," in any part of Eng- 

 land ; for I have specimens from several midland and southern 

 localities, and only last year Mr. Champion took it in Devonshire 

 (Mortehoe) and kindly sent me the specimen. 



(To be continued). 



ALEOCRARA CRASSIUSCULA, Sahlb. : A BRITISH INSECT. 

 BY G. C. CHAMPION, F.Z.S. 



My old friend, Mr. W. West, of Greenwich, has recently sent 

 me specimens of this important addition to our list for determination, 

 noting at the same time that the species was not described in Canon 

 Fowler's work. About twenty examples were captured by him in 

 May last, from under dung, on the Denes at Great Yarmouth, where 

 A. nitida and A. lanuginosa also occurred in profusion. A. crassius- 

 cula, Sahlb. (for which the name A. moesta, Grav., is adopted in the 

 last edition of Emitter's Catalogue, but which is, of course, not the 



