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Olibrus flavicornis, Sturm, I have found on two or three occasions on Creph 

 biennis in this neighbourhood, but am not prepared to say this is the plant it usually 

 frequents ; it is, however, not unlikely, as the Bpecies of this genus seem so frequently 

 to be associated with plants of. the order Composif.se.— E. Gko. Elliman, Chesham : 

 November 7th, 1908. 



JJemiptera from Cambridgeshire. —I have taken the following Hemiptera 

 mostly during I lie last three years. From Wioken Fen, Acompus rufipes, Wolff, 

 (also from Quy), Nobis lineatus, Dahlb., Salda elegantula, Fall., Calocoris tici- 

 nensis, Mey., (Sept., 1907), Teratocoris antennatua, Boh., 1 6" , (June, 1908). From 

 the Devil's Dyke, near S waff ham prior (moss), Corimelsena scarabxoides, Linn. (1), 

 (Oct., 1907), Podops inuncta, Fab., (also from Cambridge), Drymus pilicornis (1), 

 (Oct., 190(5), Dicyphus glohulifer. Fall, (sweeping). From Cambridge and neigh- 

 bourhood, Heterogaster urtiese, Fab. (on nettles), Stygnus rusticus,¥a,\\., Dietyonota 

 craxsicornis, Fall., Monanthia ampliata, Fieb. (common), M. costata, Fieb. (2), 

 (sweeping aquatic plants), 31. dumetorum, H. Schiff. (hawthorn, abundant in May), 

 Rebrus r'uficeps, Thorns., Microvelia pygmxa (undeveloped ? ? in numbers), 

 Eeduvius personatus, Linn, (flying to light, rare), Nabis flaoomarginatus. Scholtz, 

 Salda cincta, H. Schiff. (in sphagnum, Oct., Nov., April), Megalocerxa longicomis, 

 Fall , f'oeci/oscytus nigritus, Fall., Ranatra linearis, Linn (2), Corixa distincta, 

 Fieb., limitata, Fieb., bonsdorffii, Sahib., coleoptrata, Fab. (all Oct., 1908, abundant), 

 C. semislriata, Fieb. (rare, but from three localities), C. germari, Fieb., 3 ? ?, 

 Sigara minutissima, Linn, (five in branch of Cam).— H. K. Tottenham, 7, Magda- 

 lene Street, Cambridge : November 0th, 1908. 



Microplax albqfascialus, Costa, in Jersey. - Besides the above captures in Cam- 

 bridgeshire, it my be worth while to record the occurrence of this usually southern 

 Hemipteron from Jersey. It was taken in December, 1906, in refuse of seaside plants 

 such as Armeria, &c. — Id. 



Further notes on the breeding of Abraxas grossulariata var. varleyaia. — In 

 continuation of my notes on the breeding of Abraxas grossulariata var. varleyata, 

 it will be remembered (Ent. Mo. Mag., Dec, 1907, p. 276), that the two broods I 

 then had for further experiment were the produce of two ? varleyaia, crossed with 

 typical <J o" , but which had been bred from a varleyata ? crossed with an ordinary 

 wild £ , the previous year, and the result of which had been typical specimens only. 

 Through a disastrous accident which occurred when the larva? were nearing full 

 growth in the spring of this year, I lost nearly the whole of both broods, so that out 

 of the lot I bred only nine moths, five of which (four <? $ and one ? ) were of the 

 ordinary type, and four, (all <? $ ) of varleyata, so that we may fairly assume that 

 the broods would have produced both forms in about equal numbers. In confirma- 

 tion of my own experiment in 1907, where varleyata crossed with the wild 

 ordinary type produced nothing but typical specimens, a collector in a neighbouring 

 town last year paired a fine ? varleyata which he had bred from his own garden 

 with a typical £ from the same source, and from them a fairly large brood of 

 moths was reared this year, but again only typical specimens, not the least trace of 



