3J2 [November, 



Criocephahis ferns Kr., at (iodalminri . — It may intorest yoii to know that a 

 specimen of Criocephalus J'eriis was taken on the school grounds here last 

 Monday. Dr. Sharp identified it for us.— O. H. Latter, Charterhouse, Godalm- 

 ing: September 24th, 1915. 



Scymnus arcuatus Rossi, in the Oxford district. — On July 29th the Rev. J. F. 

 Perry very kindly sent me a pair of living specimens of this very rare Scymnus, 

 which he had taken on ivy at Stonor Park, near Henley-on-Thames. The next 

 day I tried some likely -looking old ivy at Godstow (on the Berkshire side of the 

 Isis), and beat out a specimen almost at once. But many subsequent visits to 

 the same spot by Mr. J. Collins and myself have shown that the insect is here 

 decidedly rare, and only a very limited number of examples have so far been 

 taken by us ; neither have we met with the Aleurodes, on which the beetle was 

 found feeding by Father Perrj' at Stonor Park, on the ivy at Godstow or else- 

 where in the district. In the Dale Collection of Coleoptera in the Oxford 

 University Museum there are three examples of this Scymnus, one of which 

 bears a label in Wollaston's characteristic handwriting " (new to England) 

 Shenton, Leicestersh.," and a second is marked " Shenton," under the card ; 

 these are probably some of Wollaston's original captiires of the insect, as 

 recorded by him in Ent. Mo. Mag., Vol. IX, p. 117. — James J. Walker, Oxford: 

 October 18th, 1915. 



Cyaniris argiolus abundant in Norfolk. — Cyaniris argiolus is recorded as 

 having been abvmdant in the London district again this year. In a recent 

 visit of a few days to Ormesby Broad at the end of August last, I found the 

 species also abundant in the little village of Pilby, adjoining the Broad, and 

 ■where I was staying. It occurred all over the village, feeding on the blackberry 

 blooms on the sides of the roads, and about the ivy which there largely covers 

 the trunks of the older trees. This is about the only butterfly which seems to 

 be increasing in numbers in Britain. — Geo. T. Porritt, Elm Lea, Dalton, 

 Huddersfield: October 7th, 1915. 



[Both broods of C. argiolus, especially the first, have been exceedingly well 

 represented at Oxford this year. — J. J. W.]. 



Hemiptera-Heteroptera, ^'c, in S. Devon. — -The following Hemiptera- 

 Heteroptera were noted by me during September : Budleigh Salterton — Terato- 

 coris antennatus Boh.,* sparingly, on the banks of the Otter, on Scirpus 

 maritimus, the specimens captiu-ed (mostly $ $ ) varying in colour from bright 

 green to ochreous, the dark markings, too, showing great variation in develop- 

 ment, those with almost immacvilate elytra looking very like T. saxmdersiD. and 

 S.,* females of which were occasionally taken in the same sweep of the net ; 

 Cytorrhinus caricis Fall., with the preceding ; Lygus pratensis F., a curious large, 

 elongate, brightly coloured J ; Salda pilosella Thoms. Woodbiuy Common — 

 Coranus s^ibapterus de Geer,* on the heath. Dawlish Warren — Orthotylus ruhidiis 

 Fieb., var. moncreaffi D. and S., not rare, and 0. Jlavosparsus Sahib., by sweeping 



