22 [J vine, 



Mr. Miiller read a note concerning an old Swiss Entomologist named Joliann 

 Samuel Clemens, who was said to have died in 1812, and to have left extensive col- 

 lections and hei'baria, and many MSS. on the Natural History of the Valais, none of 

 which seem to have been published. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited a cocoon found by Mr. Swinton on a wall at Kilburn ; 

 its surface was smooth a7id extremely hard, and it had an oval opening at one end. 

 Mr. McLaehlan considered it to be an ancient cocoon of Centra vinida, altered in 

 texture and surface in consequence of the larva having had to construct it on a wall 

 instead of on a tree-trunk. 



Dr. Sharp communicated a paper on the StaphyUnidce of Japan, almost entirely 

 drawn up from materials collected by Mr. George Lewis. He described about 190 

 species, whereas, only 3 (or 4 ?) had been previously described from these islands. 



The Rev. A. E. Eaton communicated notes on the Ephemei-idcB by Dr. Hagen, 

 supplementary to the Monograph ou that family recently published, and compiled by 

 Mr. Eaton from Dr. Hagen's letters. 



ON CERTAIN BRITISH HEMIPTERASOMOPTERA. 



BY JOH>f SCOTT. 



Remsion of the Btthoscopid^, and descriptions of some species not hitherto 

 recorded as British. 



(continued from Vol. vs., p. 266). 



Ill the volume of the Verhandlungen d. K. K. Zool.-bot. Geeell. 

 in Wien for 1868, pp. 449 — 464, Dr. Tieber published a paper on this 

 group, wherein he described all the comparatively but little known 

 and new species, to which scarcely any alteration or addition is made 

 in his list published last year. He divides the group into five genera, 

 viz.: Macropsis, Idiocerus, Bythoscopus, Pediopsis, and AgnUia, all of 

 which are peculiar from their having a great breadth of head and 

 exceedingly narrow crown, especially in the centre. In Vol ii of the 

 Ent. Mo. Mag., pp. 102—105, 124—126, the Eev. T. A. Marshall 

 described all the species then known to him, adding in his intro- 

 duction, that more might be expected to occur ; and, in confirmation 

 of his idea, I have now the pleasure to submit the result of my investi- 

 gations. All the species I describe are from purely local sources, and 

 I would esteem it a great favor if any gentleman collecting in the 

 north would oblige me with a sight of his captures. 



Genus MACBOPSIS, Lewis. 

 This genus is of very limited extent, even throughout Europe, 

 as Fieber only enumerates 4 species, viz.: 31. microcephala, H.-Sch., 

 M. prasina, Eab., M. lanio, L., and M. scutellaris, Eieb., all of which 

 are green-coloured. Two of these are British. 



Species 1. — Maceopsis microcephala, H.-Sch. 

 Bytlioscoptis microcephaJits, H.-Sch., D. I., 164, 8. 



BatracomorpJiiis irrorafi/x. Lewis, Trans. Ent. Soc, Vol. i, p. 'A, pi. 7, 

 fig. 5 (1831). 



