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near Edinburgh, oa the 1st July, 1825, aud was beautifidJy figured by Curtia as 

 Hemerobius Jimbriatvs. Its rarity in Britain is unaccountable. There is just the 

 possibility that two species are confounded under the name hirtiis. I have about 

 thirty examples in my collection from various parts of Europe, and the British insect 

 appears to be smaller and darker than most of the others, agreeing actually with only 

 one specimen from the Island of Oesel in the Baltic. — Id. : 2Uh June, 1873. 



Neiiroplera at Weijbridge. — The excursion of the Entomological Club to Wey- 

 bridge on the 5th inst. was not favoured by very fine weather, for, although there 

 was but little rain, the sky was overcast for nearly the wliole day. My operations 

 were confined to the fir-wood and ponds about St. George's Hill. Tyrrhosoma 

 tenellum, of which I had taken one or two individuals on each of the two preceding 

 years' excvirsions, was tolerably common, and no doubt only needed sunshine to 

 make it actually abundant. Peripsocus alboguttaUts was very common, One specimen 

 of Nothochrysa capitata, an insect of great rarity, and which I had never before 

 seen alive, was beaten from fir, and the same trees produced four examples of 

 Hemerobius inconspicuus. I also found one Sisyra terminalis, which, however, is 

 usually common on the banks of the Wey. In Trichopiera, the best species was 

 Setodes tineiformis. — Id. : ^th July, 1873. 



Notes on a British hug. — I have lately caught at Reigate, on Ononis arvensis, 

 several specimens of a bug which appears to me to be known in our Englsh collec- 

 tions under two distinct names — Oncotylus tanaceti, Fall., and Macrovoleus sordidiis, 

 Kbm., neither of which I believe to be correctly applied to it. I have specimens 

 under both names from Messrs. Douglas and Scott, and these specimens are clearly 

 referable to the same species ; and to my mind it is equally clear that they cannot 

 be referred rightly either to tanaceti, Fall., or sordidus, Kbm. I have not Falle'n's 

 original description before me, but Fieber and Kirschbaum both agree in the charac- 

 ters they assign to his species. Tliey describe tanaceti as green or golden-green, 

 covered with black (Fieber says expressly only black) hairs, and with the end half of 

 the femora spotted with brown. The size is given by Kirschbaum as 2j lin., by 

 Fieber as 2i lin., thus making it about the size of Macrocoleiis molUculiis, or, if 

 anything, lai'ger. It is said to occur on Tanacetum vulgare. I have seen a specimen 

 named tanaceti from Dr. Scholtz, which Mr. Douglas very kindly lent me, agreeing 

 exactly with the descriptions of the above-named authors, and quite distinct from 

 our species. Ours is considerably smaller, of a dirty yellowish-green (or, in some 

 specimens, brownish) colour, has only the ends of the femora spotted, and has golden- 

 white hairs mixed with the black bristly ones ; besides this aud other characters, it 

 occurs on Ononis arvensis. Sordidus, Kbm., is described as being black-haired 

 above, and white-haired below (" supra nigro pilosus, infra albido pubescens "), and 

 therein differs from oui's ; it is also said to have the membrane without the dark cell, 

 which ours distinctly has, still the descriptions very nearly fit our species ; but they 

 all compare it with tanaceti, to which, so far as I can make out, it has no relation- 

 ship. In my continental collection, I have this same species from M. Meyer Diir 

 under the name of Tinicephalus hortulanus ; Mr. Douglas has also lent me one, 

 bearing the same name, from Dr. Scholtz, and I find that our specimens agree well 



