1874.] 235 



A letter was read from Mr. J. V. Gooch respecting damage occasioned to coffee- 

 plantations in Natal by the larvae of a longicorn beetle, Monohammus leuconotus, 

 ■which was exhibited in all its states. His son, Mr. W. D. Gooch, stated that he was 

 grubbing-up all sickly plants, and only two per cent, were found to be not affected 

 by the beetle ; as a remedy he had applied a dressing of Stockholm tar to the stems. 

 Mr. McLachlan thought the beetle probably only attacked plants already in a sickly 

 condition from other causes, in accordance with the habits of a majority of species 

 of the group ; but Mr. Miiller was of opinion that the beetle was the primary cause 

 of the injury, and recommended hand-picking at the time the perfect insect occurred. 



Mr. Kirby exhibited a specimen of Lycana Phcebe from Australia, recently 

 described in this Magazine (page 107 of the present vol.) by the Eev. R. P. Murray. 

 Also Sati/rus Ziphia from Madeira. \ 



Mr. Butler communicated an amplification of his statement at the previous | 

 meeting, respecting some American species of Apatura. He was of opinion that 

 ^. £er.9e and iycaon of Messrs. Scudder and Riley {nee Fab.), equal Clyton and 

 Celtix of Boisduval, and are distinct : whereas Herxe and Lycaon, Fab., are sexes of the 

 species described and figured by Edwards as A. Alicia. 



Mr. Druce communicated descriptions of fifteen new species of diurnal 

 Lepidopie)-a. 



ON CERTAIN BRITISH SEMIPTERA-EOMOPTERA. 



BY JOHNS' SCOTT. 



Revisica of the Bythoscopid^, and descriptions of some species not hitherto 

 recorded as British. 



(concluded from page 195). 



Species 11. — Pediopsis nana, H.-Scli. 



Bythoscopus nanus, H.-Scli., Panz. D. I., 1-13, 6. 



Pediopsis nanus, Flor, Ehyn. Livl., vol. ii, 192, 6 : Kirsclib., Ciead., 

 173, 5 ; Fieb., Verhandl. d. k. k. zool.-bot. Gesell., 461, 12 (1868). 



cj . Head and pronotum black. Elytra white, almost transparent. 



Head : crown — posterior margin generally very narrowly testaceous or yellowish. 

 Face black. Ocelli generally, and a more or less wide, longitudinal, central 

 line from about in a line with the lower margin of the eyes to near the apex, 

 testaceous or yellow ; side margins from below the eyes generally narrowly 

 testaceous or yellow. Clypeus black, apex nan'owly yellow. 



Thora.v : pronotum black, finely crenulated, posterior margin somewhat broadly 

 whitish, lateral margins bi-oadly yellow anteriorly, shading off towards the pos- 

 terior angles into whitish ; near the anterior angles a small (frequently doubled) 

 black puncture ; anterior margin with a transverse, shining, black patch, bor- 

 dered posteriorly by a narrow yellowish margin. Scuiellum black ; basal angles 

 with a narrow, yellowish-white, triangular spot, or yellowish-white as far as the 

 transverse channel, with a black, longitudinal, central streak, a black triangular 

 spot within the basal angle, and a small black T near the central streak aiid 

 about in a line with the apex of the triangular spot ; apex black. Elytra 

 white, almost transparent. Clavus — nerves white, inner marginal uerve dark 



