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from here, and this is the first living specimen I have seen. The species is autumnal, 

 and, though this individual has probably hibernated, it is in very good condition. — 

 J. T. D. Llewelyn, Ynisygerwn, Neath : April 5th, 1874. 



Tceniocampa gothica, var. gothicina, in YorJcshire. — A variety of TcBniocampa 

 gothica, vrhich seems to me identical with Mr. George Norman's gothicina, occurs 

 not unfrequently in this district, along with ordinary specimens. I have also had 

 the form out in one of my breeding cages this spring. — Geo. T. Pokhitt, Hudders- 

 field : April \Uh, 1874. 



Eupithecia dodoneata two years in the pupa-state. — In 1872, I reared from the 

 egg several larvae of Uupithecia dodoneata, consignata, irriguata, and ahbreviata. 

 In the spring of 1873, the last three named species emerged, but not one specimen 

 of dodoneata. This caused surprise at the time, but scarcely so much as its 

 appearance this spring. After remaining in pupa two winters, I have reared about 

 twenty vei'y fine specimens. 



Can any of your readers kindly inform me if it is of frequent occurrence for 

 any species to remain so long in the pupal state ? 



I have myself reared many species, and cannot recall a single instance. — E. S. 

 Hutchinson, Grantsfield : April, 1874. 



Note on Ceralepttis lividus, Stein. — In the year 1863, Dr. Power captured at 

 Deal a single specimen of a Ceraleptus, and this having been sent to Dr. Fieber was 

 returned as C. squalidus, Costa, := C. Hindus, Stein, and it was so given in the 

 ' British Ilcmiptera.' Early in last year, I, for the first time, saw Costa's descrip- 

 tion and figure of his C. sqicalidtis : the former says nothing about the thickness of 

 the anteimoB, but in the latter they are represented slender throughout ; I then 

 doubted if our species, which have the 3rd joints thicker than the 2nd, were the 

 same as Costa's. Afterwards, in the ' Punaises do France,' I saw that Mulsant and 

 Rey did not adopt Fieber's idea of C. squalidus ; but, to be certain, I sent a British 

 example to Dr. Stein, who has had the kindness to say, in replyto my enquiry, — " The 

 " Hemipteron is Ceraleptus lividus, <J . The antenniferous processes, it is true, are 

 " only slightly developed, but this matters not, for the main points are the form of the 

 " 3rd joint of the antennte and the colour of the last segment of the abdomen. In 

 " C. squalidus, Costa (which, by the way, I know only from the S. of Europe), the 

 " 3rd joint of the antenna; is cylindrical and thin like the 2nd, and in this respect is 

 " exactly like C. gracillcornis, ll.-Sch. The apex of the abdomen is always black, in 

 " C. lividus reddish-yellow, like the preceding segments." The synonymy therefore 

 will be — 



Ceraleptus lividus. Stein, Berl. ent. Zeits. ii, 75, 3 (1858) ; Mulsant and Rey, 



Punaises de France, iii, 64, i (1870). 

 „ squalidus, Fieb., Eur. Hem., 219, 1 (1861) ; Dougl. and Scott, Brit. 



Hem. 127, 1, pi. v, fig. 1 (1865) ; nee Costa. 

 Coreus difficilis, Vollenh., Tijds. v. Entomol. 2 ser. iv, 56, 2, pi. 1, fig. 5 (1869). 



In the Ent. Mo. Mag., Vol. viii, p. 62, I wrote that Amblytylus ajfinis, Fieb., 

 D. and S., was only a variety of Macrocoleus soUtarius, Mey. Tho former name 

 was a lapsus calami for Oncotylus pilosus, D. and S. — J. W. Douglas, Lee : 

 April, 1874. 



