94 [April, 



Thomson (Skaiid Col., vi) makes a similar division, and he places 

 Hijpnoidus {-^^ Negastr ins, Thorns.) in a different group of ihQElateridcs. 



C. maritimus, Curt., and C. riparius, Fabr., belong to Grypto- 

 liypnus ; and G. sahulicola, Boh., G. pulchellus, Linn., G. 4i-pustulatus, 

 Fabr., G. det^mestoides, Herbst, and G. 4^-guttatus, Lap., to Hypnoidus. 



It may also be noted that in Gryptohypnus the prosternal sutures 

 are straight, parallel, or very little convergent posteriorly, as in Dr. 

 Horn's Group 1 ;* and in Hypnoidus the prosternal sutures are arcuate 

 and very evidently convergent posteriorly, as in his Group 2. 



Dr. Horn [Ent. News, v, pp. 6, 7 (1891)] states that the North 

 American species divide into two genera in precisely the same way, 

 either by the form of the prosternal sutures, or by the characters 

 indicated by Dr. Bergroth. The two genera should therefore be 

 retained as distinct. 



Horsell, Woking : 



March loth, 1895. 



Xanthia ocellaris, Borlch., in Sussex. — Xanthia ocellaris appears resolved to 

 make itself at home with us. Another specimen has been sent up for inspection by 

 my friend Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher. It was taken from a street gas lamp at Bognor, 

 Sussex, on the night of October 7th last by Mr. H. L. F. Guermonprez, of that 

 town. The specimen is a male, considerably worn, of the more handsomely coloured 

 and richly banded typical form of the species, and is the second specimen captured 

 in England, which I have seen, of this form, the remainder being, as before stated, 

 of the dark unicolorous variety lineago. There is yet another striking variety, of 

 which specimens exist in the National Collection at South Kensington, far paler in 

 colour, yellowish-brown, with hooked apex, white dot in the renal stigma, and white 

 nervures beyond the middle of the fore-wings. It is labelled paUeago, as received 

 from the continent. If this is correct, palleago is a form of X. ocellaris, and not of 

 X. gilvago, as indicated by Staudinger. So far as I know, this variety has not yet 

 been observed with us. — Chas. G. Baeeett, 39, Linden Grove, Nunhead : March, 

 1895. 



" A hunt for Phorodesma smaragdaria.^' — I find with regret that the article by 

 Mr. Auld upon the larva of Phorodesma smaragdaria in the March number of this 

 Magazine has given keen annoyance to a much esteemed correspondent. Mr. George 

 Elisha writes : — " I am simply amazed that in these matter-of-fact times we should 

 have a veritable Rip Van Winkle arise in our midst to tell us this old story, which 

 we all know so well, as something new ; or is it that we live in such very fast times 

 that the discovery of this particular larva about eight years ago, wheia its whole 

 history was made known, has already become ancient history, and the true facts lost 

 in the dim past, that we are ti-eated to this mythical anecdote of the ' beetle 

 catcher and his friend,' which I need hardly say existed only in the imagination of 

 the narrator ? I must confess that I have a grievance in this anecdote ; and the 



' Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, xviii, p. 2 (1891). 



