276 [May, 



Further note on Trioza crithmi. — The ink on the pages of the last part of the 

 Magazine could have been barely dry when in answer to my enquiry, at page 263, I 

 received a kind letter from Mr. P. H. Grosse, F.B.S., informing me that samphire 

 grew in some profusion on Anstey's Cove Kocks, within a little distance from Tor- 

 quay, and asking what the creature was like and when to be looked for. I at once 

 replied, and have now the great gratification to say, that through his exertions I 

 possess not only specimens of this species, but also the ova, larvae, and nymph states. 

 In fact, the whole biology of this valuable addition to the British fauna now lies 

 before me in 4 glass bottles. I purpose describing the insect and its earlier stages 

 afterwards, and will here only add that through all its transformations to the perfect 

 state, it is uniformly of an orange-yellow colour. The eggs are set on long pedun- 

 cles, and are easily seen. I believe that at Folkstone the plant is also very abundant, 

 and as that place is much easier of access from here for pleasure seekers and 

 others than is Devon, I may hear of the insect being also found there. — Id. : 

 16th April, 1882. 



Additions to the Perthshire Hemiptera. — The following species of Hemiptera 

 were captured at Pitlochry, and may be added to my former lists (vol. xvi, pp. 175 

 and 213). 



Agalliastes WilJcinsoni, two specimens with fully developed membrane, among 

 short grass in woods ; Myrmedobia tenella, Teratocoris viridis, moss, Knock Barril ; 

 Nabis flavomarginatus, Scholz, several developed specimens ; Poeciloscytus Gyllenhali 

 with fully developed membrane ; Orthotylus fuscescens, Kirschb., on pines ; Corixa 

 carinata, Sahib., Loch Broom or its vicinity ; Trioza abdominalis, Flor, on ivy ; T. 

 galii, Foerst., short grass, Faskally ; Doratura stylata, Boh., Middlehaugh, July and 

 August, many developed specimens; Libumia neglecta, Flor ; L. elegantula, Boh., 

 Faskally ; L. denticauda, Boh., Faskally ; L. uncinata, Fieb., grass in woods ; L. 

 inesomela, fully developed ; L. discolor, Boh., developed ; L. insignis, Scott (Mr. 

 Scott will describe this new species) ; L. cemulatrix, Scott ; L. distincta, Flor, 

 moss, Knock Barril ; L. ,forcipata, Boh. ; L. notula, Grerm., Craigour ; Stiroma 

 nasalis, Boh. ; Dicranotropis hamata, fully developed, in profusion ; Chlorita 

 viridula, Fall. ; Acocephalus rivularis ; A. polystolus, Fieb., Middlehaugh; Delto- 

 cephalus MinJci, on a dry hill, August ; D. socialis var. onustus ; D. psendocellaris, 

 Flor; D. pieturatus, Fieb.; D. F lori, Fieb. ; Aphalara picta, Craigour ; Thamno- 

 tetiix frontalis, H.-S., Culk ; Eupteryx abrotani, Doug. ; Athysanus russeolus, Fall. ; 

 A. piceus, Scott, in a marsh, Dunfallandy ; Fupelex spathulata, F. produeta, F. 

 cuspidata, all common on a dry hill, Middlehaugh ; Orthezia cataphracta, very 

 abundant in the larval state ; I bred two winged males and found others in Septem- 

 ber in profusion, sitting quietly on fine grass ; O. floceosa, common in the larval 

 state, with the above ; O. urticce, rare, in the larval state. Deltocephalus pieturatus 

 and Athysanus russeolus are new to the British list. — Gc. Noeman, Peebles : March 

 28th, 1882. 



Abundance of Ftinella denticollis, Fairm. — Since writing my former note on 

 Ptinella denticollis (Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xvii, p. 186), I have taken every oppor- 

 tunity of searching for that minute beetle. Considering that (as the Eev. A. 

 Matthews informed me) in 1881 there were not 40 specimens of this insect in all 



