310 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



18. Second and third segments of intermediate tarsi sub- 



equal. (Pronotum in the macropterous form, apically 

 spinose) . . . . . . .17 armata (Burm.) 



18fl. Third segment distinctly longer than second . . 19 



19. More than three times as long as broad ; (pronotum in 



macropterous form not spinose) ground colour of legs 

 deep black ..... 18 nigncansi (Burm.) 

 19a. Less than two and a half times as long as broad; ground 



colour of legs fulvous . . .19 salinus (Champ.) 



20. Second and third segments of intermediate tarsi sub- 



equal . . . . . . .20 aiifiiistipes, Uhl. 



20a. Second segment much longer than third 21 tenuipes, Champ. 



Species not included in the above table : — 



No. 22. obesa, Uhler. 



,, 23. (Bueipes, Haglund. 



,, 24. infenialis (Butler). 



„ 25. trailii (F. B. White). 



(To be continued.) 



NOTES AND OBSEEVATIONS. 



Second Brood of Epinephele ianira. — With reference to Mr. 

 Lucas's note on this subject (ante, p. 287), I am inclined to think that 

 a late emergence of Epinephele ianir<i is the rule rather than the 

 exception in the more sheltered parts of the south coast. Whether 

 we are right in attributing it to the occurrence of a second brood is 

 perhaps open to question, although I must say that such little evidence 

 as is obtainable is favourable to that presumption. One is far too apt 

 to omit from one's note-book all mention of a species generally regarded 

 as " so common," and as a consequence reliable records regarding its 

 times of appearance are few ; but such casual notes as I have been 

 able to tiu'u up go to support my recollection that it has generally 

 occurred fairly plentifully in the sheltered hollows under Beachy Head, 

 where I have collected more or less regularly for many years well into 

 the end of August. My first visit to that locality during the past 

 Slimmer was on August 19th ; E. iauiia was then flying commonly, 

 and continued on the wing in varying abundance, according to the 

 suitability of the weather, until I left the neighbourhood on September 

 15th ; and a pair that I captured on the 8th of that month are in per- 

 fectly fresh condition — a fact, the full significance of which will be 

 appreciated when it is mentioned that a strong gale swept the coast 

 on the 3rd and 4th. — Robt. Adkin ; Lewisham, October, 1901. 



Pterostoma palpina Double-brooded. — I do not think the appear- 

 ance of a second brood of P. palpina, with full-sized imagines, can be 

 so unusual, in the South of England, as Mr. A. J. Lawrance seems to 

 think {vide ante, p. 288). Of the seventeen male specimens before me, 

 collected from various sources, by far the largest one of all was taken 



