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mented in Berlin, ent. Zeitsclir.). This genus is fast ac- 

 quiring in this country rather more than an average number 

 of species, and several of its rarer members are now well 

 known in collections — thanks, chiefly, to the persistent col- 

 lecting in the South of Messrs. Champion, E. A. Waterhouse, 

 Power and Gorham. It is reasonable, therefore, to suppose 

 that our list will receive many further additions, when cor- 

 responding energy is shown in the other parts of Great 

 Britain. Two species have during the past year been added 

 to our number; localities and food plants have been recorded 

 for 31. coracinus, coj^vmus, symjjhyti, Kunzei (attributed to 

 difflcilis as a var. by Reitter; but cf. Ent. M. M. ix, p. 156), 

 hrunnicornis, marrubii, rotundicollis and others; and the 

 following changes in nomenclature noticed: — M. maurus, 

 Wat. Cat., 7iec Sturm, = ovaf/iis, Sturm; M. seniciilus, Er., = 

 murinus, Er., var., according to Brisout (it is the $ of that 

 species, according to Reitter); M. pcdmatus, Er. (distinctus, 

 "Wat. Cat., ?icc Er.) = obscurus, Er., $ , and 31. marrubii, 

 Bris., = 7iamcs, Er., according to Reitter; 31. pictus, Rye, 

 = mutabilis, Rosenhauer, according to Brisout, and the latter 

 is a var. of brevis, Sturm, according to Reitter. 



I may here observe that I have an unrecorded specimen 

 of the rare 31. exilis (of which, as British, I can only recall 

 to memory Mr. G. R. Waterhouse's exponent taken in the 

 British Museum court-yard, and one in Dr. Sharp's collec- 

 tion, from Galloway), taken by the Rev. R. P. Murray in 

 the Isle of Man ; and that the Rev. H. S. Gorham notes 

 Stachys sylvatica as a particularly attractive plant, having 

 on it found 31. oc/irojjus, Kunzei, difficilis, brunnicornis 

 and memnonius. 



Dr. Sharp has (Ent. M. M. ix, pp. 154 and 155) published 

 some very useful notes on certain of our puzzling species of 

 DascillidcB ; — resulting in the conclusion that 3Iicrocara 



