8 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Saunders (in the edition with coloured plates). It is a southern 

 species, not having been recorded north of Birmingham. H. ru- 

 ficeps, Thorns., is usually brachypterous, and is widely though 

 locally distributed — viz. : Perthshire, Essex, Surrey, &c. It has 

 not been figured. 



Aepophilus bonnairei, Signoret, is another genus and species 

 of doubtful position. It has lately been placed between Acanthia 

 ( = Salda) and Ceratocombus, but it may conveniently be con- 

 sidered here. It is always, so far as is known, brachypterous, 

 having the general appearance of a narrow, rather plump, bed- 

 bug nymph (Cimex lectularius, Linn.). It is figured by Saunders. 

 As numerous interesting accounts* of its habits have been so 

 comparatively lately recorded in papers accessible to British 

 students, it will be unnecessary to do more here than briefly 

 summarise them. It may be looked for under embedded stones 

 and fragments of rock, or indeed under starfish (sec. Marquand), 

 or any object affording good cover on the seashore near the 

 lowest tide-limit. The mature insect has been encountered from 

 February to August, and is probably to be found all the year 

 round. The records of capture are from Polperro, Penzance, 

 Plymouth, Lyme Regis, Isle of Wight ; and near Waterford, 

 Ireland. It has derived its generic name from the fact that it 

 is often found in company with the remarkable Coleopteron Aepus. 



(To be continued.) 



MEDITERRANEAN LEPIDOPTERA. 



By Philip de la Garde, R.N., F.E.S. 



With reference to the notes by Mr. Gervase F. Mathew on 

 " Lepidoptera from the Mediterranean " (Entom. 1898, pp. 77- 

 84, 108-116, and 141), I should like to add the names of some 

 species found by me in three of the localities he mentions — viz. 

 Malta, Corfu, and Trieste ; in each case at a different time of the 

 year from that at which he visited them. 



Malta. — The dates accompanying the following species show 

 when they were first obtained: — Lasiocampa (Bombyx) quercus 

 var. sicula, emerged in July ; Triphcena pronuba, May 9th ; 

 Aspilates citraria, April 12th ; Acidalia asellaria, March 28th ; 

 Comifrons ulceratalis var. March ; Aglossa pinguinalis, March 

 28th; Pyralis farinalis, May 9th; Sphcderoptera ictericana, April. 



P. 82. — Ccenonympha pamphilus I saw first on March 18th, and 

 Deilephila euphorbia emerged from chrysalis early in August. 



* See Marquand in ' Ent. Mo. Mag.' 1887, xxiii. p. 1G9 ; and Keys in the 

 same Magazine, 1895, xxxi. p. 135 ; and 1890, xxv. p. 247. 



