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small one, though apparently of the same species, which had 

 arrived in this country in sugar-cane from Mauritius in August, 

 1894. Kew, therefore, constitutes the second locality (if locality 

 it may he called) for this earwig in England. The first was at 

 Tavistock, in Devon, where, in 1894, Mr. H. Swale discovered the 

 species in an old haker's shop* in large numbers among the ashes 

 under the furnace. They had their nests in the crevices of the 

 pillars that supported the oven and in the floor. He made out that 

 they were first observed about 1885, and as they were still there 

 last year the colony is evidently well established. As, however, 

 the home of this earwig is in the Mediterranean countries, Africa, 

 Central and South America, Southern Asia, &c., it is hardly 

 likely to permanently take up its abode here, at any rate out 

 of doors. 



AnisolahU anniiUpes is shining black in colour, with a yellowish 

 lateral margin to pronotum. Antennne of sixteen joints, the three 

 basal ones being reddish, the next eight very dark with lighter 

 apex and base, the next two white, and the last three again 

 dark. Elytra and wings are both absent. The forceps are 

 short and stout, without teeth, but with slightly wrinkled inner 

 margin : in the male the right leg of forceps is more incurved 

 at the point than the left. There are thirteen divisions to the 

 body of the male and eleven to that of the female, the first three 

 forming the thorax, the next nine and seven respectively the 

 abdomen, while the last or anal one bears the forceps. The 

 flattened legs are pale yellow in colour with a dark band round 

 the middle of the femora and another at the base of the tibiae. 

 Length of male, including forceps, 12 mm. ; of female, 15 mm. 

 The specimen figured is a female. 



21, Knight's Park, Kingston-on-Thames, April 12th, 1897. 



LEUCTINODES VAOANS. 



Aphytoceros vagans, Tutt, Ent. Rec. i. p. 203 (1890). 

 Leiictinodes longipalpis, Warren, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) 

 ix. p. 391 (1892). 



Although made known to science through the capture of a 

 specimen at Chepstow, this species of the Pyralidae cannot be 

 regarded as British. Warren's type of L. longipalpis, in the 

 National Collection at South Kensington, is from the Transvaal, 

 and Sir George Hampson, who has seen the Chepstow type and 

 compared it with the African one, is of opinion that both insects 

 are specifically identical. — R. S. 



* Ent. Mo. Mag. 1894, p, 124. 



