252 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
Extracts from the printed Proceedings of the Entomological 
Society, December 5, 1870, and January 2, 1871. 
New British Hemiptera.—Mr. Edward Saunders exhibited 
three species of Hemiptera Heteroptera recently added to the 
British list: Salda arenicola, found on the moist parts of the 
cliffs to the east of Bournemouth; Plociomerus luridus, two 
specimens captured by Mr. G. R. Crotch in the New Forest ; 
and Hadrodema pinastri, found by Dr. Power at Weymouth, 
and since by Mr. E. Saunders in Surrey, at Gomshall and 
near Reigate, on Scotch firs. The last-mentioned insect was 
interesting, as adding not only a new species, but a new 
genus, to the list of British Hemiptera. Mr. E. Saunders 
also exhibited British specimens of Strachia festiva, which 
Messrs. Douglas and Scott incorrectly give as a synonym of 
S. ornata; and several allied continental species, to show 
their distinctness from S. ornata. 
Vanessa Urtice.—My. Butler exhibited a dwarf Vanessa 
Urtice, about half the usual size, and very dark in colour, 
especially on the hind wings. It was one of a brood reared 
during the present season, the rest of which were of the 
ordinary size and colour. 
New British Coleopteram—Mr. F. Smith exhibited six 
specimens of Calodera rubens captured at Lewisham, in 
March; and Baridius scolopaceus captured on the Kentish 
coast, in June: both, in the present year, by Mr. Champion. 
The latter insect is new to the British list of Coleoptera, and 
differs frum other species of Baridius by its elongate snow- 
white scales. 
Beautiful Spider from Syra.—Mr. 8.8. Saunders exhibited 
a living specimen of Eresus ctenizoides, a large spider from 
Greece, of remarkable beauty: it was of a rich velvety black, 
with a dull golden border to the abdomen. It was brought 
from Syra, and its habit was to live under stones, and feed on 
large grasshoppers. Owing, perhaps, to the smallness of the 
English grasshoppers, it had remained without food since 
July. 
ae preying on Gryllide.—Mr. F. Smith mentioned that 
he had found on Woollacombe Sands, North Devon, a silvery 
species of Asilus, whose habit it was to prey upon grass- 
