10 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



Scottish Rhynchota. — The following captures of Scottish Rhyn- 

 chota, now — through the kindness of the captors — in my collection, 

 appear worthy of record : — (a) Acanthosovia dentatum (De Geer), Saund., 

 A. interstinctum. (Linn.), Saund., and Orthotylus marginalis, Reut., 

 Saund. — all from Ethie Burn, Black Isle, South Sutor of Cromarty, 

 Sept. 20th, 1899, Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant ; and {(i) Dolycoris {Penta- 

 toma) baccarum (Linn.),* on Achillea millefolia, at Kinnoull Hill, Perth, 

 Sept. 21st, 1899, Mr. T. M. McGregor.— G. W. Kirkaldy. 



Synonymy : Rhynchota. — 



1. Mindura hemerohii (Walker), Melichar, is a Sassula. 



2. Corixa lateralis, Leach, 1818 — hierugiyphica, Dufour, 1833. 



3. Notonecta templetunii, Kirby, 1891, is an Enithares. 



4. Notonecta triangularis, Guerin, 1830-4, is an Enithares, and 

 = Notonecta, simplex, Kirby, 1891. 



5. Enithares indica (Fabr.), Sta\= Notonecta abbreviata, Kirby, 1891. 



6. Enithares brasiliensis, Si^in. , 18B7 = Bothronotus grandis, Fieber, 

 1851. 



7. Notonecta indica, Linn., 1111 = americana, Fabr., 1115 = xmi- 

 fasciata, Guerin, 1858. — G. W. Kirkaldy. 



Rhynchota of Perthshire. — In the ' Transactions ' of the Perth- 

 shire Society of Natural Science (vol. iii. pt. i. 1898-1899) there is a 

 list of the Rhynchota known to occur in Perthshire ; this has been 

 compiled by Messrs. McGregor and Kirkaldy. Altogether some fifty- 

 two species belonging to the nine families considered are enumerated, 

 and of these six are recorded from Perthshire for the first time, two of 

 the latter being new to Scotland. The authors are of opinion that this 

 total does not adequately represent the Rhynchota fauna of Perthshire, 

 as some of the most promising localities m the county have so far not 

 been explored. The remaining families will be treated in a second 

 paper, which it is proposed to publish at an early date. 



Odonestis potatoria Larva hybernating through Two Winters. — 

 In May last I took a number of half-grown larvae of 0. potatoria at 

 Chichester, which had already hyberuated through one winter. One 

 or two died ; the others fed up and duly pupated, and the imagines 

 emerged with the exception of one caterpillar, which fed very slowly, 

 and since Sept. 28th has eaten nothing, and is now hybernating 

 a second time. Is not this unusual ? — C. W. Colthrup ; 127, Barry 

 Road, East Dulwich, S.E. 



Plusia FESTucffi WITH CONFLUENT Spots. — Among twenty to thirty 

 specimens that I bred this season from collected pup^ (second brood), 

 there is one with the gold spots confluent on the right fore wing. On 

 the left fore wing the spots are separated by the thinnest possible line. 

 The pupae were all taken within a couple of miles from Chester. — 

 J. Arkle ; Chester. 



Note on Ligdia adustata. — Following up Mr. Carr's interesting 

 note (Entom. xxxii. 308), I may say that Ligdia adustata has always 



-•= This species has been taken in the same place previously on Hesperis 

 and Verbascum (see Trans. Perth. Soc. Nat. Sci. 1899, iii. p. 2). 



