ON ^GALEUS BECHUANA. 



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1863, p. 11), my father states that Mr. Curtis took a specimen 

 near SaUsbury, at Wilton, in May, 1852, and that he "took one 

 in the middle of November, 1860, from laurels here close to our 

 house, and as no reeds were in either place he considered that 

 those examples might have been referable to decipiens." Although 

 F. lesnci has not been a rare species, still no one else appears to 

 have met with it until Mr. Burr took a specimen at Folkestone, 

 in the Warren, in 1896, and Mr. Donisthorpe one at Wallingford 

 in Berkshire. (See ' British Naturalist ' for December, 1897, 

 where Mr. Burr first announced its right name.) Judging by 

 the recent captures at Leatherhead, it appears to be as much an 

 inland as a coast species, although apparently confined to the 

 southern counties. 



[Chelidura {=Apterygida) alhipemiis has also been taken in 

 Norfolk. Only last year Mr. J. Edwards sent to Mr. Burr, for 

 inspection, a pair which he took near Norwich some ten years 

 ago. F. lesnei is, in Surrey, by no means confined to Leather- 

 head.— W. J. L.J 



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ON MGALEUS BECHUANA, A NEW SPECIES OF CIMI- 

 CID^, REPORTED TO INJURE COFFEE-BERRIES IN 

 BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA. 



By G. -W. Kirkaldy, F.E.S. 



The Strachia group is perhaps the most injurious, economi- 

 cally, of the Cimicidse. Usually conspicuously coloured, some 

 of the species do immense damage, particularly to Cruciferous 

 and Rubiaceous plants in both hemispheres. In America, 

 Murgantia histrionica (Halm) ravages cabbages, mustard, radish, 

 turnips, grapes, corn, sunflowers, and Cucurbitacese ! * while 

 the closely-allied M. /nu;u/a (Dallas) also infests cabbage; and 

 in Europe similar reports have been circulated as to Eurydema 

 oniatum (Linn.). In the Oriental region, two species, viz. 

 Antestia cruciata (Fabr.) f and Bafjrada picta (Fabr.), have been 

 sent to me by my friend Mr. E. E. Green, Government Ento- 

 mologist of Ceylon, as injurious to coffee-berries. The genus 

 Antestia has also a similar evil reputation in Africa. 



A pair of bugs ( c? ? ) have recently been sent me from British 

 Central Africa through Mr. Green, with the report that they 

 were puncturing coffee-berries. Closely related to Antestia, a 

 detailed examination shows that they belong to the genus 



* See especially Lintner's ' First New Yol-k Report for 1882 ' (1883), 

 pp. 264-71 ; aud U.S. Dept. Agriculture's Tenth Circular (2nd series), 1895, 

 pp. 1, 2. 



t Quoted in Nietner's ' Enemies of Coffee Tree ' (1861), p. 18 [revised 

 edition, p. 13J , under the name of Strachia geometrica, Motsch. 



