110 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
identity or distinctness ?—Wini1am Macuin; 22, Argyle Road, 
Carlton Square, February 17, 1879. 
TELEPHORUS LIVIDUS var. DISPAR.—In one of the back volumes 
of the E. M. M., Mr. Rye, in recording his captures at Folkestone, 
says he found in abundance “the, to him hitherto rare, var. 
dispar of Telephorus lividus.” I infer from this that it is some- 
what restricted in its distribution. Round here the variety is 
almost as plentiful as the type, and I have commonly seen the male 
T. dispar in cop. with the female 7’. liwidus. I do not remember 
ever seeing this order reversed. With regard to dark forms 
generally, I find them by no means uncommon. In my low- 
lying fields the black var. of Pterostichus cupreus 1s as abundant 
as the typical insect, but always smaller and more elongate. I 
have also Lema cyanella almost black, and one L. melanopa with 
the elytra entirely dull black. Last June I took about a dozen 
of Strangalia nigra, all of which had the legs entirely black. 
Of the two descriptions of this insect at my command, one does 
not mention the colour of the legs, but the other says ‘“ legs pale 
yellowish.” I have never seen the latter form, but take a few with 
black legs every year.—TuHomas H. Harr; Kingsnorth, Kent, 
February, 1879. 
Eee or CALYCOPHTHORA AVELLANZ.—On the 5th of February 
of the present year a number of the Phytoptus bud-galls of the 
hazel were brought me containing the Acari, Calycophthora 
avellane, Am., in such enormous quantities that they clung 
together in masses, or were sprinkled over the inside of the 
diseased bud in as great numbers as dipterous larve may be 
found in some dead animal in warm weather. They were of 
various sizes, all apparently healthy and active, and in no way 
suffering from the severe winter; and amongst them were a few 
eggs almost on the point of hatching, but still retaining their 
characteristic shape. About the beginning of February, 1877, 
I had found similar eggs amongst the Phytopti of the witch-knot 
of the birch (figured Entom. x. 85; also see x. 280), but these 
were usually pressed out of all egg-shape by the Phytoptus within, 
and could scarcely be known as true eggs save by watching the 
escape through the broken pellicle. In the case of Caly- 
cophthora avellane this year the shape of the egg was still perfect 
or nearly so, of an obtuse oval, about one-fifth more in length 
than breadth, and not larger at one extremity than the other. 
