330 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



of July these creatures change into larger ones, still jumping, 

 but, now having wings, they often fly on the plant being 

 shaken ; they have some dark marks down the back, and 

 congregate chiefly on the upper part of the plant : in this 

 state I do not think they injure the plant; I have not been 

 able to trace any kind of injury, even though there are scores 

 on the upper leaves. It strikes me the insect is one of the 

 Cercopidae ( ? an Aphrophora), and I see in a description of 

 A. spumaria that after its transformation it ceases to absorb 

 the juices of the plant on which it lives. We hardly see one 

 of these insects now : perhaps you can say in what state 

 they are, and where they are likely to be found. Do you 

 think they deposit their eggs in the hop-bine ? this is very 

 important to know. The " common cuckoo-spittle," I believe, 

 deposits its eggs on the stems of the plant on which it lives. 

 We have suff'ered greatly, both this year and last, from this 

 pest, and anything likely to prevent its reappearing among 

 us 1 should like to try. Burning the bine seems to me the 

 most likely to effect it: what say you? — W. T. Guimer ; 

 Alton, Hants, August 15, 1867. 



[The first notice of this new and most destructive pest 

 appeared in the 'Entomologist' for July (Entom. iii. 302), 

 and I am most anxious to collect and publish every scrap of 

 information that can be gathered respecting it. My opinion, 

 as already expressed, is that it belongs to the genus Typhlo- 

 cyba : Mr. Gunner's description of its habits seems to esta- 

 blish this view. I hesitate to recommend a remedy for an 

 evil so new to me, but the use of smoke is a very clieap and 

 easy remedy, and it is found that all these saltatory He- 

 miptera have a great antipathy to smoke. 1 earnestly entreat 

 iny correspondents to make experiments and report the 

 results. — Edward Newman.^ 



Catoptria aspidiscana at Moreconihe Bay. — 1 have had a 

 series of this species in my collection for several years, under 

 the name of Catoptria microgrammana : it is not very rare, 

 and occurs in the middle of June, in mixed herbage, at 

 Grange, near Morecombe Bay ; it also occurs in Silverdale. 

 — R. S. Edleston ; Bowdon, August 5, 1867. 



Captures this Season. — I enclose a list of the best of my 

 captures in May, June and July : — Scotosia ccrtata, at light ; 

 Eupithccia iudigata, at Wickham ; Plalyptcryx hamula, at 



