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margin. At the same place were taken a number of Omocestus 

 viridulus. These are always referred to as ' generally distri- 

 buted ' in Devon, but I do not find them so by any means. One 

 specimen was taken in September on cliffs, Plymouth Sound. 

 At Cawsand Beacon (in sheltered hollows at the foot of the tor) 

 Tetrix hipunctatus was also very abundant. Mecoiiema thalass- 

 inum, Be Gear, was found again (August 2nd) in its usual 

 haunts on oak-trees at Cann Quarry on the lower Kiver Plym. 

 Phasgonura viridissinta, Linn., was taken at Cawsand (a village 

 on Plymouth Sound) on September 7th, demurely seated in the 

 middle of a path, the centre of a wondering group of Sunday 

 pedestrians. On October 10th I took one at Ivybridge. Both 

 were very fine fully-grown females. They are by no means 

 abundant in South Devon. 



"Most noteworthy of the season's captures was a bag of 

 Conocephalus do7'salis, Latr. The colony found by Mr. G. T. 

 Porritt at Churston in 1900 and 1902 still persists. A visit to 

 the spot on August 23rd proved quite successful in spite of the 

 fact that heavy rain fell during almost the whole day. In the 

 intervals between the showers, assisted by my son, I swept yards 

 and yards of rushes standing in several inches of water. Six 

 specimens in all were taken, and several were missed. Sweeping 

 damages these delicate insects, but it was the only method on 

 the day in question. The taking of what was undoubtedly a 

 nymph of C. dorsalis at Bere Alston (River Tavy) amongst rushes 

 on June 10th bids fair to establish another habitat. Unfor- 

 tunately a visit paid in September to look for the adult insect 

 proved abortive in spite of several hours' search on a hot, sunny 

 day. The nymph, which unfortunately I failed to rear, had the 

 characteristically produced vertex, and a well-marked reddish- 

 brown dorsal stripe. It was of the usual oily-green colour, hut 

 the pronotum, elytra, and wings were undeveloped. Its length 

 was 5 mm. 



*' One other record may be made — the receipt in December of 

 a pale-green cockroach, undoubtedly Panchlora exoleta, Klug., 

 from a local banana store." 



Kingston-on-Thames. 

 May, 1917. 



NOTE ON MAIVA SULPHUREA, S. & K. 



By George Talbot, F.E.S. 



Maiva sulphnrea, Smith & Kirby, Rhopl. Exot. ii, African Lye, 

 p. 96, pi. 21, fig. 13 (1893) (Lake Nyassa). Type of genus. 



Upon examining the type of this insect, described as a 

 Lycsenid, we find it to belong to the Pierine genus Terias with 

 which it agrees in neuration, palpi, and markings. The arrange- 



