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aJTect sucking insects, such as Aphides, the ordinary kerosene 

 preparations being more suitable for their destruction. 



Lord Walsinghani communicated the following description 

 of a new species of Ninnus, sent to him by Mr. T. Southwell, 

 of Norwich, who had received it from Dr. E. Piaget, of 

 Bayard : the species was found on an extremely rare species 

 of plover, /Egialitis asiatica, recently shot in Norfolk.* 



NiRMUs ASSiMiLis, Piarjet. 



Head conical, rounded in front, with a few short hairs ; 

 trabecula not reaching beyond the first joint of the antennae ; 

 antennae almost colourless, except the fifth joint, which is as 

 long as the second or third ; eyes very slightly 

 projecting, with a single hair ; temples 

 rounded in front, furnished with two hairs ; 

 occiput projecting over the thorax ; occipital 

 bands indicated by a scarcely-coloured 

 furrow ; antennal bands curved back towards 

 the suture of the clypeus, which has a small 

 central spot. 



Prothorax slightly inserted beneath the 

 occiput, with the sides a little convergent ; 

 metathorax bell-shaped, with the posterior 

 angles rounded and furnished with three long 

 hairs, produced in a point over the abdomen 

 in centre of posterior margin ; legs short and stout, coloured, 

 tibiffi about as long as femora, with two' seta on their outer 

 side and some small spines on their inner margin ; claws 

 normal. 



Abdomen elongate-oval, broadest at the third segment, with 

 the posterior angles of each segment projecting and rounded, 

 those of the first two segments without hairs, those of the 

 next two or three with two long silky hairs, and the remainder, 

 except the last, with three ; lateral bands produced in a sharp 

 point into the anterior segment ; segments a little unequal in 

 length, the central being the longest, with two long lateral 

 and two short central hairs, dark, except towards the sutures, 



* See ' The Zoologist,' August, 1890, p. 311.— H. G. 



