528 Miscellaneous. 



lie proposes to retain the name for the forms called Ai)tlir(u-ornya, 

 affirming as this word does an altogether wrong affinity for the 

 genus. (The name Aaiadites was proposed in 18G0; Anthracomya 

 in 1801.) 



])r. Hind is not able to state that any of the species submitted to 

 him by 8ir J. W. Dawson are the same as British forms. The shell 

 originally described as JS'aiadites carhonaria is, he has no doi.bt, an 

 Ayithracoptera. He gives notes on N. arenaria, N. anc/ula(a, and 

 JV. Icevis. 



MISCELLAjS^EOUS. 



Saiv-Jlies on Solomon^s Seal. By W. F. Kiebt, F.L.S. &c. 

 For two years past plants of Solomon's Seal (Polj/r/onatvm or Co)i- 

 vallaria multijlora) growing in Dr. Giinther's garden at Kew have 

 been infested by saw-fly larvae ; and on the 6th of May of the present 

 year Dr. Giinther captured a considerable number of specimens of a 

 saw-fly on the plant, which proved on examination to be Ph>/nutto- 

 cera aierrima, Klug. Altbougli this species will probably be found 

 to be common where its food-jilant occurs, it does not seem to have 

 been noticed in England exccjit by Curtis, who described and figured 

 it in vol. xxi. of the ' Transactions of the Linneau Society,' jip. 'M - 

 42, pi. v., as long ago as 1850, from specimens bred from larviu 

 received from Lord Goderich,who had noticed them for several years 

 previously devouring the leaves of the only plant of Solomon's Seal 

 in Lord llipon's garden at Putney. Curtis called the insect Selan- 

 dria Eobinsoni, believing it to bo un described. 



The only other saw-fly noticed by Kaltenbach in his ' Pflanzen- 

 feinde' as feeding on Convalluria midiijlora is Blennocampa fidi'i'i- 

 tiosd, Schrank. 



It is worthy of note that all the specimens of P. aterrima which 

 Dr. (iiinther caught were males, which, it seems, appear a day or 

 two before the females begin to emerge. "With them was a single 

 Bi)ecimen of a Blennocainjxt, also a male — not, however, B. ftdii/i- 

 vom, but B. fuscida, Klug {=imsdla, Ivlug), a rose-feeding species, 

 the ])resciico of which among the specimens of Phijmatoccra \\ as 

 probably quite accidental. 



As Phymaimrra ati-rrinia has been so rareh^ observed in Englaiul, 

 it appears worth while to call .ittention to its re-occurrence. There 

 were previously only two German specimens in the British Museum 

 collection, and no British ones. 



Although the day was warm and bright, the specimens were 

 remarkably sluggish, and allowed themselves to be picked oil with 

 the fingers. 



Natural llistorv ^luseum, South Kensiugton, 

 "May 9 ISIU. 



