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filipendulce. My object in writing this notice is to add another 

 county to the localities already quoted in connection with this 

 species. Between 12 and 1 p.m. on Saturday last, June 9th, 

 while working with the net in a lane up a somewhat steep slope 

 on the south side of the railway station of Chorley Wood, Bucks, 

 I noticed one in the hedgerow, but I most unfortunately missed 

 securing the same, which must have dropped from the leaf into 

 the grass beneath. A few minutes later, I was presented with a 

 second by a resident in one of the new villas in the neighbour- 

 hood, and on our return the researches conducted jointly by two 

 juvenile scientists who acccompanied me, and myself, resulted 

 in the capture of ten additional specimens. So far as my 

 observation went, this species appears especially to favour the 

 twigs and leaves of hazel and alder. I had never previously 

 come across this insect in Britain, but, on referring to my 

 collection of foreign Hemiptera, have to record the following 

 captures that I made abroad of this species : — Aceldama, April, 

 1882 (Palestine); Ephesus, May, 1882 (Asia Minor) ; Langaron, 

 May, 1891 (South of Spain). 



I have also been given a continental specimen or two (one of 

 them from Leghorn) by a brother entomologist. My specimens 

 from Aceldama (always supposing that they represent the same 

 species of Triecphora) are somewhat differently marked, having 

 a larger proportion of black in comparison of the red. Other 

 English localities and counties where the above insect occurs will 

 be found on p. 81 of vol. i. of Buckton's ' British Cicadae,' and in 

 Edwards's ' Hemiptera-Homoptera of the British Islands,' 1896, 

 pp. 77, 78. The latter author records it on alder and sallow, 

 also on grasses and Pteris. Buckton speaks of it as near alder 

 bushes. My father, on p. 668, vol. iii. of ' List of Homopterous 

 Insects in Collection of British Museum, 1851,' gives the following 

 localities for this species : — England, France, South of France, 

 Spain, Turkey. As he styles var. a of Burmeister Cercoins atra 

 (Herrich-Schaff.), and var. 1 nigra (Amyot), it is possible that 

 the darker specimens I took at Aceldama belong to one or other 

 of said varieties. According to my father's catalogue there are 

 nineteen species of Triecphora, but only three of them European. 

 In the interleaved manuscripts of his book, four European species 

 described by Fieber are recorded — T. vulnerata, mactata, arcuata, 

 and sanguinolenta ; but according to my father's printed list, the 

 1st, 2nd, 4th — vulnerata, mactata, and sanguinolenta — are syno- 

 nyms for one and the same kind, as indeed the meaning of those 

 words testifying to its appearance would seem to imply. 



Dun Mallard, Cricklewood : June 12th, 1900. 



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