354 THE entomologist's recobd. 



31st (Thompson), Bridgwater, three seen (Corder), Stutton Hall, 

 September 4th (Nash), Merton, September 6th (Currant), near 

 DunmoAV, one taken another seen, September 20th (Euffel). 



At the meeting of the Entomological Society of London, held on 

 October 17th, 1900, Mr. A. J. Scollick exhibited a specimen of 

 Cethosia cyane, a species confined to India and the Malayan region, 

 which had been taken this year on the wing near Norwich. It was 

 suggested by Mr. Distant that this was a case of accidental importa- 

 tion, probably in the pupal condition. 



At the same meeting Mr. H. Eowland-Brown exhibited specimens 

 of l<lrebia fjlacialis, taken this year on the Stelvio pass, showing- 

 transitional forms to the var. alecto. He said that the typical form 

 and the variety were not found flying together, but on opposite sides 

 of the valley. Dr. Chapman observed that the darker specimens 

 approached to the form of E. //lacialis, formerly known as inelas, found 

 in the neighbourhood of Campigiio. Specimens of E. glacialis also 

 exhibited from Saas Fee and Evolena showed marked inferiority in 

 size and brilliancy of colour. 



Dr. Sharp records {E7it. Mo. Mag.) the capture of a new British 

 dipteron, Leucophenga (l)rosoj)ldla) macidata, Duf . The species has "the 

 head between the eyes pure white ; the thorax varies in colour according 

 to the light — in some positions it appears to be brilliant white, and in 

 others of a leaden hue ; there is a pure white stripe on each side 

 between the wing and the eye ; the abdomen is pallid but each segment 

 is marked with large black spots ; the legs pale yellow." Mr. Grim- 

 shaw records the capture (by Mr. Ord, at Strathblane, on June 19th, 

 1899) of another new species, Hyetodesia aculeipes, Zett., easily dis- 

 tinguished from all other British Anthomyids "by the remarkable 

 appendage with which the hind tibia of the male is furnished." 



In La Feidlle des jeiines naturalistes, November, 1900, pp. 12-17, 

 M. Oberthur has a most interesting article "Variations des Lepidop- 

 teres de la Faune anglaise," with two plates. The author curiously 

 understates the number of British students of the Paltearctic fauna — 

 Mrs. Nicholl, Miss Fountaine, Drs. Chapman and Lang, Messrs. 

 Brown, Jones, Buckmaster, Kane, Lemann, Nicholson, Leech, Lowe, 

 Postans, Merrifield, &c., should surely be added to those mentioned. 



In the Ent. Mo. Mag. for November, Dr. Sharp in recording 

 Coleoptera collected by N. Annandale, Esq., in the Faroe Islands and 

 Iceland describes a new species of Bemhidmm, B. islandicum , from the 

 latter locality. In the same number Dr. Cameron records the re- 

 occurrence of Actocharis readingi at Plymouth, in the same spot where 

 Trogophloeus anglicanus was captured. 



Mr. Edwards notes [Ent. Mo. Mag.) two Hemiptera not hitherto 

 recorded as British, a;^., TypJdocybacriientata, H.-Sch., taken in August 

 last by Mr. E. Saunders on an old paling under sycamore trees at 

 Clandon. (2) Typldocyha candidula, Kirschb., found by Mr. W. West 

 on white poplars at Blackheath, LeAvisham, Lee, and Brockley. The 

 Rev. Canon W. W. Fowler, adds Orochares angustatiis, Er., to the 

 British list. Its inclusion is based on a single insect taken by Piffard 

 about twelve years ago, in November, hybernating at the roots of rushes 

 in a disused clay pit at Bennett's End, Liverstock Green, Herts. It 

 was at the time of capture verified by Mr. 0. Janson but not recorded. 

 Mr. Beaumont records a Braconid new to the British list, viz., Blacus 

 armatulus, Euth., taken at Appledore, 



