36 THK ENTOMOLOGIST'S RECORD. 



" B. 5-notata. Omnibus priore (C. 7-punctata, L.) 



" convenit, nisi absentia punctorum duorum medio 



" dorsi, varietas rarissima apud Nordovicum 



" capta, communicavit amicus Dom. J. Hooker. 



" Entomologus assiduus." 



Aberrations of C. 7-punctata, L., are admittedly very rare, and 

 though I have examined many hundreds of this species, beyond minor 

 variations in size and position of the normal spots, I have not 

 succeeded in taking any other variety. Mr. Donisthorpe appears to 

 have had the same experience with this species at Barton Mills 

 in 1917 where he found it in great quantities on young firs (Ent. Rec, 

 xxx., No. 2, Feb., 1918, p. 29). 



Weise describes a new aberration of his own with five spots under 

 the name of v. externepunctata as follows: — 



" dd. P. 1, 3, -J- v. externepunctata " 



Ws. B.T. 1879, p. 107. 

 but his aberration is clearly a synonym of ab. 5-notata, Haw. 



Ganglbauer follows Weise. — G. B. C. Leman. 



Beappearance of Anthonomus britannus, Desbr., in Surrey. — • 

 On April 3rd, 1920, my father, Mr. G. C. Leman, made this rare 

 capture while beating trees and furze at Bookham, over that area of 

 the common which lies beyond the railway bridge on the upside of the 

 railway, but he cannot state definitely from what particular tree he 

 obtained this solitary specimen, which is in my collection. 



I submitted this specimen to Mr. Horace St. John Donisthorpe, 

 who has always most kindly helped me in my identifications, and he 

 at once recognised that it was an interesting find and could only be 

 referred to this rare species, but, in view of the doubts expressed in 

 Fowler's Coleoptera, vol. v., pp. 319-20, on this species being indigenous 

 in this country, he was good enough to send the specimen to his 

 confrere, Monsieur Paul de Peyerimhoff, of Algiers, who subsequently 

 returned it to Mr. Donisthorpe, confirming the latter's identification, 

 with the following note : — 



" Anth. britannus, Desbr. 



" (rostre court, mat-taille petite)." 



It may be of interest also to record that in the same month I took 

 solitary specimens of Anth. rosinae, Des Goz., at Ashtead Manor and 

 of Anth. chevrolati, Desbr., at Bookham, both of which have been iden- 

 tified for me by Mr. Donisthorpe. — G. B. C. Leman. 



A new aberration of Selidosoma plumaria (ericetaria) . — On page 

 74 of the Ent. Record, vol. xxxi. (1919), Mr. Thomas Greer of 

 Stewartstown, Tyrone, Ireland, describes a melanic aberration of 

 Selidosoma plumaria [ericetaria) under the name fumosa. At the same 

 time he announces " a form leading up to this dark type, with all the 

 wings streaked with blackish." Of this latter form Mr. Greer has 

 kindly forwarded me an example. It is a male of the average size of 

 the Irish races which, so far as I know of the species, are slightly 

 smaller than the English and Continental races. The ground colour 

 so far as it is seen lies in irregular patches and streaks not symmetrical 

 on the two wings, and lighter in shade than in the ordinary males, in 

 fact more of the ground colour of the female with a suspicion of yellow 



