398 , October, 



Oblong ovate, rather convex ; head, thorax, mesosternum and abdomen red ; meta- 

 sternum black ; antennae pitchy -black. Head and thorax evenly and somewhat thickly 

 punctured ; epistoma infuscate with two shallow impressions ; scutellum red in middle, 

 margined at sides with black ; elytra punctate striate with interstices finely punctulate ; 

 the presternum is bistriate, striae very slightly sinuate at the coxae, hooked at the tips, 

 but they do not approach near to one another, base not margined ; mesosterum red, 

 transverse, striate at the sides, striae bent inwards in front ; the tibiae are clothed 

 with greyish hairs, and from the middle to the apex are conspicuously dilated, the 

 dilation being triangular, especially in the intermediate pair. 



I obtained four examples of this species at Chiuzenji, but its facies 

 being so much like Eutriplaoc (Ann. Mag. Nat. His., 1887, p. 342) 

 tuberculifrons, Lewis, the specimens were overlooked at the time. The 

 Eutriplax may be known in the field at once by the four transverse 

 black spots on the thorax. This is the fifty-first species in the Family 

 recorded from Japan, thirteen of which have been first noticed in 

 this Magazine. 



Queen's Ride, Barnes : 



August Zlst, 1889. 



Ectobia Panzeri, var. nigripes. — Mr. Shaw is mistaken (Ent. Mo. Mag., xxv, 

 p. 369) in attributing the capture of this insect to myself. The specimens he alludes 

 to were taken by Mr. James Eardley Mason, of Alford, when on a visit to Cornwall 

 last year, and by him were given to me. — G\EO. T. Porritt, Huddersfield : 

 September 13th, 1889. 



Ettpithecia extensaria near Hunstanton. — From August 9th to 30th this year I 

 spent on the Norfolk coast at Hunstanton. For entomological investigations the 

 weather was, most of the time, about as bad as could be ; but even if we could have 

 got out much, the locality would evidently have been very unproductive. Mr. G-. 

 C. Dennis, of York, was with me the first fortnight, and together we made careful 

 but unsuccessful searches on different parts of the coast for the larva of Eupithecia 

 extensaria. On the 27th, however, I was more fortunate, and on the morning of 

 that date, I beat out nearly sixty larvae from Artemisia maritima, varying in size 

 from quite small to full growth ; and on the 29th, a further quantity on the same 

 ground. On the 28th, I tried an apparently similar ground on another part of the 

 coast, where the Artemisia grew quite as luxuriantly, but could find no trace of it. 

 The species occurs on the Artemisia maritima growing on the sides of the ditches on 

 the salt-marshes, and not, so far as I could discover, on plants growing on the flat 

 and more open ground. 



Though I found the larva rather freely where it did occur, the moth is evidently 

 very local, for I could only get the larvae along, probably, 300 yards or so on one 

 ditch, beyond which, on the same ditch, I could not beat out any, although the 

 food] was equally plentiful. Nor could I find it on any of the many other ditches 

 on' the same salt-marsh, I worked. Still, I have little doubt it occurs in 

 other similar spots on the Norfolk coast, as there is so much of the food-plant, and 



