MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



No. XVI.— THE NAME OF A MESOPOTAMIAN EARWIG. 



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In a recent number Lt.-Col. F. P. Connor contributed a most interesting 

 note in which he said that he had seen the ordinary large Earwdg of Mesopota- 

 mia cany off a moth in its forceps. I am able to supply the name of the 

 Earwig, Labidura riparia, a widely distributed species, which has occurred 

 n Britain. 



P. A. BUXTON. 



Trinity College, Cambridge, 

 1th June 1920. 



No. XVII.—" HOPPING " PUPA OF A CURCULIONID BEETLE. 



A w:evil back (a) and side, (6) view, (c) seed-Uke body from which it 

 iierges. 

 The small figure alongside (a) and (c) shows the insect natural size. 



Major Fleming, I.M.D., wrote to 



from Lahore on the 28th June as 



follows :-^< I J^^\.:;^e^;o.:^^^^ of seec^l.ke bod.es. foryour 

 Smination and khKlfa'vour'of report^ ^^^Z:: ^^^flncl. work 

 Along the front of one of our b-racks a the pomt ^ he ^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^^ 



meets with the ground, from small ^^^f . \ "X ° ^hoir hop is about 

 these Uttle grains come Uterally hoppn.g out into the oi^"- ^^^^ ^^^^. j,,^, 

 2 inches high, or they would, so to say hop along the g ou .^ 



their holes about six in the morning and generaUy hop back a„ 



