334 THE entomologist's becord. 



f/rylloidca, Latr. Acrotylns infoihricus is a handsome species, with 

 scarlet underwings with a black band. They are smaller than the 

 great scarlet-winged fellow we see in Switzerland in late summer (O. 

 miniata, Pall.) . Kpacromia tlialaasina, to the non-orthopterist, has a very 

 similar aspect, but has the colour of the underwings a transparent 

 green, as of the sea. Acridinw aenyjitinni is a great fellow, usually fre- 

 quent enough, but this spring was very common in places, swarming 

 in the valley of the Var ; when abundant like this it is very destructive 

 ■ — to the young shoots of the fruit trees especially — and does much 

 damage. The larva of JuHpum tyoia, Charp., was also seen ; this is 

 a very bizarre-looking praying Mantis. Those I have kept have 

 usually died at a moult, probably from not feeding them properly. — 

 T. A. Chapman, Betula, Reigate. 



Ekeatum. — p. 74, line 33, for " Masta.v nUjra " read '^ Ma^ta.v ma(jna." 



CSrOLEOPTERA. 



Hypera elongata, Payk., confirmed as British. 



By Professor T. HUDSON BEARE, B.Sc, F.E.S. 



I captured under a stone in a grassy place, near Edinburgh, in 

 July last, a Hypera, which, from its strikingly elongate form, I at 

 once recognised as something new to me (careful search failed to turn 

 up any more). On my return to London the insect was compared 

 with the specimens in the European collection of the British Museum, 

 and my identification of it, from the descriptions, as donyata, Payk., 

 was confirmed. I have now gone carefully into the history of this 

 insect as regards its previous occurrence in Great Britain, and am 

 of opinion that it has been allowed hitherto to stand under very vague 

 and unsatisfactory evidence. 



It makes its first appearance in a paper read before the Entomo- 

 logical Society of London, in 1867, by Messrs. Crotch and Sharp, 

 entitled " Additions to the Catalogue of British Coleoptera." In their 

 list, number 83 is //. donyata, Payk., and all the information given is 

 as follows : "I have seen one specimen only, which was so named by 

 M. Capiomont, who is engaged in a revision of the genus, G.R.C." 

 Rye, in ^^ Ent. Annual,'" 1867, p. 87, refers to this record. No state- 

 ment as to where this specimen came from, or to whom it belonged, is 

 given, and its inclusion on such unsatisfactory evidence is strange. That 

 it was elonyata, Payk., M. Capiomont's identification guarantees, for 

 he was then busy on his masterly revision of the genus ; his paper, 

 " Revision des Hyperides," appeared in the Annales de la Societe Knto- 

 iiiahiyique de France, in 1867 and 1868. 



Canon Fowler, in his Britidi Coleoptera, vol. v., p. 234, says "very 

 rare, and perhaps doubtfully indigenous. In Dr. Power's collection 

 there is a doubtful specimen from Birch wood and another from Mr. 

 Brewer. Stephens {llliist., iv., 102) says ' my specimens were from 

 the Marshamian collection, and I have seen several that were captured 

 near Edinburgh, ' Raehills rare, Rev. W. Little.' Dr. Sharp, how- 

 ever, does not recognise the species ' from Scotland.'" 



The reference to Stephens is beside the mark, for Mr. Waterhouse 

 in his Cataloyne of British (\deoptera, 1861, p. 72, had already shown 

 that the specimens of Stephens were not elongata at all, but H. 



