Notes on Gardens and Country Seats. 109 



aeneous; elytra with a narrow pale line, nearly straight, on the 

 inside, but slightly curved in the middle of the outside; antennae 

 black, with the three basal joints fulvous; legs black; base of 

 the tibiae reddish ; tarsi pitchy. Length, 1 line. 



I have this species, named flexuosa by Mr. Stephens, with 

 whose description it indeed agrees ; but he says it is IJ — If lines 

 long. It seems to agree with the variety of nemorum mentioned in 

 the Ent. Hefte, p. 71.? with "ganz schwarz" (wholly black) legs. 

 I have so many specimens agreeing in size and colour with this 

 description, from different parts of the country, that I have no 

 doubt of its being distinct. In Oxfordshire, I have observed its 

 devastations upon turnips. The H. sinuata of Stephens {Illus., 

 vol. iii. p. 297.) is most probably a variety of this species, with 

 the yellow stripe externally incised. 



Hdltica parallela Westw. (See^o-. 33. 3.) — ^ Black, scarcely 

 tinged with brassy; much narrower and smaller than any of the 

 preceding; the elytra have a narrow central pale buff stripe, 

 nearly straight, and not extending to the extremity ; antennae 

 brown, with the basal joints reddish ; legs black, the tarsi alone 

 pitchy. Length, five sixths of a line. 



[These representations are magnified ; and it may be neces- 

 sary to state, for the sake of such of our readers as are unac- 

 customed to consult entomological works, that the actual length 

 of each insect is indicated by the short black line placed near its 

 head.] 



At the meeting of the Entomological Society on Jan. 2. 1837, 

 a memoir, by Mr. G. R. Waterhouse, was read, containing 

 descriptions of eighteen species of Haltica, brought from New 

 Holland by Mr. Darwin, amongst which one was described 

 as being almost identical with the English turnip fly ; and, in 

 Mr. Cunningham's Account of the Agriculture of New Holland, it 

 is stated that the turnips are attacked in that country in the 

 same manner as in England. 



The Grove, Hammersmith, Jan. 23. 1837. 



Art. II. Brief Notices, made on several Occasions, when visiting some 

 Noblemen s and Gentlemen s Seats, in the A?dumn of 1836. By 

 Thomas Rutger. 



(^Continued from p. li.) 



IsLEWORTH House ; Lady Cooper. — This residence is situated 

 on the left of the road leading from Isleworth to Twickenham, 

 and is approached by a lodge entrance. With regard to the 

 gardens and shrubberies, they may be considered in a state of 

 infancy. The house, with its handsome front, stands on a lawn 

 which gently slopes down to the Thames, and from which there 

 is a ffood view of the river towards Richmond Bridge. On the 



