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As bearing on the subject of recent ravages of Charaas grammis in this country, 

 it may be well to mention that there is a very elaborate article on its ravages in 

 Sweden, by Sven Lampa, in the Entoniologisk Tidsskrift for 1893, pp. 1 — 24, with 

 an excellent plate. Herr Lampa, is a most painstaking student of Economic Ento- 

 mology, and the pages of the Tidsskrift have latterly been considerably devoted to 

 his observations on destructive insects of all Orders, which should not be lost sight 

 of by our own workers in the same field. — Eds. 



Tinodes unicolor, Plot., in Ireland. — When collecting last July for the Fauna 

 and Flora Committee of the Royal Irish Academy, I obtained two specimens of this 

 Trichopteron at Coolmoro, in Co. Donegal ; I took them on the banks of a little 

 stream among Iris, Epilobium, &c., in company with. Agapetus fuscipes. T. unicolor 

 seems not to have been recorded from Ireland before. At Armagh, with commoner 

 things, I took Micromus variegatus, M. paganus, Semerohius orotypus, H. suhnehu- 

 losus, and H. micans. All occurred in MuUinure, where I captured a very dark 

 variety of Holocentropus picicornis. At Loughgilly I captured during an afternoon 

 that I spent there last month Limnophilus auricula, L. sparsus (a pale variety), and 

 Sermrobiua mioans. — W. F. Johnson, Armagh : September ISth, 1894. 



A black variety of Andrena roscB, var. Trimmerana. — Among some Aculeate 

 Hymenoptera which I sent to Mr. E. Saunders for determination was the above 

 curious variety. I took it along with several of the ordinary form of A. roses in 

 Mullinure in April last. The fulvous pubescence of the thorax is entirely black, 

 giving it a very distinct appearance. Other captures of Aculeata here were Halictus 

 albipes, Andrena ClarTcella, A. albicans, and A. cineraria. The first bee on the 

 wing in the spring was Bombus lucorum, which I observed on March 16th, Vespa 

 vulgaris making its appearance on the 23rd of the same month. — Id. 



Decticus albifrons, F., at Ramsgate. — Mr. O. Janson has kindly given me from 

 his father's collection a specimen of this South European Orthopteron, which was 

 taken at Eamsgate by the late Mr. Dossitor in or about 1850, and given by him to 

 Mr. E. W. Janson, in whose collection it had remained ever since. The species has 

 not, so far as I can ascertain, been previously recorded from Qreat Britain, but is of 

 course only a chance visitor, having no doubt come ashore from a vessel passing or 

 unloading at Kamsgate. It is a large and handsome species, measuring about 4<\ 

 inches across the elytra, the markings on which greatly resemble those on ScJiisto- 

 cerca peregrina. — C. A. Brigqs, 55, Lincoln's Inn Fields : September 12th, 1894. 



^ot|ii|tti;s. 



BiHMiNGHAM ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY : August 20th, 1894. — Mr. G. T. 

 Betiiune-Bakeb, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. R. G-. B. Chase, Southville, Priory Road, Edgbaston, was elected a Member. 



Mr. C. J. Wainwright showed Stratiomys potamida taken this year in Sutton 

 Park, and which was he believed the first authentic capture of a Stratiomys near 

 Birmingham of which he knew. Mr. R. C. Bradley read some notes upon Merodon 

 equafris. He had recently been breeding a number from some larvte sent to him by 

 Mr. McLachlan, and these ho showed, and described their manner of emergence, &c. 



