1898.] 13 



length (not including the ovipositor in the female), is pai-asitic upon Cervus elaphus. 

 He characterizes it shortly as follows : — " Smaller species, with thorax marked with 

 four glistening black stripes, and clothed with short and fine hair ; abdomen black, 

 flecked with silver, clothed at the base with whitish-yellow, at the tip with golden- 

 yellow hair" (" Monographie," p. 118). Brauer states that he has examined 

 specimens from Austria and Thuringia, and that the insect is on the wing in May. 

 He observed larvae in tlie third or final stage in March and April, and adds that they 

 leave the host in the latter month. 



British Museum (Natural History), 



Cromwell Road, London, S.W. : 

 November Zrd, 1897. 



NOTES ON SOME INTERESTINa RETEROPTERA MET WITH 



IN 1897. 



BY P. B. JENNINGS. 



Prior to the latter half of last season, I had taken no very active 

 interest in the Order Hemiptera, but the discovery in August, whilst 

 searching for Coleoptera, of some very good species, induced me to 

 begin collecting these insects systematically. I record below my more 

 distinguished captures. 



The four species following were all taken in the neighbourhood 

 of Box Hill, Surrey : — 



Seliirus morio, four specimens. — The first presented itself to my 

 gaze most unexpectedly on August 15th, when pulling up a young 

 Verhascu7n plant, and shortly afterwards I found another under a 

 stone. On August 29th, in the same vicinity,- 1 found a pair at the 

 roots of a tall plant, which I was not botanist enough to recognise. 

 Two of the four specimens were damaged when found. 



Sciocoris cursitcms. — A single specimen found on August 15th, at 

 the roots of one of the tall plants before-mentioned. The locality 

 appears to be quite a new one for this species, as Mr. Edward Saunders 

 (Hem. Het. Br. Islands, p. 23) records it from Deal and Sandwich 

 only. An additional interest attaches to the locality from its inland 

 situation. 



Qorimelcena scarahasoides — On August 29th I found some scattered 

 patches of dog-violet growing amongst moss on one of the slopes of 

 the hill. It occurred to me that I might possibly find the weevil 

 Orolitis cyaneus at the roots, so I set to work to examine some of 

 them. No Orohitis turned up, but presently, on shaking a plant, two 

 specimens o£ Corimelcena dropped out. This encouraged me to go on 

 working, and in about half an hour I had taken ten specimens, of 



