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posterior femora are armed with a row of minute teeth, with a longer 

 and rather prominent tooth at the middle, and the anterior trochanters 

 are armed with an acute spine. The males of T. plumheus, of which 

 there are several in the British Museum, also have the posterior femora 

 toothed on their inner edge. The salt water species are found gre- 

 gariously in sheltered inlets or creeks, and they are probably never 

 winged. The fresh water Mhagovelice, on the contrary, are frequently 

 winged, it being necessary for them to migrate when the small streams 

 dry up. It may be noted that the genus Neovelia, Buchanan White, 

 containing a single species from the Amazons, is certainly cogeneric 

 with Bhagovelia, Mayr, notwithstanding the discrepancy in the tarsal 

 structure, Dr. White describing the tarsi as 2, 3, 1 (? 2) jointed, he 

 probably having overlooked one of the minute basal joints of the 

 anterior tarsi and the faint suture between the second and third 

 joints of the hind tarsi. — Gr. C. C.]. 



Pyrrhocoris apterus on the Orestone Sock. — I have this day received a batch of 

 Pyrrhocoris apterus, consisting of 34 males and 49 females, taken from the Orestone 

 Kock at the entrance of Torbay. Parfitt, in his " Fauna of Devon," mentions the 

 insect as abundant on this isolated rock in 1865. The reason of my recording this 

 is to show the continuity of the species in one locality for the past 33 years ; how 

 long they occupied the situation before that is not on record. — G. C. Bignbll, 

 Stonehouse : April IQth, 1898. 



Acanthia inodora, Buges.—Ks a pendant to my note (Knt. Mo. Mag., viii, 2nd s., 

 p. 208) I have now the pleasure of saying that, by the kindness of Mr. Or. C. Cham- 

 pion, I possess some of the specimens of A. inodora that were lately sent to him by 

 Dr. Duges. It is certainly a perfectly distinct species, both prima facie and 

 structurally, and easily recognised. 



I cannot, however, congratulate our country on immunity from this pest to 

 poultry until it is certain what the detrimental species of Acanthia noted in the 

 same volume (p. 185) really is. The subject is not only of interest entomologically, 

 but is also very important economically to the rearers of poultry, not so much 

 perhaps, in the first place, to those who have adopted the modern and cleanly system 

 of keeping fowls, though from the immense rate of production and spreading this 

 race of insects possess, it may be only a question of time before the most carefully 

 attended hen-houses are infested. The greatest probability of the presence of some 

 of the species of these noxious insects lies in the old fashioned method of keeping 

 fowls, followed by ma«iy farmers and cottagers, where the rule is " go as you please," 

 followed year after year, the nests never renewed, and the poultry too often regarded 

 as an acoessoire negligeahle ; and this in face of the fact that the British consumption 

 of imported foreign eggs and poultry is enormous, and that the whole of the value 

 thereof might be easily secured for the benefit of the supine British. — J. W. DoUGiAS, 

 153, Lewisham Road, S.E. : April oth, 1898. 



