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ticolUs (1), Throscus dermentoides , Corymbites quercus, ILydrocypTion deflexicollis, 

 BAinoncus castor, and Psylliodes chalcomera. — E. GrEO. Eliiman, Chesham, Bucks : 

 October 14,th, 1898. 



Note on a small varietal form of DyscTiirius eeneus, Dej., occurring in the Isle 

 of Wight, Sfc. — Canon Fowler has recorded (Col. Brit. Islands, i, p. 24), the capture 

 by himself at Luccombe, in April, 1885, of a single example of a narrow form of 2). 

 eeneus, with the sides of the thorax less rounded than usual. Last July I found 

 about a dozen specimens of this form in the same locality — in sand, kept moist by a 

 trickle of fresh water — unaccompanied by typical examples, and as they seemed 

 to differ constantly from D. eeneus, I sent one of them to M. Bedel for examination. 

 He informs me that he does not possess any specimens like them, and suggests that 

 they may be referable to D. remotepunctatus, Putz., described from a single indi- 

 ridual found by the side of salt water on the coast of Holland, an insect now- 

 regarded as synonymous with D. eeneus. These Luccombe specimens do not quite 

 accord with Putzeys' description of D. remotepunctatus (Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., 1866, 

 p. 83), all of them being smaller than any typical D. eeneus in my collection, whereas 

 Putzeys gives the length as 4^ millim. They agree, howeyer, in having the thorax 

 and elytra relatively narrower than in D. eeneus, approaching D. salinus, Schaum, 

 in this respect. The elytra are finely striate, the striae with somewhat widely 

 separated five punctures. Mr. J. J. Walker has also met with this insect at Swanage. 

 —Or. C. Champion, Horsell, Woking : October 10th, 1898. 



Eme.ia mantis, Fabr. : synonymical note. — I have recently had occasion to 

 examine the type of this species in the British Museum, and find that it certainly 

 belongs to the genus Westeronamiia, Dohrn, it being, in fact, closely allied to the 

 Central-American E. annulata, Dohrn, from which it differs in its smaller size and 

 more slender form, and in having the elytra more mottled with fuscous, and the 

 blackish annulations of the legs not so broad. E. mantis, with some other Fabrician 

 species, was not identified by Dohrn in his Monograph of the Emesidee, and 

 Lethierry and Severin, in their Catalogue general des Hemipteres Heteropteres, iii, 

 p. 76, place it amongst the " species incerti generis." The insect was first described 

 by Fabricius [Ent. Syst., iv, p. 190 (1794)] under the name Gerris mantis^ no 

 locality being mentioned; subsequently [Systema Khyngotorum, p. 263 (1803)1 he 

 included it in his genus Emesa, and gave " Americee Insulis " as the locality, in both 

 cases stating that the type was in the British Museum. Confirmatory of this 

 habitat, it may be noted that the Museum also possesses a recently captured speci- 

 men of the same species from Jamaica, received from Mrs. E. M. Swainson. The 

 original example is not labelled with any locality. — Id. : September 30th, 1898. 



The Stainton Entomological Library. — From the report of the Meeting of the 

 Entomological Society of London that appears in this No., it will be seen that the 

 late Mrs. Stainton bequeathed to the Society such books in the Library that it did 

 not already possess. It is well known that the nucleus of the Library consisted in 

 the books purchased by Mr. Stainton from the executors of J. F. Stephens, but it 

 was largely added to, especially in works treating on Micro-Lepidoptera. The 

 Society has made a large selection ; but the greater part remains, and we understand 

 that it will shortly be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby. — Eds. 



