156 (December, 
Clerus formicarius, Dryophilus anobioides, Mordella fasciata (local, on Umbellifere, 
July, and flying in the hot sun), Mordellistena abdominalis, M. humeralis, and M. 
brevicauda.—Henry S. Goruam, Bearsted, November 12th, 1870. 
Notes on Meligethes.—The undermentioned species of Meligethes (besides the 
universal M. rujipes, eneus, viridescens and picipes) have come under my notice at 
Bearsted, as occurring on the flowers named. WM. lumbaris, on roses in my garden ; 
M. seniculus, in the utmost profusion on Cynoglossum and Echium; M., flavipes, 
low plants ; M. lugubris, plant not observed ; M. distinctus, on Teucrium scorodonia ; 
M. solidus, on Helianthemum; M. brunneicornis, I think on Honeysuckle. 
Mr. Garneys, of Repton, tells me that M. memnonius occurs with him on 
Caltha palustris.—Ip. 
Capture of Opilus mollis and Callidium variabile at ‘“ Sugar.’—While sugaring 
for moths near Lee in July last, I was suprised to find on two or three occasions 
several specimens of the former and one or two of the latter beetle at my bait; 
and I have thought that this might interest Coleopterists, as I have never noticed a 
record of the capture of either of these species under similar circumstances. 
In Mr. Rye’s book on British Beetles, I observe that he says the larva of Opilus 
mollis lives under the bark of willows, and feeds on the larve of Anobium, &c. 
The trees on which the above occurred were old oaks, upon which trees it seems 
probable that these larvea were reared.—JoHN FarrBairn Scott, 37, Manor Park, 
Lee, 8.H., November, 1860. 
Descriptions of two species of Hemiptera new to the British lists, and notice of 
a third.— 
Plociomerus luridus, H.-Schff., Wz. Ins., 1, 4, p. 11, fig. 356. 
Head dark brown. Antennz clothed with long hairs, 1st joint brown, lighter 
at the apex, 2nd and 3rd reddish, suffused with brown, near their apices, 4th brown. 
Thorax dark red-brown, covered with a velvety pubescence, hinder angles and base 
lighter, very much contracted a little behind the middle, the sides, in front of the © 
contraction, much rounded, so as to give a swollen appearance to the anterior part 
of the thorax, posterior angles largely rounded, base nearly straight. Scutellum 
dark brown, pubescent like the thorax. Elytra: clavus piceous, with three rows 
of dark punctures, the two inner ones uniting ; corium piceous, with rows of dark 
punctures, covered with short, whitish hairs, suffused with dark brown near the 
apex; membrane dusky, nerves white. Beneath brown, covered with a silky 
pubescence. Legs dark testaceous, each with a wide darker band near the apex, 
armed with two long, and three short, teeth, the short ones placed one at each end, 
and one in the middle. Length, 6 millim. 
I have two British specimens of this species, taken by Mr. G. R. Crotch in the 
New Forest. 
Hadrodema pinastri, Fall., Hem., p. 112, 68. 
Head and antennz orange-yellow, the latter with a narrow ring of a slightly 
darker colour on their first joints, and becoming darker as they approach their 
apices: eyes black: forehead with a brown longitudinal vitta. Thorax not so 
brightly coloured as the head, callosites dark brown, sides much diverging to the 
posterior angles in nearly straight lines, angles and base rounded, surface largely 
