1018.] 91 



T. vesijprtina Lw. — In my experience, undoubtedly tlie commonest 

 species o£ Trvpetid, to be found practically throughout the year, inas- 

 much as it hibernates like the preceding species. It was beaten from the 

 furze-bushes in large numbers, at the same time and place as recorded for 

 T. hyoscyami. T. vesperfina may also occasionally be found on fences, 

 etc., during warm days in mid- winter. In the summer it can be swept 

 in abundance from Composlfae. 



T. hardanae Schrk. — Not a very common species in this district, but 

 swept several times from the common burdock {Arctium Lappa^, in June, 

 at Hogley Bog and Headington Wick Copse. 



Falloptera umheUatanim F. — Another fl}^ which has habits similar 

 to those of a Trvpetid, was constantly found in the sweeping-net in com- 

 pany with JJ. sfylata. The females were often observed probing the 

 flower-heads of the spear thistle with the extruded ovipositor. Whether 

 the species breeds in the thistle-head or is parasitic on U. stylata I have 

 not been able to ascertain. 



'My best thanks are due to Mr. J. E. Collin and Mr. C. Gr. Lamb 

 for kindly naming or confirming the determination of doubtful species ; 

 also to my friend Mr. H. Britten, for his able assistance during our 

 joint collecting excursions. 



22 Southfield Road, Oxford. 

 March 1918. 



CocchieUa septewjmnctata L. parasitized hy a Dipf.eron, Phora fasciata 

 Fall.—M. Heuri de Riiysson (Rull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1917, pp. 249, 2-50) states that 

 out of 37 nymphs of C. septempunctata taken by him from leaves of potato in 

 June, four were deformed, due to the attacks of the minute Dipteron, Phora 

 fasciata, specimens of which emerged from the Coccinellid nymphs in the 

 following month. A similnr observation was recorded by Rondani in 

 I860.— Eds. 



(hleojjtcra in the Plymouth District. — On looking through the Coh^optora 

 which I have taken last year in the Plymouth district, I think there are a few 

 species which it may be as well to note as having occurred here. Some of 

 these appear to be new to this locality, and one or two have not, I believe, been, 

 as yet, recorded from Devon; but there are very few rarities. They include Medon 

 ohsoletus, Meyarthrus affinis and denticolHs, Cercus pedicidarius and ruflabris^ 

 Jleterostomus ptdicarius {Brachypfenis yravidus), Sonmia punctafissima, Micru- 

 rtda mehnwcephala, Omosit.a depressa. colon and discoidea, Pria didcaniarae, 

 Lasia yhbosa, Micraspis 16-punctata , Dryops (Parnus) algiricus, Dermestes 

 murinus, Aiitlirenus clavif/er, Ochina ptinoides {hederae), Lamprosoma concolor 



