252 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Extracts from the printed Proceedings of the Entomological 

 Society, December 6, 1870, and January 2, 1871. 



New British Hemiptera. — Mr. Edward Saunders exhibited 

 three species of Kemiptera Heteroptera recently added to the 

 British list: Salda arenicola, found on the moist parts of the 

 cliffs to the east of Bournemouth ; Plociomerus luridus, two 

 specimens captured by Mr. G. R. Crotch in the New Forest; 

 and Hadrodema pinastri, found by Dr. Power at Weymouth, 

 and since by Mr. E. Saunders in Surrey, at Gomshall and 

 near Reigate, on Scotch firs. The last-mentioned insect was 

 interesting, as adding not only a new species, but a new 

 genus, to the list of British Hemiptera. Mr, E. Saunders 

 also exhibited British specimens of Strachia fesliva, which 

 Messrs. Douglas and Scott incorrectly give as a synonym of 

 S. ornata ; and several allied continental species, to show 

 their distinctness from S. ornata. 



Vanessa Urticce. — Mr. Butler exhibited a dwarf Vanessa 

 Urticae, about half the usual size, and very dark in colour, 

 especially on the hind wings. It was one of a brood rearsd 

 during the present season, the rest of which were of the 

 ordinary size and colour. 



New British Coleoptera. — Mr. F. Smith exhibited six 

 specimens of Calodera rubens captured at Lewisham, in 

 March ; and Baridius scolopaceus captured on the Kentish 

 coast, in June: both, in the present year, by Mr. Champion. 

 The latter insect is new to the British list of Coleoptera, and 

 differs frura other species of Baridius by its elongate snow- 

 white scales. 



Beautiful Spider from Syra. — Mr. S. S. Saunders exhibited 

 a living specimen of Eresus ctenizoides, a large spider from 

 Greece, of remarkable beauty : it was of a rich velvety black, 

 with a dull golden border to the abdomen. It was brought 

 from Syra, and its habit was to live under stones, and feed on 

 large grasshoj^pcrs. Owing, perhaps, to the smallness of the 

 English grasshop})crs, it had remained without food since 

 July. ' 



Asilus preying on Gryllidae. — Mr. F. Smith mentioned (hat 

 he had found on VV^oollacombe Sandf?, North Devon, a silvery 

 species of Asilus, whose habit it was to prey upon grass- 



