^68 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



season, by Mr. Eedle, viz. Pachnobia alpiiia, being the third 

 known British example; a fine variety of Larentia caesiata; a 

 very dark form of Thera juniperata, being its ordinary condi- 

 tion in theRannoch district, and remarkable also for the time of 

 its ajipearance, which was nearly two months earlier than in 

 England; Gelechia boreella; and finally Hyponomeuta evony- 

 mella, L. (Padi, Zeller), the larva of which Mr. Eedle had 

 observed to cover the trees of bird- cherry with its webs to a 

 remarkable extent, — a piece of web exhibited was a yard 

 long. 



[These interesting insects have already been fully noticed 

 in the 'Entomologist,' v. 199, which see for a full report of 

 Mr. Eedle's captures in Scotland, in the spring of this year. — 

 E. Newman.] 



Imago of Atalaiiia with head of Larva. — Mr. Bond also 

 exhibited an example of Vanessa Atalanta, bred by Mr. 

 Jackson, which still retained the larval head. Prof. Westwood 

 said that this form of monstrosity was very rare. He could 

 call to mind onl}^ four recorded instances : (1) Nymphalis 

 Populi, (2) Gastropacha quercifolia (3) Dytiscus marginalis 

 in the British Museum, and (4) a Syrphus in the Oxfor^l 

 Museum. 



A^ew British Beetle. — The Rev. H. S. Gorham exhibited 

 a beetle new to the British list, concerning which he made 

 the following remarks: — ^' Oxijieltts fiUvipes of Erichson. 

 Of the indigenous species most allied to O. rugosus. Fab., 

 from which it differs as follows: the head, thorax and elytra 

 are much less closely punctured, especially the former, which 

 also lacks the depression of the clypeus, conspicuous in 

 rugosus; this part also being shining instead of opaque. The 

 thorax is proportionally shorter and more narrowed towards 

 the base ; the lateral margins obsoletely crenulate. The legs 

 and first four joints of the antennae are testaceous; these 

 joints, however, in my specimens are spotted with pitchy. 

 The third joint is shorter than the second; whereas the 

 reverse is the case in rugosus. In the male characters 

 beneath, this species presents considerable differences, — the 

 fifth segment being simple (in rugosus the margin bears a 

 conspicuous tubercle), and the seventh has the margin simply 

 bisinuate. One male and three female specimens, found by 

 myself, near a wet spot in a wood, near Needworth, Stafford- 



