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green, with the segmental divisions yellowish. Legs purple ; 

 ventral legs purple on the outside only. Va7\ 2. Brighter 

 green than in var. 1, and the purple dorsal arrow-heads 

 wanting, but having the distinct black dots on the posterior 

 of the segments ; the dorsal line is more distinct than in 

 var. 1 ; the subdorsal lines yellowish, and the spiracular lines 

 formed by a series of interrupted purple marks, most distinct 

 on the anterior segments. Head without the purple marks 

 on the crown, but marked with that colour on the cheeks as 

 in var. 1. — Geo. T. Porritt ; Huddersfield, May 11, 1871. 



Ravages of Haltica fuscicornis at Grately, near Andover, 

 — I lately received from Mr. H. B. Hill, of Grately, near 

 Andover, a box containing several specimens of Haltica 

 fuscicornis, which I have forwarded on to you. Since that 

 Mr. H.has kindly furnished me with the following particulars 

 respecting their destructiveness : — " We have had the same 

 insects here for two years previous to this, but generally 

 a month later. They appear to attack vetches and old ley 

 saintfoin grass chiefly. They are to be met with in this locality 

 all over the roads, crawling about; and after a shower of rain 

 to be seen in thousands floating on the surface of every Tittle 

 pool of water ; in fact, some of my work-people have had 

 their little gardens ruined by them. They think that the 

 atmosphere is full of them, for, having placed buckets of 

 water outside their houses to try the effect, they find the 

 surface of the water covered with them in the course of a few 

 hours. However, my idea is that they are the same species 

 as the common turnip-fly; and I hope the brutes will soon 

 take flight again." Had Mr. Hill compared these insects 

 with the turnip-fly (H. Nemorum), he would scarcely have 

 mistaken them for the "same species," and would readily 

 have seen the appropriateness of the specific term fuscicornis. 

 — Henry Reeks. 



Satyrus Tithofius, %c., in Ross-shire. — Mr. Davidson's 

 courteous off'er (Entom. v. 265), which I gratefully accept, 

 should have been replied to before, but 1 have been absent 

 from* England during two months. With reference to the 

 other species he mentions, Cymatophora Or has been recorded 

 from Ross-shire by Mr. T. Blackman (E. M. M. v. 102) ; and 

 by Dr. While, who took the larva? of this species (E. M. M. 

 v. 284) and of Notodonta Dictaeoides (E. A. 1869), and also 



