5438 Insects. 



stem : this is quite at variance with the other species of this genus. The pupa was a 

 dark red, and totally different from any of the Plume tribe I had ever seen. I am 

 quite certain its food-plant is the Eupatorium : I have never taken the insect but 

 where the plant grows. 



P. galactodactylus. The larva of this species is common. The perfect insect is 

 rarely taken; its food-plant is the common burdock; found feeding onfthe under side 

 of the leaves in May ; locality woods. The larva is easily detected by the holes in the 

 leaves of the plant. 



P. baliodactylus. Larva green; food-plant Ononis reclinata. It i is a local 

 species. Larva in June; imago in July. Found on the Kentish coast. 



P. tetradactylus. This species is found with the preceding, and, I expect, feeds 

 on the same plant, but I have not yet found the larva. 



P. pentadactylus. This is a very common species. Larva green ; food-plant 

 Convolvulus arvensis, but may sometimes be taken on other plants. — H. J. Harding ; 

 ] , York Street, Church Street, Shoreditch. 



Description of an CEstrus new to Britain. — The under-mentioned species was 

 captured by Mr. James Cooper in Scotland, in 1854 : — 



CESTRUS BIANGULATUS, Cooke. 



Male. Body very stout ; head clothed above with black hairs, beneath and behind 

 with red hairs; antennae black, basal half of the arista red ; thorax black, clothed in 

 front with tawny hairs, and yellowish white hairs at the sides ; scutellum with tawny 

 hairs, and yellowish white on each side. Wings limpid, clouded with brown along 

 the veins, which are strongly indicated ; praebrachial vein with a sharply-defined and 

 very slightly obtuse angle placed beyond the discal transverse, and another at nearly 

 one-third the distance thence to the margin — at the first angle a branch is emitted ; 

 discal transverse parted by about its length from the clouded praebrachial transverse, 

 and less than its length from the border ; alulae whitish, bordered with brown. Abdomen 

 black, with yellowish white hairs at the tip. Legs black ; tarsi ferruginous at the base 

 of each joint. Length 8 lines; expanse 14 lines. — Benjamin Cooke; 49, Hardivick 

 Place, Manchester. 



A Systematic List of Coleoptera found in the Vicinity of Alter stoke, 

 South Hants. By Arthur Adams, Esq., F.L.S., Surgeon of 

 H.M. Surveying Ship ' Actseon ; ' and William Balfour 

 Baikie, M.D., F.R.G.S., Haslar Hospital. 



(Continued from page 5302). 



24. Harpalus, Lair. 



H. ruficornis, Fair. Extremely common ; in fields, under clods, 

 stones and debris, under logs, &c. 



H. ameus, Fahr. Very common ; in fields, &c. 



