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there. Since then I have received a specimen taken in 

 Barnsley. The statement is frequently repeated that this 

 species was ' imported by the soldiers returning- from the 

 Crimea in 1857.' Sufficient proof of the inaccuracy of this 

 is the fact that Stephens (I.e., p. 46) placed it amongst the 

 indigenous species (a position he denied to S. orientalis L.), 

 although he says ' it is extremely doubtful whether this 

 insect be really indigenous : I feel inclined to decide against 

 its admission, as it appears to be confined, at least in this 

 country, to dwellings and warehouses ; and it unquestion- 

 ably occurs, not uncommonly, in merchant vessels.' 



Stilopyga orientalis L. Undoubtedly an introduced species ; 

 is now too common everywhere. 



In addition to these I have a specimen of each of three 

 imported species. Through the kindness of Mr. Malcolm Burr, 

 F.E.S., to whom they were sent for identification, I am enabled 

 to say that one of these, which was found amongst bananas 

 imported from Jamaica, is ^ Heminyctobora truncata Sauss,' 

 a species 'recorded from Mexico and Guatemala.' My specimen, 

 a wingless female, when alive had an indescribably curious 

 attitude when still, altogether different from that of any species 

 with which I am acquainted, reminding one of a toad at bay. 

 In this posture the pads between the claws were very con- 

 spicuous. Mr. Burr considers it 'probably immature,' and 

 adds, ' the femora are redder than in the types which I have 

 examined.' 



Owing to the other two specimens being immature, Mr. 

 Burr is unable to do more than assign them to the genus 

 Epilampra, which he tells me ' is a difficult genus with a large 

 number of species, which are hard to discriminate even in the 

 adult.' 



With regard to these two specimens it may be of interest to 

 note that one of them, a wingless female about the size of our 

 common S. orientalis, but dark testaceous, covered vi^ith minute 

 black granulations, was found alive in a box of tomatoes im- 

 ported from Teneriffe in 1887. 



The other, a much smaller species, with the entire lateral 

 margins of the abdomen, and all the margins of the thorax 

 except the basal one, livid testaceous, oddly enough was taken 

 alive in the room of the Barnsley Naturalists' Society early in 

 1903- 



1904 March i. 



