News from the Magazines. 93 
Apion humile Germ. Forma. Bempton ; Yedmandale. 
Small forms. 
Otiorrhynchus picipes F. Langdale End. (Rev. R. A. 
Taylor). Abnormal through persistence of the mandibles. 
Polydrnsus micans F. var. chlorophanus Westh. Forge 
Valley. This variety has the upper surface clothed with 
grey-green scales. Kuhnt, l.c. 935. 
Phyllobius nrticce De G., ab piri Herbst. Whisper Dale. 
Legs red-yellow. Kuhnt, l.c. 933. 
P. calcaratus F. ab. piri F. Hackness. According to 
Kuhnt, l.c. 933, this form is distinguished by having 
the body clothed with scales, the elytra wider behind, 
with coppery, gold, or greenish scales, and with rather 
large bare patches. Legs red-yellow. 
P. oblongus L. var. floricola Gyll. Yedmandale. This 
very distinct variety, according to Kuhnt l.c. is charac- 
terized by being unicolorous black with only the an- 
tennae and legs yellowish. 
Xanophyes lythri F. Langdale End. The type form, 
according to Kuhnt, l.c. 1021, has on each elytron a 
transverse lighter band in the front third and a smaller 
light spot, more densely covered with hair, before the 
apex. 
Ditto, ab. rujicollis Rey. Langdale End. The following 
is the description given by Kuhnt l.c. of this form. 
Thorax entirely or in part yellow-red. Elytra at the 
base more or less dark with white oblique band, suture 
often red, margins of wing-cases often black. 
Ditto, ab. epilobii Chevr. Kuhnt l.c. describes this as 
being entirely yellow-red or with only the head black. 
Myelophilus piniperda L. Raincliffe Woods. 
Tomicus laricis F. Forge Valley. 
Apion virens Herbst. ab. atratulum Vit. Ringing Iveld 
Bog. Kuhnt l.c. 1037. Upper side black. 
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The Entomologist for February contains a list of the Xeuroptera of 
Nottinghamshire, by Professor J. W. Carr. 
There is an interesting report on ‘ Some Observations on a Tern 
Colony ’ (Blakeney Point, Norfolk), by William Rowan, in Knowledge 
for February. 
The Lancashire Naturalist for January is a decided improvement, 
and includes a paper on “Some Alien Plants of the Mersey Province,’ 
by J. A. Wheldon, and ‘Notes on the Terrestrial Isopoda (Woodlice) 
of Lancashire and some Adjacent Counties,’ by R. Standen. 
In British Birds for February Mr. J. Whitaker records a Baer’s 
Pochard in Nottinghamshire, but on account of the species being 
occasionally placed in parks, etc., the editors opine — and, we think, 
correctly — that it is inadvisable to admit this species to the British list. 
We wonder what would have happened if it had been shot in Kent or 
Sussex. 
1914 Mar. 1. 
