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Stenus niveiis, Fauti.,at Chohham. — Amongst a few Coleoptera found in Sphag- 

 niim at Chobliam on April 1st, tlie following are worth noting: — Stenu.i niveux, 

 Faiiv., Homalota eremita, Rje, and H. fallaclosa, Sharp. The Stenufs was also 

 found by me last year at the same locality, but was ouiitted from my note in the 

 Ent. Mo. Mag., xlii, pp. 136, 137. It is evidently a perfectly good species, and 

 occurs in some numbers in the Sphagnum, unaccompanied by S. pallitarslx, Sleph. 

 M. eremitn, of which two specimens where tnken.has not hitherto been recorded from 

 so far south, though a familiar insect on the Scotch mountains. — Gr. C. Champion, 

 Horsell, Woking: Aiiril 15//;, I'JnV. 



Stegatwptt/cha pygmwana in Surrey. — Although the late Mr. Weston, writing 

 27 years ago in the " Entomologist" (vol. xiii, lfiO),says, "It has, I believe, occurred 

 sparingly in Surrey," I have not seen any allusion to its capture in this county 

 since, nor does its name appear in the Victoria History of Surrey, published only 

 five years ago ; it may be of interest, then, to state that 1 met with it in some 

 numbers in April last year flying round spruce firs in the bright sunshiue. In two 

 short visits I netted upwards of fifty s)>ecimens. I Jiave nor looked for it this 

 month, owing to the low temperature and lack of sun up to the {)resent, and a 

 bright sunny day is absolutely necessary ; no sun, no pi/g»i;eana ! I ho]ie to find 

 the larva in July. - A. Thubnall, Thornton Heath : April Wih, 1907. 



Xanthia ocellaris at Norwich : a correction. — The record of the occun-ence of 

 Xanthia ocellaris at Norwich, on page 65 of the current volume of this Magazine, 

 has by mistake been attributed to Mr. E. A. Atmore, of King's Lynn, instead of 

 to myself. — H. J. Thoitle.ss, Corfe, College Road, Norwich : April \7th, 1907. 



Psamotis pulveralix, Hb., in Sussex. — I took a specimen of tliis Pyralid on a 

 street lamp in Bognor, Susses, on August 8th last year; the insect has been kindly 

 identified for me by I\Ir. W. H. B. Fletcher. Strangely enough from the situation 

 of its capture, it is a female. — 11. L. F. Guekmonpkez, Dalkeith, Bognor: April 

 12th, 1907. 



Nabis boops, Schiodte, in Sussex. — A specimen of this rare Hemipteron was 

 swept up by mc at Slindon on August 14th, 1905. — Id. 



Notes on Dipiera in Scotland, 1906. — My collecting last year was confined to 

 districts which I liad already worked, but a number of new species were obtained. 

 In the following list those marked with an asterisk are new records froni the Forth 

 district. 



At Pollon, on June 2nd, I found Ifomalomi/ia armata,* Mg., S , Pipiza lutei- 

 tarsis,* Ztt., ? (former records, as far as I can make out, are all from the Soutli of 

 England), and Loxocera .«ylvatica,* Mg., 9 ; on June 9th, Pipunndus confusus,* 

 Verr., ^ $ S ; on August 6th, Macrocera lutea, Mg., both sexes, Ptychoptera 

 lacustris,* Mg., $, Peris geniculala, Curt., ?, I'achydromia pecloralis* ¥ln., J, 

 Argyra atriceps,* Lw., several of both sexes, Azelia triquetra,* W., $ , Sapromyza 



