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It is probable, therefore, that the specimens in British collections 

 standing under the name of foveolatiis are all gabrieli. 



10, Regent Terrace, Edinburgh 

 October Uth, 1916. 



[The insects representing S.foveolatus in the collection of British 

 Coleoptera in the National Museum are referable to S. gabrieli, as 

 are those (from Scarborough) in my own collection. — G. C. C] 



NOTES OX THE GENUS TERATOCORIS Fieb. (CAPSIDAE). 

 BY E. A. BUTLER, B.A., B .S- ., F.E.3. 



I have recently had the opportunity of examining a very long 

 series of Teratocoris saundersiJ). and S., taken by Mr. G. C. Champion, 

 on Scirptis maritiwus, at Budleigh Saltertou, near Exmouth, Devon, 

 in July last, and on comparing them with the representatives of the 

 species in my own collection, I find that they differ from most of mine 

 in certain characters in which these also differ inter se, viz., in the size 

 of the insect, and the lengths of the basal anteunal joint and legs. 

 Despite these differences, I do not think more than one species is 

 represented in all the examples I have examined. My own captures 

 were made at Deal and Whitstable, in Kent, and at Poole Harbour, in 

 Dorset. I have also some Suffolk specimens taken by Mr. C. Morley 

 at Southwold and Covehithe, as well as a pair taken by Mr. Champion 

 at Christchurch, Hants. The smallest are found amongst the Kentish 

 examples, which run, in the ? , from 4i mm. to barely 6 mm. in length; 

 the Suffolk specimens measure from 5^ mm. to a little over 6 mm. ; 

 those from Dorset and Hants reach from 5| mm. to &\ mm., and with 

 these agree pretty closely Norfolk specimens sent me by Mr. Jas. 

 Edwards ; the largest of all occur in the Budleigh series, some of 

 which attain 6| mm., while the majority are over 6 mm. long, and with 

 these agree examples taken by Mr. T. Edmonds at Totnes ; with the 

 larger of these Devon insects agrees one from Notts sent me by 

 Prof. Carr. The extreme hmits for the $ , therefore, are 4i mm. and 

 6f mm., an unusually large amount of variation for a Capsid, and 

 considerably more than has been previously recorded for this species. 

 The range is not quite so great in the ,^ J , which run from a minimum 

 of 4 mm. at Whitstable to a maximum of of mm. at Budleigh, the 

 other localities yielding intermediate sizes. Thus we see that as we 

 travel both north and west from Kent, the average size of the insect 

 gradually increases. The increase in the length of the basal joint of 



