1^'^ [May, 



lamella3 fFii?. 3) are long and much 

 flattened, broad at the base then rapidly 

 narrowing and again gradiially broad- 

 ening out to the rounded tip, where on 

 the lower inner side they bear a clus- 

 ter of black spines ; the hind or lower 

 margin is ciliate with long hairs. 



I first doubtfully separated 

 Fig. 3. H. ,-i;iicaiu, 6 xio. tliis species from its allies upon a 



female taken by the late Mr. Verrall at Dolgelly (Merioneth) in July, 

 1888, but further specimens taken by Col. Yerbury at Nairn in 1904, 

 Mumbles and Bridgend (Grlaniorgan),in 1908, and Studland (Dorset), 

 in 1909, removed my doubts. I have taken it myself at Stoke Wood 

 (Herefordshire), and in some numbers in a wood near Chillesford 

 (Suffolk), in 1910. There is a specimen in the British Museum taken 

 by the late Mr. Piffard near Boxmoor (Herts) in 1893. 



With regard to albimana, Meig. (which has a much smaller male 

 hypopygiiun than any of the above, with very short rounded lamellae), 

 my own experience is that Loew's var. obscurior is rather more com- 

 mon than his var. paUidior or type form ; these can hardly be seasonal 

 forms for they occur together, and though there appears to be no ex- 

 ternal structural character in the genitalia by which they may be 

 separated, there still remains the possibility that dissection may prove 

 the so-called varietal characters to be of specific value. 



Sixssex Lodge, Newmarket : 



March 21st, 1912. 



HEMIPTEBA IN CAEMARTHENSHIRE. 

 BY B. A. BUTLER, B.A., B.Sc, F.E.S. 



Very little seems to be known about the Hemipterous fauna of 

 Wales. There are a few scattered notices from some of the northern 

 counties, such as Merioneth and Carnarvonshire, and also from Breck- 

 nockshire in the centre ; but all these are most fragmentary. The 

 south has fared rather better, through the efforts of the Eev. T. A. 

 Marshall, in Pembrokeshire, and Mr. T. E. Billups and others, in 

 Grlamorganshire. During the last six years I have had several oppor- 

 tunities of collecting in Cannarthenshire, which lies between these 

 two counties, and which, I believe, had previously been practically 

 unworked by Hemipterists. The following list contains all the 

 Cannarthenshire species I have in my collection, and if it is taken in 



