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leaves or near the roots of Erodium cicutarium, where they lie some- 

 times half embedded in the sand and often quite motionless. As 

 they are frequently of almost the exact colour of the sand or of the 

 debris of the leaves they may readily be overlooked unless the col- 

 lector pauses for a minute or so, when they will be seen to move, 

 wishful to get back under cover. In such localities as this the follow- 

 ing have been, and possibly may yet be, met with : Euri/gaster nigra* 

 and the very local Odontoscelis fuliginosus* Sciocoris cursitans* and 

 PseudophlcBUs Falleni, accompanied sometimes by Neides parallelus, 

 Galyptonotus lynceus,&\\6. Bathysolen nubilus,the first and last of these 

 being very rare in this country. At the roots of grass under dwarf 

 sallows Ceraleptus lividus* and Emblefhis ver^basci, both quite amongst 

 our rarest species ; indeed, the latter was long only known as British 

 from three or four specimens taken in 1873 by Mr. J. G. Marsh and 

 Mr. J. W. Douglas, until recently found by Mr. G. C. Champion in 

 the Scilly Islands. The pretty and very rare little Pionosomus varius* 

 has on two occasions been found under Erodium near the First 

 Battery after a lapse of fifty years or more. Off the dwarf sallows 

 the two species of Plagiognatlius belonging to the section N'eocoris 

 may be taken, viz., Bohemanni and nigritulus, and once a single larva 

 of the exceedingly rare Jalla dumosa was beaten from a bush of sea- 

 buckthorn. Another rarity in this Order, Teratocoris Saundersi, was 

 discovered for the first time on rushes in a damp spot near Sandown 

 Castle, a locality now ruined for entomology. Sweeping has produced 

 its share of good species, ^/i'a acuminata, Neottiglossa injiexa,8tracliia 

 festiva and oleracea, Verlusia rJwmbea, Corizus crassicornis and farum- 

 punctatus ; the curious linear Chorosoma Scliillingi not uncommon at 

 the end of August on the Marram grass, and Senestaris laticeps may 

 be found in saline places, with the minute but pretty Serenthia laeta in 

 numbers. Coranus subapterus, which, unlike most of its tribe, has a 

 pleasant scent, like that of ripe pears, is not scarce on the sand, 

 fully winged examples being occasionally met with. Two other ex- 

 tremely rare and beautiful species of the Order have also been found, 

 Prostemma guttula having been taken on the sandhills near Sandwich 

 by Mr. A. Kennedy as long ago as September, 1837, and Lygceus 

 equestris, swept up near St. Margaret's Bay upon the cliffs on Sep- 

 tember 7th, 1886, by the late Mr. C. G. Hall, of Dover. 



Sheerness: 1899. 



