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tener, Tall. The P. paUidiventris is a very brightly coloured specimen (?var. 

 denudata, Konow), with no black on the abdomen above except at the extreme apex 

 (the saw-sheath).— Id. : June \2th, 1903. 



TTemiptera-TTeteroptera in Jersey, June, 1003. — I have just returned from a 

 fortnight's visit to Jersey, and as the few Hemipiera I met with were nearly all such 

 as are rare in Britain or not represented here at all, I thought a record of them 

 might be useful. T was not specially collecting ITemiptera, as nearly all my time 

 was devoted to the Hymeiwptera, of which T hope to give a list of my captures in 

 a future number, but I picked up such as came in my way ; these were chiefly found 

 in sandy spots, such as t^t. Ouen's Bay, Don Bridge, &c. T was of course too early 

 for most of the ITemiptera, and some of the species were much more abundant in 

 July, 1901, than they were this year (May 28th to Juno lOth). The species I se- 

 cured were the following : — Of7owto.9ce/j.9 dnrsalis, F., St. Ouen's Bay; Cydnux 

 flavicornis, F., St. Ouen's Bay and Don Bridge ; Brachi/pelta aterrima, Forst., St. 

 Ouen's Bay ; Menaccarus areuico/a, Scholtz, several, St. Ouen's Bay, running on 

 the sand in the sun ; MUa acuminata, L., St. Brelade's ; Therapha hyoscyami, L., 

 St. Ouen's Bay; Nyaius thy mi, Wolff, St. Ouen's Bay ; Hetientarix latinep.i. Curt., 

 St. Ouen's Bay ; EmUethis verlaxci, Fab., St. Ouen's Bay, Don Bridge, and Bel 

 Royal (in July, 1901, this was abundant everywhere); Beosux tnaritimus, Scop. 

 (Juscux, Fab.), St. Ouen's Bay ; Myrmedohia irtconspima, D. & S., Don Bridge, one 

 male running on the sand, this last is an interesting capture, as hitherto I believe it 

 has not been recorded except from Great Britain. Menaccornx arenicola I fancy 

 has not been noticed nearly so far north ; Puton, in his Catalogue (1899), gives 

 " Eur. m." as its distribution. — Edward Safnders, St. Ann's, Woking : Jtine \^th, 

 1903. 



Platypezidff at Cambridye.— Thin morning T saw a small fly being dragged 

 away by an ant high up in my greenhouse. By the aid of a ladder I was just in 

 time to catch it by the tip of its wings as it was disappearing into a crack of the 

 wood. It was dead (perhaps killed by a spider), but not injured. It proved to be 

 a ? Platypeza furcata. I had previously taken four specimens in my garden on 

 June 22nd, 1902, and May 31st and June 2nd this year. P. dorsalis has also 

 occurred: ?, August 27th, September Ifith, September 21st (Miss Allard) ; <? , 

 August 9th, September 17th, 19th, 2l8t, 1902, and May r2th of the present year, 

 the last specimen dead in a spider's web on the greenhouse. Of P. infumata Misa 

 Allard took a beautiful ? on May 11th, 1901, and I took a o' on October 16th, 

 1902. CaUimyia speciom ? has occurred at least once, on May 3rd, 19u2. Aga- 

 thomyia CoU.ir.i ? September 6th, 18th, October l7th (Miss Allard) ; <? September 

 18th, 1902, and previously in 1901, July 20t,h, one <? (in the next garden) ; August 

 6th and 7th, three ? (Miss Allard) ; August 12th, one <? . This seems to be a 

 good record for this small place ; and more may occur yet.— Francis Jbnkinson, 

 10, Brookside, Cambridge : June lOth, 1903. 



Coleoptera near Heading.— The north-east winds all this spring have proved 

 most disastrous to insect life in this neighbourhood, as 1 expect elsewhere. For 

 Coleoptera the beating and sweeping net has been almost useless, but the examina- 



