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SOME INTERESTING BRITISH INSECTS. 

 BY G. C. CHAMPION, F.Z.S., AND R. W. LLOYD, F.E.S. 



(Plate III). 



Since the publication of Fowler's " Coleoptera of the British 

 Islands," concluded in 1891, numerous interesting beetles have been 

 added to our list, or recorded from fresh localities, mainly in the 

 pages of the Entomologist's Monthly Magazine. 



It is proposed to figure a few of these forms, especially the ad- 

 ditional genera, as well as certain species of other Orders, from time 

 to time, in this periodical. As a first instalment Plate III, containing 

 coloured figures of one species of Hemiptera- Heteroptera and seven of 

 Coleoptera, is issued with the present number. The insects illus- 

 trated are as follows : — 



HEMIPTERA-HETEROPTERA. 

 Figs. 1, la — Myrmecoris gracilis, 'Svk\i\\).,hvis.c\iy\)itivon^ (J. — A. species 

 of Capsidce added to our list in 1903 (Ent. Mo. Mag., xxxix, pp. 

 269-271). The unique British specimen of it, from which our 

 figure is taken, was captured by Mr. E. A. Butler, at Fleet, 

 Hants., in 1903, on heathy ground, not far from a nest of Lasius 

 niger. It is apparently a rare insect on the Continent. 



COLEOPTERA. 



Figs. 2, 2a — Arena ocfavii, Fauv. — A species of Staphylinidce added to 

 the British list in 1892, on two specimens, one taken by Mr. 

 Blatch on the Chesil Beach in June, 1883, and the other captured 

 by Mr. G. W. Tait at Ilfracombe in July, 1891 (Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 xxviii, p. 160). It has been found in some numbers during the 

 past three years by Mr. P. de la Garde at Dawlish Warren (Ent. 

 Mo. Mag., xliii, p. 124, xliv, p. 90, xlv, p. 86). The only known 

 localities for the species on the Continent are the coasts of 

 Northern France and Holland. A. octavii superficially resembles 

 Phytosus halticus, Kr., and sometimes occurs in company with it. 

 Mr. de la Garde has tabulated their respective characters (Ent. 

 Mo. Mag., xliii, p. 124). 



Figs. 3, 3a — Phytosus nigriventris, Chevr. — An insect confused by 

 British Coleopterists for many years with the neai'ly allied P. 

 halticus, Kr., and introduced as a separate species on our list in 

 1899 (Ent. Mo. Mag., xxxv, pp. 1, 2). It has been found in 

 numbers on the Chesil Beach, as well as at Prestatyn, Hoylake, 

 and Mablethorpe (Ent. Mo. Mag., xxxv, pp. 72, 73, 213). 



