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C'uUas croceiis {edusa) in Hertfordshire. — This insect has occurred in 

 several lofalitiea during August in this county, more ef-pecially on the chalk- 

 hills around Dunstable. I have also seen two examples at Harpenden, and 

 others have been noted near Sandridge. — A. D. Imms, Rothamsted Experi- 

 mental Station, Harpenden : September 9th, 1922. 



A fortnight's Hemiptera collecting in Hampshire. — With the object of 

 trying pastures new, both from an entomological and a health point of view, I 

 stayed at Southbourne in Hampshire for the first half of July, and, as oppor- 

 tunity and the weatlier permitted, tried my luck with my sweeping-net. On 

 several occasions, however, owing to the soaked vegetation, I had to give up, 

 as my net was wet through. At Hengistbury Head, off honeysuckle, 1 swej)! 

 six Neottiglo.^sa piisilla Gmel. on the 12lh, and although I tried again several 

 times, I did not see any more. In the garden of the hotel at Southbourne I took 

 a green $ Piezodorns litiiratus F., and bred from larvae three Fentatoma riifipes 

 found on birch at Hengistbury Head. Other captures included one ^ Acantho- 

 soma haeinorrhoidale L. at Tiptoe on willow, and 3Igrmus miriformis Fall, was 

 taken occasionally. Cgmus glandicolor Hahn, one, and Ischnorhynchns 

 geminatus, I'airly common, at Hengistbury Head. One Lasiosotnus enerris, 

 H.-S., near sea-shore at Mudeford ; Scolopostethus thomsoni Rent, and S. deco- 

 raf.us Hahn, a few of each at Hengistbury Head. Two Monanthia cardui L. 

 were taken, one at Mudeford and the other at Barton-on-Sea. I captured fonr 

 Hydrometra stagnorum L. on a backwater of the Stour near Tuckton 13ridge,and 

 a solitary Cori.va falleni Fieb. among hosts of immature Corixus. Several 

 Gerris were seen on this occasion, but they were all immature. One Nabis 

 ericetorufn Scholtz at Hengistbury Head was the only species of this genus 

 that 1 took. Acompocoris jiygmaeus Fall, was met with on every Scotch Fir 

 that 1 could beat in the district, and one TrijMeps nigra Wolff was captured 

 at Mudeford. A J and $ Microphysa elegantula Baer.yvere swept up together 

 in the hotel garden at Southbourne, with large numbers of Asciodema obsolclum 

 D. & S. and Flagiognathus chrysnnthemi. A few Pithmius maerkeli H.-S. were 

 taken in Southbourne, and several Miris hulsatus F., \\\\\\g Meyalocci-aea erratica 

 L. and M. riificortiis were common there. One Megaloceraea psammaecolor 

 Rent., Mudeford ; Leptopterna ferrvgata Fall, and L. dolabrata L., a few ; 

 Phytocoris ulmi L., one at Mudeford ; Calocoris bipunctatiis F. was common at 

 Southbourne, while Steiiotus binotatus F. was taken occasionally at Hengistbury 

 Head. Two Dichrooscytus rujipennis Fall, were found at Southbourne — one on 

 the trunk of a Scotch Fir, the other beaten out of a small cypress ; Plesio- 

 coris ruyicollis Fall., two or three at Mudeford; Lygus viridis Fall., common at 

 Hengistbury Head ; a solitary L. pratensis L. and a pair of lihopcdotomm 

 ater L. at Mudeford, where I also captured two $ Dicyphus erram W. Christ- 

 church further gave me Orthotylus marginalis Reut., O. viridinervis Kb., a soft 

 O. ochrotrickus D. & S., and O. ericetorum Fall. A single Amblytylus affinis 

 Fieb. at Barton ; Phylus palhceps Fieb., P. melanocephalus, Psallus obscurellus 

 Fall., P. alnicola 1). & S., P. roseus F., Plagiognuthus roseri H.-S. Many 

 common Hemiptera are, 1 know, included in this list, but some of the captures- 

 may be of interest to other hemipterists, .so I have included everything taken. 

 I am greatly indebted to Mr. E. A. Butler and Mr. H. Britten for their kind- 

 ness in naming the above captures for me, — H. R. P. Collett, 2 Wyuoate 

 Road, Hale, Cheshire : August Ibth, 1022. 



