14 [January, 



Coleoptera, Hcmiptera, etc., in Devonshire. — During July and August last I 

 had numerous opijortunities for collecting in Devonshire, atBudleigh Salterton, 

 Exmouth, Dawlish, Bridestowe, Lydford, etc., but there are few captures of any 

 note to record. At Exmouth, Ochthehius metallescens var. poweri was still 

 to be found in plenty, and Lesteva fontinalis and pubescens sparingly, under the 

 conditions noted by me in 1915 (cf. Ent. Mo. Mag., LI, pp. 299, 309). Omitting 

 most of the insects recorded by me from that locality (I.e.), the following may 

 be mentioned : Bembidium punctulatum, decorum, atrocaeruleum, and tibiale, 

 Homalota currax, pavens, longula, and fallax, Tachyusa constricta, Limnius 

 tuherculatus and troglodytes, Elmis volkmari, Paramecosoma melariocephalum, 

 Cryptohypnus dermestoides, etc., in the shingly bed of the River Otter, and Gas- 

 troidea viridula, abundant, in all its stages, on Rumex, on the banks of the same 

 river, Budleigh Salterton. Helodes minuta, with its larva, Myllaena kraatzi, 

 Lesteva punctata, Ochthebius bicolon, Helophorus aequalis, Georyssus, etc., in the 

 trickles of water on the cliff face, Exmouth. The beautiful Dolichopid fly, 

 Liancalus virens Scop., was also to be seen sipping the trickling water at this 

 locality. Ancyrophorus a^ireus and omalinus, sometimes together under the 

 same stones, in a small, nearly dried-up stream, and Ocalea castanea, beneath 

 damp leaves, Harpford Wood. Orthochaetes insignis, Gronops lunatus, Ceuthor- 

 rhynchus euphorbiae, Helophorus nubilus, Amara tibialis, etc., Woodbury Common. 

 Cteniopus sulphureus, abundant on flowers of Armeria, Oncomera femorata on 

 ivy, Anchomenus prasinus, one specimen with abbreviated rounded elytra, in 

 company with many of the ordinary form, Lamprosoma concolor, Budleigh 

 Salterton. Phytosus nigriventris, Diglotta, Saprinus maritimus, Crepidodera im- 

 pressa,* Dawlish Warren. Carabus arvensis and catenulatus, Pterostichus 

 aethiops, Patrobus excai^atus, Bradycellus similis, Agabus guttatus (dark form), 

 Helophorus aeneipennis, Ocyusa incrassata, Homalota eremita, Amischa sp. (?), 

 <? ^ (perhaps different from any of the analis-gromp on the British list), 

 Myllaena kraatzi and brevicornis, Stenus nitidiusculus, Oxytelus rugosus var. ter- 

 restris, Lesteva pubescens, Scydmaenus elongatulus,etc.,\'n Sphagnum in the bogs, 

 or in moss on the Tors, on the moor, and Pachyrrhinus comari, Bridestowe. 

 Orectochilus, Dianous, Hydraena gracilis, Lesteva fontinalis and pubescens, Lyd- 

 ford Gorge. Amongst the Hemiptera the following are perhaps Avorth noting, 

 the Capsids with few exceptions being widely distributed insects : Salda scotica 

 and littoralis, and Cryptostemma alienum, on the banks of the Otter. Terato- 

 coris saundersi (cf. Ent. Mo. Mag., 1916, pp. 255-257) and antennatus, Calocoris 

 sexguttatus, Oncognathus binotatus, Bicyphus constrictus,* errans, and an^iulatus, 

 Campyloneura virgula, Aetorrhinus angulatus, Mecomma ambulans, Cyrton'hinus 

 caricis, Macrotylus paykulli, Amblytylus affinis, Budleigh Salterton. Salda 

 c-album, at Tavy Cleaves, Mo7ialocoris filicis, by sweeping fern, and Hebrus rufi- 

 ceps, Agalliastes wilkinsoni,* and Delphacinus mesomelas, in Sphagnum, on Links 

 Tor, etc., Bridestowe, A great deal of time was devoted to the examination of 

 Sphagnum in the peat bogs, and drier moss on the Tors, on Dartmoor, but with 

 no better results than stated above. Cranmere Pool, reached after a long tramp 

 across the heaths and bogs, was completely dried up in August, it being then 

 nothing but a large depression in the peat, almost devoid of vegetation. 

 Nothing better than Patrobus excavatus and Pterostichus nigrita were seen during 



