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labelled " Wincholsea, June, '96." On reference to my note-book I find it must 

 have been taken about June 18th, but as I visited a good many ditches in seareh of 

 Coccidula scutellata, which I used to take in a water-net, I do not know the exact 

 locality. The one visit I was able to make this year in search of it was fruitless, as 

 far as the object of my search was concerned, but resulted in my turning up Lacco- 

 philus variegatus again. I have previously taken this only at Pevensey. In June, 

 1900, 1 visited Pevensey in search of Bagous nodulosus, and after lying by the ditch- 

 side with my head lower than my heels, till I was on the verge of apoplexy, was 

 rewarded by the sight of B. cylindrus crawling up from the depths along a blade of 

 grass. Persistent searching during the remaining time at my disposal yielded no 

 second specimen, though I managed to secure a single Oodes, and, later, one B. 

 nodulosus. Among a few Trachyphloeus myrmecophilus which I took here in Sep- 

 tember, in company with Mr. F. B. Jennings, was one specimen with the left 

 deciduous mandible still adhering. 



My latest capture this year, so far, is Sphinx convolouli, of which I caught a 

 specimen on October 15th flying round the electric light. It was in magnificent 

 condition, as far as " plumage " is concerned, though it had lost the left antenna and 

 anterior tarsi.— W. Esam, Eagle House School, St. Leonards-on-Sea : December 

 9th, 1901. 



Re-occurrence of Sciocoris cursitans, F., at Box Hill. — In August, 1897, I 

 found a single specimen of this curious little Pentatomid at the roots of a plant 

 (since identified as Hypericum perforatum) at Box Hill (cf. Ent. Mo. Mag., 1898, 

 p. 13). Although frequent visits were paid to the locality subsequently, no further 

 specimens turned up till August and September last year, when I had the pleasure 

 of finding several small colonies of the species in some rough and very stony ground, 

 much overgrown with stonecrop, and with patches of wood sage (Teucriwni) scattered 

 here and there on another slope of the hill. Sciocoris was evidently well established 

 in this spot, as I found quite a fair number of both larvoe and imagos ; they oc- 

 curred chiefly in the crevices of the chalk flints at and near the roots of bushy 

 plants of the wood sage, in which situations the short form and flattish shape would 

 certainly seem to be of advantage. None were to be found amongst the numerous 

 luxuriant beds of stonecrop. The existence of this Surrey station for <S. cursitans 

 is of interest to British Hemipterists, as the only other locality known for it in our 

 islands is the stretch of coast between Deal and Sandwich, where I and others have 

 taken it under Erodium, and in sand holes. It seems not improbable that 5. micro- 

 phthalmus, ¥\or, may eventually turn up in some hilly spot in the South of England, 

 as Puton, in his " Synopsis des Hem.-Het. de Erance," especially indicates this 

 species from elevated places, and records it from as far north as Paris ; he describes 

 it as "assez rare" in France.— F. B. Jennings, 152, Silver Street, Upper Edmon- 

 ton, N. : January 8th, 1902. 



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Hand-Book of the Natural History of Glasgow and tiie West of 

 Scotland (Fauna, Flora, and Geology of the Clyde Area) ; 8vo, pp. 567. Glasgow, 

 published by the Local Committee for the British Association, 1901. 



