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Additional localities for Limotettix stactogala, Am. — As a result of some 

 collecting in the Hastings district during August, I am able to supplement Mr. 

 Edwards' notice of Limotettix stactogala as a British insect, by recording some 

 additional localities for it. During the first week in August I noticed some large 

 tamarisk bushes forming the hedge of a cottage garden by the shore at Bopeep, St. 

 Leonards. On the first stroke of the beating stick a number of small green Ho- 

 mopterous larvae were revealed, which were unfamiliar, and seemed likely to be 

 those of the novelty of which I was in quest. The identity of the species was 

 presently set at rest by the discovery of a single imago of L. stactogala. Some ten 

 days after I found the species in the utmost profusion on a few tamarisk shrubs at 

 Bexhill, on a pathway in front of the town, leading down to the beach. These 

 bushes are the last lingering remnants of what was once an extensive hedge, formerly 

 connected, if my memory serves me, with a coast guard station which stood on the 

 spot when Bexhill was a village. Many of the bushes are already dead, and the 

 rest will probably soon follow. The insects here were much more advanced than 

 those I had found at Bopeep, and in a few minutes I was able to secure some thirty 

 or forty imagines, and could have had hundreds had 1 so wished, though there were 

 still large numbers in the larval condition. Later in the day I again found the 

 insect very plentiful on a tamarisk hedge around the gardens of coast guard cottages 

 some two miles west of Bexhill. During the last week in August 1 was at Pett, on 

 the other side of Hastings, between Winch elsea and Fairlight, there again the 

 hedges around the coast guard stations were abundantly furnished with the pretty 

 green Homopterou in two distinct localities. The insect thus occurs from Win- 

 chelsea in the east to Bexhill on the west, and there can be little doubt that it will 

 be found in other parts also where the food-plant is well established. Some years 

 ago the tamarisk was very generally used at Hastings for garden hedges, but the 

 old plants are being uprooted and replaced by Euonymus, and the coast guard 

 stations now remain therefore the chief localities for the shrub and its inhabitant. 

 Considering that where the food-plant is still left the insect is abundant, and re- 

 membering that not many years ago its opportunities of sustenance were much more 

 extended through the wider cultivation of its food, there seems a strong probability 

 that the insect was formerly even commoner than it is now. and it seems strange 

 that an attractive looking creature such as this, occurring so abundantly as it does 

 on the coast of East Sussex, should so long have escaped detection. The tamarisk 

 has evidently been neglected by entomologists. — E. A. Butler, 53, Tollington 

 Park, N. : September 3rd, 1902. 



A few Trickoptera from Llanfairfechan. — Mr. E. Saunders, when staying at 

 Llanfairfechan, JN'orth Wales, in July last, took, casually, the following species: — 

 Limuophilus vittatus, F., L. centralis, Ct., L. sparsus, Ct., Goera pilosa, F., Silo 

 paldpes, ¥., Bercea mounts, Ct., Mystacides azurea, L., Adicella reducta, McL., 

 Hydropsyche inslabilis, Ct., Philopotamus montanus, Don., and Agapelus fusci- 

 pes, Ct. — K. McLachlan, Lewisham, London : September 6th, 190^. 



A dwarfed example of Chrysopa lenella, Schnd. — At Llanfairfechan Mr. Saun- 

 ders took a Chrysopa, the only example he saw. It proves to be Ch. tenella, but in 



