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Bog, Co. Meath, on June 6tli, and two together on Balrath Bog, in the same 

 County, on June 10th, 1916, in both instances out of moss by the side of 

 a Myrmica nest. One on the Devil's Dyke, Cambs, on April 16th, 1917, out 

 of moss, together with many specimens of a Mp-?mca, I regret that I omitted 

 to identify the species of the ant in each case. — G. W. Nicholson. 



Hemiptera in Jersey. — During the last half of April I had some interesting 

 collecting in the Channel Islands, and especially in Jersey. The weather was 

 for the most part all that could be desired, but occasionally we were reminded 

 by some extremely high and intensely cold winds that it was unsafe to 

 consider the winter as over. The island had experienced, as we have done 

 here, a prolonged winter, and excess of rain: nevertheless, Hemiptera were 

 plentiful, especially upon the sand-hills. All my collecting was done on the 

 coast, but the four sides of the island were visited. The following species fell 

 to my lot, and must all, I think, be regarded as over-wintered specimens and 

 not products of the year; it will be noticed that they are chiefly Pentatomidae , 

 Coreidae, Lygaeidae, and Reduviidae. Podops inuncta (1) at St. Ouen's Bay, 

 Cydnus Jlaviconiis and Geotomns punctulattis in tufts of mosa in sandy places, 

 the latter quite common ; Sciocoris cursitans, common in sandy places ; Aelia 

 acuminata (1), Ceraleptus lividus (1), Aphamis lynceus (1), and Dolycoria 

 baccarum, several, at the roots of a narrow-leaved Plantago ; a few Spathocera 

 dalinanni in sandy places on Gorey Common, amongst stunted vegetation ; this 

 species is sluggish and lies low, so that, being so nearly of the colour of the 

 ;>;r()und, it is not at all easy to see ; Vei'lusia quadruta, common on Marram 

 grass on the sand-hills, some specimens found in cop. ; Therapha hyoscyami (1) 

 on sand-hills at St. Ouen's Bay ; Stenocephalus agilis (1) on Euphorbia port- 

 limdica at ir'ortelet Bay; Corizus parumpunctatus on sand-hills in different 

 parts; these were all of the highly coloured and more typical form, with fore, 

 parts red, abdomen beneath greenish, and connexivum quite unspotted, very 

 different in appearance from those that inhabit the sand-hills of S. Wales, 

 which are dull-coloured with spotted connexivum ; 3Ietacanthus eleyans on 

 sand-hills at St. Ouen's Bay ; it is curious that this insect subsists through the 

 winter, when the Ononis with which it is always associated in summer 

 is dead; in the present instance only very small shoots of the plants were 

 beginning to show above the sand, and the bugs were not on or near these ; 

 Lyyaeosonia rtticidatuyn, common at the roots of vegetation and not easy to see; 

 Nysius thymi (1), Cymus claviculus (1), and Ischnorhynchus yeminatus (1) at 

 I'ortelet Bay; Pio7iosomus varius, common in all sandy places; Stygnocoria 

 fnliyineus, a few ; Ischnocoris anyustultis and Macrodema viicropteinitn, common 

 in heathy places, the latter including one macropterous specimen ; Heteroyaster 

 urticne, Beosus maritijiiiis, and Emhlethis verbasci* common at the roots of 

 Marram grass : Rhyparochromus dilatatus, Peritrechus nubilus, P. sylvestris, 

 and Notochihis contractus, in moss at Giffard's Bay ; Plinthisus brevipennis, 

 common in sandy places ; Rhyparochromus praete.vtatus (2) at St. Ouen's Bav ; 

 Aphanus quadratus, very common in all sandy places; Drymus sylvaticus, one 

 specimen only (!) ; Scolopostethus thomsoni (1), S. decoratus, common ; Pyrrho- 

 coris apterus, not seen nearly so commonly as usual, probably because of the 



* This speeieg, it may be observed, was found in abundance by myself on Tresco and Sameon, in 

 the Scilly Isls., iu July 1S97.— G. C. C. 



