CjQ , September. 



Omitting a few epecies of universal distribution, my captures (made between 

 July, 1874, and March, 1875) include : — Brachypelta aterrima, Forst., common in 

 dry vegetable refuse, &c., at Malta: Macroscytus brunneus, Fab., Gibraltar, not 

 rarely under stones : Gcotomus punctulatus and loevicollis, Costa, and a new species ? 

 commonly: Cydnus fuscipes, M.i\[a. and Rey, and Ochetostethus nanus, H.-Schiiff., 

 abundantly, at Malta, by cutting tufts of herbage : Odnntoscelis dorsalis, Fieb., 

 Gribraltar, commonly, usually found crawling in dusty roads : JElia Burmeisteri, 

 Kiist., Taormina (Sicily), Cagliari, and Port Mahon ; occasionally by sweeping: J5. 

 cognata, Fieb., by sweeping, at Palermo : Menaccarus,n. sp.? Balearic Isles : Sciocoris 

 maculatus, Fieb., U7nbrinus, Wolff., macrocephalus, Fieb., an(justipennis, Muls. and 

 Ecy, and other spp., commonly, at roots of herbage, at Malta : S. Helferi, Fieb., Port 

 Mahon, by beating herbage: Eurygaster niger, Fab., Malta, rarely: Odontotarsus 

 grammicus, Lin., Port Mahon and Corfu, and 0. caudatus. Klug, Malta ; both rarely 

 under stones : Rhaphidog aster griseus, Fab., Port Mahon, not rarely under loose 

 willow bark : Cd^rpocoris lunula, Fab., Cagliari and Malta ; baccarum, Lin., Gibraltar ; 

 and verbasci, De Geer, Port Mahon ; all not rare by sweeping : Peribalus vernalis, 

 Wolff, Malta : Brachyncma cinctum. Fab., Cagliari and Port Mahon, abundant on 

 Suoeda : Scutellera lineata, Lin., Tangier and Gibraltar, by sweeping, and on flowers : 

 Holcostethus congener, Fieb., Cagliari ; sphacelatus, Fab., Gibraltar ; and jani, Fab., 

 Taormina; all by sweeping : Nezara prasina,'Lm.,T&r\gier, Cagliari, and Corfu, by 

 sweeping, but rarely : Eysarcoris misellus, Stal, Port Mahon, by beating herbage : 

 Strachia pida, H.-Schaff., Port Mahon, Cagliari, Gibraltar, &c. ; abundant on Crucifers, 

 and very variable : S. ornata, Lin., Malta and Gibraltar, by sweeping : Glypheria 

 wnxginosa, Cyrill, Malta, under stones : Cnjpiodontus tuberculatus, Kossi, one in a 

 tuft of grass at Gibraltar: Ancyrosoma albilineatum, Fab., Tangier, Palermo, Taormina, 

 Corfu, &c., by sweeping, and at roots of Vcrbascum .- Trigonosoma Desfontainesi, 

 Fab., once, by sweeping, at Cagliari : Trigonosoma, n. sp. ? Patras : Gonocervs insi- 

 diator. Fab., Gibraltar, by sweeping : Verlusia sinuata, Fieb., Port Mahon, by beating 

 hci'bagc : V. sulcicornis, Fab., Malta, commonly on walls, &c. : Centrocarenus 

 spiniger. Fab., Gibraltar, under stones : Strobilotoma iyphicornis, Malta, and Dasy- 

 coris dentator. Fab., Corfu, by cutting tufts of herbage : Enoplops cornutus, Hoff., 

 Tunis, not rarely under stones, &c. : Pseudophlmus Waltli, H.-Schiiff., Gibraltar, and 

 P. a«ricitZati«s, Fieb. ? Malta and Cagliari; commonly under stones: Stenoc6phahis 

 neglectus, H.-Schiiff., Malta : Camptopus lateralis, Germ., Cagliari, by sweeping ; a 

 very fragile insect : Fhyllomorpha laciniata, Vill., a few specimens of this extra- 

 ordinary little creature (which, when feigning death, exactly imitates a small, withered, 

 spiny seed-vessel of some plant) in a tuft of Parietaria at the foot of the Rock of 

 Gibraltar : Therapha hyoscyami, Lin., Gibraltar, by sweeping Ononis : Micrelytra 

 fossularum, Rossi, Gibraltar: Coryzus truncatus, Ramb., and errans. Fab., Taormina, 

 Gibraltar, and Malta : Brachycarenus tigrinus, Schill., Tangier, by general sweeping : 

 Prionotylus Helferi, Fieb., Gibraltar and Tangier, under stones : Pyrrhocoris apterus, 

 Lin., abundant (and generally gi'cgarious) in every locality I have visited : P. (sgyptius, 

 Lin., with the preceding, but less numerous: Plociomerus annulipes, I3a;r., Tunis, 

 under stones : Lyga^us militaris. Fab., JMalta and Gibraltar, common, usually flying 

 in the sunshine: L. saxatilis, Scop., common on flowers, Rock of Gibraltar; and L. 

 equestris, Lin., Pati-as, under stones : Lygceosoma punctato-gxdtaium. Fab., Malta 



