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trees or bushes. If its occurrence on bramble should be confirmed, it would support 

 the conjecture of von Nolcken that " probably the larva feeds on several kinds of 

 leaf-trees."— H. T. S.] 



Peronea perplexana and Euposcilia Mussehliana in Carmarthenshire. — Amongst 

 some insects which Mr. C. Gr. Barrett was kind enough to name for me lately, were 

 specimens of Peronea perplexana (Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xvii, p. 264) and Eupcecilia 

 Mtissehliana (Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xv, p. 39). The former species I have taken in 

 this neighbourhood several times in the last two or three years, but have not known 

 exactly to what to refer it : this year I have bred it during the last week of July and 

 the first week of August from larvae spinning up the leaves of both mountain-ash 

 and bramble. The imago occurs here occasionally in company with P. comparana 

 and Schalleriana, and I have taken it generally by beating hedges of very mixed 

 growth, such as sallow, hawthorn, oak, hornbeam, privet, birch, beech, bramble, &c., 

 in the autumn. 



Of Eupcecilia Mussehliana I have taken two specimens here this year amongst 

 mixed herbage, so that I can form no opinion as to the food of the larva. — Id. : 

 September \^th, 1882. 



Kemiptera at Hurst Green, Sussex. — Eor three weeks in August, I had some 

 collecting in the neighbourhood of Hurst Q-reen, a small village in East Sussex, 

 about 14 miles from Hastings. The following are the principal results : — 



Sehirus higuttatus, in all stages, in moss at roots of Calluna. This is by far the 

 commonest of the genus in East Sussex. Stygnocoris rusticus, common at roots of 

 grass, &c. ; Dictyonota strichnocera, rather common on furze ; Megaloceraa longi- 

 cornis, common on Brachypodium sylvaticum, the spikelets of which it so closely 

 resembles that its detection is rendered difiicult ; Leptopterna dolahrata, ? , de- 

 veloped ; Miridius quadrivirgatiis, a few by sweeping ; Hadrodema pinastri, not 

 uncommon on Scotch Firs ; Globiceps selectus, by sweeping and at roots ; Dieyphus 

 pallicornis, on foxgloves : Heterocordylus unicolor and Orthocephalus coriaceus, by 

 sweeping ; Macrocoleus moUiculus, common on Achillea millefolium ; this is another 

 species difficult to detect in situ, I found it on the under-side of the flowers, the 

 involucres of which it closely simulates, the dark markings on the elytra correspond- 

 ing to the scarious edges of the involucral bracts ; 31. solitarius, on Stachys by 

 sweeping; Amblytylus affinis, by sweeping; Atractotomus magnicornis, not uncom- 

 mon on Scotch and Spruce Firs ; Microphysa pselaphiformis a,nd elegantula, ? , on 

 trunks of various trees ; Acompocoris alpinus, a few on Scotch Firs ; Ceratocomlns 

 coleoptratus, in moss at roots of Calluna. 



In Bridge Park, near Tunbridge Wells, I found Chlamydatus caricis on 

 rushes, and at Frant Salda Cocksii, in Sphagnum. 



Eupteryx vittatus. — Since writing the note on this species, which appeared on 

 page 89 in the last No. of this Magazine, I have found the insect in the same stages 

 on Ranunculus repens frequently, and occasionally on some other low plants. 



Spiders and bugs. — Spiders of the family Thomisidce appear to be partial to 

 bugs as an article of diet. When searching at roots of plants, I have often come 



