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Hemiptera and Coleoptera at Chobham. — During' the last -week in August and 

 the first in September, I had some collecting at Chobham. For such success as I 

 met with, my thanks are very largely due to Mr. Edward Saunders, who very kindly 

 gave me the benefit of his own experience, and showed me the localities for all the 

 best things. Amongst the more noteworthy of my captures may be mentioned the 

 following : — 



Hemiptera. — Corizus maculatus, by sweeping in a damp place ; Alydus calca- 

 ratitx, running°;and flying in sandy places and vei-y active in the hot sunshine ; 

 Calt/ptonotus pini, chiefly in the larval form amongst dead leaves in sandy and 

 heathy places ; Lamproplax piceus, plentiful amongst damp rubbish at roots of 

 rushes, &c., at Gracious Pond ; this is apparently a fragile species, for, notwithstand- 

 that many of them had evidently only just assumed the imaginal form, it was rather 

 diflicult to find specimens that possessed the full complement of legs and antennal 

 joints ; Rhyparochromus dilatatus, common in sandy places, amongst dead leaves 

 &c. ; Cymus melanocephalus, abundant by sweeping at Gracious Pond ; in this 

 species I have noticed a malformation of the antennse different from that which so 

 frequently occurs in the Lygaidm ; in two specimens one of the antennae is consider- 

 ably shorter than the other, though the normal number of joints is present ; one of 

 these has the first three joints shortened, the second and third being also thickened 

 and darkened, and the fourth of the usual form and size ; the other has the first joint 

 normal and the other three shortened, the second and third being also thickened and 

 darkened. Calocoris ticinensis, a few as the result of much sweeping at Gracious 

 Pond ; I could not find it elsewhere ; I was apparently rather late for this species, 

 as most of them were more or less damaged. Pueciloscytus unifasciatus, by sweep- 

 ing ; Chlamydattis caricis, abundant, the ? chiefly by searching at roots of rushes, 

 and the $ , which was much more active than its partner and readily took to flight, 

 chiefly by sweeping in the same places; C. pyqmcBus, not uncommon at roots of 

 rushes where there was the greatest accumulation of dead and decaying bits of the 

 plants, these all came by searching in such spots, I could get none by sweeping. 

 Nahis Jlavomarginatus and lineatus, at roots of rushes ; Coranus siihapterus and 

 Salda marginalis, in bare places on the heath ; ^S. Cocksii and Hehriis rujiceps, in 

 wet Sphagnum. 



Coleoptera.— liemg chiefly occupied with the Hemiptera, I secured only a few 

 beetles, thejfollowing being the best : — Amara injima, under stones in bare places on 

 the heath ; Bemhidium nigricorne, in heathy places ; Anchomenus gracilis, Gymnusa 

 brevicollis, and Fhilonthus nigrita, in wet Sphagnum ; and Cryptocephalus lineola, 

 by sweeping. Cicindela sylvatica was still about in some numbers on one part of 

 the heath, but had to be carefully " stalked." — E. A. Butlee, University Lower 

 School, Hastings : October 17th, 1882. 



Description of the larva of Catoptria expallidana.- -In the autumn of 1880, I 

 found two plump, fat-looking larvae, apparently belonging to the genus Catoptria, 

 feeding in the flower-heads of the corn sow-thistle {Sonchus arvensis). In due. 

 course they spun up, and, in the following July, I was surprised by the emergence 

 of C. expallidana. When the autumn again returned, I once more examined the 

 sow-thistles, and found tlie larvse this time in some abundance. I collected about 

 twenty specimens, sufficient, as I thought, for all purposes, yet not a single one pro- 



