32 [February, 



COLEOPTERA AND HEMIPTEBA-HETEROPTERA IN 

 DEVONSHIRE. 



BY G. C. CHAMPION, F.Z.S. 



The following list of Coleoptera — observed by myself, or my son, 

 in North and South Devon in August and September last— will supple- 

 ment that given by Mr. P. de la Garde in the last number of this 

 Magazine (anted pp. 13 — 15). There is little, of course, to add from 

 Christovv, but at some of the other localities visited a few interesting 

 captures were made, including several new to the county list. Dr. 

 G. B. Longstaff kindly invited us to spend a few days with him at 

 Mortehoe,* and he accompanied us in nearly all our excursions in 

 that district, as well as to Braunton Burrows, &c. Mr. de la Garde 

 and Mr. Keys helped in various ways while we were at Slapton and 

 Shaldon, and several outings were made in their company. At 

 Slapton we found Bidessus minutissimus in plenty in its original 

 habitat, in the shallow water along the edges of the Ley ; most of the 

 other local species known from that place were, however, either very 

 rare or absent. At Shaldon Mr. de la Garde guided us to the locality 

 for the Laccohius described by Mr. Newbery under the name pur- 

 purascens — the insect occurring in abundance in the slimy ooze in the 

 red sandstone cliffs ; but a joint search for Arena octavii and Sibinia 

 sodalis at Dawlish was unsuccessful. Braunton Burrows, so late in 

 the season, produced but little beyond Nebria complanata, the same 

 species putting in an appearance at Woolacombe At Rockham Bay, 

 Mortehoe, I was pleased to find Jctocharis readinr/i, the insect not 

 having been previously recorded from N. Devon. A few rare or 

 local Hemiptera- Heterop>tera were taken, including Mesovelia furcata, 

 at Slapton, and a list of them is appended at the end of this paper. 

 The species marked thus f are not included in the Devonshire list of 

 the Victoria County History. 



COLEOPTERA. 

 Cieindela hybrida, v. maritima, Braunton Sands. Nebria complanata, not un- 

 common, under loose pieces of drift wood on the sandy beach, Woolacorabe and 

 Braunton. Leistusfitlvibarbis,Woo\>icombe. Carabus arvensis, Woolacombe. Ba- 

 dlster sodalis, Mortehoe. Dysrhirius thoracicus and safinus, Dawlish. Harpalus 

 azureus, under stones, Saunton ; II. discoideus, at roots of heath, Dawlish Warren. 

 Stomis pumieatus, Woolacombe. Ptero.it ichus dimidiatus, Saunton. Amara patri- 

 cia,f Shaldon and Woolacombe ; A. consuIaris,f Shaldon ; A. acuminata, Lynmouth. 

 Taphria nivalis, on tho high ground at Haldon, above Teignmouth. Pristom/chus 



* Dr. Longstaff has enumerated must of the insects taken by us at this locality in the 3rd 

 edition of his " Lepidoplera and other Insecta observed in the parish of Mortehoe." [London : 

 Mitchell, Hughes, and Clarke, 140, Wardour Street. 1907]. 



