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Hemiptera-Heteroptera in South Devon and in the neighbourhood of Bath. — 

 During the last twelve months my son, T. H. Edmonds, and I have been 

 collecting and studying the British Remitter a, and, having met with several 

 rare and local species, we think a short record of our more noteworthy captures 

 may be of interest. Our great catch was effected at Whitsimtide this year, 

 when my son had the pleasure of taking, by sweeping near Totnes, a specimen 

 of the rare Peribalus vernalis. We also obtained, on the 24th ult., by beating 

 the sides of hedges near Dawlish, nine Lasiosomus enervis ; and at the same 

 time and place a good series each of Podops inuncta and Gnathoconus albo- 

 marginatus and two Beosus luscus. We took several of the last-mentioned insect 

 in the same locality in August last, some being then in the pupal state, and 

 subseqviently bred. Among the 19 species of Pentatomidae and Coreidae 

 captiu'ed, I may mention Eurygaster maura, Pentatoma barcarum, P. prasinum, 

 Tropicoris rufipes, Picronierus bidens, Podisus luridus, Acanthosoma haemorrhoi- 

 dale, Syromastes marginatus, Verlusia rhombea, Coreus denticulatus, Steno- 

 cephalus agilis, and Corizus capitatus, all taken more or less commonly near 

 Totnes, and Corimelaena scarabaeoides and Zicrona coerulea found in some 

 numbers by my son, near Bath, where he resides, except at holiday times. 

 Three specimens of Berytus montivagus were obtained in August by searching 

 at the roots of dwarf maritime herbage at the Warren, near Dawlish. A 

 macropterous example of Nabis lativentris was taken by me at Totnes, and a 

 series of N. lineatus (brachypterous form) was obtained by sweeping at the 

 Warren in August. The Lygaeidae taken include Aphamis pini at Totnes, and 

 Heterogaster arteniisiae at Bath. The Capsidae, of which about 95 species were 

 obtained, include Calocoris seticornis, several specimens by sweeping near 

 Totnes in July and August ; C alpestris, of which my son has, within the last 

 week, captured a dozen specimens near Bath ; Miridius quadrivirgatus, found 

 in some nimibers by sweeping a grass field near Totnes in July ; Teratocons 

 antennatus and T. saundersi, by sweeping rushes on the banks of the River 

 Dart ; Orthotylus rubidus var. vioncreaffi,, in the salt marsh at the Warren ; and 

 Psallus vitellinus on spruce fir at Bath. Two specimens of Banatra linearis 

 were obtained by my son from the Bathampton Canal.— T. Edmonds, " Strath- 

 more," Totnes: June 8th, 1915. 



A melanic form of Cymatophora or. — Some time ago Professor Bateson 

 called my attention to a paper, with figixres, on a melanic form of Cymatophora 

 or, which appeared in " Die Umschau," of November 29th, 1913, and as I have 

 never seen any reference to such a form in any English journal, it may be as 

 well to note that such a variety exists. The paper was written by Dr. K. Hase- 

 broek, and states that the form was first noticed near Hamburg in 1904, and was 

 then of an intense black, as black as the var. doubledayaria of Amphydasis hetu- 

 laria, and no specimen of an intermediate form had been previously noticed. The 

 form increased in numbers, and in 1911 and 1912 it was said that from some lots 

 of larvae as many as 90 or 95 per cent, were bred of it. The figures accompanying 

 the paper represent, besides the type form (fig. 1), four distinct forms of varia- 

 tion. In fig. 2, all the wings, thorax, and body, are uniformly black, with the 

 exception of the very pale (presumably white) stigmata; in fig. 3, in addition 



