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ifFerent, and the distinctions between all the four species, indeed, are so well 

 larked as to render it somewhat surprising they should so long have been over- 

 •oked. — Theodore Wood, 5, Selwjn Terrace, Upper Norwood, S.E. : Septem- 

 ?r 2nd, 1884 



Additions to the Hemiptera of the Hastings district. — During a short stay at 

 [astings at the beginning of August, I was fortunate enough to add the following 

 iree species of Semiptera-Heteroptera to the list of 242 species already recorded 

 om that neighbourhood. 



Senestaris laticeps. — A tolerably numerous colony at Bulverhythe, at the roots 

 : various plants and amongst debris ; the species was extremely local, being con- 

 aed to a few square yards of ground at the base of a low cliff ; it was only just 

 riving at maturity, and many were in the larval condition, in which they are of a 

 lie ochreous colour. 



Teratocoris ajitennatus.--A. single specimen on the sand hills at Camber, at the 

 ots of Psamma arenaria. This insect has apparently been recorded hitherto only 

 l)m Wicken Fen and Reigate. Much searching failed to discover a second speci- 

 ibn of the imago, though I saw what I imagine to be the larval form. 

 ' Sigara Scholtzii. — Plentiful in a pond near G-uestling Church ; I could have 

 tten any number ; they were to be had only by scraping the net round the roots 

 c patches of rushes growing on the margins of the pond. — E. A. Butleh, 7, Tm*le 

 1 ad, Tollington Park, N. 



Lype reducta, Hag en ; an addition to the British Trichoptera. — On August 

 2;h, I and Mr. J. J. King made an excursion to Weybridge. The weather was cold 

 al damp, and the sudden change seemed to have rendered insects torpid, for very 

 ft' were to be seen. When sweeping the banks of the Thames opposite Weybridge, 

 I:aptured a single Lype, $ , which, in the form of the " dorsal plate," and of the 

 aces of the inferior appendages (as detailed in the " Eevision and Synopsis," p. 

 4, pi. xlv), agrees with L. reducta. A second visit to the locality (this time in 

 Cdpany with Mr. K. J. Morton), on the 11th inst. — a glorious day — resulted in 

 tl finding of several L. phceopa, Steph., but in nothing that can be considered L. 

 rvicta. The distinctive characters between the two are undoubtedly slight ; 

 iD'eover the form of the " dorsal plate " in L. phceopa is decidedly variable ; yet 

 I ive seen nothing purely intermediate. If it should prove that the two are really 

 D( distinct, then L. sinuata, McLach., of which I have seen only two individuals 

 (o; from Austria, the other from Finland), will also have to be united with L. 

 pi opa, from which it is less distinct than is the form known as X. reducta. 



On each of these excursions, a few examples of Ithytrichia lamellaris, Eaton, 

 W(i captured ; this Hydroptilid has, I think, only been recorded as British from 

 thoriginal localities, viz. : Ashbourne and Eomsey. — R. McLachlan, Lewisham : 

 8t ember \Uh, 1884. 



CcBcilius atricornis, McLach., near Chertsey. — On the 11th inst., when sweeping 

 h bhort herbage on the banks of the Thames above Chertsey Bridge, close to the 



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