68 I August, 



Mordellistena abdominalis — one £ at G-uestling in 1877. I have also a 9 which I 

 believe came from Hollington. 



Prionus coriarius — several near Hollington in 1877. 



Lycoperdina bovistce — one in a decaying stump at Hollington Wood in April, 1878. 



Notoxus monoceros — very common at Camber, and amongst a large number of speci- 

 mens taken there was one which had the thoracic horn bifurcate in front. 



Hemiptera-Heteropteea. 

 Sehirus biguttatus — two or three specimens in woods near Battle and Guestling. 

 Eusareoris melanocephalus — common at Hawkhurst in May, 1877. 

 Zicrona ccerulea — several amongst heather at Darvel's Hole, September, 1879. 

 Chorosoma Schillingi — common by sweeping amongst coarse herbage at Camber 



sandhills in September. 

 Berytus crassipes— one by sweeping amongst heather at Fairlight, September, 1878. 

 Acetropis GimmerthaU— three amongst long grass at Fairlight, September, 1879. 

 Miridius quadrivirgatus — several near Hastings, 1878 and 1879. 

 Calocoris infusus — several on palings near Hastings, 1879. 

 Psallus quercus — one in Newgate Wood, July, 1878. 

 Gerris pallidum — a few on reservoirs at Hastings and on dykes at the Salts, Bopeep. 



I had the good fortune to capture a developed specimen of Bryocoris pteridis at 

 Llanwrtyd, Brecknockshire, in August, 1879 ; the undeveloped form occurred in 

 profusion on different ferns, but I saw only the one developed specimen. — E. A. 

 Butler, University Lower School, Hastings : June, 1880. 



Notes on Hy menoptera and Hemiptera captured at Chobham. — Although the 

 weather during the last fortnight has not been very favourable for collecting, I 

 have succeeded in finding several rarities which I think worth recording, and amongst 

 these are three new species (to this country) of Hy menoptera, belonging to the family 

 Pompilidce. Being away from my collection and books, I cannot now characterize 

 these fully, but I hope to be able to do so in a future number. They are all very 

 distinct species, the $ especially being easily recognised. 



The first is Priocnemis parvulus, Dahlb., which belongs to the group in which our 

 common exaltatus occurs, its J m &J be known at once by the narrow ventral anal 

 plate which is slightly widened towards the apex and truncate ; the ? may be known 

 by being smaller than exaltatus, with the apical segment of the abdomen beneath 

 more or less carinated down the middle, and by having no distinct clear round spot 

 near the apex of the anterior wings as in that species. 



The second is Pomp Hits neglectus, Dahlb., of which the $ differs from all our 

 British Pompili in having the posterior tibia? sinuate on the side towards the body, 

 and then suddenly incrassated above the apex ; its ? can only be confounded with 

 that of P. spissus, as it has the anterior tarsi with the 6hort spines like that species, 

 from which it differs in the triangular shape of the third submarginal cell. 



The third species is I believe Pomp i Ins abnormis, Dahlb., of this I have taken 1 <J 

 and I believe 1 ? . The £ may be at once known by the anal ventral plate having 

 a long pendant spine at some little distance from the apex. I have a $? which I 

 believe belongs to it, but it is very closely allied to gibbus, and I must wait to com- 

 pare it with that species before being certain. 



It may be well to observe that in collecting the species of this family it is 



