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Note on Micralymma breuipenne. — During a recent visit to Barmouth I 

 found Micralymma brevipenne crawling about (very sparingly) on old posts and 

 stones near the mouth of a brooklet three or four miles up the Mawddach. The 

 conditions under whieh it occurred being rat lun* different from those previously 

 known to me (its habitat, according to the "authorities," being "far below high 

 water mark on the coast "), I thought a record of the capture might be interesting. 

 I have looked through all the volumes of the Ent. Mo. Mag. for notes on Micra- 

 lymma, but, strange to say, in all the seventeen volumes there does not seem to be a 

 single record or note relating to this curious little beetle. — W. G-. Blatch, Green 

 Lane, Smallheath, Birmingham : October 17th, 1881. 



Deltocephalus Flori, Fieb., in England. — An insect taken bv me among the 

 heather at Esher, Surrey, August 27th, 187-1, and hitherto undetermined, has been i 

 T'ecognised by Mr. Scott as this species, known previously as British from Scotland I 

 only (vide ante p. 66). — J. W. Douglas, 8, Beaufort Gardens, Lewisham : 18th 

 October, 1881. 



Hemiptera at Hastings. — Perhaps the following may be worth recording : 

 Acalypta cervina, a few in the Cluestling sand-pit. Microphysa elegantula, a single 

 $ found walking on a post at Ilollington. Ccdocoris fulvomaculatns, one, by 

 sweeping, at Guestling. I was very pleased to get Stenocephalia agilis at Holling- 

 ton, but failed to get more than one specimen. Sigara minutissima, I secured one 

 of this, and saw several others at the Pett Ditches. Salda littoralis and lateralis 

 have been taken at Bye Harbour. Sehirus 2-guttatus seems to be distributed all 

 over our district. I obtained Corizns maculatus at Dallington, but had not deter- 

 mined it in time to include it in last month's list. — E. P. Collett, 12, Springfield 

 Boad, St. Leonards-on-Sea : October, 1881. 



Sartena amcena. — The discovery of the identity of this species with Neurorthus 

 iridipennis, Costa, by Mr. McLachlan (cf. ante, p. 89), is very interesting. After a 

 careful examination of a type in my collection with Costa's description and figure 

 (both are not very sufficient), I have no doubt of the identity. I believe also that 

 there is no doubt of the identity with M.fallax, Bamb. The types communicated 

 to Eambur by M. Gene were returned probably, and may be still preserved in his 

 collection.* According to a list of his collection, written and communicated to me 

 in 1857 by De Selys-Longchamps, M.fallax and M. parvulns were not present 

 among Bambur's types. 



Not intending any reclamation, as there is none, I beg to state that I received 

 the Neuroptera from Corsica, January 28th, 1862, that I sent my paper June 5th, 1862, 

 and that it was presented to the Society in Paris, July 9th, 1862 (Bull. T., 2, xxxi), 

 but printed only in 1861, with the remark, " Seance, July 9th, 1862." Of course, 

 I was thus unable to have any knowledge of Costa's publication. Perhaps it is not 

 known to entomologists of to-day how difficult the work was twenty, and even ten 

 years ago. The only copy of Costa's works then in Germany was in the hands of I 

 Senator v. Heyden, in Frankfort, and to his untiring kindness I was indebted for all 

 I knew of these works. — II. A. Hagen, Cambridge, Mass. : 12*7* September, 1881. 



* Some years ago, the late Prof. Ghiliani informed me that nearly the whole of Gene"s types 

 in the Turin Museum had long ago been destroyed by Anthrenus ! B. McL. 



