92 [September, 
Hemiptera and Hymenoptera of Freshwater Bay, Pembrokeshire. — Last Saturday 
I met with Tytthus insignis, D. and S., and its larvae, at Freshwater Bay, Pembroke- 
shire, on the sand hills, at the roots of thick clumps of grass. See p. 247 of Vol. 2 
of this Magazine. The only other locality where it has been found is the Common 
at Eshor. I take this opportunity of mentioning some other captures which I have 
made at the above first-rate and little known sand hills. Of the Hemiptera, 
Fseudophlceus Fallenii, SchilL, occurs commonly ; Neides depressus, Pieb. ; Berytus 
clavipes, Fab., and B. montivagus, Bremi ; Metaccunthxis punctipes, Germ., in great 
profusion ; Chorosoma Schillingi, Schml., rarely ; Coranus suhapterus, Deg., com- 
monly ; Zosmerus capitatus, WolfiF, and Z. quadratus, Fieb. ; Cymus gla/ndicolor, 
Hahn, commonly ; Derceocoris hipunctatus. Fab., and many others not worth 
mentioning. The Hymenoptera of the same district are interesting, including very 
large specimens of Tiphia femorata, Fab., and numerous Pompilidce, which I have 
not yet determined. Of the Ichneumonidce I took the rare Cremastiis geminus, 
Grav. (many specimens), and a fine Anomalon. Of the Braconidx I noticed 
Hormius moniliatus, Nees, in plenty ; Bracon, several species ; Orgilus ohscurator, 
Halid., commonly ; Meteorus ictericus, Nees, in societies of a dozen or more at the 
roots of grass. A curious little insect of the group Evaniidw, Pachylomma huccata, 
Breb., frequents the runs of a cockroach, Blatta or Ectobius nigripes, Ste., which 
swarms on the sand hills. I suspect that the Pachylomma is a parasite of the Blatta, 
since we know that Brachygaster fulvipes, Curt, (another of the Evaniidw), infests 
the common house Blatta orientalis. I found the Blatta nigripes also on the Chosil 
Bank. Time and space foi'bid me to extend this notice any fui-ther than to mention 
that, On the same day, I took four more of my recently discovered Tettigometra 
(Homopterous), shortly to be described, and also discovered the long sought for 
haunts of Acocephahis histrionicus, see p. 179 of Vol. 2, and captured two specimens. 
— T. A. Marshall, Milford, S. Wales, August, 1866. 
JVew British Amara. — I have to record the capture of Amara aVpina, Fab., 
Dej., a species new to Britain. In M. de Marseul's "Catalogue of European 
Coleoptera," it is placed in the sub-genus Cyrtonotus. 
A. aVpina is, in size, about 4i lines (being decidedly smaller than aulica), pitchy, 
with the base of the antennae, the femora and the tibiae ferruginous. On the head, 
between the bases of the antennae, are two deep impressions. The thorax is short 
and broad, with a divided, deep, and thickly-punctured pit on each side at the 
base. The elytra are punctate-striate. 
A. alpina may readily be distinguished from the other British Cyrtonoti by its 
smaller size and much more parallel shape. It bears a superficial resemblance to 
A. apricaria, but may easily be divided from that insect by the deep impressions 
on the front of its head ; by the punctured space on its thorax being smaller, and 
containing deeper punctures ; and by its superior size and more elongate form. 
Several varieties of this sjiecies, as regards colour, are mentioned by Gyllenhal and 
Thomson ; my specimen differs from the type in having reddish elytra, with the 
suture broadly but obscurely darker, although it is perfectly mature. 
I took a single specimen of the above insect on Grayvel, a mountain in Perth- 
shire, about 3,000 feet above sea level, early in July this year. — T. Blackburn, 
GraBsmeade, Southfields, Wandsworth, S.W., August, 1866. 
