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H E M I P T E R A. 



(By the Editor.) 



During the past season considerable attention has been 

 paid by several of our Coleopterists to the Bug-family, and 

 we had fondly hoped that some of those who have been 

 working at the Hemipterous order of insects would have 

 contributed a few pages on the group; but it was not so 

 ordained. 



Mr. Walker has lately brought out a List of the British 

 Memiptera and Homoptera. The last-named sub-order has 

 not hitherto received nearly as much attention in this country 

 as the true Heteroptera. 



The Catalogue of the Semiptera of the whole world by 

 Anton Dohrn is well known to and appreciated by most of 

 our readers. We have carefully gone through that Catalogue, 

 and collated it with Walker's List, and the following is the 

 result of our labours, viz. : — 



A list of the British Heteroptera arranged according to 

 Dohrn, the species being accepted as British on the authority 

 of Walker. This list will no doubt prove serviceable to many 

 of our readers. 



We have elsewhere remarked that the land bugs out- 

 number the water bugs nearly in the proportion of 10 to L 



