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Taken by Mr. Waterhouse under rejectamenta at the 

 mouth of the Orwell, in September, 1855. 



13. Homalota plumbea, Waterhouse, Proc, Ent. Soc. 



5 April, 1858, Zool. 6074 (1858) (described). 

 Found by Dr. Power at Seaford, near Newhaven; by 

 Mr. H. Squire at Brighton ; and by Mr. F. Bond in the 

 Isle of Wight — beneath seaweed on the beach. 



14. Homalota mgb.a, Heer; Waterhouse, Cat. Brit. Col. 



18 (1858,. 

 Homalota luctuosa, Mulsant, Opusc. Ent. ii. 35, 1 

 (1853), appears to differ but little from this, and will 

 probably sink as a synonyme ; conf. Kraatz, Naturg. 

 d. Ins. Deutschl. ii. 249,52 (1858). 



15. Homalota marcida, Eric; Waterhouse, Cat. Brit. 



Col. 19 (1858). 

 I have taken this in moss near High gate. 



16. Homalota orbata, Eric. ; W r aterhouse, Cat. Brit. 



Col. 19 (1858); Proc. Ent. Soc. 3 May, 1858, Zool. 

 6115 (1858). 

 Found by Dr. Power at Merton ; taken also by Mr. Con- 

 stantine in Lancashire. 



17. Homalota pulchra, Kraatz ; Waterhouse, Cat. Brit. 



Col. 19 (1858). 

 Taken by Dr. Power in a marsh near Red Hill early in 

 May, 1856, and again in the same month on the banks of 

 the Thames near Charlton. 



18. Ocyusa ruficornis, Kraatz ; E. W. Janson, Proc. 



Ent. Soc. 5 April, 1858, Zool. 6072 (1858). 

 Oxypoda fulvicornis, Fairm. et Laboulb. 

 Found in the early spring amongst dead rushes at the sides 

 of a ditch within the London district ; apparently so local 

 and scarce that to publish the precise locality in which it 



