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were, yet he thought if some of the species on the table were 

 examined, plants unchanged by the art of man, they would be found 

 more worthy of cultivation for habit of plant, beauty of foliage and 

 charm of flowers than any of the larger-leaved varieties so much in 

 feshion among cultivators. 



The President also exhibited some very vigorous shoots of elm 

 which had sprung up this year at Greening's Farm, Charlwood, from 

 stumps of trees which had recently been cut down : the shoots 

 measured ten feet in length, having leaves eight inches long and 

 about five inches wide. 



December 14, 1866. — Mr. John Linncll, jun., brought for exhibi- 

 tion the following species of British Hemiptera, 100 in number, 

 captured by himself and his brother, Mr. Thomas Linnell, in the 

 Reigate district, being the first portion of the list of Reigate 

 Hemiptera : — 



Sehirus bicolor, Linn. Redstone, beating and sweeping, and 

 under stones. 



„ higuitatus, Linn. Redstone, under stones and in 

 sand-pits. 

 „ albomarginatus. Fab. With the preceding- 

 Corimel/iBiia ScarabcBoides, Linn. Buckland Hill, roots of grass. 

 Eurygaster maurus, Linn. Redstone fields, under stones. 

 jEliodes injiexa, Wolff. Redstone. 

 Podops inunctus. Fab. Redstone, under stones. 

 Pentatonia Baccarum, Linn. Redstone, from broom. 



„ dissimile, De G. Redstone, &c. 



Zicrona cmridea, Linn. Chalk Hills, sweeping. 

 Picromerus bidens, Linn. Reigate Hill, beating. 

 Tropicoris rufipes, Linn. Redhill and Reigate. 

 Piezodorus purpureipennis, De G. Redstone, beating. 

 Acanthosoma griseum, Linn. Mickleham Downs, beating. 



„ h<smorrhoidale, Linn. Buckland and chalk hills, 



beating. 

 Coreus hirticollis, Fab. Redstone fields, beating ; and on houses. 



