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probably remain so for many a long year to come. In this spirit, 

 I commend this subject to your consideration, and, if I have done 

 anything towards vindicating its claim to a spare corner in the 

 wide region of practical research, my labour has not been in vain. 



List of terrestrial nemiptera-Heteroptera taken in the neighbourhood 

 of Bath. By Lieut.-Col. Blathwayt, F.L.S., F. Ent., S. 



The following list, which is a continuation of a paper read on 

 the 8th February, 1888, and specimens of which are deposited 

 in the Bath Local Museum, contains the names only of such 

 insects as I have myself taken within a walk from my house at 

 Batheaston, and does not pretend to be exhaustive. The classifi- 

 cation adopted is that of Mr. E. Saunders, F.L.S., published in the 

 Transactions of Entomological Society 1875-76. In the column 

 of remarks the words " Rare," " Not Common," &c., merely show 

 what I have hitherto found the insects to be ; and very possibly 

 one rare in this immediate neighbourhood may be exceedingly 

 common on the other side of Bath. Against four I have pur- 

 posely left a blank, because I believe that my failure to find 

 more than one or two specimens may be attributed to the search 

 not having been made in the right places. 



The month is only that in which I have found the insects 

 most abundant, and does not mean that they are not to be found 

 either earlier or later. 



ARTHROPTERID.E. 



Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale, L. Not common. 

 Tropicoris rufipes, L On oaks not common. 



