INSECTS 



west is now all that remains of the once abundant Hemipteron. Simi- 

 larly Salda littoralis seems to have been exterminated altogether from the 

 same neighbourhood, as the marsh in which it occurred has been drained 

 and converted into pleasure gardens. The locality referred to as Camber 

 consists of the waste land at the mouth of the river Rother, and especially 

 the sandhills on its eastern border. As these latter are now a favourite 

 resort of golfers, insects are scarcer than formerly. 



Of the Homoptera, 156 species are recorded, belonging to the 

 sections Cicadina and Psyllina. This represents over 47 per cent of the 

 British species of these groups, a proportion which is perhaps as large 

 as was to be expected, considering that the records are mainly the work 

 of two collectors. Some of these species are amongst our most abundant 

 insects, and only one is at present recorded from no other county. This 

 is Limotettix stactogala, which was discovered in 1901 by Mr. H. L. F. 

 Guermonprez on tamarisk bushes at Pagham, and which I have since 

 found in abundance in the Hastings district. The solitary bush of 

 Hippophae rhammides on the Camber sandhills, which was the only re- 

 corded locality in the county for Psylla hippophaes, has been removed 

 and with it of course the insect has disappeared. 



GYRINOCERATA 



Pentatomid^ 

 Eurygaster, Lap. 



— maura, Linn. DaUington Forest (Butler) 

 Podops, Lap. 



— inuncta, Fab. Guest/ing, Fairlight, 



Hastings, Bcxhill (Butler) ; Holm 

 Bush (Wollaston), Bognor (Guer- 

 monprez), Worthing (Saunders) 

 Sehirus, Am. S. 



— dubius, Scop. Eartham (Guermon- 



— biguttatus, Linn. Guest ling. Battle, 



Hurst Green (Butler) 

 Gnathoconus, Fieb. 



— albomarginatus, Fab. Guestling, Hast- 



ings, Bexhill (Butler) ; Avis ford 

 (Guermonprez) 

 ^lia, Fab. 



— acuminata, Linn. Camber (Bennett), 



Guestling {^ox\ty\ Hastings (Cham- 

 pion), Slindon (Guermonprez) 

 Neottiglossa, Curt. 



— inflexa, Wolff. Hastings (Collett), 



Battle, DaUington Forest (Butler) 

 Peribalus, M. & R. 



— vernalis, Wolff. Slindon (Guermonprez) 

 Pentatoma, Oliv. 



— baccarum, Linn. Camber, Hastings, 



Hollington (Butler) ; Slindon (Guer- 

 monprez) 



— prasina, Linn. Guestling, Hastings, 



Hollington, Battle, Eastbourne, Laugh- 

 ton (Butler) ; Slindon (Guermonprez) 



Pentatomid.e {continued) 

 Strachia, Hahn. 



— festiva, Linn. Battle, Netherficld, Ash- 



bur nham, DaUington Forest (Butler) 



— oleracea, Linn. Near Hastings (Ben- 



nett) 

 Piezodorus, Fieb. 



— lituratus. Fab. Hastings, Battle, Hurst 



Green, DaUington Forest (Butler) ; 

 Slindon, Selsea (Guermonprez) 

 Tropicoris, Hahn. 



— rufipes, Linn. Hastings, Battle (Butler) ; 



Slindon, Bognor (Guermonprez) 

 Picromerus, Am. S. 



— bidens, Linn. Battle, Netherfield, Dal- 



lington Forest (Butler) ; Handcross 

 (Newbery) 

 Asopus, Burm. 



— punctatus, Linn. Hastings (Collett), 



Eastbourne (Butler), Holm Bush 

 (Fenn) 

 Podisus, H.S. 



— luridus. Fab. Battle (Butler), Slindon 



Bognor, Goodmood (Guermonprez) 

 Zicrona, Am. S. 



— C^rulea, Linn. Battle, Netherfield, 



DaUington Forest, Frant (Butler) ; 

 IVorthing, Goodwood (Guermonprez) 

 Acanthosoma, Curt. 



— hzmorrhoidale, Linn. Hastings, Battle 



(Butler) ; Burpham, Slindon, Eartham, 

 Bognor (Guermonprez) 



— dentatum, De G. Guest Ung (Bloom- 



field), Hastings, DaUington Fore-t 

 (Butler) ; 5//;j/t'i7if (Guermonprez) 



