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example from Mr. F. Norgate," and "a dead specimen at roots of 

 grass in a lane off Un thanks Road," Mr. Edwards. Gastrodes abietis, 

 L., "in cones of spruce-fir, Merton Park." Teratocoris antennatus, Boh., 

 " on rushes, Hunstanton, Weybourne, Ran worth." Bothy notus pilosus, 

 Boh., " Booton Common, July 8th, 1886, one developed $ by sweeping," 

 this, as Mr. Edwards remarks, is "the eighth recorded British example." 

 Globiceps dispar, Boh., Earlham, Coxford, Hellesdon, at roots of plants. 

 Conostethus salinus, Sahib., " Saltmarsh at Hunstanton." Acompocoris 

 alpinus, Reut., "on Scotch fir, very rare." Gerris rufoscutellata, Latr., 

 Mousehold Heath, Drayton Drewray, and Horning. Aphelocheirus 

 aestivalis, Fab., locality unrecorded. I select these as I think the 

 localities may be of interest to our readers. I have never collected in 

 Norfolk, but I have several times been on the Suffolk coast, at Lowestoft 

 and Southwold, and near the latter place I met with two rarities not 

 recorded from Norfolk, viz., Myrmedobia inconspicua, D. & S., at the roots 

 of grass in a sandy spot near Southwold Pier, and Brachysteles pili- 

 cornis, Muls., by sweeping along a low elm hedge, near the old ruin at 

 Walberswick, near Southwold ; this species is found on the Continent 

 under elm bark, and should therefore be sought for by beating. I 

 have little doubt that both species will be found in Norfolk. 



The complete absence of certain genera of the larger Heteroptera 

 from the list is certainly remarkable ; Burygaster, Sciocoris, Eysocoris, 

 Strachia, Coreus, Syromastes, St otocephalus, Aradus, are all unrepre- 

 sented. None of them are rare, although some which are widely 

 distributed are local. On a sandy coast like that of Yarmouth, 

 Burygaster, Sciocoris, and Stenocephalus might reasonably be expected 

 to occur, and the other genera, usually obtained by sweeping, should 

 certainly be found in Norfolk, unless they can prove an alibi. 



Among the less conspicuous genera the following are absent, which 

 will probably find a place some day in the list: Senestaris, Bremocoris, 

 Chilacis, Campylostira, Aneurus, Miridius, Salticus, Biezostethus, but 

 they are none of them common, and most of them local. The only 

 really common species which I fail to see recorded is Dicyphus errans, 

 Wolff. Surely this must be about in many localities ; I would commend 

 it to the careful attention of the Norfolk Hemipterists. I have only 

 dealt with the Heteroptera, as the Homoptera are in the hands of 

 Mr, Edwards, who has made them his special study, and I do not 

 presume to know sufficient about them to criticize his list. 



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