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I confined my attention to one only of the very numerous nests of Formica 

 rufa, and obtained from it TMasopMla angulata (abundant), Dinarda Marheli, 

 SomaJota fiavipes and anceps, Quedius hrevis, Xantholinus atratus, Leptacinus for- 

 micetorum, Dendrophilus pygmceu/^, Myrmetes piceus, Monotonia conicicollis (abun- 

 dant) axiA formicetorum, and one specimen of Eutheia pUeata, which last I had the 

 misfortune to lose. 



In view of the scareity of late years of MelitcBa Athalia in the home counties, I 

 was greatly pleased to meet with it on July 6th in tolerable plenty and fine con- 

 dition ; the last occasion on which it was seen alive by me in England being fully a 

 quarter of a century ago, in its long lost locality at Chattenden. On July 21st I saw, 

 but failed to secure, a beautiful fresh specimen of Argynnis Paphia, var. Valezina. — 

 James J. Walker, 23, Eanelagh Road, Sheerness : August \lth, 1898. 



Re-occurrence of Pionosomus varius, Wolff, at Deal. — On Saturday last, 

 August 13th, I had the good fortune to take three specimens of this apparently very 

 rare little bug under Erodium cicutarium growing on the top of a high sand-hill 

 close to the Coast Gruard Station between Deal and Sandwich, and about half a mile 

 from the spot where the species was met with some years ago by Mr. A. Piffard {cf. 

 Ent. Mo. Mag., ser. 2, vol. i, p. 221). Pionosomus is an exceedingly active little 

 creature, and its rapid movements and bright markings render it much more con- 

 spicuous than would be imagined from its very small size. — Id. : August IbtJi, 1898. 



Metatropis rufescens, S.-S., Sfc, at Woking. — I beat a fully mature specimen 

 of this rare bug from hawthorn blossom in a wood near here on May 30th. It seems 

 to have been recorded from very few British localities. Mr. Moncreaff once found 

 it upon Circcea lutetiana at Portsmouth.* Triarthron Markeli was taken on the 

 wing on the edge of a pine wood on the evening of June 5th. This is the first 

 specimen I have met with for some years, the old locality being now built upon. The 

 date was an earlier one than usual. On May 22nd Mr. J. J. Walker caught an 

 example of Deleaster dichrous flying along the road just before dark, Woking being 

 a fresh locality for it. Bledius fracticornis was not uncommon here in May, flying 

 at about sunset. Yesterday evening I captured a specimen of Anisoxya fuscula with 

 my hat, just before sunset — Gr. C. Champion, Horsell, Woking: August \^th, 1898. 



Semiptera in the Channel Islands. — In August, 1891, in the course of a short 

 visit to the Channel Islands, I met with the following species of Semiptera- 

 Heteroptera. Gruernsey — Geotomus punctulatus, Costa, at a sandy spot north of 

 L'Eree Hotel, and near Fort L'Angle ; Syromastes marginatus, various localities; 

 Alydus calcaratus, L., on ivirze {Ulex europcsus), S.E. face of the cliff, Jerbourg ; 

 Trapezonotus Ullrichii, Eieb., Jerbourg ; Beosus luscus, Fab., Jerbourg ; Metacan- 

 thus punctipes, Germ., Cobo ; Aphanus Rolandri, L , Cobo, in a sandy spot ; 

 Dictyonota crassicornis, Fall., Ancresse, near Fort L'Angle. Alderney — Emblethis 

 verbasci, Fab., four examples, Braye Harbour ; Heterogaster urticce, Fab. ; Senes- 

 taris laticeps, Curt. ; Drymus pilicornis, Muls. Sark — Lygmosoma puncfato-guttata, 



* Eiit. Mo. Mag., viii, p. 13(i. 



