1890.] ■ 81 



remarkable Coccid from Mr. D. Morris, Assistant Director of the 

 Eoyal Gardens, Kew, to whom they had been sent from Alexandria, 

 Egypt, where " they were causing immense injury to fruit trees ;" 

 they were for the most part alive, and moved slowly if disturbed. 

 There was no trace of a male in any stage of development, which was 

 unfortunate, for the imago would aiford good generic characters. 

 I am indebted to Mr. G. S. Saunders for the illustrations. 



8, Beaufort Gardens, Lewisliam : 

 January^ 1890. 



Hemiptera-Heteroptera at Dover and its vicinity. — For the past five years I 

 have collected the Heteroptera of this district, and as this part of the coast seems 

 rather rich in certain genera of the larger Heteroptera, I think the following notes 

 ■will be of interest to collectors elsewhere. 



Odontoscelis fuliginosus, L., sandhills, Deal, scarce, and the male and female 

 always found in company. Eurygaster maurus, L., common, by sweeping knap- 

 weed, &c., in August, and in sandy moss on the cliffs in the spring, Dover ; E. niger, 

 F., one specimen on the sandhills at Deal, September, 1885. Podops iniuictus, F., 

 abundant in moss, sand, &c.. Deal and Dover. Sehirus licolor, L., abundant, lanes, 

 Dover ; <S. albomarginatus, F., common, sweeping in lanes, Dover. S. higuttat us, Jj., 

 not common, chalky lanes, Dover. Sciocoris cursitans, F., common, sandhills, Deal. 

 Mlia acuminata, L., sweeping. Deal. Strachia oleracea, L., cliffs, Dover. Penta- 

 toma verbasci, De G., cliffs, Dover ; P. riridissimum, Poda, and Piezodorus litiiratus 

 also occur. Acanthosoma hcemorrhoidale, L., is taken at Deal, and Tropicoris rtifipes, 

 L., is generally distributed. Coreus scapha, F., is abundant under the cliffs at St. 

 Margaret's Bay, but is a very local insect, confining itself to a small space of ground, 

 it also occurs in the Warren at Folkestone. Syromastes mai-ginatus, L., one, Dover. 

 Pseudophlreus Fallenii, Scliill., common under Erodium at Deal : a remarkable 

 black variety is found occasionally. Ceraleptus lividus, Stein, one, sandhills. Deal, 

 May, 1886. Myrmus viiriformis, Fall., Folkestone, Dover, and Deal. Chorosoma 

 Schillingi, Schml., common, rushes. Deal. Stenocephalus agilis. Scop., one, Folke- 

 stone, May, 1889. Metacanthus punctipes, Germ., sweeping, Dover. Berytus 

 pygmcEus, Eeut., Dover, and H. minor, at Deal. Lygceus equestris, L., a single 

 example only, on the 7th September, 1886 {ante, vol. sxiii, p. 106), unfortunately it 

 has not been observed since. Nysius thymi, Wollf, common, Deal. Scolopostethus : 

 this genus seems to be very abundant, and ajffinis the most common form. S. 

 neglectus, Edw., n. sp., two examples. S. decoratus, Hahn., occasional. Notuchilus 

 contractus, H.-Sff., common in moss, Dover. Calyptonotus lynceus, F., Deal. Tra- 

 pezonotus agrestis, Pz., abundant at Deal. Drymus sylvaticus, F., moss, Dover. 

 Mhyparochromus sabalicola, Thorns., Deal ; B. prcetextatus, H.-Sff., abundantly at 

 Deal ; and Peritrechus luniger, Schill., Piinthisus brevipennis, Latr., Stygnocoris 

 sabvlosus, Schill., and arenarius, Hahn, are more or less common. Heterogaster 

 urtic(E, F., under Erodium (with Psetidophlceus Fallenii) at Deal. Cymus claviculus. 

 Fall., Deal. Piesma Laportei, Fieb., moss, Dover. Serenthia lata. Fall., sweeping. 

 Deal. Monanthia cardui, L., Dover and Deal. Dictyonota crassicornis, Fall., Deal, 

 and Acalypta parvula, Fall., is abundant in moss everywhere. Miris lavigatus, L., is 



