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will' my hand. There he would sit in a menacing attitude — his wings closed, lui- 

 fronl legs stretched out, the acute claws tightly grasping my finger, his head raised 

 up, his large mandibles widely open, and his antennae extended — the whole figure 

 representing exasperated majesty, indignantly enquiring why this affront had come 

 between the wind and his nobility. But after a while, as if assured that no offenoe 

 or harm was intended, he would calm down, assume a gentle demeanour, and fly 

 away. — J. W. Douglas, Lewisham : August, 1890. 



Captures of rare Remiptera and Coleoptera in 1890. — The following is a list of 

 some scarce insects met with by me during the past summer, with the localities in 

 which they occurred. Stictocoris Preyssleri, H.-S., at Brickett Wood, Herts, on 

 Genista anglica; at Tring Hills, Herts ; Cisbury Hill, Sussex, and Arundel Park. 

 Sussex, on common burnet. Platymetopius undatus, De G., at Brickett Wood, 

 Herts, on oak ; two specimens. Asciodema Fieberi, at Bovingdon, Herts, on wych 

 elm ; abundant. Limotettix variata, at Bovingdon, Herts ; one specimen. Macro- 

 coleus hortulanus, Tring Hills, on Helianthemum ; one specimen. Doratura stylata, 

 macropterous form, Tring Hills ; one specimen. Ceuthorhynchidius frontalis, 

 Arundel Park ; one specimen. Hyperafasciculata, at Deal sandhills, under Erodium ; 

 six specimens. — A. Piffaed, Felden, Boxmoor, Herts : October, 1890. 



Capture of Nabis (Stalia) boops, Schiodte. — While collecting towards the end 

 of August on a heathy place near Gomshall, Surrey, I took a couple of specimens 

 of a brachypterous Nabis that I did not know. Mr. E. Saunders has kindly identi- 

 fied them for me as Nabis (Stalia) boops, Schiodte, a species which was introduced 

 into the British list by Mr. Jas. Edwards, and of which there is, I believe, no other 

 record as British. My specimens were J and $ , and were taken under heath. In 

 coloration they approach N. major, Costa, but are rather smaller. — E. A. Butler, 

 39, Ashley Road, Crouch Hill, N. : October, 1890. 



Notes on the habits of T'erlusia rhoiiibea, Lin. — In a sand-pit near Gomshall I 

 found a nymph of the above sj^ecies, which I brought home with the hope of rearing 

 the imago. As it seemed scarcely full grown, I kept it supplied with the leaves of 

 various kinds of common cottage-garden plants. I had no proof that it touched 

 any of these, except the mignonette, the juices of which I found it on one occasion 

 intently sucking. It remained in captivity for about a fortnight before it made its 

 final moult, and became a rather thin and weakly imago, and I never saw it take any 

 food save on the above occasion. One use of the enormously developed antennce I 

 had abundant opportunities of noticing. The breadth and thinness of the body 

 are obviously difficulties in the way of the insect's righting itself when capsized, and 

 it is then that the antennae come to the rescue. Pressing their tips against the 

 ground, it supports itself, tripod-like, on tliem and the end of its abdomen, and then 

 by suitable movements of the antennal props, aided by struggles witii the legs, 

 rebalances itself and resumes its normal position. It liad also the curious habit 

 of occasionally raising its body from the depressed position in which it is usually 

 carried, and swaying it from side to side while thus slung up, as it were, between the 

 three pairs of legs. I could discover no reason for this peculiar movement. — Id. 



