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year the spoiler was absent, most likely drowned in the pupa 

 state, which is passed in the ground. 



Being anxious to get together a collection of Hemiptera,'^ I 

 have searched closely for local species, but only with moderate 

 success. Scolopostethus adjuncUis occurred at Tynemouth. Scolo. 

 contractus in abundance, beneath stones, at the north end of 

 Whitley sands in March. Stygnocoris rusticus is from Hartley 

 and at Long Benton. The very pretty Derephysia foliacea was 

 found in cut grass near the same place in August, and at Whitley. 

 Campylostira hrachycer'a at Hartley in October. A winged fe- 

 male of Pitlmnus Ifdrheli was taken out of cut grass at Heaton, 

 in July : Phytocoris diver gens has occurred at Long Benton and 

 Gosforth in August. New to Britain is Berceocoris alpestris : one 

 specimen was taken near Dilston in May, and another at Gibside 

 in July; curious localities for an Alpine species, hitherto peculiar 

 to the Alps at an altitude of five to six thousand feet. GloMceps 

 dispar is also new to Britain. It occurred in some plenty near 

 Hartley, at the roots of herbage ; also in cut grass at Heaton in 

 July. Phylus palliceps beaten out of bushes at Gosforth in August. 

 One winged female of the common Sphyracephalus ambulans was 

 found at Heaton in cut grass in July, and is the first British 

 specimen found fully developed. Sp. elegantulus has occurred at 

 Gosforth in September. Pceciloscytus unifasciatus is also from 

 Gosforth. Dichrooscytus rufipennis taken at Axwell in August, 

 Zygonotus elegantulus at Long Benton in August. Salda cincta is 

 found at the roots of herbage, around the lake at Gosforth, from 

 May to October. I have one male of Hydrometra odontogaster 

 taken in March at Long Benton. The genus Corixa is tolerably 

 well represented. We appear to have 



C. Geoffroyi. Abounds in ponds and streams. 



C. hieroglgphica. In ponds plentifully but local ; Heaton, &c. 



* On making my wishes known to Dr. Power, of London, he kindly (with the generosity 

 for which he is so favourably known) forwarded me a great number of types, of which up- 

 wards of one hundred were of forms quite new to me. J. W. Douglass, Esq., has also 

 added a goodly number of rarities. Those valued types, added to local captures, make up 

 my collection to a little over two hundred and eighty species, not far short of the three hun- 

 dred and fifty-two species recorded in the "British Hemiptera," by its talented authors. 



