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(Cicadellidae), Tomfat Wood, VC96, 24.vii.1992. Oliarus leporinus (L.) (Cixiidae), 



Machynys, Carm., 10.viii.1991. Trigonocranus emmeae Fieb. (Cixiidae), Brookfield 

 Plantation, Northants., 23.vii.1991, new to Northamptonshire. Rihautoclelphux 

 pungens (Ribaut) (Delphacidae), Folkestone Warren, E. Kent, 21. v. 1992. 

 Dicranotropis divergens Kirschbaum (Delphacidae), Strathfarrar, VC96, 22.vii. 1 9V2. 

 Menzies, I. — Heteroptera from Surrey. Aelia acuminata (L.) (Pentatomidae), 

 examples swept or found in grassy areas on Bookham Common, 27.viii.1990; 

 Downside, Leatherhead, 22. ix. 1991, and Epsom Common, 29.viii.1993. Eurydema 

 oleraceum (L.) (Pentatomidae), Bookham Common, 23.V.1992, and Ashtead 

 Common, 15. vi. 1992: observed often in large numbers on both these commons in 

 recent years; though forms with yellow or red markings were most frequent, examples 

 with white markings were also seen. Favoured foodplants were yellow rocket and 

 white garlic mustard. Sehirus luctuosus Muls. & Rey (Cydnidae), White Hill, 

 Mickleham, Surrey, 3. v. 1992, found in numbers on the ground under plants of forget- 

 me-not on the south of the hill. Thyreocoris scarabaeoides (L.) (Cydnidae), White 

 Hill, Mickleham, Surrey, 3. v. 1992, found crawling over low plants in a woodland 

 clearing on the south of the hill in company with S. luctuosus. Sciocoris cursitans 

 (F.) (Scutelleridae), Howell Hill Nature Reserve, Cheam, Surrey, 14. iv. 1991, large 

 numbers found congregating gregariously in moss growing amongst grass in a chalky 

 field. Cimex lectularius L. (Cimicidae), St Bartholomew's Hospital, vi.1993, found 

 on an outpatient's sleeve. Oeciacus hirundinis (Jenyns) (Cimicidae), Wallington, 

 Surrey, x.1993, found by Dr Roger Booth on a windowsill beneath a house martin's 

 nest. Gonocerus acuteangulatus (Goeze) (Coreidae): previously found only in the 

 immediate vicinity of Box Hill, usually in small numbers on box, this bug has been 

 found in recent years on both Bookham and Epsom Commons, where box is unknown. 

 Bookham Common; one adult beaten from holly, Hill House Wood, 14. i. 1990; 

 examples beaten from oak (one adult), yew (one adult) and hawthorn (two adults, 

 one nymph), Bayfield and Eastern Plain, 27.viii.1990; three nymphs and three adults 

 beaten from hawthorn, Bayfield Plain, l.ix.1990; two adults beaten from holly beneath 

 mature oaks, Hill House Wood, 6.iv.l991; one adult beaten from aspen, Bayfield 

 Plain, 22.ix. 1991; three nymphs, reared to check identity, beaten from hawthorn near 

 Merrit's Cottage. Epsom Common: three adults found in the vicinity of the Wells, 

 two beaten from wild rose and one from hawthorn, 29.viii.1993. Colour prints of 

 adults and nymphs of G. acuteangulatus were exhibited. 



Hymenoptera 



Archer, M. E.— A black and white photograph of the early stage in the 

 construction of a social wasp nest by a queen Dolichovespula media (Retz.). The aerial 

 nest was about twice the height of a standard match box and was unusual in ha\ ing 

 two tube-like entrances on its base. 



Chandler, P. J.— A single male of the chalcid Spilochalcis xanthostigma Dalm. 

 collected by sweeping low vegetation in a woodland ride in the woodland fringe 

 bordering the pingo pool area at Foulden Common, Norf., during the Society's field 

 meeting on 8.viii.l992. The only recent previous British record was from Tilford. 

 Surrey, in July 1965 (Fisher, J. P., 1965, Entomologist's Mon. Mag. 101: 115). with one 

 definite earlier record being known, from Kings Lynn, Norf., vii.1913. According to 

 Ferriere & Kerrich (1958, Handbk Ident. Br Insects 8(2a): 14), it is a parasite of saw fly 

 larvae of the genus Arge. The only other British Chalcidinae are three species of the 

 genus Chalcis, which parasitize larvae of soldier flies of the genus Stratiomys. One 



