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Triphleps minutus Linn. Alumby Chapel sand-hills ; two, 

 20th August, 1886; one, 25th August, 1887. 



Lyctocoris campestris Fab. Alford; pigeon-cote, one, loth 

 June, 1886 ; office-table, one, 25th October, 1886. Mumby 

 Chapel sand-hills; three, 5th July and i8th August, 1886. 



ACANTHID.E. 



Acanthia lectularia Linn. Alford; five, 9th May, 1887. 

 Acanthia columbaria Jen. Alford; in pigeon -cote, abundant, 

 17th April and loth June, 1886. 



REDUVID.^:. 



Ploiaria vagabunda Linn. Rigsby-with-Ailby ; elder bush, 

 {Sanibjicus nigra), one, 4th October, 1886; furze, two, 13th 

 September, 1886. 



Reduvius personatus Linn. Not yet recorded for Alford district. 

 Lincoln ; one, July 1885 (H. T. Sills, E.M.M., xxii, 115). 



NABID.^. 



Nabis major Costa. Generally distributed. 



Nabis flavomarginatus Scholz. Sand-hills ; ^lablethorpe, Mumby 



Chapel, Sutton-le-Marsh ; August ; not uncommon. 

 Nabis limbatus Dahlb. Well Vale ; some, July 1885, and 



September 1886. Rigsby-with-Ailby; two, 30th October, 1886. 



Also at Muckton, 3rd August, 1885. 

 Nabis lineatus Dahlb. Trusthorpe sand-hills ; one male, 24th 



August, 1885. 



Nabis ferus Linn. Alford, Rigsby-with-Ailby, Well ; common. 



March to October. 

 Nabis rugOSUS Linn. Rigsby-with-Ailby, ^^'ell ; not uncommon. 



June to September. 



The food of this family appears to be other insects, especially 



small lepidopterous larvae and aphides. They hold firmly and 



boldly to them, and even in the sweeping-net will again seize 



them after being once detached. 



SALDID.i:. 



Salda lateralis Fall. Mumby Chapel; outmarsh, a few, 25th 

 July, 1887. 



Salda littoralis Linn. Mumby Chapel ; abundant on the dried-up 

 bed of a delph, among reeds, July 1887. 



Oct. 1888. 



