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IX. 
FAUX A AND FLORA OF NORFOLK. 
Part VIII. Hemiptera. 
(Heteroptera and Homoptera). 
Br James Edwards. 
Read 27 th January, 1878. 
Having devoted a considerable amount of time and attention to 
the study of this order of insects, I have pleasure in placing at the 
disposal of the Society a list of the Hemiptera of this county, as 
complete as circumstances will permit, although I consider it 
capable of considerable extension when the northern and western 
parts of the county shall have been thoroughly worked, as my own 
captures which form the bulk of the list were mostly taken within 
a radius of six miles from the city of Norwich. 
In noticing the sources of my information, I must express my 
regret that they are not more numerous. 
The first in chronological order is Paget’s ‘Sketch of the Natural 
History of Great Yarmouth and Neighbourhood,’ published in 
1834, but many of the localities there given are in the county of 
Suffolk, and as it is desirable in a list of this kind to have a 
definite limit of some sort, I have been careful to admit only those 
insects to which a Norfolk locality is specially assigned. Curtis, in 
his ‘British Entomology,’ vol. vii., 1836 — 1837, has recorded 
some Hemipterous insects as occurring in Norfolk which I have 
not at present met with, but Scutellera lineata, Lin. of which he 
says “ One, if not more specimens were found several years since 
by Dr. Lindley, in a nursery garden at Catton in Norfolk,” is not 
an indigenous species, and was in all probability introduced with 
foreign plants. The ‘ British Hemiptera ’ of Messrs. Douglas & 
Scott, from which I have taken a few notices, and the ‘ Entomol- 
ogist’s Monthly Magazine,’ complete the list of my resources in 
the shape of printed matter. 
In acknowledging the assistance of entomological friends, my 
best thanks are due to Messrs. Douglas & Scott for their great 
kindness in determining the many insects which I have from time 
