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XVI. 
FAUX A AND FLOE A OF XOEFOLK. 
Hemiptera. 
(Heteroptera and Homoptera.) 
By James Edwards. 
Read 26 th February, 1884 . 
In laying before the Society an extended and corrected list of the 
Hemiptera known to occur in this County, I feel it necessary to take 
leave in a becoming manner of the list of those insects which you 
did me the honour to publish in the year 1878 (vol. ii. p. 490). The 
chief fault of that list is, that it has grown old ; for, although the 
nomenclature therein employed is the best that was then attainable, 
our increased knowledge of these insects has been accompanied by 
great changes in that respect ; and, moreover, the time which has 
elapsed has enabled me to elaborate certain views of my own with 
regard to the Homopterous division which I have adopted in the 
])resent list. 
During the past five years I have taken every opportunity to 
extend my range in search of Hemiptera, working successively the 
coast-sands of the east and north-west parts of the county, the salt- 
marshes at Hunstanton and Wells, the half-reclaimed bog and 
warren of the Felthorpe district, the Horning and Kanworth 
marshes, and the sandy district north-east of Brandon (a most 
disappointing locality for the Hemipterist, where I speedily found ^ 
myself ankle-deep in sea-sand, Avithout the advantage of the 
exhilarating influence of a sea-breeze), Avhile my energetic friend 
!Mr. Thouless has lately made a very successful raid on one of the 
oldest and most extensive of the jDlantations, which in this y 
county do duty for natural woods. I think, therefore, that the 
four hundred and seven species now recorded, although by no means 
to be regarded as an exhaustive catalogue, may be taken as fairly 
rejDresentative of the Hemipterous Fauna of this county. It is 
somewhat gratifying to find that Ave have four species, Avhich, so far 
as my present information goes (and large numbers of Hemiptera 
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