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articles by Prof. Karl Saj<5, in the “ Ent. Nachrichten ” of November 1st, on the 
discovery in Hungai’y of the hitherto unknown macropterous forms of Blissus 
oricB, ienari, and on the capture of several macropterous examples of Plinihisus 
convexus, Tieb., hitherto very rare. I quote li is remark on the most probable means 
of procuring fully developed forms: “According to my experience hitherto I can 
say that the larvae are the best guides to the obtaining of macropterous examples. 
Wlit re there are many larvae and at the same time but few examples perfected, there 
may the most assiduous search be made ; but where many brachypterous forms are 
already developed and only few larvae left there is not much to be expected, at least 
I have sought in vain in such places. Perhaps this happens because the macroptera 
are first developed and then fly off. I am quite convinced that all the species of 
Plinthisus have a macropterous form.” — Id. 
Bothynotus pilosus at St. ^Leonards. — During June or July last year my brother 
brought me, with some Rhopalotomus ater, a developed 9 of the above from 
the Cuckmere District. .thinking it was a variety of Rhopalotomus I did not make 
a note of the date or ask him the exact locality. Mr. E. Saunders kindly determined 
it for me later on. E. P. Collett, 12, Springfield Road, St. Leonards : November, 
1880. 
Bothynotus pilosus, Boh. (Hfinlci), near Hastings. — Two years ago my friend, 
Mr. Frank Collett, met with a fully developed female of this species somewhere near 
St. Leonards. This autumn (September 28th) I have taken two undeveloped females 
in a sand-pit within a short distance of the Rectory here. The sand-pit is situate 
on the outskirts of a wood of considerable extent. The occurrence of this species in 
the South of England is, I think, of considerable interest, since the only previously 
recorded station in Britain is, “ On the hills between Loch Long and Loch Lomond,” 
as recorded in Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. ii, p. 276, where the insect is fully described. 
Both sexes of the insect are figured in Ent. Ann., 1866, where it is said to be “ of 
great rarity on the Continent.” — E. N. Bloomfield, Gruestling Rectory : Novem- 
ber 19 th, 1880. 
[These captures of Bothynotus in the South of England are of great interest. 
Reuter says it lives on Pinus abies, and lie mentions that he took a J in Finland in 
August and the larva in July. It is to be hoped, therefore, that a diligent search on 
the spruce firs in August and September may be rewarded with more specimens. 
The 9 of this species is generally brachypterous, and a fully developed specimen, 
such as that taken by Mr. Collett, is of great rarity. — Eds.] 
Capture of British Hemiptera-Heteroptera. — On the 31st July of this vear, I 
revisited the locality (Crohamhurst, Croydon), where I took the 3 $ of Atraclotomus 
magnicornis (noted in the last Vol. of this Magazine), the year before, this time I 
got about a dozen 9 and 1 3 , I expect I was too late for the J , and that they 
should be looked for in the beginning of July. 
On the 28th July, I went to the locality on Wimbledon Common where my 
nephew, Mr. F. Saunders took Lygus limbatus last year, and I succeeded in finding 
one 9 > after a long search, on the sallows. I went again on the 14th August, and 
got two more ; my nephew has also taken two, but this year, at any rate, it seems to 
be very scarce, all the specimens I have seen are 9 • Last year in August I took 
