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Edessa fuscidorsata. 
E. saturatae, Dali., affmis, differ t cornubus pronoti fere paullulum longiori- 
bin, do> so abdominis fusco, connexivi angulis multo latius nigris , macula 
media inter has, august a, lutea, ventre obscure olivaceo-brunneo, colore sup erne 
obscure viridi. 
Habitat in Mexico et Bogota. 
Aspongopus nigrojeneus. 
Tutus nigro-ceneus ; capite, pronoto et scut el lo dense subtiliter punctatis, 
ru 9 ls ti ansversis obsoletis ; capitis latenbus distincte sinuatis ; antennis 
articulo secundo primo paullo magis quam dimidio longiore, secundo et tertio 
( omp) essis, hoc illo distincte longiore (ultimi desunt) ; corio margine apicali 
liiitit i otundato ; prosterno medio triangular iter impresso, marginibus irn- 
pi essiunis vix icjlexis. Long. 16^ mm. Ab A. ochreo, Westw., colore, pro- 
stei ni impressione minus profunda, punctura densiore, rugis vix distinguendis 
di vergens. 
Habitat in Siam. 
Helsingfors : January 21st, 1881. 
Captures of Hemiptera in 1880.— During a three-weeks’ stay last August at 
Wymondley, Herts, I found bugs by far the most abundant of all Orders. Nettles 
yielded the following species in the utmost profusion i—Scolopostethus affinis, Lygus 
pabuhnus, SpinolcB and Kalmii, Byrsoptera rufifrons , Orthotylus Scotti, Heterotoma 
menoptera, Blagiognathus arbustorum, and Anthocoris nemorum ; while Sehirus 
bicotor, Phytocoris ulmi, Capsus laniarius and Liocoris tripustulatus, occurred com- 
monly. Megalocercea longicornis was common amongst coarse herbage, but M. erratica 
was conspicuous by its almost total absence in either larval or perfect form. Of the 
handsome genus Calocoris, besides C. roseomaculatus and bipunciatus, I took 2 
fulvomaculatus, 1 sexguttatus, 1 infusus, and a few chenopodii, all by sweeping. 
Onoms yielded Dieyphus annulatus commonly and a few Macrocoleus Paykullii. 
On Epilobium hirsutum I found in great abundance a pale green Dieyphus which 
Mr. Edward Saunders tells me is D. stachydis, Rent. ; I have since found it on the 
same plant at Hastings. A small patch, a few square yards in extent, in a flowery 
meadow on the chalk near Stevenage, yielded, besides a lot of ordinary things, 
JIalticus apterus, Orthocephalus saltator, Anoterops setulosus, Macrocoleus 
molliculus, Megalocercea ruficornis, plenty of Calocoris roseomaculatus, and 
immense numbers of Monanthia cardui, the thistle-heads being absolutely swarming 
with the last, m all its stages. A larch plantation afforded 1 Atractotomus magni- 
cornis, Fall., and several Tetraphleps vittata, larval and adult. Amongst other 
things may be mentioned Malacocoris chlorizans, very common on hazel ; Triphleps 
minuta, abundant by sweeping; 1 ? Microphysa elegantula, on lime-bark; 1 
Poeciloscytus nigritus, 1 Orthotylus bilineatus, and a few Chlamydatus ambulans, 
Campyloneura virgula, Nabis brevipennis, Dictyonota crassicornis, and Derephysia 
foliacea. I am indebted to Mr. Edward Saunders for the names of some of the 
above. At Battle, near Hastings, Strachia festiva was common in September, 
