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 A HISTORY OF SUFFOLK Corton near Lowestoft and at Felixstowe ; Mr. Thouless brings forward a few kinds in the Trans- actions of the Norfolk Naturalists^ Society, and Mr. J. J. Walker mentions one or two from the vicinity of Brandon. But for the majority of the species — especially the commoner sorts, which go so largely to swell the proportions of a county list, though of little value in themselves, except for purposes of ' distribution ' — I have had to rely mainly upon my own efforts and upon those of Mr. Tuck, who has found several species in the neighbourhood of Bury St. Edmunds. Odontoscelis fuUginosus has been found at Lowestoft, Felixstowe, and Mildenhall ; it occurred to me upon the Foxhall Plateau not uncommonly in 1904. Podops inuncta, Gnathoconus albomar- ginatus, Sehirus tico/or, and S. biguttatus are widely distributed, the last being often found in moss during the winter. Aelia acuminata is decidedly local, though common on dry grasses at Brandon and Lowestoft ; Bedwell has recently taken it at Kessingland, and I have once swept it at Barham. On 25 May 1901 I was so fortunate as to beat the fourth localized British specimen of Perihalus vernalis from young poplar trees in the Bentley Woods, near Ipswich ; elsewhere it is only known from Weston-super-Mare, Cumberland, and Sussex.^ Pentatoma prasina is common in the same locality, and P. baccarum has been taken singly by Elliott, Bedwell, and myself at Benacre and Oulton Broads and Barton Mills. Piezodorus /ituratus, Tropicoris rufipes, Podisus luridus, Acanthosoma haemorrhoidakydentatum, znd interstinctum are all common, though Picromerus bidens is certainly rare, having been taken once only by Baylis at Foxhall Heath in 1895, and once by Bedwell at Herring- fleet. Of the Coreidae, I have found in some numbers the rare Spathocera Dalmani, not before seen north of the Thames, crawling upon the bare, sandy Foxhall Plateau in May and September. Syromastes marginatus and Pseudopbloeus Fallenii have been taken sparingly, the former at Fritton, Lound, Bungay, and Westleton, the latter upon several occasions uncommonly on the Breck Sands, though locally abundant at Brandon beneath cranesbili. Coreus denticu/atus, Corizus parumpunctus, and Alyrmus myriformis are not uncommon ; and Chorosoma SchilUngi was found at Lowestoft and Southwold by Saunders, and has occurred to me at the latter locality. In May 1903 Tuck captured Ferlusia rhombea, which was more frequent at Brandon in 1906, at Bury St. Edmunds, and there is an example of Corizus capitatus in the Cambridge Museum from Mildenhall. Of the curious Neides, N. tipu/arius has been taken singly by Mr. Newbery and myself about Ipswich, A'^. crassipes by Thouless about Lowestoft, and by Bedwell at Barnby Broad ; N. minor is common, and has been found in the nests of Bombus muscorum by Tuck ; N. signoreti occurred in a gravel pit at Claydon in July ; N. montivagus at Southwold and Hadleigh in moss. Metacanthus puncticeps is very abundant at the roots of marram grass on the Kessingland sandhills, and also occurs at Lowes- toft and Kentford. Of the Lygaeidae, the ubiquitous Nysius thymi, Ischnorhynchus resedae, I. geminatus, and Cymus glandicolor are abundant, though C. claviculus appears to be confined to the Bentley Woods. The local Heterogaster urticae occurs in some numbers at Lakenheath, Brandon, Tuddenham, Bungay, Lowestoft, Aldeburgh, and Hollesley ; Rhoparochromus di/atatus and R. chiragra are not rare, and R. praetextatus is recorded from Thetford Warren by Curtis. The usually common Chilacis typhae is only found at Fritton and Ischnocoris angustulus beneath heather everywhere. Macrodema micro- pterum, Plinthisus brevipennis, and the three Stygni have all been found here ; and I took one speci- men of the very rare Lasiosomus enervis at Southwold in July 1897 ; Acompus rufipes swarms in all the true fen country, from Mildenhall and Brandon to Oulton. Peritrechus luniger and P. geni- cu/atus, Trapezonotus agrestis, Aphanus pedestris, Scolopostethus affinis, S. decoratus, Notochilus contractus, Drymus sylvaticus, and D. brunnea are all quite common ; though Peritrechus nubilus is distinctly scarce at the roots of grass on the Kessingland sandhills and in Bentley Woods, as well as in marsh-hay in Oulton Broad ; Aphanus lynceus has but twice occurred to me, in moss at Barton Mills in August and in a grass-tuft at East Bergholt in April ; Scolopostethus neglectus, sometimes fully developed, is found at Tostock, Stoke by Nayland, Lavenham, and Oulton Broad ; and both Gastrodes have been recorded by Paget, though that his ' abietis, L.' refers to that species is open to doubt; G. ferrugineus is common at Brightwell Heath, Mildenhall, Battisford, &c. Jennings took Drymus confusus at Brandon ; ' and Curtis tells us that many Pyrrhocoris apterus have been found at Beccles in May. Among the leaf-like Tingididae, both species of Piesma are found, P. qitadrata in profusion beneath Chenopodium at Felixstowe by Mr. Newbery, and P. capitata widely distributed. Seren- thia laeta is very local at Tuddenham, Mildenhall, Brandon, and Kessingland. Orthostira parvula, Monanthia ampliata, M. cardui, and M. humuli are very common. Dictyonota crassicornis has been found at Bentley Woods, Felixstowe, on the banks of the Gipping, and in an ants' nest at Covehithe Broad ; D. strichnocera on mullein at Westleton in July ; and Derephysia foliacea has occurred to Butler at Herringfleet and to me in a dead rabbit in the Bentley Woods. Monanthia ciliata and M. dumetorum are scarce, the former at Belstead and the latter on whitethorn in Shrubland Park. 142
 * Cf. Ent. Mo.Mag. 1901, p. 302. ' Ibid. 1904, pp. 87, 276.