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 INSECTS The flat Aradus depressus is often common among pine chips, and Aneuris laevis sometimes socially abundant in moss on old stumps at Bentley. The two hydrophilous Hebrl occur not uncommonly in flood refuse at Oulton Broad, and Velia currens, of which I captured a developed form in the Bramford marshes in September 1895, Hydrometra stagnorum, Gerris thoracica, G. gibbifera, and G. lacustrii, are all common. M'urovelta pygmaea is fairly abundant at Oulton Broad, and also occurs in the Bramford marshes ; Gerris najas has once been taken by me in some numbers in a mill- stream at Nayland, and I once captured an example of the very rare G. rufoscutellata in an inun- dated cart-rut in the Bentley Woods in 1903. Bedwell has found G. argentata in Oulton and Barnby Broads. Both species of Ploiaria have been beaten from a faggot-stack at Tuddenham in August, and P. vagabundus is also rare on holly in the Bentley Woods. The large Reduvius per- sonatus, which clothes itself in dust, and is said to prey upon bed-bugs, has several times occurred at Sudbury, Bury, Brandon, and flying to light in an Ipswich house in November ; Coranus subapterus is somewhat common, with Nabis ericetorum, beneath heather throughout the county. All the British Nabes have been found in Suffolk ; N. lineatus at Fritton, where it is not rare, Southwold, Oulton Broad, Henstead, and Herringfleet ; N. boops is supposed to be a very rare species, of which Butler took one specimen on the sandhills near Lowestoft,' and in 1902 I took it beneath heather at Foxhall, where I should expect it to be not uncommon if thoroughly searched for. Among the littoral Saldae much remains to be done, since 5. /i/Vwa, saltatoria,pallidipes,pilosella, opacula^orthochila, littoralis, lateralis, and cincta are all that have been noticed here at present. Cimex leciularius is of course only too common in our towns ; and there is a local superstition that these insects are spontaneously evolved from wall-plaster or the paste with which its paper is affixed ! Ceraiocombus coleoptratus, Piezostethus gaiactinus, and P. curisitans, Lyctocoris campestris, and Temnostethus pusillus have all been noted. The three common Anthocores, with Tetraphleps vittata, Triphleps nigra, T. minuta, and T. majuscula are reported ; and I have lately taken Anthocoris sarothamni at Brandon and the two Acompocores on fir trees in Barnby Broad. Saunders took two BrachysteUs parvicornis in 1877 beneath a low elm hedge near Walberswick, which is the only known British locality for this species excepting Kessingland, where I captured one in 1904. The rare Cardiastethus fasciiventr'ts has turned up at Monk Soham, Nayland, Raydon Great Wood, and Coddenham in April and May ; as well as Xylocoris ater and Microphysa elegantula. I made the second British capture of Xylocorridea brevipennis in the dry moat of Framlingham Castle on 8 April 1 90 1, having first found the species in Britain in Richrnond Park.'' Saunders records both Myrme- dobia tenella and M. inconspicua from Southwold, and both sexes of the latter at roots of grass on the Lowestoft sandhills. Bedwell has recently turned up the former at Oulton Broad ; and Microphysa pselaphiformis has been found at Mildenhall and Tuddenham by Dr. Sharp and Mr. Chitty. We now come to the great family Capsidae, of which Pitharms Maerkeli, Miris laevigatus, M. calcaratus, Megalocera erratica, M. ruficornis, Leptopterna ferrugata, L. dolobrata, and Monalocoris Ulicis are quite common. Acetropus Gimmerthalii is said to be rare, but occurs annually upon Walbers- wick Heath and sometimes in the Bentley Woods ; Megalocera longicornis has been found in several localities ; and Teratocornis antennatus in Easton and Covehithe Broads. Pantilius tunicatus lives about Brandon and Thetford, Tostock, and Bentley Woods, and Gibbs has found it at Orford ; Lopus flavomarginatus is very common at Bentley, where I have twice found the variety superciliosus of L. gothicus. Miridius quadrivirgatus appears to be confined to the south and south-east coasts of Britain, Lowestoft constituting its most northern limit. Seven species of the slender-legged genus Phytocoris and seven of the stouter Calocoris, as well as Oncognathus binotatus, have been observed here, none of which are of especial note, unless it be the unusual rarity of C. fulvomarginatus. In 1904 I added Dichrooscytus rufipennis, from the Bentley Woods and Kessingland, and Plesiocoris rugicol/is, from Foxhall, to our county list. Of the genus Lygus we have eleven kinds, none, however, appearing uncommon except the variety nigronasutus of L. lucorum, which has only been recorded from Corton by Mr. Butler, and Lygus atomarius, which Edwards alone had taken off silver firs at Stratton Strawless in Norfolk till Mr. W. H. Tuck sent a specimen for identification to Mr. E. A. Butler, taken at Tostock near Bury St. Edmunds in 1896 or 1897. Zygimus pinastri occurs at Lowestoft, Corton, Fritton, Somerleyton, and Bramford ; Poeciloscytus unifasciatus sparingly in Tud- denham Fen ; P. nigritus very rarely in Cutlers Wood at Freston ; and P. Gyllenhalii is common, as also are Liocoris tripustulatus, Capsus lanarius (which is capable of inflicting a painful puncture), and Rhopalotomus ater. Camptobochis lutescens is much rarer here than about London ; I have only seen it from Tostock, Lavenham, Shrubland Park, Henstead, and Tuddenham Fen. In the last- mentioned locality Mr. E. A. Elliott has taken Pilophorus cinnamopterus singly on the flowers of Spiraea at the end of August ; and Butler has found Allodapus rufescens at Lowestoft (where it turned up commonly in 1905) and Herringfleet. Halticus apterus, H. luteicollis, rarely on hazel at Freston, 143
 * Ent. Mo. Mag. 1891, p. 277. * Ibid. Nov. 1898.