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 A HISTORY OF SUSSEX Chloropid^ Phytomyzid^ [continued) Lipara lucens, Mg. Bexhill, Pevensey Chromatomyia albiceps, Mg. Guestling (E.A.B.), Bognor (G.) ; bred from tops (H. List) of reed, Arundo phragmites, Borborid^ Platycephala planifions, F. Pett^ Pevensey Borborus nitidus, Mg. Hastings district (E.A.B.) (H. List) Meromyza pratorum, Mg. (H. List), — roseri, Rnd. Bexhill (C. Morley) Camber, etc. (E.A.B.) — pedestris, Mg. Lewes, in moss, etc. (J.) — lasta, Mg. Leives (G.H.V.) — equinus, Fin. Generally common Anthracophaga strigula, F. Guestling (H. Sphasrocera subsultans, F. Generally corn- List) mon Haplegis divergens, Lw. IVarrengore, Limosina limosa, Fin. Leives (Unwin) Lewes {G.WN .) Phora abdominalis. Fin. Eivhurst (]ii.. hsl) Chloropisca ornata, Mg. Hastings district • — rufipes, Mg. Ore (C. Morley) (H. List) HiPPOEosciD^ Agromyzid^ Ornithomyia avicularia, Linn. Guestling Agromyza pusilla, Mg. Hastings district (H. List) ; Battle, on pigeons (J.) ; (H. List) Lewes, on rooks (J.) Phytomyzid^ Stenopteryx hirundinis, Linn. Hastings Phytomyza nigricans, Mcq. Guestling (H. district (H. List), Bognor (G.) List) Melophagus ovinus, Linn. Pett (H. List) ; Chromatomyia affinis, Mg. Hastings dis- Lewes (J.), common on sheep ; Bog- trict (H. List) nor (G.) Note. — Since the above w.is in type the following interesting species have been added by Mr. Guermonprez : Coelopa pilipes, Hal.; Fclpham. Actora xstuum, Mg. ; Pagham. Sciomyza cinerella, Fin. ; Goodwood Park. Chyliza leptogaster, Pz. ; Cocking. Palloptera umbellatarum, F. ; Bognor. Sapromyza notata, Fin.; Felpham. Sepsis violacea, Mg. ; Elmer. HEMIPTERA HETEROPTERA Bugs In the following list 298 species of Heteroptera are recorded as having occurred in Sussex. This is equivalent to nearly 66 per cent of the known British species. Only two are peculiar to the county, viz. Peritrechus gracUicornis, which is recorded by Mr. J. W. Douglas from Hastings, and Monanthia angustata, which Mr. E. Saunders discovered at Cissbury near Worthing. The localities given lie almost wholly in the extreme east and the south-west of Sussex ; the meagreness of the records from the central parts is accounted for by the paucity of workers in this order. Where the Hastings district is quoted, it is implied that the species referred to is generally distributed in that part of the county which lies south of a line joining Etchingham and Heathfield, and east of a line from Heathfield to the coast midway between Bexhill and Pevensey. Similarly, the Bognor district means the south-western corner from Chichester to Littlehampton, and thence northward to Burpham, Madehurst and Cocking. By the great extension of some of the coast towns in recent years, several localities, which were once well stocked with insects, are now either built upon or cultivated, and the distribu* tion of some local species has been modified accordingly. For example, Henestaris laticeps was, not many years ago, abundant all along the top of the cliff to the west of what was then the village of Bexhill. Its haunt has been destroyed by the foundation of the esplanade of this rapidly developing seaside resort, and one small colony farther to the 226