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them distant ; also led astray by an interrupted impressed line, he has 

 inserted an extra abdominal segment. The first visible (really the 

 second) abdominal tergite is actually very long comparatively, and is 

 sufficiently correctly delineated in the " Biol Centr. Amer. Rhynch. Het. 

 II PI. 20, f. I." This feature of Osborn's drawing puzzled me consider- 

 ably at first. 



Champion also refers (p. 337) to the "late Dr. A. Duge"s." I am 

 happy to state that that distinguished naturalist was still in the land of 

 the living as recently as May igth, and I trust will continue here till 

 many more Mays are past. 



It was to be expected that the old idea that references to " bugs," in 

 1 6th or i yth Century literature, referred to Clinocoris lectularius, would 

 linger in popular entomological books, but it is somewhat surprising to 

 find it repeated by so erudite a worker as Mr. Marlatt and so recently 

 as 1902), (Circ. 47, U. S. Div. Ent.). There can be little doubt that the 

 word " bug" is a corruption of the Welsh " bwg" pronounced "bog" 

 (with a slight modification of the vowel it is to-day pronunced 

 " boog" [as in food] over a large area of England) which simply means 

 " hobgoblin," in fact " bogie !" and that is obviously the significance it al- 

 ways bears in Shakespeare and contemporary writings ; f. ex. " the bug 

 which you will fright me with I seek" (Winter's Tale). The Scottish Gaelic 

 is very similar ; some dictionaries give " bugbear" as " bocan," which 

 would mean "a little goat," the proper word is "bochdan," which is 

 probably connected with "bochd," meaning poor or miserable. The 

 Scottish Gaelic word for " Bedbug" is " Miol-fhioda," having nothing 

 whatever to do with the above. 



As I am doing a little work at the " Bedbugs," I will be grateful for 

 material in all stages (alcoholic preferably) of hirundinis, columbarius or 

 pipistrelli, also lectularius from the Southern States. G. \V. KIRKALDY, 

 Honolulu, T. H. 



DURING the summer just closed the University of Kansas carried on 

 more work in research and specimen collecting than ever before in its 

 history. In all about 12,000 specimens were added to the museums. 

 Three parties were sent out. One was in Arizona under Dr. H. F. 

 Snow. 



Dr. Snow increased his collection of entomological specimens with 

 10,000 insects, many being very rare and valuable. Within the last three 

 years Dr. Snow has made six expeditions and added more than 85,000 

 specimens to his collection, which now has a total of more than 175,000 

 specimens, embracing bugs and insects from all over the world, and 

 especially the United States. This is the largest collection of its kind 

 connected with any institution of learning in the United States. It has 

 taken Dr. Snow since 1876 to collect this number, and since that year he 

 has personally conducted twenty-two expeditions. 



Dr. Snow's company last summer was composed of seven members. 



