NOTES ON ALGERIAN AND TU'nISIAN INSECTS. 63 



The Apterygota [Fodurae, etc.) were determined by Dr. K. Absalon. 

 Very few specimens seem to have been found, and out of 4 species 

 only 1 Canipodea sta]>hi/li)tiis has been named with certainty. 



The class Arachnoidea is next dealt with. 



In Pseudoscorpionina {Clielifersi, etc.), a species of Chernes, in 

 several stages of development, was all that was met with. 



In Phalangioidea (" harvesters "), Metopoctea iiielanotaratin, Herm., 

 and in Araneina (true spiders), Lfphthi/phantex pallid us, Walckmaeria 

 ohtiina, and Goni/i/lidii'lliiiii. cimm, 1 specimen of each are recorded, 

 and for these names Herr Embrik Strand is responsible. 



The Acarina (mites) make a longer list, Dr. Oudemans has deter- 

 mined them, and records about 45 species belonging to 7 families. 

 Of these, 10 species seem to have been described as new by Dr. 

 Oudemans on these captures by Father Heselbaus. 



The Myriapoda were named by Drs. Ellingsen and Verhoef. In 

 the order Chilipoda 2, and in Diplopoda 7 species are enumerated. 



The list of the Arthropods closes with the sole representative of 

 the Class Crustacea, the woodlouse Plati/arthnix hoff'iiiameipji, Brdt. 



Father Heselbaus adds a list of the authorities which he has con- 

 sulted, among which the only English work is the paper by Mr. L. E. 

 Adams, to which reference has already been made. 



Finally, a supplement (Nachtrag) ends this remarkably interesting 

 paper, and details the discoveries made by the author during the 

 winter, 1912-13. Of Coleoptera, 37 species are added, but when we 

 say that included among them are such beetles as Paeilems calviatm, 

 Cuccidiila ritfa, and Apion tlaripes, it becomes evident that they have 

 not much more to do with moles than many of the species enume- 

 rated in his first list had. Two, however, are noteworthy : Medon 

 castanetis, which, of course, is a true molenest beetle undiscovered 

 previously by this explorer, a.nd IViizopJiai/im paialleUaiUis, interesting 

 from its supposed association with grave-yards and coffins in this 

 country. 



Besides these beetles, he adds to his previous list 2 Fleas, 2 Hemip- 

 tera, 30 Acari, about half of which appear to be new ; and 8 

 Myriapods. 



We can but congratulate Father Heselbaus on his energy, untiring 

 industry, and careful and methodical treatment of the results as 

 demonstrated in this paper, and if he has perhaps allowed himself too 

 wide a latitude in his interpretation of the remarkable symbiosis 

 which exists between moles and many Arthropods, he must at least 

 have added very considerably to the Arthropod fauna as recorded from 

 the vicinity of the town of Sittard. 



Notes on Tunisian and Algerian Insects. {^VitJi jdate.) 



By P. A. BUXTON, F.E.S., M.B.O.U. 

 This paper deals with insects of several orders observed in Tunisia 

 and Algeria between March 19th and April 18th, 1913. The notes 

 are lamentably scrappy, owing to the fact that I attempted to cover 

 very much too wide a field. Not only did I attempt to pay regard to 

 several orders of insects, but I was ill-advised enough to skin birds 

 and even to press a few flowers and pickle a few miscellaneous 

 creatures. This was clearly a mistake. I wish to express my thanks 



