(8 IJawaarf , 



quotes Millikre'ii de«eription«. It now remains to ascertain whether 

 this South TT "ass ma4e a permanent ssettkjment in the 



district KuL^ ' limatc- of tlxe West of Ireland. 



Nwemher "SfHh, 1899, 



COyCEB3fiy& TERATOPBOCUS MA(.ij LI l'h> S IH, Bectbe, WT:TH 



JfOTES (03f THE BBACUyi^TEBOUS COSDITIOX IX FEMALES 



OF PSOCIDM. 



BY KOBBBT IfoLACHLAS. F.B,»„ &«. 



jji liiii "Finland* Psoeider" (Act, Soc, Faun, et Flor. iV-nn., ix, 

 I;b93), Dr. Beuter de»cribed (pp. 27, 29, and 43, 44j as a new genus 

 Aod species, a Psocid of which a single example had been found in a 

 con»ervatory at Hebingforj;, under the name Teratfjjtmcun maculipennig, 

 but be added (p. 44), " Forsitan ttolum forma brachyptera generiu 

 QraphopBocu?, cujus renae alarum redacts^." 



I quite agree with the doubt thus expre^i^ed, and am 8ure it is a 

 somewhat extreme bracbypterouu form of the § of S(enopgocu« 

 (Graphopgocue) crueiatun, L,, and i» not \ery uncommon in England, 

 in the often, probably all through the winter in certain localitias. 



But these brachypterou* individualts do not rigidly confine their 

 characters to those of the example described by Dr. Reuter, I had 

 already alluded to a brachypterou* condition in my Monograph of 

 British Pnocidm fEnt, Mo, Mag., iii, 1807, p, 9, foot note, separate 

 editiun), with a figure (pi, ii, fig, 7). Thi» condition was iutermediate, 

 and not the more extreme form exhibited in Teratoptocus. 



In noticing the PsocideB of Madeira (Journ. Linu, Soc. Zool., xvi, 

 p. 175, IHhl), I »ay concerning /S'. (crttc/a/M* : —" Some of the Madeiran 

 examples are in a brachypterous condition. In England this condition 

 is most frequent in early spring (as early as February in Cornwall), 

 and is, I think, peculiar to the $ ," These Madeiran examples were 

 taken at the end of Xorember, and amongst them it would be possible 

 to match, almost precisely, the neuration as figured for Teratopisocus ; 

 but there in nojixity, the exampAeg exhibltinq niinply a pluittlc tcratolo- 

 (fical condition. The allusion to "Cornwall" and ''early spring" 

 refers to the fact that I have constantly received living 8. (G.) cru- 

 ciatus all through the winter, and Cornwall is no doubt suitable to 

 such a continuance. I have several examples of this condition, found 

 by myself in Somersetshire in August and in October. In the latter 

 month there was frost in the mornings, when they were found, and 



