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IIOMOPTERA. 



Acocephal Its histrionicus, Fab. 



Agallia brachyptera, Boh. 



Thamnotettix melanopsis, Hardy ; torneella, Zett. 



Athy nanus depressus, Soott ; irroratus, Scott ; piceus, Scott. 



Orthezia cataphracta, Shaw, and 0. floccosa, De Geer, the males have been seen 



aUve only by the late Mr. G. Norman ; I have but a single poor example, but 



they are stated not to be rare in September on short grassnear Pitlochry. 



The above is merely a mention of the names of such species as now occur to me ; 

 a full list of Mr. Norman's captures will be found in the Ent. Mo. Mag., xvi, 175 

 and 213, and xviii, 276. 



The following have not yet been found in Britain, but as they inhabit the north 

 of Europe it is very probable they are in the Highlands of Scotland : — 

 Ommatidiotus dlssimilis. Fall., moors, June to September. 

 Sathysmato phorus Reiiteri, Sahib., on sallow and Ledum, June, July. 

 Trioza acutipennis, Zett., in damp meadows and on spruce firs. May to October. 

 — J. W. Douglas, 8, Beaufoi-t Gardens, Lewisham : Felruary \Mh, 1886. 



^bitiiari). 



Dr. John Arthur Power died suddenly at Bedford on Thursday, June 9th, 

 aged 76. He was formerly fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, having been a 

 Wrangler, and having obtained a Second Class in the Classical Tripos ; he adopted 

 the medical profession, and for about forty years was one of the best known and 

 most successful medical tutors in London, especially in connection with the Ex- 

 aminations for the Indian and Army Medical Departments ; while at Cambridge 

 he took up the study of Coleoptera ; the earliest entry in his journal is " Burwell 

 Fen, June 11th, 1835 ;" but he had previously (June 2nd, 1834) been elected a 

 Member of the then one-year-old Entomological Society of London ; his connection 

 with the Society was, however, not of long duration. Apparently, however, he did 

 not begin to collect regularly until 1853, from which year up to 1880 he was one of 

 the most energetic and successful of British collectors. He found a large number 

 of species new to the British lists, and many species that had been considered 

 extremely rare he discovered in numbers ; he seemed to have an instinctive faculty 

 for finding localities, and an intuitive insight into the habits of the species. By 

 his persistent and patient observation he often succeeded in taking large numbers 

 of a beetle which another collector might have searched for in the same locality a 

 short time before, and not found a trace of. His perseverance was only equalled by 

 his generosity ; he was always ready to give away specimens of even his rarest 

 captures, and friends that he knew well were always at liberty to select where they 

 liked from his abundantly filled series of insects, which he seemed to have taken 

 and set for their especial benefit. 



Dr. Power was induced by Mr. Douglas to collect Hemiptera, in which Order 

 he was, as might have been expected, very successful, and he added many species to 

 those hitherto known as British. 



About five years ago he was disabled by a paralytic stroke, and went to live at 

 Bedford. As he was unable to continue active work in entomology, he turned to 



