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sparingly in the same place where I found it last year. It would be well if soaie 

 Coleopterist, resident in the south, would try elsewhere to obtain this species in the 

 same way. — Edward P. Collett, St. Leonards-on-Sea : 4:th July, 1883. 



Coleoptera at Dulwich. — Notwithstanding the constant encroachment of bricks 

 and mortar, the neighbourhood of Dulwich would still seem to possess some title to 

 its old fame as a productive hunting-ground for the entomologist, at any rate, so far 

 as the Coleoptera are concerned. Thus, from faggots this year I have taken, among 

 many others, the following species : Megacronus cingulatus, PJdaeopora corticalis, 

 Corypldum august icolle (several), Cryptophagus pilosus, Lathridius testaceus, and 

 Bolitochara bella, the latter in pi'ofusion. Fungi have produced Scaphisoma agari- 

 cintim, somewhat commonly; Liodes humeralis in abundance; AmpMcyllis globus, 

 Triplax cBiiea, and various Gyrophcenfe, &c. Clinging to the under-surface of 

 branches, &c., lying ujDon the ground, I have found Ischnoglossa rufo-picea, Aleochara 

 morion, Conurus immaculatus, Clambus mimttus, Leptinus testaceus (one only), 

 Acalles ptinoides, Alexia pil if era, and C. vestitus (several) ; Aleochara lata in some 

 numbers from carrion ; Homalota cinnamomea from Cossus burrows ; Bryaxis 

 Helferi, Throscus dermestoides (in numbers) and Apteropeda graminis, by night, 

 sweeping; and Megatonia undata, upon a fence, complete the list. — Theodore 

 Wood, 5, Selwyn Terrace, Upper Norwood : July 3rd, 1883. 



(©biiuarn. 



Dr. Gustav Flor, Professor of Zoology in the University at Dorpat, died there 

 on the 13th May : of his age, or the cause of his death, we are not informed. He 

 is known in England by his great work on Livonian Hemiptera, " Rhynchoten 

 Livlands," in two volumes, published at Dorpat in 1860 and 1861, which, in their 

 design and execution, show the mind of a master, the leading characteristic being 

 the importance he assigns to the genitalia in indicating generic and specific differ- 

 ences and afHnities : thus he kept to large genera in contrast to the infinitesimal 

 genera founded on the exaggerated importance of microscopic variations of structure 

 in use by the analytical school, of which an example appeared in Fieber's " Euro- 

 piiischen Hemiptera," published in 1861. 



He also published : " Zur Ivenntniss der Ehynchoten : Beschreibung neucr 

 Arten aus der Familie Psyllodea, Burm." (Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou, 1861). 

 " Beitrage zu ciner Kritik der von Fiebor in den Jahren 1858 — 61, veroffentlichten 

 Schriftcn iiber Rhynchoten" (Wien. ent. Monats., vi, 1862). 



Besides these we know not of any entomological work published by Dr. Flor. 

 In 1865 he wrote to us that during the winter of that year the third volume of his 

 " Rhynchoten Livlands," containing the Aphides, would be published ; but it did 

 not appear, nor, as far as we are aware, were his entomological labours continued. 

 Some yeai's after he excused himself from giving an opinion about some critical 

 questions respecting species, on account of the defective vision with which he had 

 been afflicted : this probably caused the greatly regretted cessation of his entomolo- 

 gical work. 



