1880.] 71 



Insects from Portugal. — The Kev. A. E. Eaton has returned from an entomolo- 

 gical tour of more than two months' duration in Portugal, in the course of which 

 many localities rarely visited by Englishmen, from north to south of the country, 

 were explored, and much hardship experienced. When the materials have been 

 worked-out they will no doubt prove of very great interest. He collected all Orders, 

 but, naturally, his attention was specially directed to Neuroptera (in the broad sense) j 

 and this was the more desirable, inasmuch as the Neuropterous Fauna of the country 

 was practically unknown. In his favourite Ephemeridce the materials are extensive, 

 and include quite new forms. The Trichoptera are represented by over 500 examples, 

 on a rough estimate, and these he has generously presented to me. A glance at the 

 as yet unprepared material shows that there are certainly many interesting new 

 forms, and a large number of species : curiously enough, the Family Limnophilidce, 

 which may be said to include nearly two-fifths of the European Trichoptera, is only 

 just represented ; the riches of the collection are concentrated urjon Sericostomatidce, 

 Leptoceridce, Uydropsychidce, and Rhyacophilidce. He has also a long and interesting 

 series of terrestrial Isopod Crustacea. It is to be hoped that the collections will be 

 worked out by specialists, and the results published in a collective form, so far as 

 may be possible. — E. McLachlan, Lewisham : 15th July, 1880. 



Elipsocus cyanops, Rostock. — The first excursion I made after having introduced 

 this species as British from examples taken by Mr. Fletcher, near Worcester (ante 

 p. 21), resulted in the capture of 4 specimens on Tuddenham Heath, Suffolk, and at 

 Snailwell, Cambridgeshire, at the end of June. They also were beaten from Pinus 

 sylvestris. It is just possible that the two specimens in Mr. Marshall's collection 

 mentioned in a note under the description of Ccecilius obsoletus in my monograph of 

 the British Psocidce (Ent. Mo. Mag., iii, p. 271), belonged to U. cyanops. — Id. : 

 5th July, 1880. 



Robert Hislop. — On the 9th June last, at Blair Bank, Polmont, near Falkirk, 

 this Magazine. lost one of its earliest supporters by the death of Mr. Bobert Hislop. 

 His name came but little before the entomological world, as he was more interested 

 in the immediate aspect of natural science than in viewing the favourite objects of 

 his quiet and steadfast study through a descriptive medium. Some few notes from 

 his pen, usually adding a new northern species to our fauna-list, have appeared in 

 our pages ; but only the very few who visited him in his Scotch home know what 

 placid delight he found for many years in investigating the Coleoptera of his imme- 

 diate neighbourhood. On the rare occasions when he came to London, the habitual 

 reserve, partly national and partly acquired by his long professional occupations, 

 fairly gave way when collecting in our more favoured southern woods ; and his innate 

 genuine simplicity and delight in the smallest works of creation, fairly asserted 

 themselves. To him, moreover, do most of the present school of southern English 

 Coleopterists owe their earliest acquaintance with Scotch forms : at a time when no 

 one thought of visiting such boreal regions as Bannoch, Falkirk was indeed an 

 " Ultima Thule " for beetle collectors. 



But Mr. Hislop's memory stands upon a surer basis than the mere regard of a 



