1882.] 235 



I must not fail to mention that I am greatly indebted to the Rev. W. W. 

 Fowler, who has kindly looked over nearly all of the above, and who also sent the 

 Trichopterygia he was not certain about to Mr. Matthews. A. air a, Kr., was 

 determined by M. Fauvel, to whom Mr. Fowler sent it, as was also Al. cuniculorum. 

 — E. P. Collett, 12, Springfield Road, St. Leonards-on-Sea : February, 1882. 



Reoccurrence of Polystichus vittattis at St. Leonards. — I am pleased to be able 

 to report that Polystichus vittatus has turned up again in its old haunts at Bopeep, 

 near St. Leonards. Only a single specimen, however, has yet rewarded my efforts ; 

 this I took under rejectamenta a few weeks ago. — E. A. Butler, Hastings : January 

 23rd, 1882. 



Information for Coleopterists. — We have reason to believe that a new Catalogue 

 of British Coleoptera, compiled by Mr. F. P. Pascoe, and brought down to date, is 

 on the eve of publication. 



No. 1 of the new "Revue Cok'opterologique " {cf. ante, p. 190) is before us. 

 The publication appears likely to become a very useful one when the editor can get 

 it into working. In size and general " get-up " it reminds us of the " Comptes-Ren- 

 dus " of the Belgian Entomological Society. In it we learn that Putzey's collection 

 and library have been bequeathed to the latter Society, not to the Museum, although 

 they will be under the same roof. — Eds. 



A request for European Thysanoptera. — I have selected the group of Thysan- 

 optera for a special study, and I am very much in need of specimens of the described 

 European species, to be enabled to avoid the renaming of species which very probably 

 are found both in Europe and America. I have, therefore, written to Mr. A. Gr. 

 Butler for his kind advice as to how or from whom I possibly could obtain speci- 

 mens, and was kindly referred to you, saying that you might be able to give me some 

 either help. Will you, therefore, allow me to ask respectfully for your kind assistance, 

 to furnish me with specimens during the coming season, either determined or unde- 

 termined, or to give me the address of persons, especially of gardeners or farmers, 

 interested somewhat in entomology, or of some botanists who are collecting plants 

 themselves, so that I may correspond with them ; perhaps many of your friends in 

 different parts of the country would be so kind and willing to collect these insects 

 for me if you would kindly urge my wish to them, and at the same time send 

 them a list of plants on which the different species are to be found ; to enable you 

 to do so, if you should kindly decide to assist me in my researches, I will give here 

 a list of species and the plants upon which they are found ; there will be no need 

 for your friends to determine any species, if all the specimens collected from one kind 

 of plant are kept separate, with the name of the plant attached to them. 



Phlceothrips ulmi, under bark of dead elms and other trees ; Phi. statices, in 

 flowers of Armeria maritima ; Phi. pini, numerous under bark of old pine stumps ; 

 Heliothrips adonidum,\\\ flowers and on leaves in hot-houses ; Sericothrips staphylinus, 

 in flowers of Ulex europaea ; Chirothrips manicata, on spikes of grass ; Limothrips 

 denticornis, on heath and grass ; Lim. cerealium, very common on grass and cerealia ; 

 Aptinothrips rufa, in great numbers in spikes of grass and cerealia ; Apt. nitidu/a 



