140 HEMIPTERA. 



moss or ants' nests; there bugs are. Coleopterists there- 

 fore, if they would only see the ease with which they might j 

 do so, are in a better position to form a collection of JBemi- 

 ptera, than those who are working at other branches. But it 

 seems a difficult matter to get any one to look beyond his 

 present wants. The thought that he has sufficient to do in < 

 collecting in his own field, and the ready answer to allj 

 questions, especially about bugs, *' I cannot be bothered I 

 with them," indicates a want of appreciation of the glorious | 

 whole rather than a love for a particular portion. In the| 

 advancing state of science it seems surprising that the young 

 blood springing up should not have attacked all orders of: 

 insects. Collectors generally resolve themselves into Lepi-i 

 dopterists and Coleopterists, and many even of them, after ^ 

 a brief period, die away and drop from the pursuit likei 

 leaves shaken from the trees by the winter winds. 



Perhaps the time will shortly arrive when the stream shall j 

 have set full for them, and until then let us hope. 



It is worth recording that we have observed but few of 

 the Scutati or the Rhyparocromidce this season, and even the, 

 one or two commoner species which fell in our way were notj 

 nearly so abundant as in former years, and it is difficult to| 

 say to what this is attributable. Indeed the general feelingi 

 seems to be that insects of all orders have been much scarcerj 

 than usual. I 



At the end of this paper I give a list of such of thej 

 European species, marked in our Catalogue with an E., as; 

 we have added since its publication ; also one or two species^ 

 not inserted in it but known on the Continent ; and descrip-i 

 tions of two species entirely new. I may add that we havei 

 also others about which we are not thoroughly certain, and 

 therefore prefer leaving them out until a future day. ^ 



