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PSYCHE 
[December 
ANNOUNCEMENT CONCERNING INDEX TO PERIODICAL 
LITERATURE. 
Subscribers who have followed the bibliographic references published in 
Psyche will notice the omission of this department from recent numbers. This 
omission does not mean that the work of collecting references has been abandoned, 
but simply indicates a change in practice made necessary bv the increasing scope 
of the bibliography, which has outgrown the space available for printing it. It 
has seemed inadvisable to increase the proportion of sjiace for such matter, since that 
would involve the crowding out of valuable articles, and only a few of Psyche’s 
readers — those to whom other and more complete indexes are inaccessible — would 
gain thereby. 
Henceforth, therefore, the Index to Periodical Literature will not be printed in 
Psyche; but it will be maintained, and copies will be furnished without extra charge 
to paid-up subscribers requesting such service. 
It is believed that this new move will enable the journal to present more and 
lengthier original articles, and more illustrations, than before, while giving even 
prompter service in bibliographic work. 
The Editors. 
NEMOBIUS PALUSTRIS BLATCHLEY. 
This species has not been reported from New England, but I find it common in 
the vicinity of Wellesley in suitable localities. I have Massachusetts specimens from 
Dover, Oct. 11; Natick, Oct. 16; Wellesley, Sept. 6, 27; and Connecticut examples 
from So. Kent and Canaan, Aug. 18 and 19. The latter were referred to N. caro- 
linus by Scudder (Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc., iv, 107-1896). 
It is a tiny, shining dark brown or blackish species which lurks among the 
sphagnum moss of bogs and wet meadows and is common in suitable localities but 
captured with difficulty owing to its frailness and the character of its haunts. The 
most satisfactory method, after finding a station, is to s]iread the net and drive the 
crickets upon it. 
Notes on its habits and habitats will be found in the Canadian Entomologist, 
■xxxvi, 185 (1904) by Walker; and in the 27th Ann. Rept. Dept. Geol. Ind., p. 427, 
(1902) by Blatchley. 
A. P. Morse. 
