90 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
but I cannot detect an eye in any of them. They have 
beautiful, short, clubbed antenne, and are altogether very 
interesting little fellows.” J see no alternative, therefore, but 
to conclude that the mole’s flea is perfectly without eyes; and 
one sees at once that there is small need of the power of 
vision in an insect that is never destined to see the light 
of day except through the intervention of the mole-catcher. 
To a non-entomologist it must appear strange that the name 
of “mole’s flea” and “Pulex Talpe” should have been 
applied to a flea never found on the mole; but entomo- 
logists will know that this is in strict accordance with the 
time-honoured custom in the science, for an entomologist will 
frequently name-an insect after any plant, rather than that on 
which it feeds. Therefore the name of “ mole’s flea,” having 
been given by Samouelle, and endorsed by Curtis, Dugés, 
Westwood, and Walker, must be retained, however inappro- 
priate for the usurper, and a new name must be invented for 
this real inhabitant of mole-skin. Having virtually declined the 
practice of insect-naming and description-writing for thirty- 
six years, I shall not now resume it; so leave the christening 
of this little stranger to those who covet, and claim, and not 
unfrequently do battle for, such barren honours.—Ldward 
Newman. 
Bugs Introduced into Africa by the Arabs.—Inside, the 
dwellings of the natives are clean and comfortable; and 
before the Arabs. came bugs were unknown. As I have 
before observed, one may know where these people have 
come from, by the presence or absence of these nasty vermin, 
—‘ Livingstone’s Last Journals, vol. ii. p. 33. 
Insect Fauna of St. Helena.—The following brief extract 
is part of a letter from Mr. Waller to Dr. Hooker, and is 
reprinted from ‘ Nature’ for February 3rd:—‘ The insect 
flora[?], although so extremely limited that I have not in 
nearly even three months collected more in Coleoptera than 
one hundred and fifty species, still continues to keep up its 
character for eccentricity—ringing the changes on some half 
a dozen types (chiefly Rbyncophorous) to a marvellous 
extent. We seem, indeed, never to exhaust them, turning 
up new species almost every time that we can secure a hard 
day’s work on the Composite ridge. Having ultimately to” 
work them out, | take scores of specimens, and must have 
mounted carefully some six or seven thousand already.” 
