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in Europe (it was here that Columbus was a student), while his 

 charming wife is Professor of Civil History. Dr. Pavesi is the 

 Director and a well-known arachnologist. 



Among the entomologists at towns and cities that I could not 

 visit, I may mention Dr. Emery, the specialist in ants, and Dr. 

 A. Fiori, coleopterist and rhynchotist, at Bologna ; Dr. A. Tosi, 

 worker at bees, in Florence; Dr. G. Scarabelli, coleopterist, at Imola; 

 Professor A. Piva, rhynchotist, at Rovigo ; and Professor Bezzi, 

 dipterist, at Sondrio. I regret that I have no information as to any 

 lepidopterists. 



I was, of course, travelling during one of the worst seasons for 

 Rhynchota and Orthoptera that could have been chosen, but even 

 then I was much disappointed with my captures. Around Naples 

 I swept the vegetation in the amphitheatre at Pompeii, and on the 

 slope leading down to the sea, and also along the sides of the vine- 

 yards leading to Vesuvius, but with little avail. Anomala Junii, a 

 longicorn Coleopteron, was common there, and indeed throughout 

 Italy. Epinephile jurtina, Civnonyiuplia pamphilus, Pieris rapcB, 

 and a " blue " which has become lost, were absolutely the only 

 Rhopalocera to be seen. Orthoptera were all immature; Rhynchota 

 were few and common — Aphrodcs bifasciafa, Linn.; Megophfha/mus 

 scanica, Fall.; Cercopis spuviaria, Linn.; Cixius 7ien'osa, Linn.; etc. 

 In the artificial ditches around new Pompeii I searched for aquatic 

 forms, and found Hydrometra stagiiorum, Gerris lociisiris, and a 

 species of Gyrinus ! ! The whole country around Vesuvius is, however, 

 of course, very unsuitable for aquatic forms. 



The environs of Pavia are, I should say, very good indeed for a 

 neuropterist. At the middle of June the lovely Calopteryx splendens 

 was either but recently emerged or was in the act of doing so ; along 

 the banks of the canal which stretches from Pavia to Milan it 

 was literally in hundreds. I also captured Orthetrum caticeUatum (as 

 determined by Mr. W. J. Lucas). This canal is fringed on either 

 side with weedy waste land, varying in breadth from a few feet to 

 several yards; to the left again (from Pavia) is the high road, then 

 more waste land, and an abrupt descent through bush and shrub to 

 the osier-banked stream or river. The canal stretches more or less 

 in this manner right along to Milan. My collecting was hasty and 

 perfunctory, while on a visit to the Certosa. In Rhynchota I secured 

 Cixius nervosa^ Linn.; and Cixius, ?,\^.{}) ; Lepyrofiia co/t'(ptrafa, Linn.; 

 Aphrophora aini, Fall. ; Cercopis campestris, Fall.; and C. spu7naria, 

 Linn. ; Alegophthalmus scanica, Fall. ; Tetigonia viridis, Linn.; Notonecta 

 glauca (nymph), Reduviolus subapteriis (nymph), and several Tetigoni- 

 idffi and Miridae not yet named. Dr. de Carlini has worked this district 

 pretty thoroughly as regards terrene forms, but I believe close working 

 for aquatic forms in all orders here would discover many interesting 

 species. As Milan is on the direct route from Paris or Ostend to 

 Rome, and as Pavia is only an hour's journey from Milan, perhaps 

 the hint may be accepted this year by some British workers. Of 



