409 [October, 



Amongst the Homoptera, the most noteworthy capture was that of Platyme- 

 topius undatus. This fine species was first recorded as British in the year 1882, 

 when Messrs. Scott and Bignell took it at Bickleigh ; no other record of its capture 

 has, I believe, been made, and it is interesting to note its present occurrence at a 

 locality so far distant from its old quarters in Devonshire. I found it widely dis- 

 tributed, always on Pteris, but it nowhere occurred in more than single examples, 

 except at one spot, an area of a few square yards of waste ground by a roadside, 

 where I got some eight or nine specimens. Thamnotettix cruentata occurred 

 abundantly with it on this same small area, but nowhere else. — E. A. Butler, 

 Ashby Boad, Crouch Hill, N. : September 12th, 1889. 



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Theodor Kirsch, " Custos " for Entomology in the Dresden Museum, died on 

 July 8th. He published much on exotic CoJeoptera, chiefly in the Berliner ento- 

 mologische Zeitschrift. There is also a paper by him on the Butterflies of Timorlaut 

 in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society for 1885. 



Rev. S. J. Gore, M.A., died at Hampstead on September 3rd, aged 75. For 

 many years he was Sector of Kusper, near Horsham, Sussex. He had been a 

 subscriber to this Magazine from its commencement, more than 25 years ago, and 

 was an assiduous collector, chiefly of British Coleoptera, but published very little. 

 A few years ago he retired from active clerical duties and settled near London. 



Catalogue eaisonne et synonymique des Neveopteees, observes dans 

 les Pays Bas, et dans les pays limitrophes : par Heeman Albaeda. Martinius 

 Mjhoff, La Haye : 1889. 



Following close upon the List of Belgian Neuroptera, by De Selys-Longchamps 

 (which we noticed in our issue of December, 1888), we have now before us the long- 

 expected Catalogue for Holland, a bulky pamphlet occupying 168 pp. of the 

 " Tijdschrift voor Entomologie " (Vol. xxxii). 



It is needless to say that any List of this nature worked out by Albarda could be 

 nothing if not exhaustive, and it is seldom we have had the pleasure of noticing such 

 a careful compilation. The two Lists (Belgian and Dutch) are elaborated much on 

 the same principle, the geographical district being continuous. The Belgian List 

 noticed the species found in Holland ; the Dutch List intercalates those found in 

 Belgium, and also in the adjacent parts of Grerrnany. 



Albarda has, for more than twenty years, worked most assiduously at his subject, 

 and has received the assistance of numerous coadjutors in various parts of the 

 kingdom of Holland. The introductory portion consists of an analysis of the Dutch 

 authors who have noticed their Neuroptera, commencing with Clutins in 1634, and 

 a copious, general bibliography completes the work. The local details are full, and 

 are worked out, in the first instance, according to the provinces in which any 

 particular species has been observed ; and, secondly, as to special localities and the 

 names of the observers. It is not necessary here to enter into minute details as to 

 the fauna and its peculiarities ; on these points the notice given of the species that 

 occur in the immediately adjacent political districts is instructive. For Holland 

 itself about 312 species are enumerated, viz. : 30 Psocidce, 20 Perlidce, 41 Ephemeridce, 

 52 Odonata, 55 Planipennia, and 114 Trichoptera. 



