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fossorial Hymenoptera : Hoplisus Mdnctus, Rossi, and Priccnemis 

 affinis, V. de Lind. {Ent. Mo. Mag., xxv. p. 434). 



Neuroptera. 



Lype fragilis, Pict,, and Agapetus delicatulus, McLach. These 

 two species of Trichoptera are added to the British Hst by IStr. 

 J. F. X. King, who has met with the former, common at Lough 

 Corrib near Galway, Yewpoint, and Summerhill, on the Connaught 

 side, and Lough Ree near Athlone ; while the latter was taken at 

 Tore Cascade, Denough River, and in the Horses' Glen, Mangerton, 

 near Killarney {Ent. Mo. Mag., xxv. p. 235). 



Setodes pimctata, F. A species of Trichoptera well known in 

 France, Holland and Sweden, has been added to the British list 

 by Mr. J. E. Fletcher, who swept a solitary specimen from an ash 

 tree on the banks of the river Severn, in July last {Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 xxv. p. 383). 



^schna borenlis, Zett. Five specimens of this rare boreal 

 and alpine dragonfly were taken by Messrs. King and Morton in 

 its old haunts near the Black Wood, Rannoch, on the 22nd June 

 {Ent. Mo. Mag., xxv. p. 383). 



Ortlioptera. 

 Forficida puhescens. Gene. This new earwig is added to our 

 list by Mr. Eland Shaw, who describes it in his New Synopsis 

 of British Orthoptera, from specimens sent to him by Mr. C. W. 

 Dale, who found it amongst reeds at Charmouth, Dorsetshire 

 {Ent. Mo. Mag., xxv. p. 358). 



Knowing that we have amongst our members some who pay 

 especial attention to our flora, I think it is only right that they 

 should be informed^ if they do not already know the fact, of the 

 discovery of a new British Alga, or Seaweed. 



Rhododennis elegans, Cr., var. polystromatica. For the addition 

 of this elegant marine plant to our flora, we are indebted to Mr. 

 E. M. Holmes, who has discovered it growing at Bognor, and to 

 Mr. E. L. Batters, who has also found it at Berwick-on-Tweed. 

 Hitherto it had only been known to occur at Brest {Zoologist, xiii. 

 p. iia). 



" Of making many books there is no end," so said a very- 

 ancient writer; if this was the case in the time of Solomon, 

 what are we to say of the condition of literature now-a-days ? 

 No less than 8,078 volumes have been published in the United 

 Kingdom during the year that has just closed, London alone 



