80 [April. 



Orthoptera. — The most noticeable insect here was Periplaneta americana ; the 

 smell of these insects was very strong from the top of the stairs leading to the 

 bakery, and even in the shop ; they appeared to take no alarm from footsteps, but as 

 soon as the light was turned up (I always went at night) they could be seen and 

 heard scampering away to their hiding places ; after a while they recover their fright 

 and venture out, and will soon be seen in great numbers crawling over the white- 

 washed walls, the floor, under the ovens, over the troughs, and in fact everywhere, 

 and in various stages of development — now and then a white individual was seen, 

 having just moulted, and amongst the females some were carrying their egg cases. 

 They being so very quick I could only get them by dashing them off the walls into 

 a pail of hot water. Their relatives, Acheta domestica, were not very numerous ; I 

 captured them in the same way as the last named. 



Lepidoptera were represented by Ephestia Kiihniella, two specimens only. 

 Diptera by Musca domestica, swarming even in winter. In Aphaniptera, Pulex 

 irritans was much too common for the comfort of the bakers. 



The Thysanura were represented by Thermobia furnorum, these swarmed around 

 the oven's mouth where the bread was baking and under the ovens. As it is such a 

 great lover of heat, the bakers call them "fire brats." Though flour seems to be 

 their general food, they are notorious cannibals, for so soon as one of their number 

 is killed, a great struggle ensues amongst them for which shall have the greatest 

 share of the body. Perfect specimens are somewhat rare, and these are much di- 

 minished in setting as they are so fragile. It seems this has not been added to the 

 British list with certainty before. 



Although it is three years since I collected these insects, I have not been able 

 to complete my list until now, owing to the difliculty of getting the Thysanuran 

 named, and I am now indebted to the kindness of Mr. McLachlan for helping me 

 out of my difficulty.— F. Milton, 184, Stamford Hill, N. : March 15th, 1894. 



" Liste des Anthicides," par M. Fie. — In the Annales de la Society Entomolo- 

 gique de Belgique, 1894, pp. 43 — 59, M. Pic gives a list of Anthicidce described 

 since the publication of the Munich Catalogue, that is to say, from the years 1870 — 

 1893 inclusive. In this list one of the very few recently proposed genera is omitted, 

 viz., Holcopyge, Champ. [Ent. Mo. Mag. (2), i, p. 292 (1890)], with its two species, 

 S. pallidicornis, Champ., from Colombia {loc. cit., Tp. 292), and S. meridionalis. 

 Champ., from Tenezuela (op. cit., p. 293). Moreover, M. Pic in the same paper 

 (p. 59) describes M. pallidicornis under the name of Tomoderus sydmcenideus (sic), 

 he overlooking the sulcate pygidium ; the insect, as he states, is very like T. scyd- 

 mcenoides, Eeitt., from the Caucasus. Anthicus salinus. Crotch, is renamed A. 

 Crotchi, and A. scoticus, Rye, is quoted as A. scoticus, Ray ! The reference to 

 Notoxus dendroides, Horn (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc.,xv, p. 47), is altogether a mistake, 

 no such species having been described by Dr. Horn. The total number of additions 

 is given as 414, this number including many species of Desbrochers and Marseul 

 which are not mentioned in the Zoological Records, and others omitted from the 

 Munich Catalogue, as those from Australia described by King. To this number, 

 in addition to the two species of Holcopyge above mentioned, may be added 

 Anthicus Wollastoni, F. Waterh., Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool., xiv, p. 532 (1879), 

 from St. Helena, the name Wollastoni, however, being long pre-occupied in the 



