352 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD. 
from an illustrative point of view, it is more convenient than the some- 
what unwieldy proportions of the larger work. His remarks are very 
suggestive and well worth study. 
In Psyche, vol. ix., p. 97, Scudder discusses the Orthoptera-fauna 
of New England. In his list of 1862, 78 species were included; to-day 
98 are known. It is instructive to note that, of the names given in 
1862, no less than three-quarters have been changed to suit the 
requirements of modern nomenclature. Only two earwigs are included, 
one is an accidental visitor, the otheris Labia minor, L., now well- 
established, but doubtless originally imported from Europe. 
Mr. Mclachlan records (Hnt. Mo. May.) Bertkausta prisca, Kolbe 
(a genus and species of Psocidae new to Britain), as being captured on a 
mossy boulder in the vicinity of Lynmouth. The specimen is somewhat 
large, apterous, the antenne 18-jointed, the legs very long with 
2-jointed tarsi. Mr. McLachlan also adds (Mnt. Mo. Mag.), Ayrion 
hastulatum, Charp., to the British lst, the addition being based on a 
g example taken by Colonel Yerbury at Aviemore on June 28th. The 
exact locality is ‘‘the backwaters of the Spey, between the bridge at 
Aviemore and the mouth of the stream which runs down from Loch 
an Hilan.”’ 
Mr. Saunders notes (Hnt. Mo. Mag.) Crabro carbonarius, Dahlb., 
as an addition to the British list. This, too, was taken at Aviemore on 
June 28th by Colonel Yerbury. Mr. Saunders also adds (nt. Mo. 
May.) Nabis brevis, Scholtz, to the list of British Hemiptera, a 
specimen being taken by sweeping, on low-lying, somewhat marshy 
eround, along the canal between Byfleet and Weybridge. 
In the Canadian Entomologist, pp. 236 et seq., Professor Fernald 
discusses the little-understood family—Choreutidae. He shows that the 
generic name Hemerophila, Hb. (with pariana as type) belongs to this 
group, Simaethis, Leach, and Gauris, Hb., falling as synonyms. He 
maintains Choreutis, Hb., with myllerana, Fab. (scintilulana) as type, 
and sinks Porpe, Hb., as being synonymous with Choreutis. He follows 
Guénée in maintaining Orchemia, Gn., for diana. For the other 
species he uses Brenthia, Clem., with pavonicella as type, Walsing- 
hamia, Riley, with diva as type, and Setiostoma, Zell., with aanthobasis 
as type. [Was not Hemerophila, Hb., proposed for the Geometrid—- 
abruptaria ?—Ep.| 
We have received a most interesting brochure Les Zyyénes de la 
Normandie, 1900, by L. Dupont. It gives a general review of our 
knowledge of the group, and a detailed account of the species inhabiting 
the territory dealt with—Aygaena (Anthrocera) minos, Z. achilleae, 7. 
lonicerae, Z. trifolti, Z. palustris (trifolti-major), Z. filipendulae, Z. trans- 
alpina, Z. carniolica, Z. fausta, Z. hippocrepidis, Stephens (nec Hibner). 
For the latter, in order to distinguish it from %. var. hippocrepidis, Hb., 
M. Dupont suggests the name Z. stephenst. One is struck with the 
large number of species to be taken in Normandy compared with those 
found in Britain, a fact the more remarkable when one considers how 
similar Normandy is in many respects to some of our southern counties. 
It ig a work to be obtained by all serious students of this intensely 
interesting superfamily, and is published at Hlbeuf—Imprimerie- 
papeterie Allain, 1, 8, and 5, Rue St. Jacques. 
Our readers will learn with regret that the veteran entomologist, 
Dr. Otto Staudinger, died on October 13th last at the age of 70. He 
