Notes and Comments. 
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TACHYCIXES ASYXAMORUS. 
In the very next article, in the same journal, Dr. Malcolm 
Burr writes : — ‘ T achycines asynamorus Adelung, instead of 
Diestrammena marmorata Haan. In a recent article (Ent. Rec., 
xxv., p. 228, 1913), I recorded the occurrence of this curious 
Stenopelmatid, at St. Leonards, and in The Entomologist for 
May, 1914 (p. 145). Mr. Lucas also records it from Ipswich, 
and gives a good figure.’ This article concludes, ‘ I am, there- 
fore, convinced that the St. Leonards specimens, indeed 
probably all the European captures, are to be referred not to 
Diestrammena marmorata Haan, but to T achycines asynamorus 
Adelung.’ 
WOODLICE. 
An instructive paper on the ‘ Economic Importance of 
Wood Lice,’ by W. E. Collinge, appears in No. 3 of Yol. 21 of 
the Journal of the Board of Agriculture. The author points out 
that in recent years there has been a very rapid increase in the 
quantities of Woodlice, and in consequence much more dam- 
age has been done than has been recorded for many years. He 
states that unless they are systematically destroyed they may 
become a source of very serious loss to horticulturalists and 
others. Instructions are given for the destruction of the pest, 
and the article is illustrated by a plate showing seven species 
of Woodlice from Mr. W. M. Webb’s well-known work on the 
subject, which we are permitted to reproduce. (Plate XXIII). 
HERTFORDSHIRE XATURALISTS. 
The Transactions of the Hertford Natural History Society, 
Yol. XY., Part 3 (pp. 105-192 + xvii.-xxiv.., 4s. net), 
edited by Mr. John Hopkinson, is very well illustrated, and 
may be taken as a fair example of a local scientific society’s 
publication. For many years the Hertfordshire Society has 
made a stong point of printing information of a local character, 
and to enumerate even the titles of the various papers would be 
rather lengthy, but the following selection indicates the scope 
of the society’s work : — ‘ Hertfordshire False-scorpions ’ ; 
The Crustacea of West Herts. ’ ; “ On the Strata recently 
exposed in the Railway Cutting between Oxhey and Pinner ’ ; 
Notes on Birds observed in Hertfordshire ’ ; ‘A Note on the 
Occurrence of Palmodictyon viride in Hertfordshire.’ The 
accompanying photographs (Plate XXIY.), show Millepedes’ 
nests, which appear in a paper by Mr. Hugh Main in the same 
transactions. 
: o : 
Mr. H. Hamshaw Thomas, M.A., whose work on the Jurassic flora ol 
Yorkshire is well-known, has been elected a Fellow' of Downing College, 
Cambridge. 
1914 Oct. 1. 
