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NEUROPTERA. 
Nyctea seandiaca\ D. sp. ? on Tetrao rvpestris; D. sp. ? on Bernica 
brenta ; Nirmus cingulatus, Burm,, on Tringa canutna ; N, phceonotus on 
Phalaropus lohatus \ Colpocephalum^ sp. ? on Strepsilas interpres\ and 
Menopon gonophceum^ Burm., var. ?, on Corvus corax. 
New genera and species : — 
AcidoproctuSf g. n., Piaget, Tijdschr. Ent. xxi. p. 179. Separated from 
Nirmus by the crenulation of the front of the head, a second band on the 
abdomen, and the conical form of the two terminal segments. Includes 
Nirmus stenopygus^ Nitzsch, and the following spp. nn. : A. marginatus, 
p. 179, pi. xii. fig. c, on Laras spinicauda ; bifasciatus, p. 181, pi. xii. 
fig. g^ on Dromas ardeola, maximus, p. 183, pi. xii. figs. B & /, on Den- 
drocygnus arboreus and guttatus, and on a Plotus. 
Thysanoptera. 
For notes on the damage caused to rye by Thrips ccrealium^ cf. 
G. Becker, SB. Ver. Rheinl. xxxiv. p. 168, and Kronicke, l. 'c. p. 330. 
Aptinothrips fasciatus, sp. n., Butler, Ann. N. H. (4) xvii. p. 412, 
Rodriguez. 
Termitid.e. 
Hagen, H. A. Some Remarks on White Ants. P. Bost. Soc. xx. 
pp. 121-124. 
Important notes on embryology, physiology, habits, &c. The author 
says that according to the observations of Mr. Hubbard, in Jamaica, the 
young are fed with prepared food, stored up in the form of hard masses 
of comminuted wood, and the sclerotia of fungi are also provided, appar- 
ently for the newly emerged larvae. 
Hubbard, H. G. Notes on the Tree Nests of Termites in Jamaica. 
P. Bost. Soc. xix. pp. 267-275. 
Very important notes on the habits of several species of Termitidce^ 
with names supplied in foot-notes by Hagen, and an additional observa- 
tion on Eutermes ripperti by Scudder. 
On the habits of some species (given as “ destructor^ F. ? ”) in Antigua ; 
T. A. Marshall, P. E. Soc. 1878, p. xxxiv. 
Termes trinervius distils an acid liquid from the cephalic process, which 
latter has a duct through it ; J. P. Mansel Weale, P. E. Soc. 1878, p. ix. 
Cf. McLachlan, 1. c. p. xii. for reference to a similar recorded habit in 
T. ripperti. 
A Spanish man-of-war, recently returned from the Philippines, com- 
pletely destroyed by a species of this family in the port of Ferrol; 
Seoane, OR. Ent. Belg. xxi. p. ccxxv. 
Termes contusuSy sp. n., Scudder, P. Bost. Soc. xix. p. 300, fossil in the 
Carboniferous of Illinois. 
With reference to the discussion between Girard and Bolivar as to 
