210 Ins, 
NEUROPTEEA. 
Thysanoptera. 
Reuter, O. M. Diagnoser ofver nya Thysanoptera fran Finland. Ofv. 
Fin. Soo. xxi. pp. 207-223. 
Twenty-three species enumerated, of which several are new. 
Szaniszl6, a. von. Beitrage zur Lebensweise von Thripsfrumentarius, 
Beling. SB. z.-b. Wien, xxix. pp. 33-36. 
A full account of the life-history of the insect, with details of the 
damage occasioned by it in Transylvania in 1876. 
Aptinothrips fasciataSy Butler, redescribed and figured ; Phil. Tr. 
clxviii. p. 653, pi. liv. fig. 7. 
New species : — 
Phlceothrips longispina, Reuter, 1. c. p. 214, tibialis^ p. 215, palUcomis^ 
p. 216, Finland. 
Thrips {Limothrips) hidens^ id. 1. c. p. 218, Th. (T.) hasalis and Jiavi- 
comiSf p. 219, salicis, p. 220, Th. {Belothrips) hicolor, p. 221, Finland. 
TERMITIDiE. 
Termea Jlavipea pveyed upon hy Formica exsectoides\ McCook, P. Ac. 
Philad. 1879, p. 155. An immense swarm appeared at Cambridge, Mas- 
sachusetts, on the morning of May 22nd, 1878, forming a dark cloud ; 
they were accompanied by fifteen different species of birds, some of 
which so gorged themselves that they could not close their beaks. H. A. 
Hagen, P. Bost. Soc. xx. p. 118. 
V. L. Seoane supplements his notes on the destruction of a Spanish 
man-of-war in the port of Ferrol by Termites (cf. Zool. Rec. xv. Ins. 
p. 250), by giving the scientific, as well as the vernacular, names of the 
timber-producing trees in the Philippines used for ship-building. CR. 
Ent. Belg. xxii. pp. xiv. & xv. 
Embjd.®. 
McLachlan notices the finding by Wood-Mason, at Jubbulpore, of 
larvae of a species of this family both in the open and under loose bricks; 
they probably pertained to Oligotoma saunderai, Westwood; P. E. Soc. 
1879, p, xliii. 
Psocidj:. 
Selys-Longchamps, E. de. La sous-famille des Psocines en Angleterre, 
en Belgique, et en Scandinavie. OR. Ent. Belg. xxii. pp. clxiv.- 
clxvii. 
Comparative faunistic notes, with a table, according to the works of 
McLachlan, the author, and Spangberg. 
Psocus Jlavo-nimbatus, Rostock, Ent. Nachr. v. p. 129, Russia (Peipus 
Lake) ; P. citricola^ W. H. Ashmead, Canad. Ent. xi. p. 228, Florida ; 
spp. nn. 
