202 Ins, 
^EUBOPTEj>4. 
Nymphidce. 
Myiodactylus nehulosus, sp. n., McLachlan, Eot. M. M. xiv. p. 85, New 
Guinea. 
Hemerohiidce, 
BothriomicromuSj g. n. Allied to Micromus, but with the sectors of 
Dreyanopteryx \ the wing is not falcate. Scudder, Geol. Surv. Canada 
for 1876-77, p. 462. Type, B. lachlani^ id. 1. c., fossil in tertiary beds at 
Quesnel. 
Pseudo-Neuroptera. 
Thysanura. 
Edmunds, James. On the resolution of Podura-soale by means of a new 
paraboloid illuminator. M. Micr. J. xviii. pp. 85 & 86. 
Of interest chiefly to microscopists, but containing interesting observa- 
tions on the structure of this favourite “ test-object.” 
Andrew Murray, in his “ Economic Entomology, Apterq, ” [ante^, 
p. 1], pp. 401-416, gives an outline sketch of the group, prefaced by 
remarks on its systematio position, and the habits ; he considers j)hat 
great mischief is done to horticulturists by these creatures. Lubbock’s 
monograph is followed for classification, and is largely made use of both 
in text and woodcuts ; the latter illustrate the genera Smynthums^ 
Papirius, Orchesella, Tomocerus, LepidocyrtuSj Deegeria, Achorutes, 
Podura, Anura^ Lepisma, and Machilis. 
Isotoma hesselsi, sp. n., A. S. Packard, jun.. Am. Nat. xi. p. 52, note, 
Polaris Bay (Hall’s American Arctic Expedition). 
' Mallophaga, 
Nirmus asymmetricus^ Nitzsch, redescribed and refigured from examples 
found on Dromceus novce-hollandice in the Zoological Gardens at Rotter- 
dam ; E. Piaget, Tijdschr. Ent. xx. pp. 80-84, pi. v). 
Murray, 1. c. pp. 376-387, gives an outline sketch of the genera of this 
group, which he classes with the Anoplura^ for the sake of convenience. 
Many of the most striking or familiar forms are noticed, and there are 
good illustrative woodcuts, mostly copied (and reduced) from Nitzsch’s 
figures. The genera Menopon^ Trinotum^ Docophorus, Nirmus, Goniqctes, 
Goniodes, Lipeurus^ OmithobiuSf and Trichodectes^ are thus iUustrated. 
Nirmus tauruSj sp. n., 0. Giebel, Z. ges. Naturw. xlvii. [1876], p. 247, 
on Buceros leucopygus, W. Africa. 
Docophorus pachycnemis^ p. 248, on Buceros leucopygus^ and D, 
horriduSf p. 249, on Ciconia australis, spp. nn., id. 1. c. 
Menopon albipes, sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 250, on Lobiovanellus albiceps. 
Termitidjj. 
Observations on species found in California by C. R. Osten-Sacken & 
H. A. Hagen ; P. Bost Soc. xix. pp. 72 & 73. Refer principally to 
