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Insects from Portugal. — The Eev. A. E. Eaton has returned from an entomolo- 
gical tour of more than two months’ duration in Portugal, in the course of which 
many localities rarely visited by Englishmen, from north to south of the country, 
were explored, and much hardship experienced. When the materials have been 
worked-out they will no doubt prove of very great interest. He collected all Orders, 
but, naturally, his attention was specially directed to Neuroptera (in the broad sense) ; 
and this was the more desirable, inasmuch as the Neuropterous Fauna of the country 
was practically unknown. In his favourite Rpkemeridce the materials are extensive, 
and include quite new forms. The Trichoptera are represented by over 500 examples, 
on a rough estimate, and these he has generously presented to me. A glance at the 
as yet unprepared material shows that there are certainly many interesting new 
forms, and a large number of species : curiously enough, the Family Limnophilidce , 
which may be said to include nearly two-fifths of the European Trichoptera, is only 
just represented ; the riches of the collection are concentrated upon Sericostomatidce, 
Leptoceridce, Sy dropsy chidce, and Rhyacophilidce. He has also a long and interesting 
series of terrestrial Isopod Crustacea. It is to be hoped that the collections will be 
worked out by specialists, and the results published in a collective form, so far as 
may be possible. — R. McLachlan, Lewisham : 15 th July, 1880. 
JElipsocus cyanops, Rostock. — The first excursion I made after having introduced 
this species as British from examples taken by Mr. Fletcher, near Worcester (ante 
p. 21), resulted in the capture of 4 specimens on Tuddenliam Heath, Suffolk, and at 
Snailwell, Cambridgeshire, at the end of June. They also were beaten from Finns 
sylvestris. It is just possible that the two specimens in Mr. Marshall’s collection 
mentioned in a note under the description of Ccecilius obsoletus in my monograph of 
the British Psocidce (Ent. Mo. Mag., iii, p. 271), belonged to JE. cyanops. — Id.: 
5 th July, 1880. 
©bUttarg. 
Robert JTislop. — On the 9th June last, at Blair Bank, Polmont, near Falkirk, 
this Magazine lost one of its earliest supporters by the death of Mr. Robert Hislop. 
His name came but little before the entomological world, as he was more interested 
in the immediate aspect of natural science than in viewing the favourite objects of 
his quiet and steadfast study through a descriptive medium. Some few notes from 
his pen, usually adding a new northern species to our fauna-list, have appeared in 
our pages ; but only the very few who visited him in his Scotch home know what 
placid delight he found for many years in investigat ing the Coleoptera of his imme- 
diate neighbourhood. On the rare occasions when he came to London, the habitual 
reserve, partly national and partly acquired by his long professional occupations, 
fairly gave way when collecting in our more favoured southern woods ; and his innate 
genuine simplicity and delight in the smallest works of creation, fairly asserted 
themselves. To him, moreover, do most of the present school of southern English 
Coleopterists owe their earliest acquaintance with Scotch forms : at a time when no 
one thought of visiting such boreal regions as Rannoch, Falkirk was indeed an 
“ Ultima Thule ” for beetle collectors. 
But Mr. Hislop’s memory stands upon a surer basis than the mere regard of a 
