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i December, 
at Hastings a good many specimens of a Dicyphus off Epilobium , which seemed 
strange 'to me ; these I sent to 13r. Reuter, and lie returned their names as D. 
stachydis, Rent., a species I believe undescribed at present but already recorded 
from Scotland by Mr. Gf. Norman. In the developed form it resembles pallidus, 
but may be known at once by its short, thick antennae. — Edwaed Saundees, 
Holmesdale, Upper Tooting: November 18th, 1880. 
The pursuit of Entomology under difficulties in Belgium. — The Belgian Ento- 
mological Society has recently organized frequent excursions. One of these took 
place on the lltli July, to Calmpthout, north of Antwerp, a very favourable and 
productive locality, unenclosed and primitive in its nature, and part of the State 
domains. The result was that the party encountered a keeper (“garde champetre”) 
and two policemen (“gendarmes”), and that several Members of the Society were 
summoned to appear before the tribunal at Antwerp on a charge of trespassing. It 
60 happened that the father of one of the parties is a magistrate and a distinguished 
legal official, and he procured the acquittal of his son and colleagues, by discovering 
that the law applying to trespassers left discretionary power with the judge in 
connection with the objects of the accused ; in effect, the words are “ pourront etre 
condamnes,” and not “ devront etre condamnes,” as the keeper and policemen 
preferred to read them. It was advised that the Members of the Society should in 
future provide themselves with official cards of permission, so as to avoid being again 
exposed to misinterpretation of the law on the part of ignorant subordinate officers. 
fu* incut. 
Monogeamie dee deutschex Psociden, mit besonderer Beriicksichtigung 
der Fauna Westfalcns, von H. Kolbe (Auszug aus dem Jahresbericlit der zoolo- 
gischen Section fur Westfalen und Lippe, 1879 — 80, pp. 73 — 142, pi. i — iv). 
European Psocidce are now receiving much attention. Very recently two im- 
portant faunistic memoirs on the Family appeared, viz., those by Spimgberg and 
Rostock on the Scandinavian and Saxon species respectively. And doav Herr Kolbe 
shows that he has for some time been assiduously devoting his attention to it: the 
result is the production of one of the most important Monographs that has yet 
been published. The introductory portion is full in details. The author’s 
generic arrangement and his ideas of the system of neuration, were fore- 
shadowed in the Stettiner ent. Zeitung for this year, pp. 179 — 186. W r e are inclined 
to believe this neural system will not bear the test of analysis with regard to the 
homologies of neuration in other groups of so-called Neuroptera, but in a notice 
such as this, it is impossible to enter into details. We think, also, that too many 
genera have been founded ; they may be tolerably natural so far as they go, but the 
necessity for elevating some of the groups to the rank of genera is much open to 
doubt, at any rate until a comprehensive study of the Family as a whole has been 
made. It is to be regretted that the author has applied names, as varieties, to 
certain slight vagaries of neuration not infrequent in these insects. Moreover, wo 
cannot agree with the author in his great change of specific nomenclature in some 
cases. Psocus longicornis becomes Ps. saltatrix, although the author admits it is 
only “ hochst wahrscheinlich ” that Linnc had this insect before him when he described 
his u Phryganea saltatrix another extraordinary innovation is made in the case of 
