INSECTA NEUROPTERA. 



NEUROPTERA. 



Histoire naturelle cles Insectes Neuropteres, par M. 

 Rambur. Paris, 1842, forms part of tlie Suites a Buflbn- 

 Roret; the work embraces the NEUROPTERA of Latreille, 

 but the author is so unacquainted with all the literature not 

 French, respecting them, that the most recent German 

 labours on the subject have been entirely overlooked by 

 him. Thus neither Charpentier's great work on the 

 Libellulae, nor Hagen's Synonomy of the European Libellulre, 

 have been referred to, nor has the author noticed either 

 Klug's ' Monograph of the Panorpatse', nor mine, ' of the Man- 

 tispae.' He is also equally ignorant that I have proved that 

 that section of the earlier Neuroptera, in which the metamor- 

 phosis is incomplete, possesses the systematic characters of 

 the Orthoptera, and should be associated with them, but 

 that the rest constitute a distinct order, which cannot at 

 least be brought under the definition of any other. This 

 extremely limited reference to the literature of the subject 

 has not been without influence upon the determination of 

 the species ; and as in fact the book contains good observa- 

 tions, it is much to be desired that a Hagen would render 

 it useful by a critical sifting of the synonymy. 



HEMEROBII. Rambur has here formed a number of genera, for the most 

 part by the subdivision of previous, more extensive ones. As<-<il(<i>Iu's, 

 F., is divided into Ascalaphus (longicornis, L., &c.), Thel&proctophylla (austra- 

 lis, F.), Puer, Lef. (maculatus, 01.) ; Bubo a genus of Birds ! (capensis, 

 F.) ; Ulida a genus of Birds ! (senex, Burm.) ; Cordulecercm (s/i,-i,/,/- 

 1,11',/xis, F.) ; Colobopterus a genus of Coleoptera ! (t\vo new species) ; Byas 

 (one new species) ; Haplogenius, Burm. ; Azesia, Lefebr. Ifyrmeleoii, F., 

 is divided into Palpares (libellitloides, L., &c.) ; Acanthaclisis (pccih/,/!*;!, 

 Vill.), Hi/nneleon, Megistopus (a new species, with particularly long fore legs); 

 the undetermined native locality of H. lisiynatus is Brazil. /Av/r/v,/,/./.^ i u 

 the sense of later writers, is divided into three genera : Micmnus, with thi-ee 

 species : lineosus ( = payanus, L.) ; variegatus, F. ; and tendinosus, R. 

 ( = intrlcutm, Wesm.) ; Neyalomtis, with H. (Drepanopteryx) phala>noides, 

 L. ; M. tortricoides, R,. (= hirtus, F.), and two new species. Mi'<-r<>i>idpus, 

 with H. lutesccns, F., and five species stated to be new, but which require 

 further confirmation. 



