76 KANSAS UNIVERSITY SCIENCE BULLETIN. 



lilST OF NEUKOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



No further explanations are necessary regarding the col- 

 lecting than have been previously stated. The arrangement 

 used here follows the catalogue of Mr. Nathan Banks, in 

 Transactions of the American Entomological Society, volume 

 XIX, mainly in the disposition of the generic and specific 

 names, although the rank of the orders as advocated by Prof. 

 V. L. Kellogg, in his "American Insects," is maintained. 



With one exception, in the case of the Psocidse, as referred 

 to in the proper place, no attempt has been made hitherta 

 towards publishing a list of the neuropterous insects found in 

 Kansas. Consequently, if the present list of those possessing 

 Kansas records be duly considered as forming a preliminary 

 state list, a beginning is made with fifty-eight species and 

 one variety. The same rule, if not presuming too much, 

 may also apply to the Colorado examples, since I am not 

 aware that any list has been published for that state ; there- 

 fore, the names of thirty-one species here presented form a 

 beginning. Six species were found in both states. 



The determinations of the University material, including 

 most of my collections, have been made by Mr. Nathan Banks, 

 excepting a number of examples in the order Odonata which 

 received the attention of Mr. E B.Williamson. Afewspeci 

 mens of May-flies and stone-flies which had not been fully 

 identified were submitted to Prof. James G. Needham, for 

 study. He was unable to give specific names for the greater 

 number as some were in bad condition and some undescribed. 

 However, his valuable remarks concerning each form are 

 quoted, since all knowledge gained will help in the end to- 

 wards defining each species when more material shall be 



available. 



Order EPHEMERIDA. 



Family Ephemerid^. 



( All of the Douglas county, Kansas, specimens were collected at electric 

 light on or near bridge across the Kansas river, at Lawrence, except in 

 one instance, which is denoted.) 

 Polymitarchys albus Say. Kansas, Douglas county; July and August. (See 



notes on collecting, Trans. Kan. Acad. Sci.,vol. XX, p. 116.) 



