NOTES ON THE NEUROPTERA OF ARGYLLSHIRE. 163^ 



XXI. 



NOTES ON THE NEUROPTERA OF 

 ARGYLLSHIRE. 



BY JAMES J. F. X. KING. 



[Read 28th April, 1885.] 



Towards the end of June of last year I visited 

 Argyllshire, with the intention of working up its 

 Neuropterous Fauna, seeing that little or nothing 

 had been done in this way by previous workers in 

 that county. 



Sron-mhail-choin, a small village near Dalmally^ 

 was selected as head-quarters during my six-weeks 

 sojourn, from whence I made excursions to Ledaig^ 

 Tobermory, &c. 



As the western portion of Argyllshire is well 

 supplied with lochs, streams, and marshes, it might 

 be expected in a moderately dry season to prove a 

 good hunting-ground for Neiti^optera, more parti- 

 cularly such species as pass the earlier stage of 

 their existence in an aquatic element. Unfortunately, 

 however, during the time I was in the district there 

 was scarcely a dry day, which accounts for my list 

 of captures not being so large as it would have 

 been, had the weather been more favourable. Little 

 or no collecting can be done during showery weather, 

 as the trees and herbage get loaded with moisture 

 which destroys such insects as may happen to get 

 into the net. 



About 9 species of Psocidce, however, fell to my 

 net, being nearly a third of the British list. 



The Perlidce and Eyhemeridce have not as yet been 

 worked up, but they seem to promise well. 



