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bend upwards ; hiviug thus risen above the dorsal surface, it passes 

 diagonally forwards across and above the genital segment in the form 

 of a long and slightly curved claw. The right clasper is small and 

 insignificant, and of a somewhat spathulate shape. There is nothing 

 unusual in the ? apparatus to correspond, to this curious development 

 in the (^ . The armature of T. antennatus is almost identical with 

 this, but on a rather smaller scale. The genus Leptopferna, which 

 appears next to Teratocoris on the British list, has an armature based 

 upon the same principle, but with the left clasper very much smaller, 

 and far less fully elaborated. 



Claspers ot Teratocoris saundersi D. and S. x 30 diam. 



1. Left clasper, viewed from behind. 



2. Do. do. do. the left side. 



3. Right clasper. 



56, Cecilo Park, Crouch End, N. : 

 October 14^th, 1916. 



CHAETLEY MOSS AND ITS NEUROPTEBA. 

 BY KENNETH J. BIORTON, F.E.S. 



Almost as attractive as the exploration of new ground is a visit 

 to one of those localities, perhaps little heard of at the present day, 

 in which an older generation of collectors found what they wanted, 

 and which fortunately have been preserved in a greater or less degree 

 in their primeval state. 



Such a locality is Chartley Moss, in Staffordshire. In Slainton's 

 Manual, Chartley Park is given as a locality for Coenonympha tiplion, 

 and the name is repeated in the works of Newman and Barrett. 

 Rowland Brown also refers to Chartley in his monograph of the 

 species (Etudes de Lep. Comparee, Fasc. VII, 1913), probably on some 

 recent data which I have not seen. Barrett places the locality in 

 Derbyshire, an inexplicable error when one considers that he worked 

 on Cannock Chase, not many miles distant from Chartley as the ci'ow 

 flies. I am not sure that the Moss, which I suppose is or was the 

 locality for C. Hphon, ever formed part of Chartley Park proper. 



