180 ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, 



Natural Order. 



Genus. — Merope, Newman. 



Caput corpore valde angustiore, pronum, antice elongatum, os 8ub 

 pectore inclinatum : antennae diniidio corporis vix breviores, 

 multi-articulatae, ante medium incrassatse, apice tenues, ante oculos 

 insertae, basi fere attingentes ; articuli hirsuti, longitudine sub- 

 aequales : oeuli elongati, reniformes, ad verticem, quasi Dipterorum 

 conniventes, et infra antennis approximantes : instrumenta cibaria 

 elongata et rostrum, quasi Panorpce, formantes ; labrum elon- 

 gatum apice acutissimum ; caetera baud examinavi : alae baud 

 plicatae, reticulatae, amplissimse, quasi Hemerobii, apice rotundatae, 

 magnitudine subaequales : tarsi 5-articulati : abdomen obesum 

 apice acutum. 



Mero. tuber. Fuscescens: antennce, caput et prothorax satura- 

 tim^a ; abdomen, pedes et alw dilutiora ; ocidi nigri ; pro- 

 alarum margo posterior prope basin tubere parvo instructa. 

 (Corp. long. '35 unc. ; alar, dilat. 1*05 unc.) 



Head narrow, elongate, bent under tbe breast as in Panorpa ; eyes 

 very long, kidney-sbaped, meeting on the crown of tbe head as in 

 Diptera : wings ample, not folded, and in shape resembling those 

 of Hemerobius ; the fore-wings have a small knob on the posterior 

 margin, near the base ; tbe colour is dingy brown ; the antennae 

 (which are much like those oiaBomhyx,) head, and prothorax, being 

 darker ; tbe abdomen, legs, and wings, lighter ; the eyes are quite 

 black : in habit, between Panorpa and Hemerobius. 



Inhabits the United States of North America. Taken at 

 Trenton Falls by Mr. E. Doubleday, and presented to the 

 Cabinet of the Entomological Club. 



Natural Order. ? 



Genus. — Ithone, Newman. 



Caput porrectum, fere rotundatum, corpore duplo angustiore ; an- 

 tennae setaceae, corpore paull6 breviores, basi approximantes, 

 multi-articulatae ; articulo basali magno, rotundato, caeteris valde 

 minoribus, subaequalibus ; oculi mcdiocres, rotundati : labrum 

 obtusum, setosum, medio subemarginatum ; mandibulae elongatae, 



