1891.] 45 



LIST OF NEUROPTERA OBSEEVED AT EANNOCH IN JUNE, 1889. 

 BT J. J. F. X. KING, F.E.S., AND K. J. MOKTON. 



Rauuocb has been visited by hosts of entomologists, but as few 

 of them have paid attention to the Neuroptera, we have no hesitation 

 in giving the following list of the results of a visit during the last 

 summer, when we made that Order our special object of search. 



While, as we have indicated, few recent visitors seem to have 

 collected Neurojjtera, the productions of the district in that Order are 

 not altogether unknown, as Mr. McLachlan was there in 1865, and 

 obtained many interesting species. Amongst other things certain rare 

 Odonata of alpine and boreal distribution were found to have their 

 home there, but even these insects, conspicuous as they are in point of 

 size and beauty, seem not to have caught the popular eye, and it was 

 beginning to be a question whether they still survived in the old 

 locality. We are glad to have been able to settle that question in a 

 satisfactory way, and we also made large collections in the Order 

 generally. 



The time of our stay was limited to a week exactly (15th to 22nd 

 June — too early for many species) ; our head quarters were near 

 Camachgouran, and our operations extended from the shores of the 

 Loch to Cross Craig, Camcreagh, near Loch Lydoch, and Loch Ericht, 

 the last named a magnificent sheet of water, but difficult to work on 

 account of the dearth of shelter. 



The weather was of the most brilliant kind possible, the heat was 

 intense, and the biting flies countless in number and awful in virulence. 

 The fine weather conditions made dragon-flies almost past catching, 

 and we had sometimes to endure the tantalizing sight of unknown 

 JEschncB and an occasional Somatochlo^^a about the tree tops hope- 

 lessly out of reach. Some good dragon-flies were taken about 7 

 o'clock in the morning in the Woods, flying about swampy places and 

 along the roads. 



The species taken are as follow : — 



TRICHOPTERA. 

 PHRTOANEID^. 

 Phryganea striata, L. — A pair, evidently just developed, at a weedy lake-like 

 expansion of River Gaur. 



LIMNOl'UILID^. 



LimnophUus centralis, Curt. — Common, by beating firs. L. auricula, Curt. — 

 Two ? from firs at foot of Cross Craig. L. (jrisvus, L. — Rather common in firs near 

 Cross Craig. L. luridus, Curt., and L. sparsus, Curt. — Both these species occurred 

 with the last named. 



Asynarchus cuenosus, Curt.- -One specimen on the Moor beiiind Camachgouran. 



