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At the mouth of tho Axe, behind the last building, a foot track 

 leads right up Haven Cliff, skirting some wet ground that is moistened 

 by a dribbling spring which issues from the brow^ of the under-cliff 

 where the foot-track passes. This wet grass slope is the site for B. 

 articularis. 



Scaton, Devon : July, 1900. 



[5. articularis, like its allies, is a small black insect, very likely to be overlooked ; 

 details, so far as my knowledge then extended, are to be found in my " Monograpbic 

 Revision and Synopsis." Its distribution is apparently wide, and it has been re- 

 corded from one Scandinavian locality. In 1891 Wallengren placed Beraa and 

 Bereodes in a distinct Family, BerceidcB ; to this I see no objection. Furthermore, 

 he placed the three Scandinavian species of Bercea in named Sections, viz., Beraa 

 for B. pullafa. Cart. ; Ernodes for B. articularis, Pict. ; and Dophnea for B. 

 maurus. Curt. I venture to think this subdivision will be adopted, or more probably 

 that each will rank as a genus. — R. McLachlan]. 



NEUEOPTERA COLLECTED IN THE UPPER PORTION OF 

 STRATHGLASS IN 1899. 



BY JAMES J. F. X. KING, F.E.S. 



In 1880 I was fortunate enough to take a few specimens of 

 Somatochlora metallica (see Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xix, p. 8), and 

 as the species had not been again found in this country, Mr. Briggs 

 suggested that we might spend a holiday in Strathglass with the 

 intention of looking for and capturing it. The arrangements of the 

 trip were left to me and I selected the village of Tomich as head- 

 quarters. There are practically no houses west of this, if we except 

 Guisachan House, the residence of Lord Tweedmouth, and those of 

 his servants. I arrived on June 15th and remained until August 25th. 

 Mr. Briggs joined me on July 8th and stayed for a few weeks. 



Our object being the capture of 8. metallica much time had to be 

 devoted to it, with the result that captures among the other ATcMrojo^erffl 

 were not as numerous as in 1880, as I then only devoted about eight 

 days to the dragon-fly, whereas during this last visit I may say that 

 nearly forty were given over to this one object. On the whole the 

 weather was very good, although we had not the intense heat which 

 prevailed during 1880. Unfortunately some of the worst weather 

 was during Mr. Briggs' visit. 



PSEUDO-NEUROPTERA. 



PSOCID.E. 



Atropos divinatoria, Miill., common in buildings. 

 Clothilla pulsaturia, L., with the last. 



