1S05.] A 59 



1. — TJlopa ohfecta, Fall. 

 Flavo-brunnea, pallida; abdomen nigricans, lateribus pallidis. 

 Vex'tex medio longitudinaliter albidus, antice in ipsa acie plerumque 

 bruuueo binotatus. Pronotuin pallido varium. Hemelytra crassissimc 

 (ut et totum corpus) punctata ; nervi elevati inter fascias elevatas p. p. 

 iufuscati. Pedes flavobrunnei, fusco lineati, ? . — ^ minor, obscurior. 



Long, li-lf lin. 



Fall, Hem., 2, p. 66. Flor, E.L. 2, p. 140. Germ., Mag., 

 4, p. 55. U. erieetorum, Lep. et Serv., Encycl. Meth. Ger- 

 copis erica;, Germ., Fn. 3, 24. Gereopis reticulata (?) Fab., 

 S.E. p. 98 ; Ent. Syst. 4, 57, 46. 



Note 1. — Curtis suggested that G. reticulata, Fab., must belong to his 

 genus Megophthalmus. The Fabrician description is as follows : 

 " C. pallido ferrugineoque varia, elytris pallidis, disco nigro re- 

 " ticulato." 



Note 2. — The insect figured in Cuvier, Eegne, Anim. Inseetes. Atlas, 

 pi. 99, fig. 2, as U. oltecta. Fall., is Ptyelus {Lepyronia) angu- 

 latus. Fab. 



Common in many places at the roots of heath, on which it feeds. 

 It hu'ks in the crevices of the ground, is very sluggish, and from its 

 small size not easily detected. I have found it, even in winter, near 

 London, at Darenth "Wood, Esher, Weybridge, and Epping Forest. 

 Also in the midland district ; Bardon Hill, and Bradgate Park, Leices- 

 tershire. 



(To be continued) . fi,L,- 



THE NEUROPTERA OF MADEIRA. 

 BY DE. H. A. HAGEN. 



(Contmued from page 28.) 



HEMEEOBID^. 



Genus Miceomus, Eambur. 

 M. APHIDIVOEUS, Schranck. 



Hemerohius angulatus, Steph. ; intricatus, Wesm. ; villosus, Zett. ; 

 tendhiosus, Ebr. ; lineatus, Goszy. 



Madeira, and all Europe ; Sweden, St. Petersburg, Germany, 

 England, Sardinia ; common everywhere, and easily recognisable. 



Brulle cites Semerobius hirtus as found in Madeira. Can this be 

 M. aphidivorus ? 



Nos. 25, 26, $ ; 27, 28, ? . 



