1865.] 75 



Myrmeleon will be found in these islands ; But I think we may pretty- 

 surely assert they are at any rate absent from England, and I doubt if 

 we can lay the slightest claim to including them in our fauna ; but the 

 matter can scarcely be considered as settled until the south-west coast 

 of Ireland has been thoroughly explored. Any way, I have no 

 doubt they could be easily naturalised among us, if the larvae were 

 turned loose in a suitable locality, such as Weybridge or Bournemouth. 



Many of the ant-lions do not make pitfalls. The number of 

 described species kno^vn to inhabit Europe is about twenty-seven, 

 belonging to five or six genera, and it is probable that the total number 

 of species equals nearly three hundred. 



In conclusion, I would remark that these interesting creatures have 

 afforded me endless amusement and instruction, and I would earnestly 

 recommend any entomologist visiting their native haunts, to bring over 

 a supply, and become personally acquainted with their doings as I 

 have done. 



Forest Hill, London, *7th August, 1865. 



I 



THE NEUROPTEBA OF MADEIRA. 



BY DE. H. A. HAGEN. 



{Concluded from page 62.) 



PHEYGANID^. 



Genus Limnephiltjs, Leach. 

 L. ciNCTUs, n.s. 



Sufo-Juscus, fusco-villosus ; antennis fuscis, palUde annulatis ; 

 pedihus testaceis, nigro-spinosis, anticis tihiis tarsisque nigro-anmdatis ; 

 alts anticis ochraceis, margine postico et apicali latius dense Jusco sparsis, 

 disco parce fusco-maculato, pterostigniate parvo fusco ; alis posticis nigro- 

 cinereis, margine antico paulo infuscat, venis partim nigris. 



Long, cum alis, 13 onill. ; exp. alar. 21 mill. 



Head of an obscure red, ciliated with brown, yellow in the vicinity 

 of the eyes, a little elevated in the middle ; tubercles as in L. impiirus ; 

 antennae blackish brown, annulated with fawn colour ; palpi fawn- 

 coloui'ed ; thorax dark brown ; legs fawn colour, with black spines, the 

 anterior tibiae, and the base of the joints of the anterior tarsi, annulated 

 with black ; wings almost as in L. impurus (Ebr.), but the apex less 

 broad and less obliquely truncated, neuration almost similar, the fourth 

 apical cell slightly narrower at the base ; in the posterior wings the 



