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ticularly fine apples sent from a distance, which would take days, if not weeks, on 

 the road. These were placed on a table in the room. Presently she noticed a large 

 specimen of the smaller fruit-moth (A. LienardiJ settle upon the very finest apple, 

 and pierce it with its long trunk (just as I have previously described to you), 

 feasting away with great content. If this apple had been previously fly-damaged it 

 would certainly have begun to decay, since fruit when injured does not keep long 

 in this climate. A day or two will finish it. My visitor has promised to notice 

 more particularly the causes of damage to the fruit in future.' 



[It seems clear to me that my correspondent has doubly established her point. 

 If, as here appears, an excessive abundance of the moths which feed on the fruit is 

 accompanied by a complete destruction of the crop, it seems evident that the moths 

 cause that destruction, unless it can be shown that the unusual increase in numbers 

 of moths is accompanied by an equally abnormal abundance of the Dipterous peach- 



fly-] 



AN ANNOTATED LIST OF NEUROPTERA-PLANIPENNIA 



COLLECTED IN CENTRAL SPAIN 



BY DR. T. A. CHAPMAN AND MR. G. C. CHAMPION IN JULY 



AND AUGUST, 1901. 



BY ROBERT McLACHLAN, F.R.S., &c. 



During their journey in Central Spain in 1901, Messrs. Chapman 

 and Champion got together a very considerable lot of Neuroptera (in 

 the broad sense), and of much interest, for although there is not 

 much absolutely new to record, little, if anything, has been published 

 on the species inhabiting the region visited. I propose here to deal 

 with the PJanipennia (also in the broad sense). 



PANORPID^. 



Panorpa meridionalis, Ramb. Tragacete, 2 $ , 3 <j> , T. A. C, G. C. C. I 

 have elsewhere more than once remarked that examples from the Iberian Peninsula 

 are smaller than those from the French Pyrenees. 



RHAPHIDIID.3E. 



Rhaphidia maculicollts, Steph. ? One damaged 9 from Bronchales, G. C. 

 C, remains somewhat doubtful. 'the distinctions between R. macu/icollis and 

 R. bcetica, Ramb., are not always very clear. 



MYRMELEONIDtE. 



Palpakes hispantts, Hag. Cuenea, several, T. A. C, G. C. C. I have before 

 me about sixty examples of P. hispantis from the Iberian Peninsula and Algeria. 

 They retain their distinctive characters, slight though they be, in a marked degree, 

 and vary very little either in size or markings ; whereas P. libelluloides is strongly 

 variable, and as one proceeds eastwards resolves itself into forms that may be sub- 

 specific to say the least. There is no evidence that P. libelluloides occurs in the 

 regions inhabited by P. hispanus and vice versa. That one is representative of the 

 other is undoubted, but they are permanently distinct. 



