176 [August, 



rounded, waved ; rather dark fuscous ; basal area mixed with whitish ; a moderately 

 broad curved white fascia from two-fifths of costa to middle of dorsum, darker 

 edged; a similar rather irregularly triangular blotch on middle of costa reaching 

 half across wing, including a dark fuscous costal dot ; a white costal spot near before 

 apex; a grey-whitish irroration towards termen ; a terminal series of blackish 

 lunate dots : cilia fuscous, at apex and on lower half of termen white on outer half. 

 Hind-wings with termen waved, obtusely angulated in middle; dark fuscous; basal 

 half white except on median and subdorsal veins ; a rather narrow white terminal 

 streak from apex to three-fourths of termen, interrupted by a moderate round 

 blackish spot on angulation, beneath which is a cloudy blackish connected dot : cilia 

 white, on angulation and tornus fuscous. 



One specimen. 



ckambim;. 



Argyria holocrossa, n. sp. 



£. 19 mm. llead and thorax prismatic-fuscous. Fore-wings elongate, narrow, 

 posteriorly dilated, apex obtuse, termen rather obliquely bowed ; prismatic-whitish, 

 irrorated witli fuscous and dark fuscous ; first line obscurely indicated by darker 

 margins ; indistinct darker spots beyond first line below middle, and beneath costa 

 beyond middle; a broad terminal baud of darker suffusion, more ochreous on 

 termen, enclosing angulated second line, which is obscurely indicated by darker 

 anterior margin, violet-tinged on upper half, and a subterminal violet-blue metallic 

 line : cilia fuscous, with a darker basal line. Hind-wings prismatic-whitish ; a dark 

 coppery-fuscous rather broad terminal fascia, narrowed to a point at tornus : cilia 

 whitish, with a fuscous basal line. 



One specimen. 

 Marlborough : July, 1902. 



1'SUCID.E FROM THE DISTRICT OF THE LAO DE JOUX 

 (SWISS JURA). 



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



In this Magazine (2), vol. x, February and March, 1S99, I gave 

 an accuuut of my experiences in this district, with a list of the 

 " Neuroptera " taken in July and August, 1S98. When writing on 

 the Psocidae I said (p. 04) that " it had never been my lot to visit a 

 district in which these insects were so poorly represented," and then 

 enumerated five species, all, with one exception, limited to one or two 

 examples of each. But in August, 1901, the Kev. A. E. Eaton 

 visited the same district, going over part of the same ground, avoiding 

 Le Pout, on the Lac de Joux, which 1 made my head-quarters, and, 

 taking advantage of the extension of the railway since my visit, 

 pushing on to Le Brassus, higher up the Orbe Valley (or Jouxthalj, 

 a small town close to the French frontier. His experiences and my 



