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point of size and markings bears some resemblance to the Australian 

 Ps. Meyrichi, McLach., and Ps. insolcns, McLacb. : as in the other 

 extra-Australian species the rounded subapical spot in the posterior 

 wings is wanting. 



Tbe other African species, Ps. zebra, Brauer, is very different, 

 being almost without markings, save faint zebrate lines. It was 

 originally described from Kilimanjaro ; 1 have it now from Mashona- 

 land (Marshall), Uganda, and Teita (2500-3000 ft., Jackson). Kolbe 

 (Neurop. Deutsch-Ost-Afrikas, p. 34) records it from Zanzibar 

 {Fischer) and Delagoa Bay (Monteiro), the latter somewbat varying. 

 In all my examples of Ps. zebra I find only three rows of discal 

 gradate nervules (as recorded by Oerstiicker), which, according to the 

 plan indicated by me at p. 321, Ent. Mo. Mag., 1891, should be the 

 1st, 3rd and 4th. In Ps. zebra there is a minute black dot at the 

 junction of the subcosta and radius in both pairs of wings, but it is 

 scarcely an analogue of the large subapical spot in the posterior 

 wings of the Australian forms. 



The described species of Psi/chopsis are now as follows :— - 

 Australia. — Ps. rnimica, Newm. ; c/egans, Griierin ; ccelivaga, Walk. ; 



ivsolens, McLach ; Mei/ricki, McLach. 

 Asia. — Ps. birmana, McLach. 

 Africa.. — Ps. zebra, Brauer; Marshalli, McLach. 



Lewisham, London : 



August 11th, 1902. 



A SMALL CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS A KNOWLEDGE OF THE 

 NEUROPTEROUS FAUNA OF EASTERN SOUTH DEVON. 



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



The tendency at the present day amongst British Entomologists 

 is towards minute localization, both in recording and labelling. In 

 former times very few took the trouble to place a locality label on 

 any insect. Some, as was the case with me, until recently (so far as 

 British Nenroptera, &c, were concerned), used a label with a No. 

 referring to entries in a register, a short-sighted proceeding, inasmuch 

 as the ultimate distributions of the insects and register are often in 

 different directions, or more frequently the collections are broken up, 

 and the register is practically useless. All this is happily changed : 

 an esteemed friend and colleague carries his recording to a minute- 

 ness of detail verging on that of a six-inch ordnance map ! This 



