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he lias specimens from Rlieinau, and further that it has been bi-ed 

 from apple-twigs collected there (see below). 



Eostock (Neuroptera Grermanica, 1888) gives a number of German 

 localities ; found on elm, not common. 



Albarda (I.e.) -. Zelande, Hollande mer. et Hollande sept. : en mai 

 et juiu, dans les bois. Rare. 



Renter (Neuroptera Fennica : Acta Soc. pro fauna et flora fennica, 

 1894) gives the distribution as Europe, excludmg the Mediterranean 

 region. He says it is rare in Southern Finland, chiefly in oak woods. 



Dziedzielewicz (Bull, de I'Academie des Sciences de Cracovie) 

 records the species from G-alicia, Austria. 



Petersen (ISTeuroptera Danica : Planipennia : Entomologiske Med- 

 delelser, 1906) gives a number of Danish localities. 



Dr. Eis tells me he has not seen the species from Italy, and it 

 is not' mentioned in any of the few papers dealing with the Balkan 

 Peninsula, to which I have access, although it occurs in the Trans- 

 sylvanian Alps (Klapalek). Nor is it included in Navas' Neuropteros 

 de Espana y Portugal, 1908. Outside the limits of Europe, I know of 

 no locality excepting Teneriffe. Dr. Ris possesses a ^ labelled as from 

 that island given to him by a Lepidopterist, Mr. Honegger, of Basel, 

 who used to get Lepichjdera regularly from Teneriffe. One is teiupted 

 to suggest the possibility of its being there an introduced species. 



Turning to our own country, when the species was first found at 

 Cleghoru, Lanarkshire, in September, 1885, there had been no recorded 

 British captures for about twenty years (Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xxii, 

 p. 139). It is interesting to note in connection with this locality, that 

 a specimen mentioned by Curtis was taken about fifty years before 

 by H. Walker near Lanark, a to"nm about two miles distant from 

 Cleghorn. The previous occiu-rences, communicated to me by 

 McLachlan at the time may be here repeated. It is indicated as 

 British in Turton's Edition of Linne (Syst. Nat.) 1806 ; but Tui-ton 

 included a good many striking things as British that were never con- 

 firmed. Leach constituted the genus Drepanepteryx in the Edinb. 

 Encyc, 1815, probably from the citation in Turton. Curtis refers to 

 the example taken by Walker ; and Stephens figiu-es one taken by 

 Little at Raehills. In the Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond., New Series, vol. i, 

 p. 46 (Jan. 6th, 1851) we read: "Mr. Douglas, on the part of Mr. 

 " Allis, exhibited a specimen of the rare Neuropterous insect, D. plialx- 

 " noides, taken by him at Bowness." And in McLachlan's Monograph 

 of the British Neuroptera Planipennia, the author refers to an example 

 taken at Windermere by Mr. Strouvelle. If Turton's citation be 



