56 [March, 



excluded we have, with those recorded in the above mentioned note, 

 seven British examples in all known at that time. McLachlan added 

 another example taken at Hasting-s (Ent. Mo. Mag-., vol. xxii, p. 239). 

 The subsequent records knowTi to me are as follows : One beaten from 

 sallow by Miss Hutchinson in Deepdale, Yorkshire, on August 28th ; 

 it dropped on the ground and it was only afterwards that she found 

 it was not D. lacertula (Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xxvi, p. 52). One beaten 

 from alder by Mitchell near Wolsingham, Durham, thought at first 

 sight to be a "hook tip" (I. c, p. 90). Two beaten from beech by 

 Henderson at Gribside, North Durham, in September (?. c, p. 110). 

 One at Cleghorn, October 5th (Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xxvii, p. 308) ; one 

 at Carluke, Lanarkshire, on June 6th, in flight in the late evening 

 (Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xxviii, p. 194) ; and one at Cleghorn beaten from 

 hazel on August 7th (Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xxix, p. 249). One at 

 Pitlochry, Perthshire, by Beaumont, from birch on Avxgust 29th (Ent. 

 Mo. Mag , vol. xxix, p. 263). One by Milton at Windermere on June 

 6th (Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xxxv, p. 235). Six or seven in all were taken 

 in the Cleghorn and Carluke localities, and I estimate the number of 

 known British examples at just under a score. 



Whether the insect is rare or not, it is, as far as I know, never 

 found at large as an imago either here or on the Continent in numbers. 

 A habit of feigning death, its resemblance to a dead leaf, and the time 

 of flight may all contribute to its being overlooked. I have seen it 

 only once in flight, and I doul>t that it ever flies voluntarily by day. 

 A remarkal)le feature is its occurrence throughout the whole season. 

 Hibernation is extremely probable, not only in this but in other 

 species of Hemerohiidse. Ris informs me that he has taken an old and 

 ragged specimen of JDrepanepter^jx in April. I possess a specimen of 

 the closely allied Megalotmis algidus taken by Kempny in Lower 

 Austria, in February, while a freshly emerged series of the same 

 species from Eheinau, Canton Zurich (Ris) is dated September. 



In the Cambridge Natural History, vol. v, pp. 453 and 468, Dr 

 Sharp has figiu-ed the whole insect, also the peculiar structure for 

 bringing the hind and fore-wings into correlation, and the narrow 

 space in the inner margin of the fore-wings from which colour is 

 absent, alluding in connection with these details to the existence of 

 somewhat analogous structures in some moths, and of small trans- 

 parent spaces in the wings of some butterflies. 



Although in Europe D. jjlialxnoides stands alone in respect of the 

 unusual outline [of the fore-wings, Brauer (Zusatze und Berechti- 

 gungen zu Hagen's Hemerobidarxuu Synopsis Synon., p. 987) calls in 



