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miles off. Yon can put your hand into the hill-side amongst the ferns and shrubs, 

 and burn your fingers in the scalding water, or look down and see steam in jets 

 mingling with the water-falls : the baths there are much frequented. — Geo. Lewis, 

 G-rand Hotel, Yokohama : March 27th, 1880. 



Note on Coniopteryx lutea, Wallengren. — This little-known species was described 

 by Wallengren in his Skandinaviens Neuroptera, pt. i, p. 55 (1871) . It possesses ample 

 posterior-wings, and is thus allied to tineiformis and aJeyrodiformis, but it especially 

 differs in the neuration of the anterior-wings, the second sector being absolutely 

 simple, whereas the first ends in two forks ; moreover, there is a transverse nervule 

 from near the beginning of the first sector to the second, and it is also larger, and the 

 mealiness is described as yellowish-grey. He says two examples from Gothland are 

 in the Stockholm Museum. 



I have before me two examples of Coniopteryx that agree perfectly with the 

 description, excepting that the mealiness can scarcely be termed yellowish ; it is 

 possible the original examples may have been discoloured by age. One of these is 

 from Kuusamo in East Bothnia, Finland ; the other from Hautaika, district of the 

 Yenesei (68°. 5 N.), North-western Siberia. Both taken by Dr. J. Sahlberg. They 

 are larger than even C. psociformis. The antennae are 24-jointed (Wallengren says 

 about 25-jointed). This is evidently a boreal species, but there is no reason why it 

 should not be found in Scotland. — E. McLachlan, Lewisham, London : 15^ May, 

 1880. 



Elipsocus cyanops, Rostock, a species new to Britain. — Mr. J. E. Fletcher 

 recently forwarded to me an example of this insect, one of three beaten by him from 

 Pinus sylvestris, at the Old Hills near Worcester on August 13th, 1877, and June 

 10th, 1878. The species was described by Bostock, firstly in the Entomologische 

 Nachrichten, vol. ii,p. 192 (1876), and secondly in the Jahresb. Ver. Naturk. Zwickau, 

 for 1877, p. 99, from examples taken in Saxony. It is somewhat smaller than E. 

 Westwoodi and E. hyalinus, and readily distinguishable by the body being wholly 

 yellow, excepting the black (bluish in life, according to Bostock) eyes and ocelli, the 

 antennae (excepting at the base) and the tibiae and tarsi being more obscure. The 

 wings are wholly hyaline with dark neuration and a yellowish pterostigma. It is 

 most likely to be mistaken for Ccecilius olsoletus, but the 3-jointed tarsi at once 

 distinguish it therefrom, the intermediate joint being apparently longer and more 

 distinct than in E. Westwoodi and its ally. 



Brobably it is the insect that Hagen identified somewhat doubtfully with 

 Hemerobius flavicans, Linne, Fauna Suecica, ed. ii, p. 384. No doubt flavicans 

 represents some species of Psocidce, but it cannot have been cyanops from the words 

 "Caput nigrum. Thorax nigricans" (in the diagnosis the words are "niger t 

 thorace abdomineque flavis ") . I have types of E. cyanops before mo. 



There is yet work to be done in British Psocidce, notwithstanding that most of 

 the known European species have been detected here. — Id. 



Corrections of Errors. — In my note on " Barthenogenesis in Tenthredinida," 

 &c, vol. xvi, 269, two errors of nomenclature occur. For " Nematus miliaris" read 

 " Nematus curtispina, Thorns.," and for "Nematus pallidus" read "Nematus 

 palhatus, Thorns." — J. E. Fletcher, Worcester : May 1-ith, 1880* 



