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NOTES ON SOME NEUROPTERA-PLANIPJENNIA DESCRIBED BY 

 THE LATE MONS. A.-EDOUAKD PICTET, IN HIS "NEYROPTERES 

 D'ESPAGNE" (1865). 



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



I have had the opportunity of studying certain of the late A.-E. 

 Pictet's types, and subjoin the following notes : 



Sialis nigripes, Ed. Pict., p. 52, pi. iv, figs. 1 — 5. — I do not find 

 any differences whatever between this and 8. fuliginosa, Pict. (pere). 

 The legs are not "glabres," as is stated, but finely pubescent, as is 

 usual. The size is very small (the $ sometimes expanding to only 

 20 mm.). I have an equally small form of 8. lutaria taken by the late 

 Chev. V. G-hiliani at a great elevation on the confines of Piedmont and 

 Canton Valais. I regard 8. nigripes as identical with 8. fuliginosa. 



Chrysopa microcephala (Brauer), Ed. Pict., p. 60. — The examples 

 are no doubt specifically identical with Brauer' s insect. They are 

 compared with Ch. alba in Pictet's description, but the real affinity is 

 with vulgaris, and I know that Dr. Brauer is now of opinion that mi- 

 crocephala may be only a pale whitish form of vulgaris, which opinion 

 I share. The former differs principally in the absence of reddish suf- 

 fusion on the face, in a few of the basal nervules being slightly blackish 

 at one end (those at the base of the costal area included), and in the 

 dividing nervule of the third cubital cellule being often (not always) 

 interstitiate with the nervule above it (instead of ending before it). 



Chrysopa nigro-punctata, Ed. Pict., p. 60, pi. viii, fig. 4. — Certainly 

 a good species. Of the three examples one wants the spots on the 

 mesonotum and metanotum (as is indicated by Hagen in Stett. Zeit., 

 1866, p. 300), but has those on the pronotum. I saw a similar exam- 

 ple from Barcelona forwarded by Sen. Cuni y Martorell. 



Chrysopa viridana (Schneider), Ed. Pict., p. 61. — I think there 

 can be no doubt as to the identity of the examples with Schneider's 

 species, and Hagen is also of that opinion. Schneider's types were 

 from near Naples. Pictet found it at Grenada, and at Eaux Bonnes 

 in the French Pyrenees. I have an example from near Quillan, Aude 

 (Eaton). In this (as also in Pictet's specimen from Eaux Bonnes) 

 the costal nervules, &c, are not totally black, but have a pale median 

 space. 



Chrysopa geniculata, Ed. Pict., p. 62, pi. vii, figs. 5 — 8. — I do not 

 feel sure that this is anything more than a small example of viridana. 

 Only one individual was found. 



Chrysopa Meyeri, Ed. Pict., p. 62, pi. viii, figs. 5— 8.— Of the two 



