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name of putata, Newman, must be applied, if Klapalek's view 

 proves to be right. The final solution of the question will 

 probably rest with the Swiss entomologists, when materials have 

 been obtained from Geneva. 



Newman's description of his " Nemoura putata " appeared in 

 the * Entomological Magazine,' vol. v. p. 401 (1838), and his 

 diagnosis (for a copy of which I am indebted to Mr. Herbert 

 Campion) is as follows : — 



*' Nemo, putata. — Fnsca, nitida ,• antennce vioniliformes, alls 

 fere lonfjiores, et cum j)edihus, eoncolores : akefusco-thictce, hrevis- 

 simce, vietatibias sedentis Jiaud dimidio exporrigentes. (Corp. long. 

 •3 unc. ; alar, dilat. "55 unc.) 



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"Inhabits Scotland. Taken by Mr. Walker at New Lanark : 

 will form a genus of future authors." 



This diagnosis, without material change, is repeated in the 

 * British Museum Catalogue of Neuropterous Insects,' Part I, 

 1852, p. 190, but there is nothing there to indicate that the 

 Museum possessed an example. Nevertheless, the presumption 

 is strong that Newman's type went to the British Museum. 

 Professor Lowne, the Curator of the Entomological Club's 

 Cabinets, informs me that he never had either Newman's British 

 or foreign Perlidse, although he remembers seeing them at 

 Newman's, and he suggests that they went to the British 

 Museum. The late Mr. McLachlan long ago told me that 

 Newman's foreign Perlid?e were in the British Museum, but he 

 was never quite satisfied that the British examples were there, 

 and I suppose the official records throw no light on the point. 



Mr. Herbert Campion very kindly made a search in the 

 Museum Collection for this type, but without conclusive results. 

 I suppose it is a well-known fact that Stephens's collection of 

 Neuroptera was at one time arranged by someone who was not 

 quite an expert in the order, and who seems to have been the 

 cause of seriously impairing the value of the collection to future 

 workers. Mr. Campion reports that there are three insects in 

 the British cabinet over a printed label reading : " 21 putata 

 Newm." Two of the insects, he says, have clearly nothing to do 

 with the present question, but the third is of importance, and 

 Stephens's own MS. label pinned beside it seems to relate to 

 that specimen alone. Mr. Campion is satisfied, after comparing 

 it with one of my males from Clydesdale, that the two belong to 

 the same species. I am much inclined to think that this speci- 

 men is either the actual type, or at least that it may have been 

 received from the same source — that is, from Henry Walker, of 

 New Lanark. 



While unfortunately it is not possible to get that absolute 

 proof which a comparison with the known type would have 



