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NEUROPTERA. 



Some Suggestions for the successful Pursuit of 

 THE Study of the Phryganid^, with a Descrip- 

 tion OF A new British Species. 



By R. M'Lachlan. 



In the " Entomologists' Weekly Intelligencer/' No. 178 

 (1860), page 169, I inserted a short notice to the effect that 

 I should be glad if Entomologists would catch and send me 

 any PhriiganidcE that they might meet with in the ensuing 

 season. To that notice I did not receive a single reply, and 

 can only account for it in this way, that either an universal 

 apathy exists respecting these interesting insects, or that 

 Entomologists regarded my notice as the corn sown in the 

 stony places, springing up to-day and withering to-morrow, 

 ■ — the spurt of the moment from some unstable adventurer, 

 to be forgotten in a week. I trust that the latter is the 

 case, and that, on my assurances that I really am attending 

 to the group, I shall not be forgotten next season, when a 

 ** horrid caddis fly" is captured after an exciting chase, 

 instead of the hoped-for moth. 



We have now a clear starting-point. Stephens' numerous 

 so-called species are duly arranged under their respective 

 heads ; and though the pruning process has been rather 

 severe, let us hope that the result will he the more vigorous 

 and healthy development of fruit. England has been called 



