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Not very frequent among grass and undergrowth in Sweden (Ilolnigr.), 

 both sexes in Prussia (Brischke), Zante and very conniion in Tliuringia 

 in late summer in grassy and rather damp })laces, especially among alders 

 (Schm.), France (dauUe), Zurich (Bucheker), l^elgium in July and August 

 (Toscj.). Bridg. -Fitch showed no personal accjuaintance witli it in 1885, 

 though Harwood records it from Flssex (Vict. Hist.); the former did not 

 find it in Norfolk, but Bignell, who took it at Bicklcigh as early as lOth 

 June, terms it (Devon. Assoc. 1898, p. 488) as a "common species." If 

 Schmiedeknecht did not profess to know both well, 1 should have sus- 

 pected synonymy of Panisciis laiungula, whose spiracles are nearly circu- 

 lar, with the present insect, which Thomson nowhere mentions. I find 

 nothing in the descriptions of authors to render it distinct from Prionopoda 

 stktica, Fab., except the elongate lower mandibular tooth. It has not 

 yet been bred. There are examples in my collection from the New 

 Forest, Wyre Forest, Shere in Surrey, Guestling in Sussex, Totnes, and 

 taken by Rev. W. F. Johnson at Poyntzpass in Co. Armagh in October, 



