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trees were cut down. All, i believe, were found near the 

 periphery of the stumps, and were living apparently under quite 

 damp conditions, which was scarcely the case where Mr. G. T. 

 Lyle and myself fomid them in the New Forest in 1913 (vide 

 Entora. vol. xlvii. p. 190V All appeared to be li. macnlicollis, 

 Steph. ; some of the larvfe were quite small. During the search 

 a number of Campotha, presumably C. staphylimis, were found. 

 Mr. D. Sharp gave me a male E. macitlicollis, taken in the New 

 Forest in April. 



Sialis lutaria, Linn., was first noticed on April 19th, near 

 Brockenhurst, in the New Forest. 



Hemerohim humuli, Linn., was taken on May 17th on the 

 North Downs near the Silent Pool in Surrey; while H. lutescens, 

 Fabr. (or possibly H. Jmmuli), and H. tnicans, Oliv., were met 

 with in the New Forest on August 19th. 



Of the genus Chrysopa, C. flava, Scop., was taken at Little- 

 worth Common, Surrey, on June 17th ; C. ventralis, Curt., in 

 the New Forest on May 30th and 31st ; C. prasina, Ramb., in 

 the New Forest on August 16th; C. peiia, Linn., in the New 

 Forest on May 31st and June 22nd, as well as on the North 

 Downs in Surrey, nearAlbury, on June 27th; C vulgaria, Sch., 

 at Duck Hole Bog, in the New Forest, on September 2nd. Mr. 

 Lyle sent me a living example of the last from the New Forest, 

 swept from heather, on September 19th, when a good number 

 were about. A damaged example of the genus from the New 

 Forest in August appears to be C. alba, Linn. Mr. G. T. Porritt 

 says that in some seasons C. tenflla, Sch., is abundant in his 

 garden, but in 1914 he saw two only, although constantly on 

 the look-out for them. 



Panorpa communis, Linn., was noticed in the New Forest — a 

 male, July 4th-5th, a female on June 22nd. 



On October 25th Mr. E. A. C. Stowell sent me a specimen of 

 the scarce Neuropteron Drepanepteryx pJiaUenoides, Linn. He 

 found it sitting very quietly on the glass of a street lamp in the 

 outskirts of Bexhill, between 10 o'clock and 10.30, about three- 

 quarters of a mile from the sea on the road to Pevensey. There 

 were some new houses near and a piece of waste ground covered 

 with gorse, briars, small sallows, itc. — a field abandoned for 

 building purposes; the soil was clay. As Mr. Stowell did not 

 recognise it at first, the night of capture was not noted; but it 

 was in the last week of July or the first fortnight of August, 

 during a '' dead season " at the lamps, the summer things being 

 over and the autumn ones not begun. Mr. Stowell says: — " The 

 one who named it Drepanrpteryx phalanoides hit it exactly. 

 Drepaaa is the hook-tip genus of moths, and phalanoides means, 

 I take it, 'moth-like.' It is exactly like Drepaua falcataria, and 

 • By the flickering moonbeam's misty light and the lantern 

 dimly burning' I took it for thnt species. I soon found there 



