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the time was referred by me to that group ; there can be, 

 however, little doubt that it was an ichneumon fly on the 

 look-out for caddis-worms. — R. C. R. Jordan, in Ent. Mo. 

 Mag. p. 186. 



[Doubtless Agriotypus armatus, described and figured in 

 Curtis's ' British Entomology.' I have often obtained this 

 insect by sweeping the grass on the banks of the Hereford- 

 shire streams, where the Phryganidae abound. — E. Newman.] 



138. Oxypoda glahriventris. — Mr. Rye (in the February 

 number of the 'Entomologist's Monthly Magazine') gives 

 minute and detailed characters, both in Latin and English, 

 to this species, which he believes new to Science : it was 

 found, in company with Homaeusa acuminata, in the runs of 

 Formica fuliginosa, at the root of an old beech tree in Headly 

 Lane, near Mickleham, by S. Power. 



139. Synonymy of Cicada anglica. — Dr. Hagen informs 

 us (in the 'Entomologist's Monthly Magazine' for February) 

 that this is identical with the Cicada montana of Sco]x>li, 

 and totally different from the specimens of Cicada haemalodes 

 of Linneus, which name it has occasionally received ; these 

 are from Barbary : the Cicada haematodes of Scopoli is, 

 again, a different species, but, being prior to the Linnean 

 name, must stand. Dr. Hagen concludes that " the haema- 

 todes of Linneus will have to be re-named." What will na- 

 turalists say to this ? 



140. The way in which the Females of the Genus Leuctra 

 carry their Eggs. — In the autumn of 1862, when entoraolo- 

 gizing along the banks of one of the impetuous streams of 

 South Devon, my attention was attracted by one of the small 

 Perlidae, which, when flying, seemed to have the abdomen of 

 a pale yellowish colour. On catching this I found that it 

 was a female of Leuctra geniculata of Stephens, and that the 

 apparent paleness of the abdomen was owing to a mass of 

 eggs which the insect carried. In Leuctra the last abdomi- 

 nal segment is curved upwards, and the mass, composed of 

 many hundreds of small eggs, extended from the up-curved 

 last segment to near the base of the posterior wings, along all 

 the dorsal surface of the abdomen. I have since repeatedly 

 captured females of this species, carrying their eggs in a 

 similar manner, and have remarked a like habit in the fe- 

 males of a smaller species, L. fusciventris of Stephens. I 



