56 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



yellow silky form, with the usual central band obsolete, and a 

 dark brown form, with well-marked central band, occurred, 

 sitting on low growth. Hyponomeuta evonymella was beaten 

 out of aspen on Auugst 3rd. There wns plenty of Primus 

 padus close at hand. I received on the 13tli from a neighbour 

 a fine Slrex gigas ? . Eupithccia sohrinata was plentiful in the 

 Black Wood on the 15th. I worked the junipers here on several 

 occasions, but with very poor results. On the 19tii, a sunny day, 

 Cerapteryx graminis was freely on the wing. Cortyna leuco>^tigma 

 occurred on the farm, and many larvae of Acronycta eiipliorhice 

 were obtained from Myrica. On the 23rd A )ii tithes iners was not 

 uncommon at rest in the daytime on birch-trunks at Finnart, 

 and Acauthocinus ^dilis, that prized liannoch Longicorn, was 

 found on a fence. 



I hope these notes, with dates of first appearance of the 

 various species, will prove useful to such of your readers who 

 may have in view a visit to this very beautiful part of Perthshire. 



7, Marine Avenue, 

 Southencl-on-Sea. 



BKITISH NEUROPTERA IN 1917, AND 1918. 

 By W. J. Lucas, B.A., F.E.S. 



Alderflies (1917). Sialic lutaria, Linn. : For the Lancashire 

 and Cheshire Fauna Record I received one example (T. A. Coward) 

 taken at Rostherne in Ciieshire, June IGtb, 1917, and a battered 

 specimen from Accrington in Lancashire, undated, but sent by 

 W. R. Eastwood in January, 1918. Two males were captured 

 near Teddington Lock, Surrey, on May 20th, while they were 

 numerous at Byfleet Canal, Surrey, on the 29rh of the same 

 month (W. J. L.). One was taken at Brockley Hill, Middlesex, on 

 May 31st (R. South). (1918) This insect was met with at Friday 

 Street on May 20th by the side of the pond in this picturesque 

 Surrey village (L. C.E. Balcomb) : two were noticed on palings 

 by the pond in the clutches of spiders. 



Brown Lacewings (1917). Osmylus chrymps, Linn. : For this, 

 the largest of our Neuroptera, I have only one or two late dates 

 in the New Forest. On July 28th one was taken at Blackwater, 

 and no doubt others were seen, while the same day another was 

 taken in the same district, but not by the stream (W. J. L.). 

 Hemerobins inconspicnus, McLach., and H. nitidulns, Fabr., 

 were found early in the summer within three or four miles of 

 King's Lynn (E. A. Atmore). H. Intescens, Fabr.: One was 

 sent to me, captured by G. T. Lyle at Gog Magog Hills, 

 Cambridgeshire, on July 9th. [H. sub)idndosus, Steph. : One at 

 Darwen, in Lancashire, June 1st, 1916 (S. G. Birks), sent for the 



