THE 
TRANSACTIONS 
ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 
LONDON 
For tHe Year 1888. 
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I. Notes on the life-history of various species of the 
Neuropterous genus Ascalaphus. By J. O. Wusr- 
woop, M.A., F.L.8., Life-President of the Ent. 
Soc. Lond., &e. 
[Read October 5th, 1887.] 
Prates I. & II. 
I am again indebted to my excellent correspondent, 
J. Staniforth Green, Esq., of Colombo, Ceylon, for the 
chief materials of the present communication con- 
cerning the natural history of a Ceylonese species of 
the interesting genus Ascalaphus, to which I have 
thought it useful to prefix such observations on the 
subject as have hitherto been published. - 
Bonnet (Observ. s. les insectes, T. ii., pp. 282—289) 
informs us that he discovered, in the environs of 
Geneva, two specimens of a larva which differed from 
the ordinary ant-lion in not crawling backwards, and in 
not forming a pit-fall, with the body considerably longer 
and more pointed, and the hind legs affixed so as not to 
be so completely concealed beneath the body, which 
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