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Order 8.— NEUROPTERA. 

 By W. F. KiHBT, F.L.S., F.E.S., etc. 



(PLATE XIV.) 



In this Order, Mr. Andrews collected a Termes, two Ant-lions, 

 and three wide-ranging species of Dragon -flies. One of the 

 latter is the ubiquitous I'antala flavescens, which inhabits almost 

 all the warmer parts of the world, from Egypt to Natal, from 

 Kamtchatka to Ceylon and Australia and Tahiti, and from 

 Georgia to Brazil; it is even said to hare been once taken many 

 years ago in the English Fens. It is almost certainly a migratory 

 species, and Mr. Andrews informs me that enormous swarms of 

 dragon-flies appear suddenly in Christmas Island from Java when 

 the wind is in the north and north-east, and disappear again in 

 a few days. 



ODONATA. 



.Family LIBELLULIDJE. 

 Sub-Family LIBELLULINJE. 

 1. Pantala flavescens. 



Libellula Jiaveiceiis, Fabricius : Ent. Syst., Suppl., p. 285 (1798). 



Nineteen specimens : from Flying Fish Cove, September 2 to 

 October 20, 1897 ; West Coast, October, 1897, and March 28, 1898. 



2. Trithemis trivialis. 



Libellula irivialis, Ramb. : Ins. Nevr., p. 115 (1842). 

 Four specimens. North Coast, on sea-cliffs. 



Family ^SCHNID^. 

 Sub-Family ^SOHNINJE. 

 3. Anax guttatus. 



^lehna guttata, Burmeister : Haudb. Ent., ii, p. 840, n. 14 (1839). 



Flying Fish Cove. 



One male specimen only. Bare ; only two or three specimens 

 seen. Called ' Eajah ' by the natives. 



