A HISTORY OF SURREY 



Except the Odonata, the Neuroptera Planipennia have been far 

 better worked than any other group, and the results are very satisfactory. 

 Of the first division or Siallna Stalls lutaria, Linn., is common every- 

 where in the neighbourhood of water ; while its rarer congener, S.fuli- 

 ginosa, Pict., has been taken at Box Hill and Haslemere (McLachlan) 

 and the White Falls (Briggs). The Raphidiidte seem chiefly to frequent 

 the neighbourhood of fir woods, but Mr. Morley and others have 

 obtained them in the New Forest by beating flowers of hawthorn a 

 practice which Surrey entomologists have not yet tried, to the great 

 benefit of the hawthorn blossoms. Raphidia notata, Fabr., is recorded 

 from Croydon (McLachlan), Ockham Common (Briggs) and Esher 

 Common (Lucas) ; R. maculicollis, Steph., from Haslemere (Barrett), 

 Painswick Park (Briggs), Black Pond, Esher (Briggs), Esher Common 

 and near Wisley (Lucas). R. xanthostigma, Schum., does not seem to be 

 recorded, though it must have been taken ; while of the few known 

 British specimens of the rare R. cognafa, Ramb., two are from the cabinet 

 of Mr. Bennett of Dorking, probably from the fir woods towards Leith 

 Hill. The second division or Hemerobiina comprising the majority 

 of the Planipennia, is very well represented. The handsome Osmylus 

 cbrysops, Linn., is not uncommon in summer about small and very shady 

 streams and under bridges. It is very common at Byfleet (Briggs), and 

 occurs at Chertsey (Lucas). The three species of Sisyra are plentiful 

 where they occur, and may all be taken together at the White Falls 

 Leatherhead (Briggs). S.fuscata, Fabr., is common on the Thames, and is 

 also recorded from Reigate (McLachlan) and Ockham Common (Briggs), 

 and is common on the Thames (McLachlan) ; S. dalii,. McLach., is 

 recorded from Reigate (McLachlan) ; and S. terminalis, Curt., from 

 Reigate and Weybridge and between Kew and Richmond (McLachlan) 

 and from Newark Abbey (Briggs). A solitary specimen of the rare 

 Micromus aphidrvorus, Schrank, was taken at Oxshott by Mr. Beaumont 

 in 1900. M. faganus, Linn., is fairly common throughout the county ; 

 but M. variegatus, Fabr., except the specimen from Box Hill (Briggs), 

 does not seem to have been recorded since Mr. Stephens' captures at 

 Coombe Wood. Of the genus Hemerobius, H. e/egans, Steph., has 

 been taken at Coombe Wood (Stephens) and Newark Abbey (Briggs) ; 

 H. inconspicuus, McLach., at Addington (Wormald), Weybridge (Me 

 Lachlan) and Ockham Common (Briggs) ; H. nitidulus, Fabr., abun- 

 dantly at Ockham Common, Esher Common and elsewhere in fir 

 woods ; H. micans, Olivier, in Headley Lane, at Leatherhead, Horsley 

 and Ockham Common. H. humuli, Linn., is common throughout the 

 county ; but is usually mixed in collections with H. /utescens, Fabr., and 

 H. marginatus, Steph., so that previous to Mr. McLachlan's differentia- 

 tion of them in the tenth volume of the new series of the Entomologist's 

 Monthly Magazine, records of these species can scarcely be relied upon. 

 H. stigma, Steph., is abundant in fir woods, individuals occurring through- 

 out the winter ; and of the two British specimens of H. limbatellus, 

 Zett., one was taken at Leith Hill. H. pini, Steph., and H. atrtfrons, 



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