A HISTORY OF SURREY 



swift evolutions being frequently performed so close to the surface that 

 capture without injury to the net becomes a matter of difficulty. 



As a rule, the Hy dropsy cbidce and Rbyacopbilidcz love still stronger 

 waters, swift-running streams and waterfalls being their special haunts ; 

 while the active and minute Hydroptilidce may frequently be swept in 

 numbers from the herbage round springs or wet ditches in the neigh- 

 bourhood of larger waters. 



But in the Trichoptera, as in the rest of the Neuroptera, but little 

 has been done in recording. Mr. McLachlan, our chief authority on 

 the group, writing in 1861, says : ' in the old books " London district," 

 " Ripley," " Hertford," " Devonshire," constantly and repeatedly occur 

 as localities solely because these happened to be the hunting-grounds of 

 Stephens, Curtis and Leach, and the rest of the country was then and is 

 now almost unexplored,' and if we add a few localities such as Wey- 

 bridge and Haslemere, worked by Messrs. McLachlan and Barrett ; Kew, 

 by Mr. P. Wormald ; and the Leatherhead, Wisley and Esher districts, 

 worked by Messrs. Briggs and Lucas, these words are nearly as true now 

 as then. The occasional capture of a rarity is perhaps recorded, but not 

 by its captor, while systematic records, especially of the commoner 

 species, are wanting. 



Of the Phryganeida, Phryganea grandis, Linn., has been recorded 

 from Albury, Ripley, Byfleet Canal and Kingston-on-Thames ; P. striata, 

 Linn., from Byfleet ; P. varia, Fabr., from the Black Pond at Esher ; 

 P. minor, Curt., from Haslemere. Neuronia ruficrus, Scop., occurs about 

 pools and standing waters almost anywhere in May and June. 



The Liimnophilidce are better represented. Colpotaulius incisus, Curt., 

 has occurred at Merstham ; Grammotaulius atomarius, Fabr., at the Hut 

 Pond Wisley and at Oxshott ; Glyphotcelius pellucidus, Oliv., at Wisley, 

 Kew, Oxshott and Chertsey ; Limnophilus rbombicus, Linn., at Byfleet, 

 Newark Abbey and Leatherhead ; L. JJavicornis, Fabr., at Bookham 

 Common and Byfleet Canal ; L. marmoratus, Curt., at the White Falls 

 Leatherhead, the Hut Pond, Croydon, Kew, Esher Common (November 

 14) and near Thursley ; L. lunatus, Curt., at the White Falls Leatherhead 

 and the Hut Pond Wisley ; L. griseus, Linn., at the Hut Pond, Esher, 

 Leatherhead and near Ripley ; JL. auricula, Curt., at the Hut Pond and 

 Ripley ; L. vittatus, Fabr., at the Hut Pond, Coombe Wood and Oxshott ; 

 L. centra/is, Curt., at the Hut Pond, Esher, Oxshott, Claygate and Box 

 Hill ; L. ignavus, Hag., at Ripley ; L. hirsutus, Pict., at Bookham 

 Common ; L. bipunctatus, at Horsley ; L. luridus, Curt., at the Hut 

 Pond ; L. sparsus, Curt., at the Hut Pond, Ripley, Esher Common and 

 Coombe Wood ; and L. fuscicornis, Ramb., near Byfleet ; Anabolia 

 nervosa, Curt., at Kingston-on-Thames, Kew and in profusion at Sty- 

 field, an autumnal species ; Stenophylax permistus, McLach., at Leather- 

 head, Albury and Ripley ; S. stellatus, Curt., at the White Falls 

 Leatherhead and at Ripley ; S. vibex, Curt., at Haslemere ; Micropterna 

 sequax, McLach., near Horsley ; M. lateralis, Steph., at Ripley, New 

 Maiden, etc. ; Halesus digitatus, Schr., at Leatherhead and Kingston-on- 



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