A HISTORY OF STAFFORDSHIRE 



PLANIPENNIA 

 (Snake FKes, Laceviing Flies, and Scorfion Fiiei) 



SIALIDAE 



Sialis lutaria, L. Common on the banks of ponds 

 and rivers ; banks of Dove and Treat (E.B.) 

 fuliginos.i, Pict. Near Mapleton (A.E.E.) 



HEMEROBIIDAE 

 Osmylus fulvicephalus, Scop, (chrysops, auct.). 



Near Mapleton (A.E.E.) 

 Sisyra fuscata, Fb. Common (A.E.E.) 

 Micromus variegatus, Fb. Common (A.E.E.) 

 Hcmerobius [the Staffordshire species have not 



been worked out] 



CONIOPTERYGIDAE 



Goniopteryx tineiformis, Curt. Common (A.E.E.) 



CHRYSOPIDAE 



Chrysopa vittata, Wesm. ' Common in our wooJs,' 



Burton district (E.B.) 

 perla, L. 'Also common in woods,' Burton 



district (E.B.) 



PANORPIDAE 



Panorpa communis, L. Common (R.G.) ; very 

 common, Burton district (E.B.) 



TRICHOPTERA 



(Caddis Flies) 



The few species of Staffordshire Caddis flies here mentioned are mostly recorded from 

 this county in the monographs of Robert McLachlan, F.R.S., published in 1865 and from 

 1874 to 1884, and in the pages of the Entomologist? Monthly Magazine. 



E. M. M. = Entom. Monthly Magazine. McL. = R. McLachlan. 



A. E. E. = A. E. Eaton. ] C. = Joseph Chappell. 



INA QUIPALPIA 



PHRYGANEIDAE 



Neuronia clathrata, Kol. First recorded from Britain 

 by J. Chappell in the EMM., 1868, i, 

 vol. iv, p. 204, as taken in Bishop's Wood 



LlMNOPHIUDAE 



Limnophilus vittatus, Fab. Burnt and Bishop's 

 Woods (}. C. in EMM., 1868, I, vol. v, 

 p. 48) 



- auricula, Curt. Burnt and Bishop's Woods 



(J. C. ibid.) 



luridus, Curt. In a greenhouse at Willough- 

 bridge (J. C. ibid.) 



- fuscicornis, Ramb. (fumigatus, Hag.). Burton- 



on-Trent (McL.) 



Stenophylax alpestris, Kol. Recorded for the first 

 time in Great Britain by R. McLachlan in 

 the EMM., 1868, I, vol. iv, p. 205, as 

 taken in Burnt H'oods by J. Chappell. (In 

 Dale's mus.) 



Metanaea (Halesus) flavipennis, Pict. (guttatipen- 

 nis, McL.). Probably taken by Edwin 

 Brown near Burton-on-Trent (McL.) 



INAEQUIPALPIA (continued} 

 SERICOSTOMATIDAE 



Lasiocephala (Mormonia) basalis, Kol. Dovedale 

 (A. E. E.) 



AEQUIPALPIA 



LEPTOCERIDAE 



Leptocerus alboguttatus, Hag. (bimaculatus, Steph.). 

 Burton-on- Trent (McL.) 



annulicornis, Steph. Burton-on-Trent ;McL.) 

 Triaenodes commutatus, McL. Dovedale (McL.) 



conspersa, Ramb. Dovedale (B. Cooke in 



Dale's mus.) 



RHYACOPHILIDAE 

 Glossoma boltoni, Curt. Near Ashburne (A. E. E.) 



HYDROPTILIDAE 



Hydroptila (Phrixocoma, Eaton) sparsa, Curt. 

 Burton-on-Trent, abundant (A. E. E.) 



forcipata, Eaton. Oakamoor and the R. Dove, 



near Nortury and Ashburne (A. E. E.) 



occulta, Eaton. The R. Dove, near Mapleton 



(A. E. E.) 



femoralis, Eaton (longispina, McL., 1884). 



The R. Dove, near Mapleton (A.E.E.) 



HYMENOPTERA 



(Ants, Wasps, Bees, Saw/lies, &c.) 



The following list has been compiled from various sources which may be summarized as 

 follows : 



The earliest county list is that of R. Garner (History of the County of Stafford, 1 844), a 

 brief list of some nineteen species of no particular value. In 1863 was published Edwin 

 Brown's ' Fauna of Burton ' (Natural History of Tutbury), which contains lists of sixty-eight 

 species of Phytophagous and eighty-one Aculeate Hymenoptera. The Entomophaga are 



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