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through the thickest ribbed stocking, and raise pyramidal blisters 

 the size of a crown piece. Another dipteron infests the hind- 

 quarters of cattle, with apparently the instinct to keep well out 

 of reach of the animals' tails. 



Dragonflies were numerous. Sijmpetrum striolatuvi = Libellula 

 vulgata was frequently met with in the lower woods ; Orthetrum 

 ccerulescens was generally distributed, abundant flying over a 

 ditch on Arthog Marsh ; Cordulegaster annulatus often sported, 

 especially over this ditch, in half a dozen at a time, until, when 

 one was caught, the rest made ofi, and we saw them no more. 

 Here were also numbers of Libellula depressa, and more than 

 once late specimens of Pi/rrhosoma nympJmla = Agrioji minium 

 and Ischnura elegans were captured. Calopteryx virgo was taken, 

 and Mschna jiincea. The last-named is known as " the snake 

 servant " by the country folk. Whenever you see one, they say, 

 you are sure to see a snake as well. Curiously enough this was 

 more than once verified. But the snake was only a harmless 

 grass snake, and, after the manner of all British serpents, very 

 glad to get away as fast as possible. 



Ground No. 4 (the mountam tops) we simply admired over 

 and over again for its indescribable grandeur, so I have no idea 

 what insects, if any, exist thereon. 



Chester : Nov. 1st, 1905. 



NEUROPTERA COLLECTED BY DR. T. A. CHAPMAN 

 IN FRANCE AND SPAIN, 1904. 



By W. J. Lucas, B.A., F.E.S. 



In 1904 I received from Dr. T. A. Chapman a small collec- 

 tion of Neuroptera taken by him that year in France and Spain. 

 Most of these were dragonflies ; but a few belonged to other and 

 more obscure groups of the order Neuroptera as generally under- 

 stood. 



Dr. Chapman supplies the following note on the localities in 

 which the insects were found: "About a month was spent at 

 Hyeres (March 20th to April 17th). I believej all of the few 

 dragonflies taken there were met with at La Plage, on the coast, 

 some two or three miles from Hyeres — all I think by the ditches 

 beside the racecourse ; where tbe mosquitoes were sufficiently 

 troublesome to make the sport unattractive. The next ten days 

 were spent at Ste. Maxime, some way eastward along the coast. 

 There is no limestone here, and the botany and entomology are 

 in several respects decidedly different from those of Hyeres. A 

 few days (May 3rd to 8th) were then spent at Draguignan (some 

 way inland), in a valley basin between quite low hills. It 



