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Neuroptera. 



Hemerobius quadrifasciatus. One; Lautaret, July 22nd-August 



5th. 

 Chrysopa vulgaris. Two ; Lautaret, July 22nd-August 5th. 

 Panorpa germanica. One female; Bourg d'Oisans, August 



6th-21st. 



Trichoptera. 



Stenophylax latipennis. One ; Bourg d'Oisans, August 6th-21st. 

 "*S. ucenorum. One male and two females ; Lautaret, July 22nd- 



August 5th. 



'■^Metancea chapmani. Three males and one female ; Lautaret, July 



22nd-August 5th. This is a new species, and has been 



described by Mr. K. J. Morton [antea, p. 49), where details of 



structure are figured. 



Apatania fimbriata. One male ; Lautaret, July 22nd- August 5th. 



■''Sericostoma pedemontanum. One female ; Lautaret, July 22nd- 



August 5th. 

 Beraa pullata. One male ; Lautaret, July 22nd-August 5th. 

 ■•'Bhyacophila albardana. One male and one female ; Lautaret, 

 July 22nd-August 5th. 

 The species marked with an asterisk (*) do not belong to the 

 British fauna. 



Kingston-on-Thames : February, 1914. 



NOTES ON THE METAMORPHOSIS OF PHASGONURA 

 VIRIDISSIMA, L. [Orthoptera.] 



By Andrew B. Luvoni. 



On June 22nd of last year a female nymph of this species 

 was obtained while sweeping some long grass in a field at 

 Westcliff, Essex. Judging by its development after subsequent 

 moults, it would appear to have been at about the second or 

 third moult when captured, the ovipositor being about 3 mm. 

 long, and the wings barely noticeable. It was placed in a cage 

 together with an assortment of plants likely to be found in its 

 natural haunts ; such as various species of grass, dandelion, 

 knapweed, bindweed, and one or two kinds of buttercup. The 

 following day it was found to have been feeding freely on the 

 common creeping buttercup {Ranunculus repens), an operation it 

 apparently performed at night or in the early morning, as I 

 never succeeded in observing it in the act. On visiting the 

 locality later, from which this specimen was obtained, I found 

 the above-mentioned plant growing in profusion, and, therefore, 

 it seems highly probable that this is its food-plant in a state of 

 nature. On June 25th it moulted, the ovipositor then measuring 



