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Of the typical genus Hemerohius (Brown Lace-wings) a 

 number of species have been noted : — H. micans, three at 

 Ampton, Suffolk (Nurse). H. nitidulus, May 21st, Oxshott, 

 Surrey, (W. J. L.) ; five at Ampton and Troston, Suffolk (Nurse). 

 H. humuli, in Sutherland, three at Lochinver, June 23rd, and 

 one at Loch Assynt, June 2nd, a very dark form (Yerbury) ; 

 two at Ampton (Nurse). H. lutescens, four at West Stow, 

 Suffolk (Nurse). H. orotypus, two at Spey Bridge, July 31st, 

 and one at the same place, August 2nd (Yerbury). H. nervosus, 

 four at Spey Bridge, July 31st, one at Lochinver, June 27th, 

 one at Grantown-on-Spey, August 17th, and one at Loch Assynt, 

 June 9th (Yerbury); four at Ampton (Nurse). H. suhnehulosus, 

 one sent me about May 5th, caught by Mr. P. Eichards in his 

 garden at Kingston-on-Thames, where there was a fir-tree. 

 H. stigma, Esher Common, January 29th, and Oxshott district. 

 May 21st (W. J. L.). H. concinnus, Esher Common, June 4th 

 (W. J. L.). 



Three species only of the family Chrysopidae (Green Lace- 

 wings) have been noted, and all belong to the typical genus 

 Chrysopa. C. fliva, one in the evening of July 17th in a garden 

 at New Maiden, Surrey. C. septempunctata, an example caught 

 in Surbiton, Surrey, May 27th (A. Dadswell). C. 2?erZ(i, Esher 

 Common, June 4th (W. J. L.). 



We now come to the last family, Panorpidse (Scorpion-flies). 

 The first noticed were a male and two females of Panorpa 

 germa'iica, May 21st, in the Oxshott district. A number of 

 specimens of the same species were taken by Col. Yerbury in 

 the north of Scotland — one male at Dingwall, May 27th ; two 

 males and a female at Dingwall, May 29th, when they were in 

 fair numbers ; one female, July 12th, at Lochinver. These 

 Scotch specimens form a nice series, extending from the 

 normally spotted condition to a practically immaculate form, 

 not unknown from the same region. Lieut. -Col. Nurse captured 

 the species at Ampton, a teneral female. May 12th, and another 

 female on May 18th ; at Timworth, West Suffolk, a teneral 

 female. May 21st, and two males and a female, mature, on the 

 same day; also at Timworth, a male, June 15th, two males and 

 a female. May 80th, and a female, August 27th ; at Bradfield, 

 West Suffolk, three males. May 23rd. Mr. E. Whitehead took 

 it at HoUingworth Lake, Smithy Bridge C? Cheshire) on June 

 20th. P. communis was taken (a female) near Oxshott, on July 

 2nd, and a female in the New Forest on August 2nd (W. J. L.) ; 

 at Beach Ditch, Cambridgeshire, three females, July 11th ; at 

 Chippenham, Cambs, a male, June 16th, and at Timworth in 

 August a brownish male (Nurse) ; in Delamere Forest, Cheshire, 

 July 3rd (Whitehead). P. cognata was taken at Livermore, 

 West Suffolk, a male and a female, July 2nd [and two males 

 and a female, August, 1905, at Timworth] (Nurse;. The uni- 



