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may be pointed out as leading to " fresh woods and pastures new." 

 Again, at present the Hfe-history of very few of our fifty-six species 

 has been worked out, that is, scarcely any have been bred from the 

 egg to the imago ; consequently the egg, larva, or pupa has in many 

 cases perhaps never been seen. P'urther, to man and his concerns, 

 not a single one is either dangerous or harmful as far as we know. 

 Nay, most, if not all, are actually beneficial, the food of so many 

 species being ApJiides and scale-insects — scourges of vegetable life. 



May I hope that henceforth the term " Neuroptera " may be 

 applied in the modern sense, and that next season members of this 

 Society will give a little attention to this interesting order? If each 

 one present were to thoroughly work out one species, the Neuro- 

 ptera of Britain would be better known perhaps than even the 

 Lepidoptera or the Coleopteta are at the present time ! 



