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NEUROPTERA COLLECTED BY MR. J. J. WALKER, R.N., ON BOTH 

 SIDES OF THE STRAITS OF GIBRALTAR. 



BY ROBERT McLACHLAN, F.R.S., &c. 



My friend Mr. Walker, then of H.M.S. " Grappler," was so kind 

 as to collect such Neuroptera as came to his notice during the time his 

 vessel was on the Gibraltar station. An enumeration, so far as I have 

 been able to determine them, is given below. 



So far as Gibraltar and its immediate vicinity is concerned, I 

 think the only previous records of Neuroptera are those given by 

 Brauer in the " Eeise der Novara," Neuroptera (1865), who enumerates 

 the following, viz., Galamoceras marsupus (a remarkable new genus 

 and species of Trichoptera) , Chrysopa vulgaris, Schnd., Ch. tenella, 

 Schnd., Nemoptera lusitanica, Leach, Calopteryx JiceniorrJwidalis, V. d. 

 Lind., Platycnemis acutipennis, Selys, Oomphus simillimus, Selys, and 

 OnycJwgomphus forcipatus, L. It will be observed that several species 

 are here included that were not met with by Mr. Walker. 



With regard to the opposite coast, there are records of Neuroptera 

 in the old authors, from Linne downwards, such as " Habitat in 

 Rarbaria" a vague term at the present time. The only recent record 

 that I can recall is contained in a paper by Kolbe — " Neuroptera aus 

 Marocco, gesammelt von Herrn Prem. -Lieut. M. Quedenf eldt " — pub- 

 lished in the Berlin, ent. Zeitschrift, xxviii (18S4), pp. 132—136, the 

 materials for which were principally from Tangier. He enumerates 

 Libella nitidinervis, Selys, Hemianax ephippiger, Burm., Ischnura ma- 

 roccana* (n. sp.), Creagris plumbeus, Oliv., Myrmeleon Quedenf el dtii* 

 (ji. sp.), Palpares libelluloides i L., and P. liispanus, Hagen. For many 

 years I have possessed a few species taken by the late Mr. Trovey 

 Blackmore at Tangier, which I have noticed below as intercalations 

 amongst Mr. Walker's materials. I have also a few other species 

 from Marocco, but from outside the limits of this paper. 



As no one who is specially a Neuropterist has yet collected either 

 at Gibraltar, or on the opposite coast, there can be no doubt that very 

 much remains to be discovered. 



I.— GIBRALTAR AND VICINITY. 



PLANIPENNIA. 



Panorpa meridionalis, Ramb. — San Roque, 19th March ; 1 $ . This 

 specimen is small (expanse, 15 mm.), and all those I have seen from 

 Spain and Portugal are smaller and less strongly marked than those 

 from the French Pyrenees. 



* Indicated only from Casablanca, and therefore not within my geographical limits. 



